Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

many men of education and great ability
| nave advocated the acceptance of the doe
| frlnes of anarchism-Le Blanc. Reelus
Cane, hraDotkin and a score of others.
| men porn IN different parts OF the world
| Russia, France. Germany. England
! Switzerland. Hungary and the United
| states; as different from one another in
| mental and personal characteristics as i'm
! environment. but all aiding to push the
| theories OF this party TO their logical con
| clusion.
| Prince krapotkin's Work.
| Of these men the most influential has
been and is Prince Peter Krapotkin. A
| russian nobieman, while boy page in
| the household of the Emperor. a highly
educated man. He travelled through ST.
berla, examined the glacial drifts in Fin
| land and Sweden. and for his scientific
| labors was decorated. He went to
switzerland. studied Proudhon. joined
Bakunnin'S International alliance and be-
| came an Anarchist. He returned to Rus
! STA, was arrested and imprisoned, but
managed to escape and again went to
| Switzerland and for time edited
l. Avant Garde. the official organ of the
| alliance. When that was suppressed he
started in Geneva lie Revolte, which be
came the party's mouthpece Then he
!
name of the paper to lie Revolt. Ii was
suppressed in 1888 and he was impris-
! oned. He was released in 1886, and
since that time has labored necessarily
with pen and speech for the advancement
| of the doctrines he seems to believe. His
most effective cOlaborer has been Elysee
| Reclus, the eminent geographer, who for
participation in the revolution of 1871
| was sentenced to death. afterwards ban
| lShed. but was amnestied i'll 1876. The
prince is IN his siXtieth year. in manners
a very courtly gentleman. He has sew
eral times visited this country. He was
| here last spring. spent fortnight in Chi
cago, lectured there several times to
large audiences, openly advocating anar-
chistic dogmas. He was the recipient of
every kind of social attention.
Principles of Anarchism.
Now what are the principles that such
men advocate?
The chief end of man, they say, is his
| liberty prosperity and happiness as an
individual. The mission OF anarchy is
to make this possible for all men equal
ly.
There is no God. He did not create
man in His image. Man made God in
his own.
There can be no ownership of proper
| ty. All things are for all men, just as
are the air and the light
The evils of life flow from poverty,
punishment or pain.
For the first the claim of private own
! erShip is responsible; for the second gov
eminent. religion and laws are response
BILE; for the third the family and society
are responsible. So all these things
should be abolished. Government is a
| scourge. 1t has no other object than to
restrain man in the exercise of his nat
ural rights
Religion is 4 mawkish thing with no
| foundation except the fears of men kept
down by law from asserting their natural
rights. Society is only restraint against
| the exercise of natural rights and pas
sions. The family is only a bond for
! the perpetuation of certain customs of
| society. All these things should be de-
stroyed. Fathcrland is but a word. All
| frontiers should be abolished. There is
no such thing as La Patrie. The world
is every mans country and all men are
| brethren.
Abolish frontiers and You so abolish
states. The only excuse for the existence
of government. laws, officials and author
tiles is that they are necessary to the pro-
! lection and maintenance of the state.
religion. society or the family. These
useless institutions should be abolished or
destroyed and government. laws, officials
and authorities will no longer have any
| excuse for their existence
End Justifies All Means.
To attain the objects of anarchy all
means are allowable. No precepts or linn
itationS of law or morality are to be con-
sidered. The end justiies all means.
Tersely stated, these are the articles Of
| the Anarchists faith as laid down by
their best and most intelligent and con-
sentative advocates. The worst of them
cannot go much further. but are a little
more desperate and brutal in their dec
laratiOns.
How many disciples of this creed there
| are today it is very difficult to determine.
| 1t has no organization. 1t does not be-
! leve in authority or inequality of any
kind and not long ago, when confer
ence or congress was held in Chicago, it
| was determined not to have even a pre-
siding officer. AT that little conference,
| by the way, speeches We're made in seven
! different languages.
! This want of a body makes anarchy a
very difficult thing either to deal with or
to demonstrate. The only form taken by
any part Of the followers of anarchism is
| the little group" This is the name they
| give to each local gathering of a dozen
| or so believers who cOnsort together in
| a neighbOrh0od or community for social
and political purposes. These gatherings
are entirely voluntary and apparently
| harmless. The members Of the group
meet at a winehOuse perhaps, and then
the meeting is known as punch" meet
ing. or at the mousse Of one of the MEM
! bers when it is designated ''sOup" meet
| ing. They talk, they spin out their ar
guments They read from the fathers Of
anarchism. Generally each group con
! trolls 4 printing press somewhere and
| adds its mite to the great mass of incen-
diary literature which has been piling up
! for a generation. To those meetings usu-
| ally everybody is welcome and there are
| always some present who have had to
| fight the world and are therefore in dis
cord with the existing conditions. These
| last are the persons out of whom aSsas-
| sins are easily made, and this is one
great danger growing from this sort Of
evangelization. The police report the ex-
| iStencn Of 2000 groups" in the city Ct
| Paris. each group consisting of at least
fifteen. It is calculated that there are
| 10000 groups in the rest Of France, as
many more in Italy and Spain taken to-
gether. a like number in Switzerland and
Germany together, probably as many in
| Great Britain. and as many more here
! Multiply the groups by the probable
membership of each ana add up the prod
uct. and the sum is appalling. What the
| civilized world X tg i'm this matter