Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-19

The theory upon which this let-alone policy
is based Is that the anarchists are safest
when given full vent, that to bottle them
up by suppression is to make them dam
gerous. Behind this Is the general notion
that the United States is the Land OF
liberty and such, must give tolerance
to the mouthings of all who take the name
of that great principle as their shobboieth,
however much in vain. OF some types OF
agitators this doctrine may safely be en-
tertained, but it is to be borne in mind that
the anarchists are today the most ex-
tremely radical of all the disciples of I'M
rest. Their mission is destruction, ami
hilation, dead-levelling. They seek no
creative ends, no good purposes, no humane
ideals. Their standards are in their very
essence unholy and unwholesome. They
must. be excepted from the "lovers of lib
erty,' to whom wide latitude is to be given
in speech in America, else, in time, en-
boldened by the freedom granted by in
dulgent governors, mayors and police
authorities. they will imagine their cause
to be popular and act to the injury of the
public and themselves upon this mistaken
belief
1t is true that the majority of the people
Will always be found on the side of law and
order as against the political chaos to which
the anarchists point as the haven of man
kind. If ever the Reds should rise in re-
volt against government in this country
the struggle would be brief and anarchism
would be stamped upon as a thing un-
c:ean- Is there harm or danger, then, in per-
hitting these radical reforiners to assemble
openly in mass meetings to denounce the
processes of government and the agents
he
have chosen to represent and rule them?
Great harm and great danger. 1t is no ex-
ctse for permitting children to play with
matches to declare that the parent stands
by with a bucket of water at hand to
qrench the flames the little ones may start.
1t is beyond self-respect for community
to allow its fever-brained extremists to
meet brazenly to revel over an interna-
tional calamity. 1t breeds disrespect for
the law and its officers to permit such a
spectacle that afforded at Clarendon
Hall the other night. All such assemblages
are disorderly in intent and in fact. If
they violate no specific ordinance they
abuse the privileges of citizenship. They
encourage the skulking believers in anarch-
ism to play their petty tricks against or
derry residents; they increase the ranks of
common criminals and add to the list of
murderers and incendiaries. The criminal
and debased mind is stimulated by such
episodes and the city that permits them
suffers inevitably in many ways.
In 1886 the anarchists of Chicago became
rabid and open in their public utterances
through long Indulgence. One night, when
tfese aliens and their American allies had
planned great rally at which the whole
machinery of government was to be torn
asunder by a rhetorical explosion. the po-
lice interfered. At the word of command
to disperse a bomb was thrown and MANY
men were killed and wounded. That trag-
edy marked the beginning of the inevitable
decline of anarchism in America. The pub
lie patience had been stretched to the
breaking point. Once more indulgence and
tolerance have contributed to foster the
spirit of anarchism until it is again posi-
bic for the Reds to meet without restraint
in the heart of great and supposedly pro-
Sressive community and to vaunt their
for the law and their belief in
assassination as a remedy for political
evils Will there be another HaymarkeI
riot? is New York preparing for a tragedy: