The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-05-14
PROVO CITY.
MAY IA, 1884
ANARCHY THINLY DISGUISED,

Jump up commonwealth and he'll
tell you he is not an anarchist. In
fact he will become fighting mad if you
suggest that possibly he is deceiYing
himself and that un consciously to him
self he is not a believer in the law that
he hates law and is doing all that is
possible to break it down and inaugu-
rate the reign of anarchy. The ,om-
monWealers carry the United States
flag which is the emblem of law, the
insignia of the authority of the govern
ment, and yet the men who march
under it do nothing from one end Of
the day to the other saYe violate the
majesty that flag typiies. They do not
seem to be aware that for every day
they remain organized and in their
present attitude they insult the ma
jesty their flag is supposed to repre-
sent.
There is no properly balanced or
right feeling man IN all the broad land
but deeply sympathizes with the honest
but deluded poor men among them.
And it is equally true that faults have
been committed by the government in
the legislation of the past twenty years.
ALI good men are earnestly and hon.
estly endeavoring to find way out of
the difficulties by which we have been
enYironed by these faults committed
in the legislation Of the government.
But bad laws are better than no laws,
and bad administration OF them is
far better than no attempt to admins
ter them. Anarchy is the growing evil
of the day. 1t is the dire and sinister
threat against the life of order, the
security that law brings. When we
realize what the condition of the coun-
try would inevitably be without law,
We begin to see the dangers lurking
around the idea of the commonweal.
If anarchy prevails We are without
all semblance of security. The strong
arm takes and holds what it covetS,
only until a stronger appears. The BAD
passions of men are the only rule of
action. Are we prepared for this state
of things? Anarchy is the extremity
of Iawlessness. Are we prepared to
20 to that length? If not We must
come away from all semblaLce of 1t.
The approaches to that chaotic
condition are so gradual, so
insidious that one is caught
in the tolls ere he is aware of it and
before he has had time to reason upon
the situation he becomes, per force, a
blatant, bowling iconoclast tearing
down TIE safeguards which it has cost
the civilization of the world, six thou
sand years to erect.
We must be careful how we encoar-
age the reckless men Of the common
veal by misiudged and misapplied SYM
pathy. The officers Of our law courts
must reflect that, though personally
sYmpathizing with the distresses of the
poor, deluded men, that their sacred
duty is to uphold the law and sternly
to rebuke all manifestations OF lawIess-
ness whether proceeding from individ-
uaIs or so called "armies" of men, even
though they faunt before them the
banner and emblems of the authority
Of the national government.
Again this exhibition of growing law
lessness caused by the distress, occa-
stoned in the first instance, by wicked
legislation, should and must teach our
law makers ana representatives that
the poor, the labOrers of the land, have
in :erests as dear and worth as much to
them as their millions have to the
millionaires. There is no shadow of |
doubt but were it to try, congress and
the government could in one single
days effort completely rob the lawless
of the land of every excuse or incen-
tive for disobedience to law. The
matter has two sides to it, to a dead
moral certainty