Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-09

human infallibilty 10 assume sAa. his power
WI never be exercised 10 promote the for
tnnee OF purposes OF uuscrupuloas leaders
who may get control Of IL We know tAst IL
n N. e.en done on some occasions q Ole
more likely 10 occur in the future
In proportion 10 the introducssop a
foreign labor and foreign ideas. This /. iudi-
Gated by the fact that the labor Organization.
ai'er iseing IN any other way 20 accomplish a
declared purpose, such as increase OF wages.
fewer hours OF work, the restoration of a dis
charged hborer, resort 90 strife 90 accom-
plish IT. A strike means the employment and
exercise OF force. IL forces the unwilling a
cease labor and forcibiy prevents the wiling
from assuming labor. Ii says 20 the contented
laborer who has his pleasant bome-that
shelters his happy family partly paid for, aud
who is cheerfuiiy lsbcring 10 discharge tue
balance Of HIS payment: You shall no, work'
and it says 10 the skilled aborer who may have
expended the last dollar Of his savings in eu-
dcavoring 70 prolong the life Of an invalid wife
and in the care Of hrs helpless chiidrcn. Your
wife may die. your children may ssArve. and
you may become a convict FOR resisting us but
You shall not work
These are not labor organi zations or methoas
that any free-born American can tolerate or
sympsthi<e with; they cruel and tyrsunicxl
powers, enforcing the worst form of human
slavery by the exercise of brutal force. Force
bogets force. IL the workinemen adopt the
elements OF anarchy will seek to cooperate
with them, and tina: they viii he involved In
the fate that must always finally come TO
snarehy-ruin or despoiism.
woRKINoNEs SELDOM Forxp IN NoBs
1T has, however. thus far. been greatly 10
the credit Of intelligent labor. and 10 hopeful
sign for the future. that they are seldom found
I'm The ranks Of a mob. no matter For what
grievances they may be endeavorine 20 procure
EAA a. 81 A.
ence TO the riots of 1877 in Pennsylvania that
not Is per cont Of the railroad employees were
participants or sympsthizers' IL was stated
still more strongly by another ofrcer that the
mobs were composed Of roughs. trsmps and
unknown men--from where no one knew-And
few striking railroad men,
These facts should teach the lavlsss els-
ment among the workingmen that IL they listen
TO the specious arguments OF the anarchist
they viii not have the support OF their inseili-
gent fellow workmen, and should also con vince
the soldier that any mob he may be called upon
TO face and which has been organized under
The plea OF wrongs OF labor 10 be redressed n
In reality composed OF at least IS per cent Of
roughs, tramPs, thieves. convicts and snsrch-
lists, and that be need have no computations In
enectuaily Graduating them.
THE SOCIALIST AND IuE ANARCHIST.
The socialists should not be COMPOUNDED
with the anarchists. The socialist Ia generally
theories OF the proper construction 81 human
society. He is dreamer, and no more 20 DO
feared than any other harmless lunatic. except
30 far Ne he may lend aid and counSenance 10
putting his theories into active opposition 20
legally established government
The anarchist il the natural product Of
socislistic theories practically applied; he be-
iieves or asserts a belief in q condition of
society in which there shall be no law or no
supreme power, and in which every individual
shall do whatever he pleasee with perfect Inn
punity. Even hell 10 assumed 20 have q ruler,
and ne Is generally pictured 40 NOT
only most powerful, but most
sdroit ruler. IL one could imagine hell with
out ruler he might form a slight conception
OF what this earth would be il anarchy should
prevail, The anarchist 10 professional rioter,
and he brings TO his profession all OF the ara
ofdiplomncy, the skill of science and the knowi-
edge Of experience. II you are ever broughs
into contact with a mob let us hope that the
anarchists will constitute the 'front.' rankp N nos
the entire body OF IL; what otherwise might b
a duty will then become pleasure"