The age-herald., 1901-09-17
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tinental Europe. Vienna, beyond all the other capitals on the continent, is said to harbor it's doctrinaires. Switzerland has contended with its propaganda of ac- tion," which Kropotkin stood for in 1879. Italy, France, Spain, Russia and nearly every other continental country has felt its force. London itself has been a nest of anarchistic vipers in times past. From all this territory, too, the gradual closing in of the police power has forced both leaders and tools of anarchy to seek asy- lums in America The problem of analtchy as now presented to the United States government has to deal almost wholly with this foreign born element.
 Its principles, as voiced by the manl- festo of the Geneva conference in 1882. ganda of action of today:
 "Our ruler is our enemy. We anarch- ists are men without any rulers, fighting against all those who have usurped any power or who wish to usurp 1t.
 "Our enemy is the owner of the land who keeps 1t for himself and makes the peasant work for his advantage. f
 "Our enemy is the manufacturer who fills his factory with wage slaves; our en- emy is the state, whether monarchical, oligarchical or democratic, with it's offi- cials and staff officers, magistrates and police spies.
 Our enemy is every thought of author ity, whether men call it God or devil, in whose name the priests have so long ruled honest people.
 Our enemy Is the law which always expresses the weak by the strong to the Justification and apotheosis of crime.
 But if the land owners, the manufac- turers the heads of the state, the priests and the law are our enemies, we are also theirs, and we boldly oppose them. We Intend to reconquer the land and the fac- tory from the landowner and the manufac- turer; we mean to annihilate the state under whatever name 1t may be conceal ed; and we mean to get our freedom back again in spite of priest or law.
 According to our strength we will work for the humiliation of all legal institu- tions, and are in accord with every one who defes the law by a revolutionary act We despise all legal means, because they
 
 want so-called universal suffrage, since we cannot get away from our own per- sonal sovereignty and cannot make our selves accomplices in the crimes commit ted by our so-called representatives.
 Between us anarchists and all political parties, whether conservatives or moder- ates, whether they fight for freedom or recognize it by their admissions, a deep gulf is fixed. We wish to remain our own masters, and he among us who strives 10 become a chief or leader is a traitor to our cause. Of course we know that indi- vidual freedom cannot exist without a union with other free associates. We all live by the support of one another; that is the social life which has created us; that 1t is the work of all which gives to each the consciousness of his right and the power to defend them. Every social product is the work of the whole commu- nity to which all have a claim in equal manner.
 For we are all communists. It is ours to conquer and defend common property and to overthrow governments by what ever name they may be called" fst
 This is the anarchy which stands flor the propaganda of action" It Is no re- lation of that constructive anarchy of Proudhon and of Tucker, who advocated Liberty, not the daughter, but the mother of order" It has no kinship with socialism and so little affinity with the socialistic atmosphere that Germany, the hotbed if socialism, is prohibitive of an- archy.