The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-01-20

nave no restrain upon crime. The
only law known to the anarchists
ideal community is lex ~IaIionis, the
law of the strongest. In such 4 sys-
tom mankind would lose all manly
attributes and become like into brute
beasts, which would consist o ftwo
classes, beasts of murder and beasts
of prey.
1t was characteristic AM consistent,
therefore, that Vaillan. threw his
bomb in the French Chamber of
Deputies; that is TO say. into the
midst of body of men engaged in
making laws. There was a kind of
fiendish philosophy in this. His OBJ
jcct being to strike a blow at govern
ment-not SO much at any particn!:..
government as at government in
! general, at the whole governmental
idea--he chose a legislative chamber
as the fittest place. 1t was la, ing the
ak OF the root of the tree. 1t was
poisoning wafer at its foundation. Ii
was an attempt to spike the guns of
civilization. 1t was as if one should
cut the jugular vein OF human society.
Valiant endcavorcd to commit
murder. Let us analvzc his act. II
was Unlike ordinary nurderous action
lie had no "malice aiorcthought"
against any single human being in
that multitudinous throng. lii
crime Vas all the greater Oh that ac-
count. lie lacked even the miserable
excuse Of personal passion. His
malice was studied, collected, fixed
and satanic. lie t',irstcd tor blood
for the sake of blood. lie Cared not
whose-thc blood of youth or age, i'll
nocence or guilt, friend or foe. men
or wOmen-the galleries were crowd
ed with wonicn-it was all the same
10 him. To kill was his intent. He
gIoated over the thought of slaughter. !
His eyes were strained 10 catch glad
glimpscs OF mangled corpscs. his ears
listened as for sweet music to hear
the shyieks OF the wounded and fine
groans of the dying. 1t would seem
as though this anarchist chose to
murder because that crime almost
more than any other is fundamental.
1t is the earliest crime recorded in
human history. 1t is one that, if un-
restrained, unpunfshed. would tend
toward the determination of the
human race. Hence, the first of all
laws against crime is that whi-l; says
Thou shalt not kill" 1t existed i'll
substance before the Ten Command
mcnts. 1t was written ON tables of
the heart before it vas written or
tables of stone. 1t dates back beyond
Mount Sinai to the garden of Eden.
In the coarse of his first examina-
ton he told, ~jauntily and v%auntingly,
the shameful story of his life. A part
of the story proved him to have been
false to his marriage vows. lie pro-
fessed to regard marriage with the
contcmptuous hatred felt toward
government and laws. The family
institution ia menaced by anarchism
for the same reasone, essentially, as
arc those which explain the bomb
malice against courts and
legislatures. FL the final analysis
they arc all one. Marriage is fuada-
mental, too Ii dates back toy tnc b.
ginning. 1t belongs to human order.
TO civilized society: ii is included in
human and divine law. SO lawlcss-
ness rebels against marriage, by in. !
tiact as we'll as by deliberate choice !
If evil, rather than good. d
Moreover. he who IL false to the I
marriage Sest breaks solemn prom
sc, u promise the most sacred and
obligatory thas ever can be spoken in
his world. All libertines are liars. ,
There is something particularly con- !,
seNial to unarchism in fslschood. Il
FOR, again, the law of truth-tcliing $,
5 fundamental. Without truth-seIling Sc
mankind couad rot live together. +
he first recorded lie. like the first
ecorded murder, belongs TO the time =
t mans first appearance on this L
lanet. Think of the im~possibjlitv of i,
ANYTHING by testimony in ~
,urts of justice without reliance on &c e,
'uth-tefling. Without reliable tcati-
ony laws eould not be enforced and an
light as well not be enacted. Of
Valiant %prosiaims himself an atheist. liz;
his makes The character complete.
we trace back the idea of law to -
source we shall come to the idea Tx
God. SO if wctrace back the idea Ii
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lawlsssuess. which means anarchy, Z
its SOURCE, we shall come to the
- that that there is no God. .Of
w said the far famed Hooker.
'ere Gan be- no less acknowledged 4
II that her scat is the bosom of a.
d. her Vote the harmony of the =
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