The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-09-29
ANaRCHIsN.

said Ia the pulpit ~ well ~ In tbs press
AnArohlsm N neither 80 new NOT so lao
lated a phenomenon as seefns by sptne
10 be SUPPOSED Equality Of Happiness
IL not, or has not hitherto bceb. the law
Of the world The unhappy are always
apt to take inequality for injustice. and
they ar. not perfectly consoled hy having
Il po.nted out 10 them that nore IL u natural
mi-distrbuuon ~ gifts. or by any of the
phiosophlc a~nodynes which satisfy us
who are full Of bread. There are In truth
a good many 10 whom life In their elrcuin-
stances Il hardly worth living Hcncs
from time 10 tim. there have bean Violent
Instructions against the social system.
such a. the Jacquere. the insurrection
OF Wat Tyler. the risins Of tho Anabsp-
lists. the movement Of ths Jewellers For
such disturbances va must look and either
make the social state, II Ne ran more just.
or strengthen the dotective police. Popular
education has increased the sensibslity OF
tins suffering classes, and this contrast
h.tNe-n conditions has Of late become
stikingly sharp.
Again. anarchism II only one o. 4 mum
Der u movements at the present DAY the
object OF which is not meraly tho rcfortn
~ particular abuses, but the fundamental
reconstruction Of society. OF these. social
lam In - various forms and with its various
degrees Of Ninl.ucs from the mild Fabian
20 tho by no means mild Socialist Of Italy.
L. one Communism Is another, and, as
Franco knows 20 her cost. an extremely
energetic species. A third IL anArchiSin,
" hich. d+oming tho whole Of our organila-
ton. political aud social, desperately and
i~rr-deemah!y evil, seeks totally to destroy
IL. and madly invokes chaos. Nihilism
H. Russian Hnarchisin provoked bv the
corruption Of thst Government and f~t,
IL ss.ul-. from y multitude - students,
sons. many ~ them Of an nl-endowed clergy
for whom th-re " no opaning IN life An
archism. hoW. ever, l. not merely a paroIyNm
IL has a theory There ara gentle and
philo@ophic a. ~ell as desperate Anarchists
Kropotkin h gentle ~ a lamb He sincerely
believes that human nature - radically
good. and 10 show it, goodness only needs
RELEASE from the unnatural restraints 81
laws and government. Ia his own oase hts
theory may b- true. Its snarchism ~
c~lo~rlv akin 20 the vision o. Shelley en-
hodiei in The Revolt % Islam
A correspondent ~ the London Ttmss.
apparyn,ly. from the place Of honor az
corded him. a mar 81 mark. thinks that
aparchism ~ "a hs ascTihed o. the loss
- tho restraining influence Of religion.
and hints that n theological reaction would
To- tha cure II his meaning IL that the
loss ~ the religious conscience and Of the
pru-t... ~ retrhuuun IN a future life
~ very SERIOUS. and that the moral world
IL going through n dan "roup transition,
-undoultNilv be- j. right II no would
have NJ. without sincere belief IN religion.
-et 4 up again Tor tho PURPOSES - police,
be- H. only LAYING up for rs wrath against
The day ~ vi ath. and ve must tell him
that there h. no salvation FOR ~ hut IN truth,
lot ~. truth to- ~ fraugh' With peril
~ the tIm. as u NAV II Ice thinks
that suncr-tiflnn IL ~ cr"ctual cure for
the tendency 20 political assassination.
rot him look into his Mariana or SuRrez.
Lot him consider whether there II any
lack 81 superstition In jacques Clement.
Ralthazu Gerard. ltavAillac. or Guy
Iavke- The perpetrators 81 the mas
s,cre ~ 81 bartholomew were eminently
d'yout
Tho-o people will surely he come dsy
azham,-i of themselves Who, on account
- a single murder. however dete~tahls
nm! drplorahlc. ar. CRYING out Tor ~cIrtAll-
rent 81 political liberty ~ restriction -
frr..iom II sJp-,ch and II ~" pr'~s What
nrarrhi~m II NOR. complct" or worse than
arbitrary power "a a." hands 81 an auto
crat wlp -rtS a. defiance the higher Law
- Justice. and HUMANITY What ~ IL but
anar.hism whom one oe.lut sends ont
An order 20 leave 10 Cinnamon that can
stan! alive. and another Aliows HE soldiers
e. drown an Innocent i"aSantry hv thous-
ands and spit babies ou their bavonet%,
Nha' auarchism can he worse than that
81 the Turkish Empir", with ts Bulgarian
Atrocities and is Armenian mAs-arres.
which al these powers ~ order arr con-
spring 10 uphold
In. Yellow Press 4 y afItary or
lovely P.rhap- it, reign may not last
very long Tho creates, fool grows at
lcrz'h suspicious II reckless fHlsshood.
the ,~,arsest 'a-'" h+com'- 'ir"d az la-t
Of garlic Bu' how are you 90 define Vel
lnNy- Nhorr ara Won 80 draw the line'
Ypi must have fr~dom or a censorship.
and one strong reason for proferring frc"-
dom L. that. ~ experience has shown, under
A ,.us,r-hip YOU arr sure Co have an Illicit
press snc,-iiug the worst productions
Of freedom IN mhlgnity Besides What
hal apv section - the American press
t. do with tho cosmopolitan conspiracy
81 which an Anarchist, IA y limbs How
much had any pres, to do with Booths
revenge. W with IA" Disappointing NJ and
scimony - Guiteau2
Folly or wpr-, han folly reached -
height when the report, utterly ~unfound'si,
W. NAV trust. that the assassin 81 IN" Prosi'
dent had h--rn tortured was received hy
some ~ the prlpl". not only without ah-
l,rronce. uut with gl"e Then" was talk.
too. ~ lvnchiug Il lyuching i TO Ira
cu.ntonAuccI. We ought not 20 h" shocked
i.v.ud meA-ur' hv political murder. Sup
- a negro. after seeing his son or his
lr,thar burned alive. had shot somebody
In authority whom he Imagined 20 h. re-
,pnnsih!o. hc would he very properly
arrested and hanged but would n ~
.asy 60 prov" to him that he ought 10 r-'
f'ut'
/, CpuHncmeu, u all Anarchists in AN
> island under international guard is ano,hci
y ~ the proposals witch b'sI-ak the cI'
cr-.mcnt 1T thr tim" Can yuu d"pur
I, every nan 90 daik and dangerous tenn.
: u..ram-ut who l. oRught hrpud.ug uvoi
~. iuiguitiss ~ tho .gial statC' Nor,
- ...I. .N..t.t Ella mi ma.