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THE COURIER.
uoics of the few great men in lit
erature, the Issue is to be discussed
in spite of the embarrasment of deal
ing frankly with the darling in
vention of a neighbor and of a long
time professor in the university.
Doctor G. Stanley Hall, whoso words
in reference to the inadvisability of a
lecturer's imposing any discovery of
his own exclusively on his classes I
quoted last week, also holds the opin
ion that It is fitting to criticise the
methods of any teacher whose matter
and methods of instruction are of vital
importance to &o many young people.
Professionalism restrains other uni
versity professors from criticising the
work of a colleague. One of the rules
of all professions is that members
must stick together and show a blank
face to the laity. If an unskillful
surgeon is in the way of killing a man
it is the duty of the several doctors
who are called in consultation first to
assure the family that the surgeon's
treatment of the case has been su
perb and a revelation to them of skill
and insight. If the consulting doc
tors betray by so much as the lift of
an eyebrow their real opinion of the
carpentry to which the patient has
been subjected, they are thenceforth
anathema in the profession. The
first, strongest and most inviolable
rule, especially in the medical pro
fession is to keep everybody who has
not a medical diploma, entirely ig
norant of the facts concerning a pa
tient, whose life the ignorance of the
attending physician has endangered.
The same professional etiquette ob
tains in other professions, thougli not
so rigidly. Happily editors still speak
their minds, with greater or less free
dom, and by their obstinate incre
dulity occasionally aid in destroying
abuses.
Anarchy Legitimized.
Whatever be the final result to the
mortal life of William McKinley, the
shooting down of the President at
Buffalo calls upon the American peo
ple and especially those who make
the laws to solemnly consider what
can be and should be done to sup
press anarchy in this country and to
protect the persons of our public man.
Three American Presidents shot
down within the space of thirty-six
years, besides what has occured in
the.Republic of France, is enough to
demonstrate that the crowned head
is not the only shining mark which
attracts the assassin's bullet.
The word Kepublic is no protection.
Our free government is misunder
stood by the hot-brained fanatic. To
live under such a government and to
enjoy the opportunities which it af
fords do not soothe the fevered
brain of the murderous dreamer or
turn him from his purpose.
Our forefathers who came to this
land to escape oppression formed this
government in the name and for the
benefit of the common people. Thev
planted the tree of liberty and water
ed it with their blood, that under its
protecting branches there might be
opportunity for the poor and protec
tion for the oppressed of every land.
But while American opportunity, by
its example, has lifted all the peo
ples of the earth and has set a star of
hope in every poor man's sky, and
while the tree of liberty has con
tinued to grow until its branches
reach across the seas, under its pro
tection, as a nest of serpents would
hatch out under the doorstep, this
accursed anarchy has also hatched
and grown among us. making of cur
noble republic one of its chief nest
ing places.
Our love of individual liberty and
our constant guarding against gov
ernmental oppression of the individu
al has made us slow to enact such
laws and exert such force as is neces
sary merely to protect the lives of
our public men.
We see opportunity going from
house to house, knocking at every
poor man's door, and we rejoice in
this; but we forget that with oppor
tunity hand in hand should go force,
so that he who cannot understand or
will not embrace the one must at
least obey the other.
Why have we not seized this Amer
ican anarchy and crushed it with
force? Why? Because by the verv
genius of our government and by all
the traditions of our liberty loving
people, we are slow to use force
against our own citizens. This man
who struck down President McKin
ley was an American citizen. His
ancestors are naturalized citizens.
The nest of anarchists who celebrated
at Paterson, New Jersey, and at Mc
Keesport, Pennsylvania, are foreign
born but naturalized American citi
zens. In every one of these is a thousand
years of condensed hate, and they are
murderers by instinct. They are
worse to be admitted into our com
munity than the exiled convicts sent
over to the early settlement by the
English government. We know this.
The American people know it. It is
a truth that comes forcibly into the
minds of all thinking Americans at
this time. Nor is this a new fact,
that our country has for many years
been gathering from the slums of
Europe thousands of dangerous peo
ple who should never be allowed to
land upon our shores. Yet we exert
no force to resist the coming and the
settlement among us of this danger
ous class. We examine the pocket
bcok of the immigrant when he lands
at Castle Garden to see if he has the
paltry sura necessary to excuse him
frim the pauper labor act, but the
ugly disposition and the hate and
murder that look out from his low
browed countenance pass unnoticed,
and the politicians race with each
other to present him with citizenship
and put the American ballot into his
hand.
We not only receive these profess
ional anarchists, and promote them
at once to citizenship among us, but
we suffer Ihem to organize their so
cieties unmolested, to teach their
treasonable and murderous doctrines
through public speaking and through
publication, and we see them cele
brating and glorying in the assassin's
work while we go on dreaming that
it is better to have all this, to have a
President assassinated now and then,
than to attempt to exert any force
against free immigration and free
speech, lest some politician should
make capital or it and thus influence
the foreign ?ote.
When they hung a bunch of anar
chists in Chicago a few years ago,
immediately there arose in that city
a cunning politician who made the
honest laboring men of Chicago and
the farmers of Illinois believe for a
time at least that this was the be
ginning of a governmental force that
was to suppress free speech and un
dermine the liberties of the common
people.
We are a community of politicians
and talkers. We talk against our
government and denounce those in
power and we do this with such reck
lessness that sometimes there is but
little difference between the har
rangue of the disappointed politician
and the creed of the professed anar
chist. The one makes the government ap
pear wicked and unworthy to exist,
while the other goes a step further
and st rikes a blow to destroy it.
