Statue in SF Panhandle honors Propoganda of the Deed

The President of a free Republic killed! What else can be the cause, except that the Attentäter must have been insane, or that he was incited to the act.

A free Republic! How a myth will maintain itself, how it will continue to deceive, to dupe, and blind even the comparatively intelligent to its monstrous absurdities. A free Republic! And yet within a little over thirty years a small band of parasites have successfully robbed the American people, and trampled upon the fundamental principles, laid down by the fathers of this country, guaranteeing to every man, woman, and child "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." For thirty years they have been increasing their wealth and power at the expense of the vast mass of workers, thereby enlarging the army of the unemployed, the hungry, homeless, and friendless portion of humanity, who are tramping the country from east to west, from north to south, in a vain search for work. For many years the home has been left to the care of the little ones, while the parents are exhausting their life and strength for a mere pittance. For thirty years the sturdy sons of America have been sacrificed on the battlefield of industrial war, and the daughters outraged in corrupt factory surroundings. For long and weary years this process of undermining the nation's health, vigor, and pride, without much protest from the disinherited and oppressed, has been going on. Maddened by success and victory, the money powers of this "free land of ours" became more and more audacious in their heartless, cruel efforts to compete with the rotten and decayed European tyrannies for supremacy of power.

In vain did a lying press repudiate Leon Czolgosz as a foreigner. The boy was a product of our own free American soil, that lulled him to sleep with,


My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty.

Who can tell how many times this American child had gloried in the celebration of the Fourth of July, or of Decoration Day, when he faithfully honored the Nation's dead? Who knows but that he, too, was willing to "fight for his country and die for her liberty," until it dawned upon him that those he belonged to have no country, because they have been robbed of all that they have produced; until he realized that the liberty and independence of his youthful dreams were but a farce. Poor Leon Czolgosz, your crime consisted of too sensitive a social consciousness. Unlike your idealless and brainless American brothers, your ideals soared above the belly and the bank account. No wonder you impressed the one human being among all the infuriated mob at your trial--a newspaper woman--as a visionary, totally oblivious to your surroundings. Your large, dreamy eyes must have beheld a new and glorious dawn.

From "The Psychology of political violence" by Emma Goldman
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/aando/psychofpolvio.html

The ancient Roman goddess Victory was not a vanquisher of victims but a provider of triumphs. The ancient historian Cassius Dio recorded that when Octavian (later the emperor Augustus) returned to Rome in 29 BC after conquering Egypt, "he erected a statue of Victory ... to show that it was from this goddess that he had received the empire."

President James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau at Washington's train station in 1881. Guiteau was a government worker who expected a lucrative job when Garfield was elected. He said he believed in "Bible-Communism" and worked for "Jesus & Company". When nobody took notice of him Guiteau decided to kill the President then ask the Vice President Chester Arthur for a job. He shot the President in the back, dropped his gun and announced: "I am the last Stalwart. Arthur is now President "