The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-10
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daughter. Americans, native and foreign
horn, would show the hostiles the door in
such a way that they would take the hint
OF pay the penalty.
In the Anarchists We have just such q
hostile foreign force. They are armed
with rifles, dynamite, Greek fire and
poison, They march under the red lag
the SYMBOL Of ideas and deeds as foreign
to our institutions and methods as all
that la meant by the black flag OF the sea
pirate. For the most part the invaders
ara not citizens, do not understand the
language Of the country, and have come
here, not to a a livelihood by peaceful
employment, but to live by agitation
that Is to say, by the labor oil other men
What makes the Anarchist leaders the
more dangerous is that they have deluded
large following into believing what they
teach. In most cases the foundation Of
this Wretched education has been-laid In
the Old World, aud the disciples OF the
gospel Of destruction have com to thls
country to practice doctrines not tolerated
in the lands Of their birth.
After the Chicago riot had been quelled
by the police, a Polish Anarchist said to a
reporter that he and his fellow country
man had been deceived, They had been
told that this wal a free country, where a
man could do rs he pleased. They had
resolved to take property from everybody
who had 1t, and here the law stepped In
lust as 1t would do in despotic Germany
or Russia, and said they should not do It,
AS Anarchists, he said, they did not be-
lieve in God and law, and denied the
right Of anybody to interfere with them.
Interference on the part Of the law forced
them to resort to rides and dynamite. II
they did not do this now, where would
the law stop2 As for the Chicago police,
were they any better than the police OF
Europe, who are known to be enemies OF
the people? 1t was right to kill police
men, for do not men shoot mad dogs2
1t would be very difficult to make this
man understand that liberty and license
are not interchangeable terms, or that the
mild laws Of the United States r any
better than the iron rule OF the CEari for
law is restraint, and the Anarchist Is
sworn to remove all restraints. His ideal
society Is where the individuals are all
equal in property to start with; where
the inequalities which result from intelli'
gence, ingenuity, industry and thrift are
smoothed out from time to time by more
rifles and more dynamite; and where the
law OF God or man never intervenes to
thwart the individual desire.
This Is the government Of the wild
beasts ofthe jungle, in whichtheStrongtake
what they wantand the strongestke the
lions share. The men who, through their
Anarchist press, in their meetlngsand on
the street, preach 'the propaganda Of the
deed"-destruCtion Of property and lie
have hit upon a time Of labor disturbance
to put their doctrines into practice. They
hoped to take advantage Of an unfortunate
situation to magnify their own power. To
carry out this policy they did not hesitate
to commit murder.
There never will be o better time to
teach them that this Is a government Of
law, and that one Of our laws forbids muir.
der under penalty Of death. The hanging
Of the leaders will go far TO d!sabuse the
minds Of the Anarchists OF this country
aud Of those who have not yet joined the
invading force. 1t will give the world a
better idea Of American liberty Is dis.
tinguished from the liberty Of tho iaCkal,
the hyena, the vulture and the cuttle.ish.
But It will not do to stop here. The
law must take hold Of the invaders before
they begin the work Of destruction. II
the INrELIloENCRR were TO inCite a mob
to lay Wheeling in ashes, shoot down the
police and hang every man who owns a
home, does anybody doubt that the law
would lay hold Of the proprletors Of the
newspaper and punish them2
This Is what Most and Spies have done
in their speeches, and the law is after both
Of them. Every good citizen will hope to
see crime punished in the persons o these
arch.Criminals, whose only religion is do.
struCtion. There is rope enough in this
country 10 teach the organized murdererS
what we understand by a free govern
ment, and that lesson reads the same in all