Workmen's advocate., 1888-12-01

seem to b. true. But Jrt u, spc if
 nature does not display pbmomoua
 upon dry hrJ tbal ar' equally as
 HnamauMr 10 maNduu control,
 aud dangerous Ip Us independence
 as #aT -Aa displays upuu line sea-
 W" @F. cyclones. bIzurjs WrtH-
 4"aNts sand r.drmins uuu Iud, aOI
 ol them dangerous ,o reuu uU-
 er.l, aoH whHr the collective c,yug
 Is a,"mtblr of prypntr 2 my of
 jh.e Nhruomeua, oN.vpl. perhaps,
 opd.mles. nevertheless tHr energy
 0J tue Sa,o ls sufficient Jo maintain
 skilled body of men, Nuo,. duty 1t
 l. to o.'-uyr al Indications If sud
 rAWmDH, and 70 trw-wO N'n.-
 ua@ )o ali parts oI jha rowmou-
 "aH..h, in order 5n4J l.c ucHm8 d1s.
 aatG uaF he reduced u l"ta~0.y.
 Tins service rcquIrcs u disciplined
 l1Hy of individuals. working under
 Un~tjou aud with dH,ocuu: an uI-
 w,ul~tratloU with uwmty m It's
 o~u sphere of duty, Hut some
 critic vl.l 4.r, "tais could 1r just as
 Vel, accomplished by rudvdual cu-
 tcrprJsn, perhaps { could, U 4 Pold' hut that d"r, uot ao a"ay
 Uth tbp uccrsslty of regulating and authoritative admImrn~Ion..L r., d govwUmuut: the only chmge
 made would br m substituting au
 molyptua. autoratlc government u
 place oi a collective dcmo'ratic one; and under both forms of goyeru-
 ment tine laws of WJ}ity would be those of experience, and not of ma jnritF.0F minority rule. Hua there Ia one feature of social adjustment juat shows more clearly and point cdly tie necessity of a collective al. mini~tratjon of the ccononc forces 0I society," and that ls the question of river and harhor improvements and maintenance and that uf for catrv. Already has individual en- terpr'se deuuded the hpa3watcfs .nG banks of our largest rivers and theIr tributaries of the requisite amount of forest necessary tC eQuaIizc the rain faiI of the country III such d manner that there shall be neither droughts or floods, such as we have at the present t)me, through a pu- silanlmous and ycnal catering to ill., diy!dual aggrandizement-&ud what | better results could we hope from anarchy: And the same rule ap- plies to agriculture as we'll; indjvid- | uaI enterprise in d competing mar ket Is bound from necessity to get l all 1t possibly can out of the soil l while that individual is alive.
 That which strikes me as being l peculiarly faulty in the "anarchis- tlc' scheme of liberty is the utter contempt cvInced for environments. It's supporters apply the same pro- cess of reasoning to questions of eco- monies as they do to distractions concerning another world or no world at al, the last being a per fectly legitimate sphere for anar- chistic fancjes. ] quote the follow ing from lecture by stephen Pearl Andrews, the ablest scholar and | most profound thinker that the "an- archists" have ever had, in this country at least:
 "The highest type of human society in the existing social order Is found in | the parlor. In the elegant and refined of the aristocratic classes there Is none of the impertinent interference of legislation. The individuality of each is fully admitted. Intercourse, therefore, is perfectly free. C0nversa- tion Is continuous, brilliant and varied. Groups are formed according to attrac- tion. They are continuously broken up and reformed through the operation of the same subtle and all pervading int1u- ence. Mutual difference pervades all and the most perfect harmony. x Suppose the intercourse of the parlor to be regulated by specific legis- lation. Let the time which each gentle man shall be allowed to speak to each lady be fixed by law; the subjects they shall be allowed to speak of all under pretext of preventing disorder and encroachment upon each others privileges and rights; and can anything be conceived better calculated to con vert social intercourse into intolerable slavery and hopeless confusion :'
 This is fair sample of anarchis- tic logic, and from as conscientious md self-sacrifclng man. 1 believe.