Dodge City times., 1888-04-05

ment.
All this sounds like the bloody
dream of murderer driven insane; but
it is exactly what the anarchists
preach. These are the doctrines that
Spies, Parsons, Engel and Fischer held,
and for which the bratal and vicious
gang of anarchists in the United States
are endeavoring to hold them up as
martyrs.
Socialism and communism are less de-
grees of the same craze. Their dis
ciples believe that all property should
be held in common; that one man
should have no more than another;
that brains and talent and virtue and
industry and economy and sobriety
shall be chained down to the same
plane as mediocricy and immortality
and idleness and extravigance and
drunkenness, without the hope or op
portunity of rising. The socialists and
communists do not favor the abolition
of ali government, but they practi-
cally believe in a government by the
worst elements of society, instead OF
the best; and they do not approve of
dynamite methods of accomplishing
ther dreams.
The anarchists claim to look upon
all men who have any property-even
upon the sober, industrious workman
who has by economy secured himself a
/ home-as tyrants, deserving of death,
that the fruits of the labor and self
denial may be divided among these
lazy, murderous scoundrels. whose idea
of hapiaessis is a lazy lolling over the
spigot end of beer barrel. They look
upon all government as tyranny. In
considering this matter, the conclusion
is almost forced upon the mind that as
soon as man rejects the truths of relig-
ion. he casts off the links that bind him
to progress, to civilization, to morality,
and becomes not only an useless but a
mischievous factor in human life. 1t
there were not one iota of truth in rellg-
ion, it is necessary for the vast mass of
humanity, to prevent their relapse into
barbarism.
For in sober truth, that is what an
archism, if practically applied, would
amount to. Civilization is only possl-
BILE through the reign of law. The in
dividual gives up certain rights to the
state in order to receive its protection.
To destroy government and property,
would be to force return to barbarlsm
to the government Of the strong arm
when he who was able, took what he
listed and he who was weak, suffered
himself to be despoiled in silence or died
in Intellectual defense of his home, his
family and his property.
1t is an astonishing, and withal a
somewhat alarming fact, that any great
number of people can be made converts
to so bloody ard so foolish doctrine as
that preached by the anarchists. 1t Is
solemn warning. and not the first one
| that has been received that free gov
ernment cannot exist unless there IS an
| educated and enlightened voting popu-
lation. The republic has lasted cen
! turv. but that does not mean that 1t is per-
netual. Our attention has always been
directed to possible dangers by execut'
i've usurpation or governmental corrup
ton. rather than those arising from lg
norance and bigOtry. We have remem-
bered the lessons learned from the over
throw of all former republics. rather
than watched for possible dangers IL
other directions. The propaganda OF
anarchism, socialism and communism II
, our midst is sign of evil, There er
| r,.rs need combating by education, by the
enresd of Intelligence, rather than bv tht
strong hand. If we do not heed the
warnings. the fate of the republic wor
| have been-slicide.