The morning call., 1894-03-26
70 ANARCHY HERE, PLEASE.

The march of the army of the unem-
ploYed on Washington will be classed
! hereafter with tas threatened invasion of
| London by the Pretender and the threat
ened attack on Washington by Colonel
| Watterson's army from Kentucky TO pre-
vent the Inauguration of Hayes. 1t is a
pure piece of buncombe, got up by wild
adventures of the sandlot type in the
hope of something turning up for their ad-
vantage. Armies cannot move even short
distances without food. When General
CUxey's army runs cut of victuals the men
will have to steal to live, and the owners
of the stolen property will deal with them
impartially. regardless OF politics.
These people are simply anarchists in
the modern acceptaLon of the term. They
rebel against the control of society by the
constituted authorities and against the
control of the individual by society. This
was not the notion of the founders of
philosophical aDarchism, Joseph Proud
hon and Karl Marx. These eminent men,
who were phlanthropists as well as phi
losophers, held that society was not SO
organized as TO yield the largest possible
ben efts to the greatest number, and that
therefore it was wrongly organized and
utcucu 4hCS Shal a
large proportion of the people OF the pres
ent day do not get an adequate return for
the service they render to society. and
therefore they insisted on change in the
conditions which produce this wrong.
Thus far intelligent and humane men were
with them at least in a measure. But
when the time came for them to formulate
their remedy ana to explain how the
changes they demanded could be brought
about they lost themselves in labyrinth
of confusion. Proudhon got so far as to
declare that property was robbery, the
disciples of Bakunin proclaimed openly
that highway robbery was one of the most
honorable modes Of life in Russia, and
John Most, who was another disciple. de-
clared that the people of all countries
should follow the example of the Russian
nihilists and assassinate their rulers.
Thus reduced to an absurdity, European
anarchism ceased to be professed, except
by a few ole-and-corner miscreants, who
were destitute of intelligence and imbued
with innate depravity. No one possessed
of the ordinary capacity to reason could be
a member of school which rejected all
law and authority and expressed its dis
sent in violence. Hence, the anarchist body
which twenty-four years ago was strong
enough to master the city of Paris is now
reduced TO corporaPs guard Of villains
who throw dynamite bombs. and will pres
emily be exterminated on the scaffold.
a few of the breed have emigrated to
this country, and joining with our danger
GUS class here have undertaken to disturb
the tranquil working of law and govern
.ment. The especial doctrines professed
by Coxey's army are not material. The
point in their movement is that they pro-
| pose to go to Washington in large numbers
! and to overawe the regular Government.
| Therein they are anarchists. only differing
| in degree from the anarchists who threw
dynamite bombs into the ranks of police
| at the Haymarket and as such they cal
for vigorous repression at the hands of the
| authorities.
We are sure that the dispatches do the
leaders of the Populist party injustice in
representing them as sympathizng with
this rabble. The political platform of the
Popuiists does not commend itself 10 the ad.
miration Of the American people. 1t seems
to be a mosaic of exploded doctrine and
new-fangled absuTdlties. But the gentle
men who have placed themselves at the
head of the party are American citizens
not In the least likely to get up riots and Il
compel the authorities to put them down
by the strong arm of force. They know
as we'll as other citizens do that there /:
no wrong which under our system canno
be cured under the forms of law. If any
class of the community suffers hardships i
can make its wrongs known at the polls and
insist on redress. Either of the two lead
ing parties would be only TOO prompt Il
espcuse its cause, ii iJ has just one, fol-
the sake of the votes ii can control. Bui
this business Of marching on Washington
TO lay down tn law to Congress not onl,
provokes ridicule-it calls for stern rebuke
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