The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-23
STOPPING THE WRONG HOLE.


Following the assassination Of Cano-
the governments of Europe were to
take active steps for the expulsion of
all known anarchists, and was init
mated that they would seek refuge in
the United States. Whereupon Com
missioner Powderly, who, some twenty
years ago, was something Of an anarct-
list himself, announced that, as ';om-
missioner Of immigration, he would
take extraordinary precautions to pre-
vent the landing of the refugees at
any port in this country. Mr.. Powder
his own change of opinion, for we have
here now sufficient raw material for the
manufacture of anarchists, with enough
of the finished product to meet all the
man is born the equal of every other
man, and where strict, stern-eyed JUS
tice takes ample care that this equality
is preserved to him through life.
Were the state of Minnesota to en-
gage in the stamping out of oleomar-
garine by the prohibition Of all imports
of it, and at the same time not only 10
permit but indirectly encourage its pro-
duction within it's borders, it would be
pursuing quite as sensible and efficient
a policy as is that proposed by the
Of To-
acting in pursuance of federal enact
ment To bar the incoming of a few
anarchists from Europe while main
tanning and encouraging conditions that
archy grows is what the government
of the United States has been indus
triously engaged in for some years,
and a policy from which it has not
only not desisted, but is pursuing with
increase of vigor. There are two kinds
of anarchists, the theorist who sees in
government only a brute force created
by society to hold in check the brute
in men, a government which would be
useless were men not british, and who
locks to the abolition of government
through the uplift of mankind to the
moral plane of universal justice where
no man would wrong his fellow. This
is ideal anarchism.
The ordinary anarchist the one whom
the popular mind sees as typifying the
name, is the man made desperate by
what is, or what he imagines to be
the injustice of the conditions that
surround and control him, the inequali-
ties by which some men are permitted
to Cypress their fellows within the law.
He sees himself helpless before this
superior force, escape from it irnpos-
sible Identifies it with the government
that permits and sustains it, and, in
his madness, strikes at the representa-
tives Of government and would abolish
lust, where it exacts nothing from its
citizens but respect for the equal
rights of all, where it grants privileges
to none that all do not enjoy, there
anarchism, in it's popular sense, cannot
exist; because sthe material out of
which it grows does not exist. Where
government is thus administered, ideal
anarchism already prevails as nearly
as it is possible With human nature as
at present, for it lis the minimum of
governing. Where every man knows
that, commensurate with the abilities
with which he .ise endowed, he has an
equal chance with every other man,
there is no battle-ground for that dis
content which is the spawning ground
of anarchismg Envy of the more for
tunate or the more capable there will
be, probably until the millennium ar
rives; but such envy spends it's force
in petty explosions, and never gathers
head under compression until it be-
comes dangerous.
Instead of raising the bars against
anarchists expelled from their countries
where governmental conditions have