Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-03

murder of the President be accepted
as due to protest against inequalities
In the social order" save as the mur.
der of all the freemen engaged In
town meeting could be accepted as "A
protest against that social inequality
which puts malefactor In Jail. An
archy Is no more an expression OF
social discomfort" than picking pock-
cts or wife-beatlng.
The anarchist, and especially the AN
archst In the United States, is merely
one type of criminal, more dangerous
than any other because he represents
the same depravity In greater de-
gree. The man who advocates anarchy
directly or indirectly, In any shape or
fashion, or the man who apologies
for anarchists and their deeds, makes
himself morally accessory to murder
before the fact. The anarchist Is
criminal whose perverted instincts lead
him to prefer confusion and chaos to
the most beneficent form of social
order. His protest of concern for
workingmen is outrageous in its impu-
dent falsity for If the political institu-
tions of this country do not afford Op-
portunity to every honest and intelli-
gent son of toll, then the door of hope is
forever closed against him. The anar.
chist Is everywhere not merely the
enemy of system and of progress, but
the deadly foe of liberty. If ever an
archy is triumphant its triumph will
last for but one red moment, to be
succeeded for ages by the gloomy night
of despotism.
For the anarchist himself, whether
lie breaches or practices his doctrines,
we need not have one particle more
concern than for any ordinary murder
er. He Is not the victim of social or
political injustice. There are no
wrongs to remedy in his case. The
cause of his criminality is to be found
in his own evil passions and in the evil
conduct of those who urge him on, not
in any failure by others or by the
State to do justice to him or his. He
Is malefactor and nothing else. He
is in no sense, in no shape or way, a
a highwayman is produced" by the
fact that an unarmed man happens to
have purse. 1t is travesty upon
the great and holy names of liberty
and freedom to permit them to be in
voked in such cause. No man or
body of men preaching anarchistic doc
trines should be allowed at large any
more than if preaching the murder Of
some specified private Individual. An
archistic speeches, writings, and meet
ings are essentially seditious and
reasonable.
gress that in the exercise Of its wise
discretion it should take into consider
alton the coming to this country of
anarchists or persons processing prin-
ciples hostile to all government and
justifying the murder of those placed
who not long ago gathered in open
meeting to glorify the murder of King
Humbert, of Italy, perpetrate crime,
and the law should ensure their rigor-
GUS punishment They and those like
them should be kept out Of this coun-
try; and if found mere they should
be promptly deported to the country
whence they came; and far-reaching
provision should be made for the pun
ishment of those who stay. No mat
ter calls more urgently for the wisest
thought of the Congress.
The Federal courts should be given
jurisdiction over any man who kills
or attempts to kill the President or
any man who by the Constitution or
by law is in line Of succession for the
Presidency, while the punishment for
an unsuccessful attempt should be
propOrtioned to the enOrmity of the
offense against our institutions.
Anarchy is crime against the whole
human race; and all mankind should
band against the anarchist. His crime
should be made an Offense against the
law Of nations; like piracy and that
form of manstealing known as the
slave trade; for it is of far blacker
infamy than either. 1t should be so
declared by treaties among all civilized
powers. Such treaties would give to
the Federal Government the power of
dealing with the crime.
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