him in law. They agreed to study together the following winter.

But Roosevelt's term as Vice-President was coming to an end. He
only occupied the office for six months. He was soon to succeed to
the highest office of all.





CHAPTER X

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES


In the first week of September 1901, President McKinley was killed
by an anarchist in Buffalo. The young man who shot him was rather
weak-minded, and had been led to believe, by the speeches and
writings of others, craftier and wickeder than himself, that he
could help the poor and unfortunate by murdering the President.
This he treacherously did while shaking hands with him.

One of the leaders of the poisonous brood who had made this young
man believe such villainous nonsense was a foreign woman named
Emma Goldman, who for twenty or thirty years went up and down the
land, trying to overthrow the law and government, yet always
calling for the protection of both when she was in danger. The
American Government tolerated this mischiefmaker until 1919, when
it properly sent her, and others of her stripe, back to their own
country.