The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-12

upon this storm and guide it. says withou t
a fear:
although miseries and abuses of overy
kind have diminished, absolutely speak
ing, yet we find that they have had n
frightful increase when seen through our
present conscience, which is to the con-
science of the past what tho microscope is
to the eye glass. Our ago offers ter
rible signs. Woe TO the society which
understands not the meaning of that
which is everywhere making ready; WOO
10 the society which sees, like "A symptom
of its own decomposition, the growth of
the anarchist danger and of the revolu-
ton where international associations find
at every turn favorable field" These
are his words in La Rccoite, the anarchist
organ published under his influence. In
another place, under his own name, he
has given expressions to his idea of what
common people expect from the
progress OF tho noXt century. This is
your lot for tho morrow, little property
holders, separated or associated together,
unless you defend yourselves. They will
take from you tho field and its harvest;
they viii tako from you yourselves; they
will bind YOU to some iron machine, smok-
ing and shreking. and wrapt around with
your arms as a piston 10000 or J., 90 times
a day. This they will call agriculture, for
We arc in an ago of science and of method,
and our governors. served by the army of
chemists and professors, are preparing
for you a social organization in which
everything will be regulated as in fac
tory where the machinery directs every
thing, even men; where men are only
wheels, of which you rid yourself when
they meddle with reason and will"
what Dynamite VIII DO.
Turpin, who has passed his life in in
venting the explosives which some anar-
chists have tried to use, and who has just
frightened his French countrymen by
threatening TO sell new invention to the
German enemy, has an idea that the good
time coming will be tho result of dyna-
mite. MEN who devote themselves out
of patriotism to the discovery of engines
of war capable of assuring to their coun-
try an indisputablo prcponderence over
her enemies arc inevitably destined to be-
come, by the very march of progress, tho
greatest servants of all mankind. The
day will come, indeed-why should it not
be tomorrow one of them will be-
stow on the world so formidable an in
strument of death that the conflicts be-
tween nations will be rendered impossi-
bic. What account will then DO made of
the hctacombs of tho past, and of that
final hetacomb in the presence OF the uni
versal peace which will be secured for
cver'n This should be read i'm the light
of tho description of the latest invention,
which would scatter such shower of ex-
plosives over hostile army as to NOV
down 10000 men at one sweep.
Father Hyacinth and Alexander Dumas
look on tho coming century with more
amlable eyes. The cX-frar says: "In
the twentieth century, Victor Hugo de-
clared, there would be no moro dogmas
and no more frontiers. lie made n double
mistake. TO speak only of frontiers, they
will exist as long as the nations them
selves. for whom they guard distinct feat
urcs and mutual independence. What is
true is that frontiers shall no longer be
marked with blood nor nations possessed
by hatred. Free at length from every
Cain, tho world shall SEQ the brotherhood
of men under tho fatherhood of God"
The novelist and play writer adds:
IL believe that our world is about
entering on tho realization of the words,
love one another without troubling
itself whether it is n man or n God who
has said them. Tho spiritual movement
which is signaled from every quarter, and
which SO many ambitious or spiritual
minds imagine they are ahlo TO direct.