The morning call., 1894-01-16
THE ANARCHIST.

Louis Souehet hated society, and society
cared nothing at all for Louis Souchet till
he was twenty and few months more
For till the year 1880 he starved and
worked patiently. He did his duty in the
station to which Plutns had called him.
and he had kind of dog-ike submission
about him very fitting for man of no
parts. But dogs, under certain conditions,
go mad; and so do human beings. Rabies
may be stamped out by mczzles, but muz-
zling revolt cannot cure the ra abies of men.
Louis Souchet got bi!ten by mad anar-
chist, who has since disappeared from So
ciety. having been buried in two pieces.
Louis was thin and spare and trifle
misshapen. Society had been unkind to
him even before he was born. SO he said.
His doctrine, derived from his departed
leader. averred that every disease, every
malformatiOn, every kink in every twisted
brain. was due to society. The quietest
dog when rabid may be as bad as a savage
one by nature, and Louis was sufficiently
fierce to be very dangerous. His clever
friends knew he was a possible tool, who
might In some circumstances be induced to
blow himself up If that were the only way
of getting rid of certain other indicated
persons as well. So faI he was valuable.
NOW, Il0 lunudIiOndl DaSlS oil sclpnt lie
phllosophIc anaTchism Is that if every
body were allowed to do exactly as he
wants, after few generations no one
would want to do anything at variance
with the in terests of the great mass of hu-
manity. There is possibly something in
this, but anarchists know 1t by intuition.
Consequently the secondary or practical
part of this allows every anarchist to do ex-
actly as he pleases in his or her private af-
fairs. This is usually acted Oh bv those out
side the red ring, but it is not subscribed to
publicly. Consequently, TO come to actual
facts, when Louis Souchet married, bo tt,
Louis and Marie Mariner held it as high
doctrine that both were At liberty TO leave
the common menage when it occurred to
them to do so. This was the basis of the
entire arrangement.
But the leaders of this particular branch
were not pleased with Souchet for enter
ing into any quasi-matrimoniai links.
They feared that it might make him
averse from sacrificing himself when
anarchism called for him. Experience
had taught them so much. And Just
when he was wanted Louis showed the
white feather lie WAS very fond OF
Marie. AS it is not reckoned want Of
courage for the leader OF leaders of an
army 10 avoid the actual hot fighting, il
need not be esteemed cowardly conduct
If Souchets leaders had wise disin-
clination to take his place in the arranged
programme.
So they argued with him. "Just now /
am too content" said Louis. Then they
cut off his supplies, or, at any rate. re-
duced them to the level of the Partisan
water supply in hot and choleraic sum-
mer. Then they argued with him again.
He was thin, but still content. Marie,
however, was not content She wenI
away, and took her bonnet and cloak to
show that it was divorce Then Louis
lost his content. He argued with her and
with one of his leaders.
at is necessary to live" said Marie,
"That's what l argued just lately y
answered Louis. But the leader said thai
though such statement was part of an.
arcbistic philosophy. it formed no part OF
its present practice. Then blow the com
paDy up yourself" retorted Louis. BuI