The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-23
ANARCHIST MOWBRAY
SUCCEEDS IN LANDING IN AMERICA
AFTER DEAL OF TROUBLE,
And Proceeds tn Indulge in the Custo-
mary COmmunistic Rant-OppOsed
to Existing Governments.
New York Special.


Anarchist. experienced great difficulty in
effecting a landing at this port and is
quite indignant thereat. In an interview,
to-day. Mowbray expressed himself fol-
lows:
ut has not often happened that the peo-
pie of the United States have taken excep-
ton TO an Englishman landing on their
shores, but the unusual event has happened
at last. / was not aware before the other
day that / was such very dangerous per-
sonage. on the contrary, my friends in
England have thought me rather mild. The
officials of the United States government
hold different view, based, no doubt, from
the fear born of corruption and incapacity.
They surely cannot base their opposition to
my presence upon anything 1 have said for
1 have not yet spoken on platform in this
country.
What is il, then, which causes this out
burst OF official indignation 6or the people
do not objecD? 1 fear it is as Shakespeare
said: Conscience makes towards of US ALL
The knowledge that the misery under which
the vast body of the people suffering,
not only in America, but everywhere that
this bogus civilization has planted its foot,
causes those who have taken upon them
selves the task of governing vast amount
upon himself the task of calling the atten-
ton of the workers to the misery under
which they. suffer. and, what is more i'm
portant still, shows this army OF miSerableS
all over the world the way out to a
brighter and better life
WAS NOT DISGUISED.
1T seems that my word doubted
when L stated that came by the Paris and
that l did not disguise myself. 1 can only
reiterate that what / said was true. 1 did
not disguise myself. for it would have been
good if a smart detective had been look
ing for me. and in proof of my nondsguise
gave my correct and address to
people who were travelling to Kansas city,
Fall River and Jersey City.
but enough of this. 1 am here. and I
shall go away when l like, unless force is
used to compel my return. l came on
mission of peace You laugh, no doubt.
when say peace. And you think about
the actions of men and women who have
been identified with the Anarchist move
ment. But let me tell you that these &C
tons. this violence. have no more to do
cry movement of the past toward progress.
Violence begets violence. and if the cap
itast and governing classes e f renoe h t the
| exploitation of the results of labor. and,
second, by their brutal Indifference to the
misery they are directly responsible Tor,
and. thirdly. by their use of force at all
| times coerce the people into submis-
| sion whenever their misery goads them to
| rebel. who in his senses can wonder at the
| acts of Violence which every now and then
are committed by some man or woman
| who comes in his or her own mind TO the
conclusion that he or she will strike blow,
| if only for revenge: against this society
| And we who call attention to these evils
| are blamed for causing this violence
1T would be well for the people or the
world if they would rid themselves of can't
Society to-day is made up of canting Chris
| tans, lying and canting capitalists, crawl
ing and lickspittle workmen who are blind
To thnir m
actions and teachings of Anaxagoras
Socrates, Christ, Hypatia, John Huss
| Spies, Fischer, Engle, Mngg, Berkman
| Pallas, Mores. Norris, Krapotkin, Tolstoi
| and many others, there are at last spring
| who are determined to emf this society of
| corruption and make it possible for man.
| kind to live-not merely exist-but live
| life of pleasure and happiness
The genuine Anarchist looks with sheer
horror upon every destruction, every mutt
lation of a human being. physical or moral
| He loatheS wars, executions and imprison-
! ments, the grinding down of the workers
| whole nature in a dreary round of toll, the
sexual and economic slavery of woman, the
oppression of children. the Gripping and
| poisoning of human nature by the pre-
ventable cruelty and injustice OF man to
| man In every shape and form. Certainly
| this frame of mind and homicidal outrage
| cannot stand in the relation of cause and
effect.
us homicidal outrage the logical outcome
| of Anarchist convictions? And when using
| the term anarchiSm l throughout mean
| communistic or socialistic anarchism, and
| under the term 'homicidal outrage / am, of
course, not dealing with violence used in
| direct and immediate self-defense. AS a
Communist Anarchist; L look upon human
| societies as essentially natural groups of
| Individuals, who have grown into associa-
| ton for the sake of mutually aiding one
| another in self-protection and self -deveop-
| ment Artifcially formed empires con-
| structed and held together by force | re-
| gard as miserable shams.
| AN IDEAL GOVERNMENT
1.-THE society which l desire and would
recognize would be that which would be
| bound together by real sympathies, COM
mon ideas and aims Where, in all the
| world to-day, do we find a society bound
| by such ties have named. Thou shalt
| love thy neighbor as myself has become a
mere shibboleth in the mouths of present
| day pretending followers of the carpenter
| of Nazareth, who if he were here and had
come on board of the Paris with me- would
| have had, also, a special prohibition order
issued against His landing on American
shores. Jesus Christ was ever found on the
side of the oppressed and poor and whose
followers to-day are mostly found on the
side of oppression and robbery-legally, of
course, but robbery, nevertheless. 1t is left
| TO the Anarchist to give concrete express
sion to this utterance: Thou shalt love
thy neighbor myself
"In my eyes the true purpose of every
such natural society, whether it be ma
ton or q federation of nations, a tribe or
a village community, is to give every men,
Der of it the largest possible opportunities
| in life. The object of asSociating is to in
crease the opportunities of the individual
One isolated individual is helpless. a hope
less slave to external nature, whereas the
limits of what is possible to human beings
in free and rational association are as yet
unmaginable.
Now. l hold a natural society good in
proportion as it answer what 1 believe to
be it's true purpose, and bad in proportion
as Ii departs from that purpose, and in
stead of charging the lives of the indi-
viduals composing it, brushes and narrows
them. For instance, when society recog-
niZes the right of a comparatively few men
to the exclusive possession of the soil and
using it, except upon hard and stinting
terms. | hold that society, in so far as ii
recognizes such an arrangement, is bad
and fails of it's purpose
81 have arrived at the conclusion that
these causes are mainly two. First is the
unhappy recognition of authority OF man
over man a morally right principle a
thing to be accepted and submitted to, in
stead OF being resisted essentially evil
happy recognition of the right of property
that is the right OF individuals who have
complied with certain legal formalites TO
monopaliZe material things. whether they
are using them or need to use them, or not
and whether they have produced them or
not.
ITO me this state of public conscience
which permits these two principles of au-
thorlty and property TO hold sway i'm our
desociallZed condition and therefore. | am
against all institutions and all habits which