No professed anarchist should be
allowed to set foot on any shore. He
should be pushed back and sent a
drift as a fugitive on the face of the
earth.
Hatred to government being his
creed he should not be allowed to be
come a factor or part of any govern
ment. He should be hunted down as
a criminal and wherever found should
be arrested and convicted on his own
creed and confined as an enemy to
society.
Foreign Immigration.
The shooting of President McKin
ley by a man whose name sounds like
a fire-cracker explosion will naturally
call attention to the danger of ad
mitting these foreign firebrands so
freely to citizenship in the United
States. The Swedes, Danes, Nor
wegians and Scandinavians who join
our ranks ps citizens are honest, in
dustrious, strong-limbed and pure
hearted; in these men are the hope
of the nation. While not giving evi
dence of unusual mentality, they are
possessed of average intelligence and
more than average common sense, and
a couple of generations will develop
them into citizens any country might
be proud to claim. The Chinese, Jap
anese, Italians, Russians and Poles
who come over here must be judged
by a different standard. With no
idea of locating permanently and
adopting this country as their own,
they are here for the single purpose
of getting hold of American money
which they will return to their na
tive land to enjoy. Among the Itali
ans and Poles particularly are found
hotbeds of rebellion and anarchy.
Erratic in temperament, unreasoning
and revengeful, all capitalists are
their natural enemies and all Amer
icans in positions of authority are
objects of their ignorant envy and
hatred. This problem of foreign im
migration now facing the American
people is a difficult one to settle.
Our sociologists and statesmen could
not find a more practical question for
consideration, or one of more vital
interest to the American people.
Liquid Air.
Few discoveries have had the bene
fit of more free advertising than
liquid air. Not only was it so won
derful in itself, but it seemed to em
body so many possibilities of power
that the world was dazed by it. The
revolution which it promised in all
forms of applied energy was like a
fairy tale. Coolness in summer,
warmth in winter, life-giving breath
for the invalid, extinction of con
tagious germs, motor power for ma
chinery, explosives for warfare there
was no limit to its usefulness. Then
theTripler Liquid Air Company was
organized for the manufacture of Pro
fessor Tripler's new'y discovered es
sence of energy on a scale to supply
the commercial demand which was
sure to arise. But genius is seldom
practical. The man of talent must
step in to interpret genius to its en
vironment. In literature, music and
philosophy the man of talent is the
disciple who introduces genius to the
common people; in commercial life he
is the inventor who knows how to
harness energy to machinery and
make it do the world's work.
This fact seems to have been ignor
ed in the zeal to promote the Liquid
Air company's stock and get it sold
on the market to the amount of near
ly 82.000,000. As a matter of fact no
liquid air ever was manufactured by
the company in response to commer
cial demands, its product having been
used entirely for experimental and
advertising purposes. There were no
commercial demands because the
magic steed still stood unharnessed
in its stall, and no Bellerophon had
found the golden bridle.
Now trouble seems to be in tore
for the discoverer as well as for the
men who lent money and influence to
the liquid air projects. Mr. Dorey,
the manager of the' company, is some
where in the west looking after a
more substantial kind of a gold mine.
Investigation is in order, with the
prospect of a scandal which will have
the expansive, if not the energetic
qualities of the Tripler project.
For Professor Tripley there can be
only sympathy. He is another ex
ample of the helplessness of .genius
in the clutch of a schemer. Some day
an inventor will arise who will solve
the problem of the application it
liquid air to practical uses, and out of
the immense resources whicli it will
give to the world, a monument will
be built to the memory of the man
who had the genius to discover, but
not the practical ability to render
useful the most marvelous force-producer
of the nineteenth century.
Russia's Famine.
The best way to stop worrying over
your own troubles is to help some
body worse off than yourself. It will
not put ears on the Nebraska and
Kansas cornstalks nor make the small
potatoes large in the other drought
stricken states to know that in Rus
sia the dry weather has put 43.000,000
people face to face with famine, but
it will help us to bear our partial and
temporary privation with more equa
nimity. Intense heat and drought,
followed by terrific storms of rain and
hail, have destroyed the crops, and a
nation of people who barely live in
favorable seasons are left to perish
by starvation or the pestilence which
follows famine. In a land without
roads it is impossible to reach the
great mass with supplies even if the
government could furnish them.
Hunger is the normal condition of
the brute creation, says a careful
observer of wild animals. TbinkiDg
of the starving millions of India,
China, and now of Russia, he might
add that it is the perpetual terror of
the human race as well.
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Recent Inventions.
It will be easier to converse with
our friends by telegraph than to pay
them personal visits if the new Hun
garian system of telegraphy is a suc
cess. This system is a combination
of the telegraph, the telephone and
the photograph. It is stated that by
its use 40,000 words an hour can be
sent and as many received in a con
dition to be read without transcrip
tion. Forty thousand words an hour
means over ten words a second for
thirty-six consecutive seconds, a rate
which ought to satisfy even Ben
Baker or The People's Choice.
Another of the recent inventions
which will soon be put upon the mar
ket is a typewriting machine which
will take the place of a bookkeeper.
It consists of three machines, and
saves the work of twelve men. If it
is as honest as it is efficient, and if
the three machines continue to work
in harmony and do not form a union
and strike for higher wages, the in
vention will be a valuable one to the
business world.
Ph.D.
The following extract is from the
New York Independent of August
fifteenth.
Think of Abraham Lincoln crawl
ing out from behind such stun" t1
make his Gettysburg speech.
Or Daniel Webster for one of hi
great constitutional arguments.
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