How to Raise Immense Sum

REV. G. L. MORRILL WOULD LET EVERYONE HELP ELECTOCUTE [sic]
CZOLGOSZ, THE ASSASSIN.
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Connect Circuit with Every Hamlet and Charge a Dollar for Pushing the Button.

     From the active brain of Rev. G. L. Morrill, pastor of the Chicago avenue Baptist church [sic], has emanated a novel idea in regard to the putting to death of the assassin of President McKinley.
     It is a plan which he believes the entire country would willingly participate in.
     In fact, he doesn’t believe the rush could be accommodated.
     His idea is to arrange an electric circuit from the state prison on the day of the electrocution of Czolgosz, extending to every hamlet in the land.
     Then he would have arrangements made whereby every one who desired, and who could contribute $1, could touch the button at the moment of the electrocution, thereby enabling millions of the countrymen of the martyred president to assist in sending to his doom the dastard who killed him.
     “You would give a dollar for such a privilege, wouldn’t you?” he asked of a friend.
     “Willingly,” was the reply.
     “So would every one who had the dollar to spare,” added the dominie.
     With the money so contributed Dr. Morrill would rear to the president such a monument as does not grace the world today.
     “It would be a quick way of raising the fund,” he said as he rode away on his wheel.