The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-11-10
TO ABOLISH ANARCHY
GOVERNMENTS UNITE TO PUT AN
ENDT THE EVIL.

Perfected In tho Near Future. Tho
Anarchist Movement Has Assumed
Alarming Proportions.
Luccheni though an Italian, owes
his Anarchistic education to the Ger
man press and the Paris commune,
which, though often suppressed, still
breeds its vipers for all of the Euro
pean capitals. The German anarchist
is above all things n thinker He it is
who writes the burning literature
which incites the hotheaded Italian
and Frenchman to action. There are
exceptions, of course, for it Is currently
understood that it was n German,
Schnaubclt, who threw the 1Iaymar-
ket bomb, and for this crime Parsons,
Fisher, Engle, Spies, Fielden, Lingg,
Neebe and Schwab, all but two of
them Germans. suffered death or i'm
prisonment.
True it is that the anarchist prates
of Proudhon as the father of the cause.
yet in an argument they cast aside
the milder logic of the Frenchman
and gorge themselves on the economic
theories of Carl Marx. who put the
problem tersely for these anarchists
when he defined the communists of
his time, and they have developed into
the anarchists of to-day, rs ION the
one hand, practically, the most ad-
vanced and resolute section of the
working class parties of every coun-
try, that section which pushes forward
all others; on the other hand. theoreti-
cally, they have over the great mass
OF the proletariat the advantage of
clearly understanding the line of
march, the conditions. and the ulti-
mate general results of the proletarian
movement. The immediate aim of the
communists is the same as that of all
the other proletaran parties; forma-
ton of the proletariat into n class,
overthrow of the bourgeois suprem-
acy conquest of political power by the
proletariat."
And here again is a typical Marx
sentiment: 'The Communists disdain
to conceal their views and aims. They
openly declare that their ends can be
attained only by the forcible overthrow
OF all existing social conditions. Let
the ruling classes tremble at a Com
munistic revolution. The proletarians
nave nothing to lose but their chains.
They have q world to VIM
1t was Orsini, in 1858, who began
the war which militant anarchy has
since waged on society. He it was
who threw the bomb at Napoleon III,
and. with his companion, Fierl, was
guillotined. There was a queer blend
ing of the anarchist and the liberator
In Orsini, and he has been to thous-
ands martyr Of q still bleeding
cause
Since the night of November I, 1893,
when bombs were thrown into the
Llceo theatre at Barcelona, where hun
dreds were killed, European society,
royal and bourgeois, has been In con-
stant dread of attack, although the
work of Ravachol in 1892 caused no
httle CONSERVATION IN France. With
six bombs he on different occasions
blew up the house of the Princess de
Sagah; the residence Of Judge Benoit,
who was unusually severe on anarch-
lists; store at the corner of Rue de
Clichy and Rue de Berlin, wherein
twenty persons were killed or wound
ed; the Cafe Very where two young
people dining were hurled to eternity.
and finally portion of the Palais de
Justice.
All these exploits were performed
In the first months of 1892 Two iu-
ries brought Ravachol In mot guilty"
frankly admitting that they were
afraid of their lives to condemn him.
although they clearly recognized he
had committed the crimes attributed
to him. Mothers in France at this day
frighten their restive or unruly chill.
dren by threatening to hand them over
to Ravachol.
The murderous act of the Partisan
anarchist Valiant, who threw bomb
among the French deputies, aroused
the whole civilized world to the neces-
sity of concerted measures to check
the mad violence of such social out
lawry. Naillants cowardly attempt to
assassinate the legislative representa-
tives of the French people probably
marked the turning point in the his
tory of anarchy. Hitherto the war on
society had engaged only one army
the army of the aggressors. Now the
army Of the defence took n hand In
the active hostilities.
Within forty-elght hours after the
Valiant incident the governments Of
the different states of Europe were
comforting with one another either By
telegraph or through their accredited
representatives, regarding the meas
ures to be taken for their mutual pro-
lection against anarchistic foes.
1t was settled in short order that
no more liberation should be extended
to the publication Of indictments to the
wholesale destruction of life and lib
erty. Entirely too much consideration
had hitherto been shown to what
seemed mere noise and bluster. The
time had come when society must re.
sist even an academical propagation
Of the tenets of Anarchy.
But the work of the stiletto went Oh.