Inflammatory Speech and Fanaticism
A man was arrested in Youngstown, Ohio, on June 7 for sending threatening letters to President Wilson, and on the same date another man was arrested in Philadelphia by a postal inspector for sending threatening postals and letters to Ex-President Roosevelt. Such insane fanatics as these are stirred to do their infamous deeds in most instances by the inflammatory speeches that they hear and the inflammatory literature that they read. There is a certain class of minds who, when they read the severe denunciations that are made against public men, are soon led to believe that they have a great duty either to purloin money out of them or to destroy their lives. But inflammatory speeches and writings have got to be such a large part of the workings of this time that it may be impossible to stop such agitation until the full harvest is reaped. Nevertheless good men and true should do everything within their power to suppress such things and confine them within the closest bounds possible.