William McKinley and Twenty Years After (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from William McKinley and Twenty Years After McKinley was killed by one who professed himself convinced, as far as his weak mentality was capable of conviction, that all government was an evil thing, and that to murder the highest officer of the Government of the United States would, in some mysterious way, advance the day when complete happiness and unbounded prosperity would be the lot of each and all. As John Hay so truly said in his eloquent and moving memorial address before the two Houses of Congress: "Against that devilish spirit nothing avails - neither virtue nor patriotism, nor age nor youth, nor conscience nor pity". The murder of McKinley foreshadowed the great contest that now engages a world´s attention - the contest between law and order and the established institutions which freedom has built on the one hand, and on the other the spirit of anarchy, destruction and ruin, that would find in chaos some new opportunity which order and liberty unite to deny. It seems only yesterday that the shots of that little pistol, carefully concealed in the assassin´s hand, were heard ´round the world, carrying horror and consternation to civilized peoples everywhere. For the third time in less than forty years a President of the United States was murdered. That very fact gives us pause. "Assassination," said King Humbert of Italy, "is the professional risk of kings." We had not supposed that it was also to become a professional risk of presidents. If one may be permitted to try to draw helpful lesson from the shocking occurence at Buffalo, it is that that occurrence threw into high relief, and forced upon the attention of even the most unthinking, the fact that violence is everywhere the enemy of peaceful progress under law and that it can contribute nothing to human advance. In this presence there is no need to trace over again the familiar story of William McKinley´s life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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