The European Question
I’m about to finish this biography of President William McKinley.
I already know how the story ends in his assassination by Leon Czolgosz.
I’m struck between the contrast between McKinley’s respectable, middle class, devout Christian, truly all-American life and the cultural radicalism swirling underneath the surface of Europe which ultimately took his life. This garbage came to America during the Great Wave of immigration.
The following excerpt comes from Robert W. Merry’s book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
“She also feared assassination – and not without reason. “I am becoming somewhat anxious about your safety,” the president’s cousin William Osborne wrote him in early 1898. It was a time when anarchists had adopted assassination as a deadly means of political expression. In the fall of 1898 an anarchist named Luigi Lucheni stabbed to death Empress Elisabeth of Austria, and in summer 1900 an Italian American named Gaetano Bresci, from Paterson, New Jersey, killed King Umberto of Italy. The later episode rattled Secret Service officials, who had received earlier reports of an anarchist cell in Paterson. A few months earlier a young assassin attempted to kill the Prince of Wales as he sat in a train in Brussels. Worst of all, in October newspapers reported official suspicions that two or three Italians had been dispatched from Europe to kill McKinley in Canton.”
It makes me want to learn more about the culture of late 19th century and early 20th century Europe. I think the idea that this was exclusively a Jewish problem is misleading.
Source: https://occidentaldissent.com/2025/03/27/the-european-question/
