New-York tribune., 1886-05-07
DEPORTATION FOR ANARCHISTS.

DEPOR1A IION run dNhH'Hi'1D'
What is this country to do with the Anar-
chistsq 1t welcomes every honest and lndustr-
ous laborer. who adds to productive industry.
But these men are neither honest mol lndustrI-
ous. and they labor only to destroy. lt opens
the doors to refugees from every form OF tyranny
and oppression. But these men are not enemies
of tyranny, but of government. What they
propose is a more intolerabo oppression than
that of the CzaI of Russia, the rule OF crazy
and senseess mob. Foreign repression of such
cowardlv fiends as the bomb users of Chicago
is not tyranny. but bare justice to them, AMI
mercy to the whole human race. This country
does not wnnt these people, has no use for
them, INDUCES no hope that even its glorious
institutions can transform them into decent
citizens. 1t is not to encourage the immigration
Of any such creatures that Our doors are opened.
But what shall be me about their coming
What shall be done with those who are here Y
Nothing in the PRINCIPLES of American gov
ernment warrants the notion that we cOunte-
nance enemies of all government. Other
criminals are stopped at our wharves, when
known, and sent back tn the lands that are re-
sponsible for them. These men. criminals
against all law and all government, human or
divine, are received with open mouths and ears.
Because we welcome here those whose political
offences or resistance to tyranny elsewhere have
made them fugitivcs, is that any reason for re-
ceving or tolcrating among us men who are as
hostile to free government as to any otherf
This is no longer question of trifiing im-
pOrtance. Masses of Ignorant foreigners con-
gregated in many cities are the magazine of ex
plos,vcs, to which these iends continually try
to apply the match Riots have been brought
about already by this small class of rebels
against all government which have cost the
lives of many hundreds of honest men and good
citizens, and destroyed vast amount OF prop
erty. Every year, in all large cities, police
force has to be maintained much in excess Of
other needs, because of the threat which the
presence of these people involves to all lives
and property. 1t is time to do some thing about
it, 1t is but just and honest to distinguish by
tue fixed policy Of our GOvernme between
these enemies of the human race and patriotic
refugees from tyranny, just as we distinguish
between political refugees and persons guilty Of
crime against life or property. But what shall
be done7 1t would be folly to propose any law
restraining freedom of speech in this country.
Here error is indeed the more harmless because
it is Outspoken, and truth is free to combat it.
But the dynamiter is a creature of different
order He does not Try to convince men, but to
mangle them. He does not hope for the sup
port of majority. He glories in having behind
him a minority, only large enough and
cOward'y enough to throw bomb.
1t is time to provide by Federal law that
Anarchists and enemies of all government shall
have no home or resting place in the United
States. They are not citizens, and without
perjury cannot become citZens, and therefore
can have no claim upon public hospitality or
protection. But the delivery to officials of
foreign Governments Of men charged with
being Anarchists would open the way to great
abuses. All patriots escaping from foreign
despOtism would then be in danger OF that
charge. 1t is enough to compel the Anarchists
to leave this country. Within certain limits,
considerable choice might be given them. They
can live with the wild beasts of kindred nature
in tropical jungles and forests. They can cross
the border into Mexico, if they like, as those
more civilized savaees the Apaches do. Or they
can cOnsort with the more civilized cannbals OF
the Pacific Islands if they choose. But when
any person, in this land of liberty and law,
proclaims himself an Anarchist and foe Of
society, whether by act or word. there ought
hereafter to be in force a law under which.
without waiting for other overt acts of crime
against society, he could be removed from
country whose hospitality he abuses, and to
whose very existence he is an enemy.