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President McKinley delivered
an address in Cleveland, Ohio, July 4, to the school children of
that city, where he uttered these truthful and patriotic words:
With patriotism in our hearts
and with the flag of our country in our hands there is no danger
of anarchy. * * * Anarchy
flees before patriotism. Peace and order and security and liberty
are safe so long as love of country burns in the hearts of the
people. * * * Liberty to
make our own laws does not give us license to break them. Liberty
to make our own laws commands a duty to observe them ourselves
and enforce obedience among all others within their jurisdiction.
Liberty, my fellow-citizens, is responsibility, and responsibility
is duty, and that duty is to preserve the exceptional liberty
we enjoy within the law, and for the law, and by the law.
This speech is applicable
to the anarchist that kills Presidents and also to those anarchists
that mob and burn colored people in the South or white people in
the North.
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