State of the Union Address, December 3, 1901
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States.
"The Congress assembles this year under the shadow of a great calamity. On the sixth of September, President McKinley was shot by an anarchist while attending the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, and died in that city on the fourteenth of that month.
Of the last seven elected Presidents, he is the third who has been murdered, and the bare recital of this fact is sufficient to justify grave alarm among all loyal American citizens. Moreover, the circumstances of this, the third assassination of an American President, have a peculiarly sinister significance. Both President Lincoln and President Garfield were killed by assassins of types unfortunately not uncommon in history; President Lincoln falling a victim to the terrible passions aroused by four years of civil war, and President Garfield to the revengeful vanity of a disappointed office-seeker.
President McKinley was killed by an utterly depraved criminal belonging to that body of criminals who object to all governments, good and bad alike, who are against any form of popular liberty if it is guaranteed by even the most just and liberal laws, and who are as hostile to the upright exponent of a free people's sober will as to the tyrannical and irresponsible despot. ...
This criminal was a professed anarchist, inflamed by the teachings of professed anarchists, and probably also by
the reckless utterances of those who, on the stump and in the public press, appeal to the dark and evil spirits of malice and greed, envy and sullen hatred. The wind is sowed by the men who preach such doctrines, and they cannot escape their share of responsibility for the whirlwind that is reaped. This applies alike to the deliberate demagogue, to the exploiter of sensationalism, and to the crude and foolish visionary who, for whatever reason, apologizes for crime or excites aimless discontent."
http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/speeches/sotu1.pdfUtterly depraved, utterly insane, the truth is what it is; Public malice and hatred do have consequences: A 'share of responsibility for the whirlwind that is reaped'.
And today the hatred is not in the least sullen: it's incendiary.
As for "T'he crude and foolish visionary", Mr. Beck carries on regardless, not even comprehending the meaning of the word, Progressive.
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