Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-18
THE SPREAD or ANARCHY.

THE SfitE1D or ANAHCHl,
One cannot accept without further con-
nrmaton the report from California OF a
conspiracy to assassinate leading citizens
of that state by the socialists. 1t is not
incredible, but improbable, because pre-
MIXTURE To that complexion we have
long been tending, and without change
there is no avertng conflict with the
anarchical classes who, being expelled
from the European countries, have taken
up their abodes among us 70 agitdte de-
struction and assassination They are
growing in numbers by fresh accessions
from abroad, and growing in boldness by
the liberation allowed them by our laws.
An outbreak that must call for military
repression has been looked forward to by
those who have watched the course Of
events in our cities, but it was not cX-
pected just now. The exposure of the
California plot must have been prcclpi.
tate, but it viii do good by turning the
public's mind to consideration Of this
subject.
In all OF our great cities there is
motley element OF ignorant, vicious
foreigners who are constant menace to
the peace of the citizens and the security
of property. They are associated in
brothcrhoods whose doctrines are more
dangerous to society than the worst
clans of robbers; for robbers plumber
only for their own gain and do not mo-
lest what is of no use to them, while the
anarchists would destroy ell property for
the sake OF dispossessing those who own
it. They hate law because il curbs
their passions, and society because il en-
acts laws for the protection of property.
They are organized, armed and dsci-
plincd, and make no concealmcnt of their
intention to overthrow the government
when they become strong enough to cope
with IL. Their papers are oiled with revo-
lutionary writings, their speakers inAame
the mob with incendiary harangues, their
headquarters are magazines of dynamite
and internal machines, the rendezvous of
outlaws from the lands of their births,
and impaca5lo enemies OF peace and
order, 1t is impossible that all these tur-
bulcnt influences should not goad the ig.
norant and tumultuous into an uprising
some day, which, before II is qucllcd, will
innlct death TO hundreds of valuable lives
and destruction to millions Of property
Last winter ten thousand men and women,
armed and drilled, marched through the
streets of Chicago, bearing plucards and
notices announcing their revolutionary
principles, and at night fanatlcal speakers
entertained the throng with the widest
defamation against the rights OF prop
crty and the lives of property-holders.
Their proposition was that all property
was common, and all who owned properly
held 1t against the rights of the commun-
ity, and therefore were robbers robbers
deserved death, therefore the murder
OF all who owned property was
iustiilable. 1t is not hard to conceive
that such appeals could have turned the
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Stay, and before a sufficient force could he
sent there to resist them the entire city
would be in ashes. Such an outcome
would not have been strange. The mar.
vel is, that with the material dealt with,
that occurrence did not take place
The remedy for such state OF affairs
lies not ia COprCive or rpDrpgsiye laws
for these men are lawlesS by nature. We
must exclude the dangerous classes from
the country, and educate those already
here to conception of citizenship. An
of the men arrested In California were
foreigners, lately arrived in this country
1t is the general testimony that the dyna,
mite preachers and their restless con
/ stituents in the cities are foreigners. 1t
| is reasonable to suppose that If these mer
/ had not come here we would not now bC
| threatened with the dangers that they
I brought with them, We cannot get rid o.
them, but we can prevent an increase o.
their army, and we can educate theil
/ children out of the false notions of tn,
parents, This it is the duty of our legis
latiye bodies to provide for, and thel
there viii be no fear of organized assas
sination and robbery in this country.