The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-08-25

preston of what they do not rather
than of what they do think-of what
they would not have or accept ia.
ther than of what they desire or
would receive. What to call il we
do not know: it is not programme
of procedure or action, nor is it an
exposition of faith; and it can only
be likened to an essay composed by
men who have thought overmuch,
and are far on the road to Bedlam -,
"The Anarchists assembled at Ge-
neva have agreed upon the following
principles, which they consider it
their duty to eXpound to their as
sociates Our enemy is our master.
Anarchists-that is to say, 'men
without 'chiefs'-we combat all those
who have seized ON any kind of
power, or who seek to seize it. Our
enemy is the landlord, who mono
polises the land, and who makes the
peasant labour for his profit; our
enemy is the employer, who pos
sesses the mandatory, and who has
filed it with hired serfs; our enemy
is the State-monarchical, oligar-
chical, democratic, or proletarian--
with it's functionaries, its staff of
officers, magistrates, and spies. Our
enemy is every abstraction of autho-
rity, be it called Devil or God, in
the name of which the priests have
so long governed simple minds.
Our enemy is the law, which has
ever been made for the oppression
of the weak by the strong, and for
the justification and the consecration
of crime. But if the landlord, the
employer, the chiefs of States, the
priests and the law are our enemies,
we are also theirs, and we rise
against them. We are determined
to reconquer the land and the work.
shop from the landlord and the en-
ployer; we are determined to abolish
the State under whatever name it
may disguise itself, and to re-seize
our moral liberty in the face of
priest and law. With all our strength
we work at the destruction of official
institutions, and we declare our
solidarity with every man, group, or
society that disowns the law by a
revolutionary act. We set aside all
legal means, because they are the
very negation of our right; we re-
ject the suffrage styled universal, as
we cannot dispense with our indivi-
dual sovereignty and in advance
render ourselves the accomplices to
crimes committed by pretended
manufactures. Between us Anar-
chists and every political party, Con-
servative or Moderate, combating all
liberty or granting it by doses, the
severance is complete. We will
remain our own masters, and he
among us who should aim at becom-
ing chief is a traitor to our cause.
However, we are aware that indivi-
dual liberty cannot exist without
association with other free associates.
We live the one by the other; it is
social life which has made us; it is
the labour Of all which confers or
each one the sentiment of his right
and the might with which to defend
it. Every social product is col
lective work, to which everyone ha:
an equal right. We are therefore
communists; we recognise that with
out the destruction of the patrimo
nial, communal, provincial, nationa
landmarks the work of the Revolu
ton would always remain to he dom
over again. 1t is for us, whateve
be our language, and whatever th'
label of the Government to be over
thrown, to conquer and defend com
mon property. -Qwee'eslan0er.
POLICE COURT.