Editorial Notes by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 24, 1901

Editorial Notes.

By Editor

FOLLOWING the national tragedy at Buffalo there has been much discussion as to the source from which anarchy in this country has proceeded, and the responsibility of the anarchist for the insane deeds which he commits. Anarchy is wholly devoid of reason, certainly; for what reasoning being can believe that assassination will affect anything when there are numberless other individuals ready to step into the place of the one removed by its stroke? But wholly unreasonable acts are often done by sane individuals, reason having been subverted by impulse. In the instance now so unhappily before us it seems probable that inordinate vanity, leading the assassin to believe that he was of the material for a hero and a martyr, was the underlying motive which led to the commission of the foul deed. Vanity is at the bottom of very much of the exhibitions which stamp one as a “crank” or a fanatic. It is agreed by physicians that Czolgosz is sane, and preparations are being made for his immediate trial on a charge of murder in the first degree.