Sunday morning globe., 1901-09-22
STRANGE UTTERANCE
BY the Hon. Chauncey Depew on
Anarchists.

BY lne num- CnduuCSy DSpSW Oh
Anarchists.
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew's article
on anarchy in the New York Journal,
Of the 9th. is unquestionably the most
astounding and revolving contribution
ever made to anarchistic literature. It
is scarcely possible for the most hard
ened criminal TO read it without horror
and amazement. Such a display of
contemplate meanness and treachery;
such cool, judicious statesmanlike
atrocity seems to belong to a Machi-
avelh of the fifteenth century than to
a United States Senator of the TWEEN.
tieth. With a precision and perspicu-
ity of language that leaves no doubt in
the readers mind as to the atrocious
significance of his proposition, he au-
daciously deplores the fact that our
Government does not possess the re-
serve power Of Great Britain, If we
did, he says. anarchists would be as
peaceful and as safe citizens here as
they are there.
Anarchy, as explained by its teach
ers,' he says, rs the elimination Of
law and religion. Its methods to ac.
complish these results are to kill those
who make the laws and those who ex-
ecute them, and to do it by assassina,
tion. The anarchists claim to be at
war with society and to prosecute that
war by murder Of all who are respon-
sible for the preservation Of social or
der
after the assassination Of
President Carnot. Of France, an under
standing was had among all European
governments except England, for the
suppression Of anarchy.
On Great Britain there are
reserved powers under the unwritten
constitution for the public safety and
for the safety of their rulers In the
cabinet and priyy council, which are
equal to those I'm the most despotic
countries The anarchists there know
that If they do commit crime England
will no longer be a refuge; that crime
will receive immediate and terrific
punishment, and they will all be eX'
PEELED from the country upon admin
istrative order 1t is, therefore, known
i'm official and police circles in Great
Britain that an order from the anar-
chists leader as peremptory as the di-
reeuon by ballot to kill, is issued to
every anarchist that under no circum-
stances, must they injure a ruler of
Great Britain, a king or queen, or
prime minister. or any other English
official"
Here we have 1t. Great Britain. that
has oppressed and robbed and enslaved
more people than any other nation on
the globe is in secret alliance with an
archists. To buy their protection she
suffers them to find safe refuge within
her borders. While openly attempting
to crush the South African republics
she is in secret alliance with the an.
archists, the most cowardly and detest-
able set of assassins that ever encum-
bered the earth. If this be true, and
we have Senator Depew's word for It,,
and he certainly is in a position to
know, it covers England with another
infamy that nothing can match. For
seven centuries IEeland has worn the
yoke of British bondage AS a cOnse-
auence of this mis-rule. she has been
oppressed, insulted, stepped In poverty
to the very lips, and overwhelmed with
Affections. If the Irish people had been
inferior to the race which trampled
them down, their fate would seem less
hard. but. intellectually and morally
they are greatly superior; their civil
ization. science, general intelligence is
much further advanced The deliber-
ate and persistent effort Of England to
darken the mind of Ireland and reduce
her people as much as possible to ig-
norance and degradation, is the black
est chapter in her infamous career
Even fidelity to religion-the highest
virtue that can adorn any human char
acter-was imputed as a crime and
punished so barbarously that IL can
not be thought of without horror. The
abiect poverty and depressed condition
Of the Irish people they attributed
sometimes to natural causes-over-pop-
ulation. etc-and sometimes they add
ed insult to injury by attributing it to
the laziness and improvidence of the
Irish peasants. This, in the face Of
the fact that a merciless horde Of land
lords stripped them Of the fruits Of
their weary toll. There is nothing bet
ter calculated to make the blood boil
than the cold accounts Of grasping,
grinding tyranny to which the Irish
people have been subjected, and to
which. and not to any inability of the
land TO support It's population, Irish
poverty and Irish famine are attrib.
uted
Wherever England has placed her ac-
cursed hand there we witness abject
poverty and unutterable misery.
Whether It be I'm ireland. India, the
soudan. or South Africa, the same
bughting. brutal effect is seen. She
now covers her career of infamy, by.
pocrisy and murder with a secret al
lance with anarchists.
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