The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-08-09
MERELY DIsoRDERLY CONDUCT.

MERELY DIsORDERLY CONDUCT.
The right of free speech does not include
the right to assemble for the instigation
of murder or the glorification Of that crime
Such is the Interpretation which has OBJ
tanned in Chicago ever since the Haymarket
tragedy, and such Is likely to remain in
that city. The lesson Of that dark chapter
in Chicago's history was severe one,
but it has been needed. That is why Lucy
Parsons and q few Of her followers were
hauled to the police station when they
attempted to hold mass meeting In ratil-
cation of Bresci's crime last Sunday. They
were arrested, as they should have been,
as common disturhers Of the peace persons
whose conduct was disorderly as gagged
by the ordinary police rules and ordinances
Of cities. They were shown no moro con-
sideration, nor any less, than ordinary
crowd and obstructs the street. They had
assembled in front Of hall which had
been closed against them. and when told
to move on, refused to do SO and made
forcible resistance.
Persons calling themselves anarchists
should be treated just as other citizens are.
They are entitled to no especial favors be-
cause they have assumed a name and es-
poused cause which calls for the over
throw of government among men. Like
other "disorderlies" they should be arrested
when they are disorderly: when they OBJ
struct the sidewalk and refuse to move on;
when they counsel murder, taking care that
their own precious lives are safe.
The arrests in Chicago have no particular
significance except in so far as they show
that the police department of that city is
disposed to keep the shouting contingent
of the anarchistic element we'll within
bounds.-Minneapolis Times.
The fOropOinp editorial taken from
the Times, belongs to class Of writings
that do infinite harm in any COM
munity. Ostensibly 1t is a defense of
law and order and good citizenship, and
probably the great majority of busy
people who hastily read 1t will discover
in It's statement nothing to criticise.
Unconsciously they are misled by the
cunninglyframed statements Of a daily
newspaper that advocates and champ
ions in every issue nearly all the causes
of which anarchy is but the effect.
The gist of the Times article lies in
the charge that the anarchists "espouse
cause that calls for the overthrow of
government among men," and the con-
tention that all anarchists should be ar
rested and treated as brawlers and dis
turbers of the peace whenever they pub
licly express their peculiar views.
Anarchy is a protest, not so much
against government, as against oppres-
sion or what is in government common
ly called tyranny.
A little over a century ago King
George established in this country what
he was pleased to call government.
Our forefathers assembled for discus
sion and to devise measures to over
throw that government so far as it af-
fected them, and would the Times con-
tend that Washington and Jefferson,
and Adams and Hancock and Franklin
and Patrick Henry, with scores of
others, were therefore anarchists?
If the Times had been printed at that
early date it is more than probable that
it would have espoused the cause of
King Georges good government, stood
for law and order then as now and de-
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brawlers" and "disturbers of the peace"
These men in modern times called
patriots protested against the govern
ment of King George on two grounds,
tO-wit:
1t was taxation without representa-
ton and government without the con-
sent of the governed.
These were the reasons why they
sought to overthrow it.
King George sent his army over here
and commanded these patriots (an-
archists) to move on"
These men moved on from stone to
stump, from stump to fence and from
fence to tree with their old flint-lock
muskets, picking off the red coats at
every step of their stubbornly contest
ed retreat.
In more recent times our own King
William mckinley has sent his army
over to the Philippines to establish a
governed and to institute taxation with
out representation. This army has
commanded Aguinaldo and his asso-
ciates to move on" and there again
anarchy Is encountered in Aggie's pro-
tests against taxation by American
trusts and government by Mark Hanna
In 1776 our forefathers preferred to face
the perils of chaos, of government ex-
perimental and untried, of no govern
ment and anarchy rather than submit
to despOtic rule. Filipinos feel the
same. Anarchy is q protest against
despotlsm.
Abolish despotism and anarchy dies.
The Times tackles the proposition at
the wrong end.
DethrOwn a few of the worlds des-
pots and there would be no anarchists.
Anarchists seek to accomplish by the
assassin's bullet what the people ought
to do by the ballot
If the essence Of good government
lies in the consent of the governed, then
the McKinleys, the Hannas, Rockefel-
lers, Rothschilds, and their ilk are the
real anarchists of the world It is they
who are seeking to overthrow good gov
eminent throughout the world and es-
tablish instead thereof despotic and
military rule.
These are the real anarchists who.
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