Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-02
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set opposite her catalogue Of the blessed, any
catalogue of the damned. II there were,
however. any such list Of lost souls, Bakuntn
would have his name in it, written in red.
Nevertheless, saint or no saint, the hrst
day OF May in France, in Italy, in Russia, is
day consecrated to the memory of Michael
Bakunfn. great many people In those ur-
settled countries were yesterday meditat1ng
upon the principles which Bakunin taught.
They were not for the most part people
whom we would quite like to ask to dinner
at our houses. Yet there was great multi
tude of them. And numbers count for some
thing. And they had strenuous voices, and
knew how to use them. And that is often i'm
pressfve. A crowd of muscular and excited
people. shouting unpleasant sentiments. is
to be respected. All wild animals are to be
respected, at least to the point of avoidance.
And when one considers the possibility that
some Of those muscular shouters have dyna-
mite bombs in their pockets, and q reckless
willingness In their hearts to use them, fear
may well be added to respect. Finally,
when it is realized that these dangerous
people are brothers and sisters of ours, and
are crying out against outrages which they
say we have committed against them, it be-
comes quite evident that st. Michael
Bakunfn's day is a day which may well be
praying, at least in serious thinking.
Fact Hard to Realize.
In is easy, at this long distance, to treat
this whole Anarchist business lightly,
though we have had our own lesson to teach
US that all the anarchy Is not separated from
up by the wide ocean. Michael Bakunin has
his disciples even here. just now, however,
the storm center is in France. 1t takes,
therefore. some effort to realize that there
are actually at large in the world. unhand-
cuffed, destitute of straight-jackets and un-
confined in hospitals for the insane men and
women whose sober ideal for the immediate
future is unsparing and universal destruc-
tfon. They would tear down all the houses,
wreck the churches, ruin the mills, destroy
the cities, abolish law, and bring back, If
they could, return to savagery.
OF these people, who seem every year at
the May Day demonstrations to be coming
more obtrusively to the front, Balunin was
the beginner. He was Russian, and MEM
Der of an aristocratic family. He saw the
oppression of that country and the injustice
that was done there: saw civilization, that
is, on its worst possible side. And when
he spoke he had experience of the imperial
method of argument-he was put in prison.
Bakunin's imprisonment emphasized his
previous convictions. He had nothing to
do but think, and his thoughts were mot
mild thoughts. The argument of imprIson-
ment may silence, but it never convinces
The best way to defeat ones own purposes
to use injustice and violence.
The Leader and Father OF Anarchy.
-BAKUNIN's S revolutionary ideas intensi-
fed, so Laveeye expresses it, to a kind of
religion. 1t was the only religion Bakunin
had. He compared himself to Prometheus,
the Titan benefactor of men, chained to
a rock in the Caucasus by the orders of
the Tsar of Olympus"
Presently his imprisonment was exchanged
for perpetual Punishment in Siberia Out of
Siberia this new Prometheus escaped, and
made his way across the Pacific to this coun-
try, and so to England. Finally, he died in
1876, at Berne.
Bakuntn was the arch-Anarchist, the lead
er and father of anarchy, the apostle of the
doctrine of "pan-destruction." His favorite
word was "amorphism," which means "with-
out any form or shape whatever" His idea
was to begin over again at the beginning, TO
go back to the first day of creation, to the
primeval chaos.
Some holders of unlucky hands of cards
imagine that by taking the pack and fling
ing it against the ceiling they will procure
more equitable distribution of aces and
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the prayer "Thy kingdom come"
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THE most prominent representative of
at present is the Anarchist Rava-
chol. He holds that the best way to bring
about reign of brotherly love is to blow
up most Of the human family with dyna-
mite. He desires, he says, to call attention
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1--WE WISH, these people say, "to de- |
,trov all States and all churches. with atI |