The Labor enquirer., 1886-07-10
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Respectfully Dedicated to the Secret Or
ganiZatiOns OF the Law and
Order League.
For The EnQuirer.

TOT Inc
From Paroles dun Revolte'" by Pierre
Krapotkine. Translated by w. G. Owen.
What sort of order is it with which
we have to deal? Is the harmony of
which we are dreaming, we Anarchists ?
the harmony which will naturally es-
tablish itself IN all human relations, 80
soon as humanity shall cease to be di-
vided into two classes, the one of which
is sacrificed for the profit of he other ?
the harmony which will spring sponta-
neouslv from the solidarity of interests,
when all men shall constitute one fam
ilY, when each shall work for the good
of ALL and all for the good of each ?
Clearly not Those who taunt Anarchy
with being the negation of order are not
speaking Of that harmony of the future
they are speaking of order as one under
stands the word in society as we have it
now. Let US see then what sort of order
it is that Anarchy is anxious to destroy:
Order to-day-as the word is under
stools the nine .tenths of humanity
toiling to provide luxury, enjoyment, the
satisfaction of passions the most execra-
BILE for handful of suggards.
Order it is the depriving those nine
tenths of everv single condition neces-
sary to healthy life, and the rational de-
velopment of the faculties. The reduc
ing nine-tenths of humanity to the level
of beasts of burden living from dav to
dav, without ever daring to think of the
JOYS which have been for man by scien-
tific study, and the creations of the ar
tistiC mind; look you, that is order!
Order it is misery and famine ac-
cepted as the normal condition of So
Ciety. 1t is the Irish peasant dying of
hunger; it is a peasant of third of
Russia dying of diphtheria, of tvphus,
of starvation in the midst of piles of
wheat destined for the stranger. 1t Is
the people of Italy reduced to abandon
ing their fertile fields and tramping
through Europe on the hunt for job
at tunnel driving, by which subsistence
for some months, at the most, can be
procured, at the risk of being crushed
TO death. 1t is the soil torn from the
peasa t to raise cattle for the Cutting of
the rich 1t is the soil allowed to be fall
low rather than that it should be re-
stored to him who asks no greater boon
than leave to till it.
Order! it is woman selling herself to
rear her children; it is the child COM
PEELED to factory imprisonment, or death
from wait of food; it is the workman
lowered to the level of machine.
Order it is the apparitlon of the work
iLgman in insurrection at the doors of
the rich the apparitlon of the people in
insurrectIon at their rulers gates.
Order! it is minority, the lowest III
the social scale, raised to the seats of
government, and thereby charging itself
upon the majority, md bringing up its
children to succeed it in its offices, with
the view of maintaining the same priv
ileges by intrigue, BY corruption, by
force, by massacre.
Order! it is the everlasting war of
man with man, craft with craft, class
with class, nation with nation. 1t is the
cannon which never ceases growing
throughout the " hole of Europe; it is
the laying waste of plains, the sacrifice
of whole generations upon the field of
battle; the destruction in single year