The San Francisco call., 1896-03-12
The Constitution Is to Contain
Several ASperSions on
Socialism.
TO ABOLISH GOVERNMENTS.
The Ceremony of Baptizing the Red
Flag of Anarchy Will Occur
on Sunday.

The enthusiasm of the new band of
anarchists in this City has just about
reached a boiling point, and tonight they
will band themselves together into fede-
ration, which will have the gallows as its
SYMBOL and the red and Dlack flag as its
standard.
The gallows was adopted as the badge
OF American anarchists after five of the
fraternity were hanged some years ago in
Chicago. All the members of the new
federation will be expected to wear little
gold or silver badges bearing the figure of
the gallows under the coat, on the side
which is popularity supposed to be nearest
the heart.
There is great enthusiasm over the
organization, though how many men ard
women will actually sign the rolIcall to-
morrow not an anarchist can be found
rash enough TO predict. Pistio Gori will
give his eighth lecture tomorrow in
Apollo Hall, in which he will make a sort
OF anarchist declaration of independence
Afterward the platform will be read and
all those who wish to join the Italian
Federation of Soclalistic Anarchists will
be invited TO step on the platform and
append their names to the anarchist roll
call.
Printed copies of the platform will also
be distributed in the hail. The document
begins with an arraig nment of capital,
which, it says, keeps all the riches of the
earth for one privileged class. "Why
should not the natural riches of the earth
air, light, water-belong 10 all?" asks
the document, land why should not the
riches produced by the workmen belong TO
the wOrkmen?"
The platform of the anarchist contains
some hard digs at socialism for one thing,
II declares that government ownership OF
the means of production would be an i'm
mense peril to liberty, and would probably
result In a tyranny worse than any the
world has ever seen.
The anarchists decry the idea of any one
owning anything; their platform demands
equal distribution of wealth; forbids
the accum ulation of property by individ-
uals; says no state or government should
be permitted to exist for a moment, and
predicts that when the means OF living
are assured to all crime will disappear and
the good sense of the individual will make
1t quite unnecessary to have any laws.
Human laws" says the platform, "are
violation for the most part OF natural laws.
The best means of getting order is TO create
well-being for all, thenIthere will be no in
CenLlNe 10 crime. 1Dere Is gOOQ zeal
more to the same effect, and all coed anar-
chists have to pledge themselves not to
vote, as welding the ballot is tacitly ac-
knowledging the power and efficacy of
government, and all forms OF government
are supposed to be pernicious and oppres-
sive. How the anarchists mean to accom-
plish their ends by refraining from voting
is not explained in the constitution, but it
is one OF their doctrines, expressed but not
written, that great social and industrial
revolution is coming upon the world, and
that when it has passed away the reign of
anarchy, liberty and fraternity will have
begun.
On Sunday the grand crowning cere-
mony of the new federation will take
place, when the red and black banner of
the new lodge will be baptized. Pietro
Gori will stand as one sponsor to the
emblem of red-handed anarchy and Mrs.
A. Cafe will be the other. On Sunday
night two anarchist plays by Pietro Gori
will be acted, the chief one being With
out Country" (Senza Patria). On Mon
day the anarchist orator will take his de-
parture to fresh fields and pastures new.
Organizations similar to the one about
to be founded in this City already exist in
many Of the towns in the United States,
including Chicago, New York, st. Louis,
Denver and Cleveland, Ohio.