The record-union., 1894-07-19
TREATMENT OF ANARCHISTS.
How They Should be Dealt With in
All Countries.
From the Oakland Times.

From The Oakland Times.
The newspapers are engaged in the
periodical attempt to stlfle anarchy with
printers ink. They ali say that there is
no place for anarchy and anarchists in q
free country like ours. This is haekneyed
and untrue. Theoretically there is no
place, but 1t Is a fact that anarchism and
anarchists are both with us. Argument
with these morally diseased persons is
out OF the question. The only way TO
deal with them is by determination. They
are waglng war against society. 1t IS
their purpose To destroy all law and
abolish all authority. According to their
creed all law is oppression and all au-
thorlty tyranny. In their eyes the mild
est Government is despotism, and they
are against ali systems which impose any
restraint upon the personal inclination.
Autocracy, aristocracy or democracy, it
is all one TO them-they are against the
law and its agents. The anarchists do
not agitate to repeal bad laws or correct
evils OF government They are striving
for the total extinction of all law and the
destruction OF government in any form.
Their right 10 hold this insane belief
would be undisputed but for the meth
DDS which they invoke TO advance their
peculiar cult. They are waging war
OF determination against society as it eX-
Isis and the constituted agents Tor its
guardianship and preservation. They re-
gard assassination and lncendiariSln as
Legitimate agents TO promote their cause.
AS they oppose all rule, they deny the
right OF the majority To rule. As they
hold all law TO be oppression, they con-
tend that all means OF resistance are justi-
liable and even praIseworthy. Looking
upon ali authority as tyranny, they re-
gard the murder of officials as Il noble
way OF advancing the cause OF liberty. 1t
follows that people holding such views
have no country and no religion. Patfi-
otism and religious faith are alike un-
known to their creed. AS all rule is in
justice they reject the idea of God and are
therefore atheists pure and simple. For
the marriage tie they substitute mutual
inclination. In short, they demand the
restoration OF original chaos and the de-
struction of all order. They propose to
bring this about with the torch, the dag
ger, dynamite, poison and all the de-
structiye agents that science has placed
at the disposal of desperate criminals.
Every anarchist is a criminal at heart,
whether be has committed an overt act
against the laws or not. His existence
is continued threat against tho safety of
persons and property. Wherever he
goes he menaces innocent lives. A pro-
tagonist OF assassination. no one can tell at
what moment he will carry his internal
doctrines are a defiance of the laws OF
God and man their lives are gross ex-
hibitions OF immoral license and con-
temptuous disregard of all sentiments of
decency. These nests of vipers are not
ignorant III the common acceptation OF
the term. They are wholly without
moral sense or logical perception. Their
inaltormed lnteliects follow their own
animal desires. and they come to look
upon restraint of any kind as an outrage
on liberty. Their whole pernicious the
ory may be summed up in one short
sentence: Whatever man thinks he
wants to do, that he has right TO do.'
1t is idle to deal with these murderous
fanatics in the ordinary way. Exter-
mination is the only remedy for them.
They are afflicted with species OF men
tai rabies, and the safety of society de-
mands that they should be put to death
summarily as we do mad dogs or poison
Gus reptiles. The hangmau and not the
inoralist is the proper agent to deal with
them. Eradication and not conversion
is the policy to pursue with anarchists.