Arizona republican., 1901-09-23
ANARCHY VS. AMERICA
The Contest as Viewed From the
 Pulpit.

At the Baptist church last even ing Rev. Lewis Halsey. D. D.. preached on the definition and dangers of an- archy from the text found in Proverbs 2l:21-''AIy son. fear thou the L7rd and the King, and msdile not with them that are given to change.
 w give quotations from the sermon:
 We have read in recent years of the assassination of Carnot. of Canovas. of King Humbe. [. but we never supposed
 that in this land of liberty cur own chier magistrate was in personal dan ger. We thought Let the czar of Russia tr .mb,e. President N Kinley is
 safe, As by d thunderbolt We were awakened from the sIumher of our false security.
 After the murde. of Presiden; Carnot il was known that d nihiist offered d large sum of money to any one who would assassinate President Cleve and
 One of the prominent organizations Of the nihiiists. or anarchists. is the ln- ternaticnai society. AIazzni. the Ital- ian patriot thus G=fines the doctrines If this society: | Tn denial of God: ?. The denial of fatherhood and of the nation; g. The denial of all personal property.
 The epigrammatic dogma of Louis Blanc. property is theft Is recognized as voiciaS the thought of the anarchist. There shall be no aving of property by will, even to wife or children, no su- perior advantages of education to any or.
 The philosophy of the communists (and communism is often another name for nihiiismj says New York journal. ''is atheism. materiaIism. and denial of all lgion. Present owners of capital are to be dispossessed and coin and land are to be divided among asso- citations of worlkmsn. All outside the working class of society are excluded as effete.
 A New York communist said: If there " re such a place as heaven. and I went there and found God. would commence throwing up barricadss. I would hCist the red flas. 1 would re- bel It is contrary to justice, to reason that any one should govern the many"
 The blasphemous cry of anarchy is: No organizs d state. no marriage. no God. no soul no future," It is that lawlessness against wh:-h ths apostle declares that the magistrate does not bear the sword in vain.
 4 publication calling itself commun- istic says: Tear out of your hearts the belief in the existence of God for as !ong as an atom If that silly supsr- stition remains in your minds you will never know what freedom is When you have got rid of your belief in this priest -begotten God. and when, more ovT. you are convinced that your ex- iste nee and that of the surrounding world is due 10 q conglomera ton of | atoms in accordance with the laws of gravity and attraction. then. and only then. will you have accomplished the ! first step toward liberty. and you will ] experience less dificulty in riding your minds of that $ cond lie which tyranny has invented. The first lie is God; the second lie is right. When | you have freed your minds from the | fear of a God. and from that childish 1 respect for the fiction of right. then all the remaining chains which bind you and which are called science. Cfviliza ton, propsr rty. marriage, morality and justice will snap asunder like threads. Our first work must be the de- struction and annihilation of every thing as it now exists. One anarchist leader says: Our ob-