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Source: Socialist Source type: newspaper Document type: editorial column Document title: “Thoughts” Author(s): Uncle Sam City of publication: Seattle, Washington Date of publication: 6 October 1901 Volume number: none Issue number: 61 Pagination: [2] |
| Citation |
| Uncle Sam. “Thoughts.” Socialist 6 Oct. 1901 n61: p. [2]. |
| Transcription |
| excerpt |
| Keywords |
| McKinley assassination (personal response: socialists); McKinley assassination (public response: criticism). |
| Named persons |
| Leon Czolgosz; William McKinley. |
| Notes |
| The title of the editorial column is accompanied with the signature statement “By Your Uncle.” |
| Document |
Thoughts [excerpt]
T results are proving that it would have been a good plan for the capitalists to have hired Czolgosz to commit his idiotic crime. The wanton killing of McKinley is now being used as an excuse for the passage of laws to prevent criticism of public officials, discussion of public measures, and prevent a change for the better in political or economic conditions. “Whom the gods would destroy,” etc.