The San Francisco call., 1898-04-28
THE SPIRIT OF ANARCHY.

iiA- iSNOiu VI oC'Cidl dLdICHlSlS WHO, Dy OOulO-
 throwing and other forms of assassination, have
 brought themselves into positions in which their lives could be laid bare furnishes an interesting study.
 They have usually been found to have lived in vio- ation of the moral law which was in force among men before national codes were formed and under stood to restrain even when they are beyond the reach of codes and statutes Their domestic rela- tons frequently illicit and their ideas rights Of property are not derived from the Ten Command ments
 As organized society and the laws of states are based upon the rights of person and property and de- fend the moral foundation of the domestic relations anarchy lifts its hand against society and against gov ernment.
 When confronted with such records as revealed by the arrest ot anarchists who have been guilty of assassination It IS their practice reply that the moral oenses committed by them are also practiced by others who profess to support organized society and to support government
 That IS obviously true. But such volators of the moral code are secret sinners who realize their of ense and conceal it, and shrink from making its prac- tlce the social rule by the destruction of government and its institutions
 The spirit oi anarchy is one that rcsists moral re- stran that chafes under the discipline of institutions and strikes impartally at church and state because each IS in its way the agent of morality and discip- line
 It would seem, then that anarchy is the cult of ab- normal man, o the class of atavists who reject every thing that has come into the world with civilization Those who publicly propagate it are the apostles of crime, the evangelists of assassination.
 Their cry to the laborng man is that he is slave and no means are omitted to embitter him and make him an agent in the destruction of civilization and government.
 It needs no profound knowledge or exalted intelli- gence to discern the motives deny the premises of anarchy Modern civilization, which 1t attacks, has lltted the face ot labor from the ground and turned it to the stars has taken labor in the mass out of serfdom into independence, out of hut into house It has dotted the nations with schools wherein the sons and daughters of aboring men have been freely offered the opportunity for better education than was within the reach of princes thousand years ago.
 Government and civilization have put the personal and property rights of labor on exactly the same footing and under the same judicial protection as the rights of the rich, born in purple
 The improved economic conditions due to modern civilization have put labor shelter into its life comforts and its table food that were the exclu- sive possession of royalty and nobility five hundred years ago.
 So government and social institutions can point to what they have done for the enfranchisement of man since the Dark Ages. To what anarchy point as its achievements for humanity? To the innocent torn to shreds by dynamite; to the President of a republic murdered in his carriage; to Czar who de- creed freedom and ownership of land to 25,ooo,oo sers, assassinated in the streets of St. Petersburg to score of faithful policemen murdered in Haymar tet square while doing their duty as protectors of person and property. What has all this crime and violence done for labor2 Has it given wages shelter food and schooling? Has it advanced man step in the path of further progress which civilization has opened to him?
 Let it blazon its achievements and inform labor of the mighty things it has wrought for those who to that the world may strike balance between murder and civilization means for the uplifting of the race.