The Shooting of Colonel Roosevelt
The shooting of Colonel Roosevelt is one of the numerous happenings which show the class of cranks that will be developed more and more by the heated discussions of the age. Judging from the speeches and the publications of the time, it is clear that nearly everybody is convinced that there is much that is very wrong. And in view of this, there are many defamatory as well as inflammatory utterances. There are certain unbalanced minds that take these things very seriously, and there is no forecasting what course their mania will lead them to take. This man Schrank who shot Mr. Roosevelt was under the delusion that the "spirits" were driving him to do the deed. Men who are not under the popular delusion concerning the immortality of the soul and the conscious state of the dead, are immune from the deceptions of such deceiving "spirits."