The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-11-05
RISE OF ANARCHISM.
GROWTH OF THE CULT SINCE THE
HERNs CONVENTION.
5orn Of the Revolutions OF 949 in
euton and Latin Europe AnarchY's
Campaign Plan lostigator Of Assassins
The Haymarket Murders.


! Contrary perhaps, to general belief
the rise OF anarchy as distinct so
Geological belief is quite recent phen.
omcnon. AnarchiSm as 4 principle. il
the idea be not contradictory. and au-
and their finding has resulted in a big
sensation for the immediate locality and
A gold mine for the fellow who took il
up Tor exhibition purposes. More
! frauds have been perpetrated in thi,
J way than even in dime museums. The
bureau has suppressed more OF these
/ frauds within recent years than it has
| stopped to count. and there is not year
without its good sensation in the local
ot1ce itself. 1t is seldom. however, that
irchistS as enemies of the existing order
bark back about twenty. live years if one
| accepts the date of the Berne conven-
tion. 1870, when the inSurrectionary
propaganda was approved of. as the cri-
teal date.
! Leaving out the question OF formal
dates for the moment. anarchiSm is real
| ly the child OF the revolutions OF I84S
in Teuton and Latin Europe, with the
forbidding spirit of Russian nihilsm in
the person of Michael Bakunin as its
evil genius. But whatever the various
revolutionsSt OF I848 planned to ac-
compliah, were they dreamers, poetical
believers in impossible utopias, or fana-
/ teal men imbued with a hatred for
/ governments or not there ensued for
twenty years a period of loose and
formleSs national and international agi-
tation. During this period. however
there was a tendency toward crystaliza-
ton around the revolutionary socialism
OF ProudhOn, ISOo-IS65 of La.alle
1926 1904. and OF March. I8IS-IS83
and about the nihiism of Bakunin. 1914
1870 At the close of the period OF
confused weller of impossible doctrines
and formulate, such as Proudhon's IA
nous property is theft" with the or
CARNATIONS OF international societies. os.
| ten,lbly in the interest Of workingmen.
new era set in which lasted for fifteen
years. from 1866 to 1880, and whatever
| else it developed closed with the sep
aTation of socialism and socialistic idea
from the extreme anti-social phloso-
| pines OF schemes of violence advocated
by the opponents of anarchy
he extremists, it is true. had ALWAYS
existed in the various association; and
they had begun to map out campaign
OF violence long before 1876. when il
was approved at Berne, but it was not
until the London conviction OF 1881. no
matter what had been done elsewhere in
any OF the national centers. tina the real
plan OF campaign" peculiar TO anarch-
| ism as 1t is known the world over to-
| day was officially adopted 1t is one of
the ironies Of fate that the capital of
Great Britain. which has harbored the
various European revolutioniSts for
thirty-threc years. should by this con-
vention of extremists OF 1881 be for
ever associated with the origin OF a pro-
paganda OF assassination which had for
Its first victim the Gar Alexander III.
IN 1882, and it last King Humbert. in
1900. Whether Great Britain could
have scotched anarchiSm in its very in
fancy Is a question, but there is no oues-
tioning the historic fact that il did not.
| and that the repellent leaders Ike Bak
unln and his satellites. and then Most
and Kropotkin found the freedom OF
England their opportunity and made the
most OF it,
At the convention Of 1881. wien the
destruction of all rulers was decreed as
an act OF faith, Most and Kropotkin
were the leaders. the latter man OF
thirty nine, and it is a curious COM
mentary on affairs that Most to-day. al
ter having done more than any other
one man to encourage assassination the
world over. has now quieted down into
kind of harmless bar room fixture in
New York. while Prince Kropotkin as
sume9 the airs and privileges of a phil
osopher and philanthropist and finds
maudlln admirers even in our own col
leges. who view him as some profound
thinker and prophet Of redeemed hu-
manity. As matter of fact. Kropot-
kin's hands are red with the blood OF
murderouS deeds instigated by him and
so admitted by him. and as hi, philos-
ophy regards a return to the conditions
of even such primitive savagery as exists
in TERRA del Fuego as an ideal exis-
tence its wirthlessneSs and ab,urditv
need no demonstration Kropotkin dill
ters from Most merely in education and
tastes Tor from 1890 10 within recent
years they were equally blood-thirstV
equally the enemies OF society. no mat
ter whether 1t was an autocracy or a
democracy. and Koipotkin's reception in
this country last spring was a piece OF
absurdity that was almost criminal in
its stupidity
Until 1896. when the anarchists in
Chicago attacked the police. few wears
after Most had arrived here. having
iornd even London too hot for him
most Americans INDUCED themselves in
the pleasing illusion that the anarchists
we're downirodden foreigners who were
trying 90 rid the world of rulers adj
mttedly tyrants And even after the
hidcous Haymarket murders there was
a more or less complaisant belief p-e,
alcnt that while the anarchist might
not like the American police they were
not conspring against the Institutions
of the United States or against those I'm
executive place. and that for the most
part they were embiuered foreigners
who would soon learn better and ger
over it And thcn there we're those
VINO pretended to see something in the
philosophy Of anarchism as expound-
ed by dreamer like Reclus. The geo
grapher and the adroit Kropotk.n.
As result, Of this the real .grif
canoe Of auarchism ha, been overlooked
here And as consequence of our
refusal to believe these enemies of So.
cicty were All that they painted them.
selves We have the Pater ON plots and
the Buffalo attack and am ugly problem
ON our hand, that will not down by
mere denunclauon-Pf H5dcibha Press