Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-09-06
THE IDEAL AND THE REAL.

ton. This incident caused US q
procure a couple Of numbers ant
thus be able to judge Of the chsrac
ter Of the thought conveyed il
them. The result was a disappOint
ment, the views expressed in then
being anarclical.
II is not without interest, how
ever, 10 observe the popular trend
OF thought, especially wherein il
indicates a significant yearniDg
after a universal condition with
which to supplant the existing
forms OF government. The mean
behring's OF thinkers in that line re
mind one Of people cropping in the
dark to ind the light. They arr
certain that somewhere the sun
shines ir splendor, but they cannot
reach the opening which viii en-
able them 10 bask in IL
The bent Of the Facentisth Century
can be TO some extent estimated by
some comments Of its editor upon
communication from a correspon'
dent in the Far West, who wrote tc
the magazine as follows:
THE West has had experience Of
Anarchy, and that experience is fairly
conclusive that while Il may be, as
believe, the ultimate goal Of society, Il
is at present decidedly premature,
Anarchy became 50 unbearable in
California, Colorado and Montana that
the citizens Of various localities or
ganized vigilance committees, and the
practically unanimous verdict is that
these committees were great blessings
in spite Of all that has been said
against them. A year ago this town
had no government to speak Of, and
il was rendered hideous nightly by
gangs OF drunken men, playfully fir
ing their revolvers when they pleased,
and Insulting any woman that dared
to venture in the streets. Il then be-
came incorporated and poles officer
Was elected. and 1t IS now one OF the
quie;est towns in the Northwest.
Whatever my theoretical preference
for AnarchisIn. canno. shut my eyes
10 such facts.-'
The EDITORS views are conveyed
in the following remarks:
.'What is here referred to was no:
Anarehism- II was rowdyism- An
archism has never existed, nor can /;
exis; until public opinion is strong
enough to bring about freedom from
those statute laws that violate what
should be the rights OF all people TO
the use OF vacant land, and entire
commercial and social liberty. with
such liberty, won by thought, n police
man would be as useless as knights
amor now is. ARarchism canno; be
premature, because i: clnnot exist
until people are ready for il. But in
order TO be ready for it we need no;
all become angels; we need no; be-
come unsclhsh. We only need to Be
fairly just and enough more selfish
than we now are to grant others wha,
should be their rights, for the purpose
Of increasing our own happiness.
Anarchism does not mean disorder.
1t means order. But there never can
be order until there is Liberty. There
never can be order while there are
legal monopolies.
II ''anarchism docs not mean dis
order" but "means order,- it
votaries should give some other
title to their ideal condition Of man.
that there may be no conflict
between them and the lexicograph-
ers, who define the word to convey
a state Of confusion; absence Of
government" II the editors ex-
playation OF the system-if eondi-
ton not regulated by law can be SO /
designated-be taken rs correct, the /
title is appropriate, Including its 1
as expressed Dy Webster.
Ii involves freedom from the statute
laws in relation to requirement by
the people Of the vacant lands. In
another article the Magazine editor
ienounces the government FOR inter
fering with the people in their efforts
% secure possession Of the tracts in
Oklahoma district.
Now, suppose there had been no
iuch interference on the part OF the
government what would have been
he result in No Mans Landl It
5 no stretch to state that the
.lmost inevitable consequence would
ave been that the rou IN aud
iespe.ate element would have
ecurei the entire tract, to the ex-
fusion ofthe more pelceable aud
claimants. Resistance
n the part OF the latter would have
cen met with violence, and horrible
Genes Of carnage would have been
nactei. Where would have been
be freedom in such n situation? II
ill be sorry day for the country I
hen the regulation Of law, even
hen not administered with exact {
lstiee, is supplemented by the ty- +;
amy OF MODS, which is worse than c
iat OF monarchiai despots.
The idea that a high quality of
'Pular- goodness woald not be {
ecesSary unIer 4 condition not
.sulatsi By statutory law, is fall /.
icious on it, face. That in such n ,
t1ation an increase Of selfishness )
o1id conduce TO the existence Of
saee is not any more reasonable. 4
hat men would be more regardful Q
the rights Of their fellows on the e
fish basis that that course would a
'ndnce TO their own happiness, Is &
ngulariy absurd. To prove this il Q
only Necessary to point to the fact B
at mankind are gradually drifting !,
ray from a belief in the immor- :
Ivy Of. tie soul. This life is to !,
ia the future life, al !.
ere Is II they are not unusually :
cd aud unusually uaseifish they !,
u seek, unscrupulously to seIze II
on Whatever ministers to their &
during the mortal span. O
ven some of those who profess be- p
4 In an after life are not free from d
ca sordid pursuits, being evidently n
Hing to crafty the desires OF the G
esent at the risk OF losing possible IA
flIr4s HIS. I vi