New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-04-01

desperation in the hands Of a Napoleon Is GENTLE
nsss Itself COMPARED with the dynamite OF Anarchy;

desneration in the hands OF Napoleon Is gentle
ness Itself compared with the dynamite Of Anarchy;
and all the trials Of Anarchist criminals nave
shown beyond possibility OF denial that their deeds
were suggested and inspired by just such literature.
Emile Henry even. who has been reading IN prison
Zoa's "Germinal' dark, one-sided picture OF the
mining country In France, declares that the novel;
ist himself teaches Anarchy In the facts narrated
I'm his book Zolas defence OF himself. beyond
natural expression of horror at Anarchist crime.
amounts to the soothing answer: IL am no longer
of an age for such Don Quixotsm"
THEY SAY THE STATE IS AN EVIL"
This touches directly on the second dangerous
idea prevalent In the literary world and influencing
certain impressionable minds to put theoretical
Anarchy into criminal practice 1t is the notion
that a condition of human society Is possible from
which the greater part Of the present evils would
be absent; and that the State, or government. as
know 1t. alone stands In the way OF realizing
this condition. This idea makes narrow and fanati-
cal minds impatient OF slow reforms so that they
dream only OF sudden revolutions which shall bring
In the golden age Octave Mrbeau who Is also a
man Of talent and n successful journalist writing
for leading Paris papers, Is me a1thor OF r re pn
only definition Of Anarchy: The reduction or the
fba the P state is the Greatest almost the only
culprit The State Expresses, stiles. crushes the
individual" While reprobating the violent deeds OF
certain Anarchists. he admits: Nevertheless, Il
must be acknowledge That the propaganda by
Xnsrch his move movement As to valiant, 1T is odd,
very odd. a contagion: beyond explanation
ly not to be despised."
Socialist assumptions that the present Is all wrong
and that violent revolution may make all right;
s@nburnes poetry into French, have lately bought
out a play, very poetic and very duiI. whicn was wa,
was designed to show that all society is fallen into
decay-into the autumn of Ire and love OF Gn,s
who brought out Gerard Hauptmans play this win;
ter refused at the proper point to make the ioaa
of OF the speakers and chose TO applaud warmly
instead. Much Of this Anarchy, which has become become
than any other fashion. But in connection with the
In any case, its public expression does not help
those who inclined to violence either to submit
patiently to evils which cannot be helped, or to
third idea, which is also shared by far too
sion that society is actually In state OF warIthe
ma sses against the classes workingmen against
sequence, revolution and violence justfabie;
Now in all the morality which has hitherto ruled
Anarchist is part Of human society and cannot
by any effort of will put himself outsde OF 1t ana
only public authority and not this or that inal-
How little these truths which were once universal,
" admitted. are now reverenced. may be gathered
from an interview OF last week with Charles Ma
iato He is the old-time French Communist who
FASTENED to Italy during the recent troubles when
he boasts were OF Anarchist origin. at least in some
parts OF the mainland A London publisher has just
published French book for him. From the Com
miration Of valiant: The bourgeois Republicans
admire the regcide Of 1893, by which they pronted
Wen. the proletarian valiant. throwing his bomb
tn kings Of the Republic only committed an act
OF reSicde."
HALF EDUCATION Is SOMEWHAT TO BLAME
It Is plain that these three ideas. which have
their origin and their chief circulation by means Of
| literature are common to Socialism equally with
Anarchy In fact Bakunin professed to derive
much OF his doctrine from Proudhon. who declared
property is robbery" On the walls OF the Anar-
chst clubs, the favorte notices are also taken
from the words of Karl Marx. urging to Internation
alism. on the other hand. those Socialists who re-
ject Anarchy with horror admit with Professor
revolution which IS sure TO come once again anu
the mdest theoretical Anarchists, in their turn
Of 'T present S society 1t should also be noted that
nearly every Anarchist criminal has so far been a
appreciate and desire many things which he can
never hope to achieve. They have all also, been
imbued with certain desperate religious notions
which prevail in French literature; These
may be reduced to the general principle that every
has a right TO all the satisfaction OF which his
nature is capable.
Emile Henry who is to be tried for his fe for the
explosion in the Terminus Hotel cafe. which has re-
suited in two deaths may be final example, OF al
bad be S ducatad at the expense Of the city Of
Paris. which carefully provides that the feelings
hurt by any outward inequality during their student
| life. After leaving school the inequality Gf his own
poverty with the riches Of his fore- associates could
but He never to have suffered from
lack OF friends resources: but he used his edu-
ca ion into all sorts OF specua tons like those
| have described. Besides being literary. sc!en-
thc phosophic and poetic Anarchist. reading Her
bert spencer and Tolstoi by turns he became a
practical medium with the spritists so successfully
that he fell into nervous faint at the end or each
self with the religion OF Buddha. His legal counsel
Mr. Hornbosel, light Of the Paris bar. says OF
him something significant that II may well close
this attempt at Indicating the solution of a most
difficult probem-the link between literary and
| criminal Anarchy: For Henry death is only mir
vana-a mystic repOse. an humiliation or the senses
in which only the brain will continue 10 vibrate!
He s an intellectual carried to the extreme. Moth
ing exists but what he thinks He Is absolutely
convinced that the act he has committed is to help
| toward the future happiness Of mankind