Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-10-17
The Suppression of Anarchy.

earnest and thoughtful Reconsideration
OF statesmen and sociologists.
Many methods have been proposed,
some OF which are as anarchistic as
those it is intended to remedy No
plan that abrid dyes or in anyway in
fringes upon the rights OF free speech
or a free press will be successful. 1t
is we'll to remember the result Of
the Alien and Sedition laws passed
during the administration of John
Adams. The most detested measure
was the Sedition law, which author
ICED the arrest of any person who
should speak evil OF the government.
There were arrests and punishments
under it's provisions, and the MAORI
ty OF the people were hostile to it.
The claim that no editor, public
speaker, or private citizen should be
allowed to condemn an action OF the
government which he disproved, was
unbearable and directly opposed to
Republican principles. 1t aroused
such an intense feeling that at the
next presidential election the Federal
party was swept from power and
never again got control OF the
government. The right to criticise
or condemn the acts OF it's public
men, it's servants, from the highest
TO the lowest, is right the people
will never give up. 1t has cost too
much to secure. Yet when individ-
'uals, societies, or newspapers go so
lar as to advocate the overthrow of
;all government, and to countenance
and encourage murder OF those SER
wants OF the people, who are placed
in authority for short periods OF
time by popular vote, then such
persons, societies newspapers go be-
You'd the rights Of legitimate critic
ism, and become menace to true
liberty and dangerous to- the state
and society. They are not good citi-
zens but traitors and should be dealt
with as such.
In fighting anarchy it is we'll to ex-
clude from our shores the vicious,
the ignorant and diseased of other
lands, yet we have much more to
fear from the native bred product
than from that imported. Reverence
for law and constituted. authority is
more pronounced in European coun-
tries than in our own. All the mur-
deres OF our presidents and OF Mayor
Harrison, of Chicago, have been
American born and bred and educa-
ted. Is it not plain then that we
need to teach more patriotism in
our schools? The young should be
more thoroughly grounded in the
principles of our Republican form OF
government. They should be taught
teat the only way in which a change
in governmental policy maybe affect,
ed is by means OF the ballot box. We
believe that political economy
should be a study in our schools,
that the young citizen may be taught
to distinguish somewhat between
true and false social and economic
theories and principles. Many OF the
ills we suffer as a body polite arise
from ignorance of the fundamental
laws, governing finance, trade, trans
portation, etc. We need also to Gull
tivate a more obedient spir-
it toward parents and superiors.
More attention should also be paid
to the government Of our large
cities and to cleaning out the infa-
nous slums ami dens OF vice and de-
bauchery, the breeding places OF an
archy. American cities are the worst
governed in the world. One has
only to step across the border into
Canada, and at once IS noticed a
more orderly state of affairs. The
liquor traffic is under better control.
by paying more attention to the
training of the young in morals and
good citizenship, and enforcing exist
ing laws, anarchy can, in a great
measure at least, be suppressed.
Now that all the swamps and
duck ponds in Marshall county have
passed into the hands ofspeculators,
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