The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-05
ANARCHIST IDEAS IN EUROPE.
Upheld by brilliant Thinkers, But
Resulting In AssassinatiOns.

Angiolillo may have been a solitary
worker in the cause of anarchy, though
Italian and Spanish anarchists form al
| most a secret society. His ideas We're
| those of the dangerous element which ex-
! lists more or less wherever men have be-
come convinced that violence and revolu-
ton are remedies for the evils which they
find in society as it is. The truth is that
this continual springing up of anarchist
crimes, after the time when such move
ment might have been expected to die out
is the naturar result of ideas which are
| propaga ted as actively as ever. 1t is not
| probable that any one of the men of mind
| who spread these ideas would justify the
| assassination of Canovas. But their phil
osOphy leads straight to the cOndemna-
| ton of all government and authority, and
| to the assumption that each individual has
| the right to use such means as seem best
| to him for overthrowing the present order
| of things. This lends painful timeliness to
| the new anarchists review which has just
been started in France under high scienti-
| fic auspices.
The title is the New Humanity, and 1t
takes the place of the New Society, which
was too philosophical and generally indeh-
| mite to succeed. From the editor and con-
| tributors of the new publication it may be
gathered that these faults will now be
avoided NJ. Hamon, the author of THE
Psychology of the Anarchist" is IN charge,
| which Is enough to mark the militant char
acter of the work. M. Hamon first be-
| came known for a study of the psychology
| of the soldier, in which the results of the
modern obligatory military service on the
character of the young men subjected TO
ii were told badly. The government
thought the matter grave enough to call
| the author to account. NJ. Hamon belongs
Ia inc
at a system of medicine for the mind; but
he applies it TO the pathology OF social
states He has now gathered round him
| the chief men of science, who agree in
| finding our present social structure impoS-
slble, while they persuade themselves that
| a new world can be formed by mere force
| of ideas. The revolver of Angiolillo is not
| likely to disturb their serene confidence
| in their own creative power. The UNI
scientific Italian also had persuaded him
| self that he was a hero sacrificing himself
! for humanity.
The two Reclus brothers are naturally
| to the fore in the new review. Both were
| condemned to death for the part they took
| in the commune. Elisee in 1868, directed
| the proDa cation of the internatiOnale in
| Spain, which from the beginning has
| known socialism only under the form in
| which it merges into anarchy. He has
| been the prophet Of the movement since
| the death of Bakunin in 1876; and his high
place in science and his undoubted SINGER
| ity and Observation-Disclosures have gone far
! to accredit the movement among theor-
| lists. Even the Vicomte de Vogue, who
| was the leader of the Neo-Christian move
ment among the young men of France,
| pleaded for the recognition of Elisee Rec
| lus by the Insutut, as a recognition of his
| labors in geographical science. 1t was
| Emile Olivier who prevented it by
| rhetorical speech about hands still imbru-
i . T.~ ,.rrNeaI how hat
| Elisee and Ellie are the uncles of the dis
| tinguished chemist, Paul Reclus, who was
| implicated in the affairs of valiant when
| the latter threw his bomb in the Cham
! Der Of Deputies. Paul, who must not be
| COMPOUNDED with an uncle of the same
name who is a really great medical au-
| thority, escaped and has not been heard
| of since by the public. Nine. de Kergo-
mar who has been identified with the re-
! public's work of seculariz!ng the primary
| schools, belongs to the older generation
! of this notable family, whose author was
Calvinist clergyman of the south of
] France. From their mother they seem to
| have received their ground principle of
( their existence-that they were born to set
right the world.
Prince Kropotkin was sure to be among
| the contributors to the new publication.
Since his exile from France, after several
years of imprisonment in Clairvaux (once
| the monastery of a somewhat different So
| cal enthusiast St Bernard of the Cru
sades, he has lived in England. the safe
| refuge of all inconvenient reformers, from
! MaZZini down. He is known to the Eng
| l.sh public by his chronicle of scientific
| discovery periodically contributed to the
| Nineteenth Century Review. In France
his pamphlets in defense of Anarchist
| I1topias clear, thrilling with feeling, daz-
zling in their promises of the good time
coming, are circulated everywhere among
the workingmen-and what should not be
1 passed by in silence, among university
students. To his writings in the first
publication of the anarchists at &C.
neva were attributed the murderous ex-
blossoms al Lyons, which announced to the
world in 1882 that a new and sanguinary
| gospel had appeared.
Charles Mantle, an entertaining writer
of remInisences of the commune. of which
he was a lively part, also hugs the Eng
1ish shore, although unlike Kropotkin, he
is allowed to set foot on the soil of France
Like Zo.a and Gambetta, he is French
but OF ITALIAN parentage on one side. He
occasionally speaks at a Partisan reunion
of sympathizers with the cause, such as
that which was going on the very day OF
the sassihation of Canovas. He will en-
liven with anecdote the usually sombei
luridness of anarchist literature in the
new review
1t is doubtless by a delicate compliment
for work done in the past that Clemence
Roger, the translator end commentator oil
Darwin in French, has been asked to col
laborate. She is now an old woman, "a.
menting the lack of d publisher for hen
numerous manuscripts BY a curious freak
of fortune, she lives on the charity OF
friends, in a hospice carried on by Roman
Catholic sisters, and bearing the name oil
the Gaiginani brothers. Italians identified
with the English colony through the frs
part of this century. Charles Letour.
neau is a scientific writer of different cali.
Der, and his connection with the new re-
view is doubiy significant. He has Just
published a volume on the evolution Of
commerce, the eleventh in long series
of works on the evolution of the various
Clements of human society. He concludes
with a statement that the only escape
from pessimsm is in the belief that re-
action is bound shortly to break out
against the present triumph of money. He
is one of the most active professors in the
school of anthropology.
Jean Grave, the self-educated workman
whose book on Dying Society led to a
prosecution, in which the chief literary
men of young France came to his de