The age-herald., 1901-09-17
From the Chicago Tribune.

EfOm In0 Chicago Tribune.
 Once more the pistol of the assassin has brought anarchy and the anarchist to the | exposure of the worlds eyes The red emblem of the order Is once more sub | jected to the scrutiny of the worlds police powers, and once more the question arises:
 What is anarchy? What Is this hydra headed thing against which the soaring by fire of the bleeding neck is no longer effective?
 The question may be answered in a paradox-perhaps must be answered SO. Anarchy, broadly speaking, is at once the gentlest and the most violent of social remedies Its apostles have been gentle dreamers on the one hand and scourges. armed with fire and sword on the other In It's advancement the individualist and the assassin have been coupled in the pub lie mind. The man who would do right simply because 1t is right, and the fiend who, conceiving all society to be wrong would add one more gigantic wrong to the whole in order to set all right again In word, anarchy, of whichever type, means an abolition of the government of man by man and the constitution of a society without government. It is not a new idea in men. It has been contended that the principle antedates the reforma- tion. But as anarchy" the movement belongs to the times of Proudhon in France. who voiced 1t in the miidness of the philosopher. and to Hess, the Ger man, who in 1s43 flung It's red banner to the breeze under which the Russian Prince Kropotkin came later as an ex- ponent of the terrorism for which one form of anarchy so long has stood For anarchy Is of two classes, individu- alistic and communistic. The first is the philosophy of the thinker, which has ad- vanced as the object of it's being the att | tainment of Liberty, not the daughter | but the mother of order" That other anarchy is that which through the in- | fiuence of terrorism shall crumble empires and republics alike, while from their dust shall rise free people who shall be in no need of restraints at the hands of their fellow men. Disciples of this philosophy would build communistic centers upon the ruins of government which violence should have brought about.
 Beginning with Pierre Joseph Proudhon, anarchy had no relationship to the secret society of the assassin. Proudhon simply had criticised a society which seeks, in formula after formula, institution after institution, that equilibrium which always causes its luxury and its poverty to grow in equal proportion" He had no retribu- tive bomb or dagger for the heads of state under which such inequalities ex- isted He said, only: Since equilibrium has never yet been reached, 1t only re- | mains for us to hope something from a complete solution which synthetically | unites theories, which gives back to labor It's effectiveness and to each of it's organs It's power. Hitherto pauperism has been so inextricably connected with labor and want with idleness that all our accusations against Providence only 1 prove our weakness"
 To Russia and to Russian influence has been charged the propagation of the red doctrine of anarchy. Zenker says of mod ern anarchy:
 ''The older form of anarchism is marked
 by the lofty idealism, which was the gen.
 eral mental attitude of civilized western
 Europe in the first half of this century. | | schajew, Kropotkin and others Is branded
 by the semi-civilized culture of Russia,
 whose only object is the destruction of
 every existing state of things, and indeed
 under existing circumstances it cannot be
 otherwise"
 Today that form of anarchy such as is
 giving concern to the police and military | powers of the world has it's hotbed in con