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Source: Omaha Sunday Bee Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Governor Savage on Anarchy” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Omaha, Nebraska Date of publication: 8 September 1901 Volume number: none Issue number: none Part/Section: 1 Pagination: 2 |
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| “Governor Savage on Anarchy.” Omaha Sunday Bee 8 Sept. 1901: part 1, p. 2. |
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| Ezra P. Savage (public statements); anarchism (government response); anarchism (legal penalties). |
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| Ezra P. Savage. |
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Governor Savage on Anarchy
Declares It Is Treason and That Attacks on Officials Should Be Punishable by Death.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN, Sept. 7.—(Special Telegram.)—In response
to an inquiry suggested by the Buffalo calamity as to how, in his opinion, anarchy
should be treated, Governor Savage tonight made the following statement:
“Anarchy is treason. Anarchists should
be treated as traitors to our country, and anarchistic utterances, in public
or private, should constitute treason.
“Meetings of anarchists should be prohibited under
heavy penalties imposed upon each and every auditor who is shown to be a member
and each and every speaker at such meetings, as well as the teachers of their
doctrines, should be punished by imprisonment for life.
“Every attempt to take the life of any of the
officials of the government should be punished by death. The property of any
printing establishment issuing anarchistic literature should be confiscated
and the proprietors treated and punished as anarchists.”