Czolgosz, the Anarchist who shot President McKinley, was executed on
Tuesday by electrocution. He died bravely enough, avowing that he killed his victim deliberately "because I thought it would benefit the good people, the good working people," who, we may remark, lost by the crime from the economic shock which it produced. He refused to accept absolution from his priest at the price of giving up Anarchy, and leaves on our mind the impression of a man who died for a creed, though a foul one, with vanity and envy for his inspiring emotions. He said himself directly after the murder that "so much attention ought not to be paid to one man while others had none," and refused just before his death to say anything unless "a lot of people" were present. We must add that although electrocution is probably much more merciful than banging, the use of the highest scientific knowledge to produce only death leaves a much more ghastly impression upon the mind of the spectator.
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