The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-09-25
AMERICA TOO FREE
French LiberaIist Writes on
Anarchy Theme.
He CRITICISES YANKEES
Says They Practice Hypocrisy
UnbIuShingIy.
He CRITICISES YANKEES

as Usual, II IL uepIOTeu tndL the CllCeC
States and England should tolerate free
dom Of speech and action among revolu-
tionary refugees from the Continent Of
Europe and others who aim at breaking
up the present organization of the society.
There does not seem to be much under
standing Of the common Anglo-saxon an
swer-that the evils of liberty IN excess,
grievous as they may sometimes be, are
not comparable to the unending danger of
the suppression Of any legitimate liberty
of the individual.
Until 1913 the Liberals Of the Continent,
led by such observers as De Tocqueville
and Guizot, very commonly considered
that the two great English-speaking
countries had practically solved the age
long CONFLICT between the political author
ity of the community, called the state,
and the liberty OF the individual IN
France, at least, the present generation
SENS not so much to have lost touch with
English and American ideas as not to
understand them or even know Of their
existence. The Spanish-American and
South African wars have added prejudice
to this intellectual densenss5, so that
nothing is more commonly heard among
Frenchmen of all parties and not the
least among Radical Republicans, than
the saying that English-speaking nations
desire liberty for themselves only To
this is now added q distrust of the work
ings OF liberty in their own political or
ganization. Americans especially can
hardly appreciate the impression produced
here by the continental reports Of lynch
ings.
It Is hardly fair to make the average
Frenchman responsible for the feelings
expressed by Francis de Pressense in this
mornings Aurore. He is son of a Lib
eral Protestant devine and Academician
of the Second Empire, and must have
been brought UP in the strictest sect Of
Liberalism. His open sympathy with the
social work Of Cardinal Manning caused
many of the Radicals to suspect him a
few years since Of Teactionary tenden-
cies. But with the Dreyfus agitation the
vision OF the way TO Damascus dawned
on him. He threw himself into the move
ment, where he has remained. at the side
OF advanced Socialists and theoretical
anarchists. This means that his present
views should be Libertarian-of the mass
es-rsther than Liberal in the old sense,
Of the respectable property-holding mid
die class The application of his new
views to the American event is signif-
cant. Relieved of its defamation, much
Of which would have a repugnant sound
in America where advanced Socialism is
little known, the opinion Of NJ de Pres
sense would, perhaps, place the origin of
anarchism largely in the present military
system of Europe; but in the present case
he directly attacks our American esti-
mate OF the value Of life. when II is con
nected with the hierarchy of interests"
and when is destruction shakes in no wise
the social equilibrium
These same men who show themselves
so uncompromising in their respect for
human life when great parsonage is
concerned. and see a crime beyond ex-
piation in the destruction of a human
being, If he is at the top of the social lad
der, with what difference do they not take
note Of the attacks whose victims are COM
mon people. poor helots, the residium of
the speciesl Almost daily some
lynchng affair kills a negro in the United
States. 1t is grievous thing that even
q guilty man should be executed before
being judged. How many times, in their
haste, do the executors Of this lynch law
neglect TO make sure Of the guilt of their
unhappy victims! They no longer
content themselves with simple death;
they must add the refnements Of tor
ture The press is mute; the
churches are silent. The illustrat-
ed newspapers reproduce photographs of
the successive scenes of the torture.
Against such families. which are
repeated and so on multiplying and ac-
climatng themselves in the states OF the
south and west, there has rot been, and
there never viii be. the concert of execra-
ton and malediction which has been let
loose against the Buffalo murderer. They
demand q crusade of the human race
against auarchism. They
are careful not 10 call for one movement
Of reprobaGon. ono effort Ct repression,
against lynching. What would you who
have upright consciences think Of a soci-
ety. 4 civilization. which puts up with
such hypocricy and practices contradic-
tons SO revoltingg"
After words ike these. which are not
often heard In America, it may be neces-
sary TO add NJ de Pressense's personal
protest. out Of justice 10 himself: I do
not think it nece.sarw fer me 10 explain
at leueth the feelings excited in re ~ an
attack Ike that Of which President Nc
kinney has been the object The more re-
spect / profess for human lie. the more
do I hate brutal force. the more DO 7
curse the wiclCduosS Of war and its hcc-
atombs, and the less am disposed 70 ex-
cuse crimes which. quite apart from the
moral considerations, hsve not only the
disadvantase OF not attaining their end.
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