Anarchy and Attacks on Public Rulers
By Editor
July 17 an infernal machine, containing sufficient high-power dynamite to have wrecked a good portion of the White House, was placed on President Taft's desk, and was opened by one of his assistants. As the machine was opened, the fuse was automatically lighted, and only for the prompt action of the one who opened it, the thing would have exploded right among all those engaged with the President in his work. Politicians who have personal interests to serve may have a great deal to say in criticism of Mr. Taft, but there is no one who doubts the high morality and sincerity of purpose that have characterized his long career of public service. One of the sad results of much of the discussion of this time is that it produces characters that get a mania for destroying the lives of some of our most useful and valued rulers. And the conditions in the world are such that any one must be able to see that this sort of thing will increase more and more till the end. Men may try to blind their eyes to the facts, but the very conditions are breeding anarchy and lawlessness, and out of the turbid elements there develops a species of insanity that will attempt the lives many times of the worthiest and the most useful men of the nations.