The record-union., 1898-09-25
INCAPACITY OF ANARCHISTS.

There have been few anarchist assas-
sins who have not been rascals on gen
eral lines as We'll Instead of being able
TO pose as ms -rtyTs and heroes, com
manding the admiration of mankind,
they have, as a rule, been either crazy
fools or grac eless scamps with not the
slightest att ribute of manliness or real
courage.
Such is ethe fellow who assassinated
the Empress Of Austria; such were
F'eischi, r ach Rayachol, Henri, Valiant
and the thers, with here and there an
exception in favor Of a cultured fanatic
who has proved to be more fool than
knaVe The. Chicago anarchists of
Haymarket 'nfamy viii be remembered
as OF the sc ally stripe, scurvy lot, not
man Of them being of fair standing
among tn people. or having any note
worthy ecord for charity, mercy, cour-
age or accent citizenship; and not one
Oh thep having impressed himself upon
MS CT immunity otherwise than as an
unde sirable member Of society.
sa me order. Their love for mankind,
0f which they prated so much never
had serious manifestation in any form.
They are written into history as a cruel,
graceless and grasping lot of scamps.
No really brilliant anarchist, not one
who has striven to some degree Of re-
spectability, or has been esteemed a
scholar and Of commanding mind, has
been openly concerned in assassina-
tions, bomb throwing or schemes of
plunder and riot. But anarchists of
that stripe have been very few. Genius
finds in anarchy very few or no paths
along which it can move with satisfac-
ton.
The menace to men from anarchists
is. therefore. mainly from low -browed
lot of rascals who are to be reckoned
along with cut throats and robbers who
steal upon their victims in the dark. or
from behind. There is really more to
be feared by society from the scholarly
and accomplished apostles of anarchy
than from the miserable tools of the
doctrine. The former exercise a bane-
full influence and proselyte for a school
that breeds the assassins and bomb
throwers and all others of the brutal
order.
1t is clear, therefore. that If ever it
comes about that anarchism gains any
where on the footstoo1 such hold as to
control for a time and make an effort
TO set up its impossible utopia, there
will be a wofuI lack of good material
from which to build the new structure,
and that out of the new order of things
there win arise men who seize upon
such revolutions to make themselves
dictators rulers and despots, under
whose heels anarchism, which Will have
given them opportunity, viii be ground
to powder and the new State VIII be
more tyrannical than that the anar-
chists may have overthrown.
For States cannot be governed by
fools, radicals and impracticables.
Whenever such attempt the task the
man of the hour develops and over
throws them, the strong hand puts
forth and seizes power, and peoples
welcome 1t in preference to the one
crushed back from the throat of the
State. If anarchism, for instance, should
by some means succeed in gaining con-
troll Of the most tickle of cities, Paris,
its rule would not last week With
in that time Caesar or a Napoleon
would develop, seize the reins of power
and lord it, at least until the assassins,
the fmpracticables and the vain theo-
rists were put out of the way.
It would be the same here. uncongen-