The Labor enquirer., 1886-12-04
pist, sees that the oyerbearin9 attitude

pist, sees that the oyerbearing attitude
Of manufacturers must excite strife, and
as cure for Anarchy he advises for
eign war b be inaugurated by slaw and
order" If preparing against the exigen-
cies ofa Revolution is conspiracy, then
John Brotn should have been hung for
STUDYING mountain warfare in Eu-
rope. I am not here advising Revo-
luton but only claiming the right of
self-defense as guaranteed in the consti-
tuition and the Declaration Of Independ-
eEce.
If Anarchy is murder, and to be an
Anarchist is to be q con-
structive conspirator to murder NJ.
Degan through an unknown party. then
is the prosecution bound to hang all An
archists7 And as Socialists, Commu,
nists and Nihilists are but second cous-
ins to Anarchists. they should be hung
also. The Chicago News said they were
all condemned under the sentence. And
as Greenbackers and Anti Monopolists
have said some things as infammatory
as any, they should be hung also.
Thus it is apparent that this prosecu-
ton is but a persecution of one class
over another. And those two classes,
broadly stated, are capital and labor
Capital which has stolen, through the
political machine, 80 per cent of the Ia
borer's earnings, by abolishing the equal
right of private contract; capital that
enables one man TO lay aside 100000
year, bv doing nothing, while the 6,OO0.-
900 who are working for him receive
less than what 1t costs to keep eonyicts.
And the chief crime in which the
defendants were connected was in point
ing out these things.
So then the judges garbled Revolu-
tionary passages are not the whole OF
Anarchy, nor leading feature. Instead
of beinga conspiracy to murder, it is
claimed to be the science of government,
the natural law of society uninhuenced
by any outside, artificial, arbitrary, su-
pernatural authority. Peace, not vio-
lence, is its first principle. .s
On the other hand, during Twenty-Five
years of the reign of "!aw and order"
with no war. no famine, no pestilence,
increase of crops and inventions, the
country has had vast increase of poV-
erty, of divorces, of lunatics, of failures,
and 500 per cent increase in crime. If
this is law and order, then what might
Anarchy be?
AS word, like every new reform, 1t is
word of reproach. All new movements
necessarily are such. Abolition" was
such, and the utterances of abolitionists
were "incendiary" and "infamed the
public mind" and advised to murder
generally" But there is no other prop
aganda to-day calling out more inquiry
than this word invites. And when the
public find out what its 'adherents claim
under 1t, they will find that it means
just the opposite of what their vicious
education and surroundings have taught
them to believe. They will find that
like every other sect or party, there are
two phases of Anarchists. Had not this
great injustice .shadowed all minor
defects. should have perhaps pointed
ont some of those of the Chicago An.
archists. But the breaking up of the
haymarket meeting and the character
of the trial has vindicated the truth oi
their prophecy, that 30 far capital cannot
endure free speech, is irreconcilable
with it. So far the state has shown Rev.
olution inevitable. Whoever threw the
bomb, there is no doubt that it was oc-
casioned by the abuse of the authority
That bomb served as the last bulwark
of American Liberty! Bonfeld was the
"conspirator to murder" He is the one
who should have been tried and these
defendants discharged with damages
If they are hung by capital it will be
only because the gods wish to first make
mad those whom they intend to DESTROY
C. Y. F.