The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-18
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1s, 1901.
ANARCHY VS.. ANARCHY.

the assassination of President McKin-
ley, instead of showing signs of re-
Taxation is growing stronger and more
determined and will find c~hrystaliza~
ton in the enactment of severe
national laws calculated to. suppress
the propaganda as far as lies within
the power Of law to wipe out the evil.
Almost every congressman and sena-
tor of note has ben heard to express
himself on the subject and many have
already gone to the extent of prepar-
ing bills for Introduction as soon as
congress shall convene.
Representative Lands of Indiana
favors deportation Of all anarchists
to the island of Guam, there to be
kept without any attention, save a
guard to see that they might not es-
cape. The island being so far re-
moved from the rest of the world he
thinks they could be left free to prac-
tice their peculiar notions of existence
without the restraining effects and in
fiuences Of law or order. In respect
to the hindrance to his scheme
which might be encountered through
some constitutional provision, Mr..
Lands says, while he is no lawyer,
if the people Of the country really
make up their minds to deport the
reds they will find some way of do
ing the thing. He has enlisted the ser
vices Of eminent lawyers to look I'D
the law and is satisfied the thing can
be done. AS the anarchists are op-
posed to all forms of law it is but rea-
sonable to suppose that they will not
attempt TO prevent their deportation
by applying to the courts. On the
contrary one would Suppose that they
would hail with pleasure such a
move, as it would give them the OPP
portunity of carrying into practical
effect the theory they advocate.
Other representatives have other
measures they intend to introduce
n to enumerate all would be too
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larger than The Gazette to attempt.
All, however, are aiming at the same
object and with SO many heads at
work it is safe to assume something
will be accomplished and the present
rather lax laws which make it posi-
bic for creatures of the stripe of the
Goldmans, Mosts and Isaaks to carry
on their plottings and treason will be
so amended as to make it more diff
ficult for them to proceed in the fu-
ture.
But while the lawmakers are busy
it should not be supposed that the
rest OF the people are doing nothing.
From various parts of the country
come reports of organizations of citi-
zens forming which have for their
purpose the suppression and exter-
mination of anarchy and those who
thus forming is one which if success
full will attract almost as much at
tention as do the people against
whom it %isintended to operate. This
society has it's headquarters at Sioux
City, Ia, and it's promoters intend
that the weapons employed by the
anarchists shall be turned to account
against themselves. They propose to
fight fire with fire. While it is in
tended to have a membership all over
the land, yet so secretly will it work
known to one another and all orders
are to be executed under the secre.
tary, who alone is to be entrusted
with the knowledge as to whom and
where the members are. known
anarchists and their sympathizers are
to be notified to emigrate and if
mere notification fails then more
serious measures are to be resorted
to to rid a community of the pres
ence of the Objectionable ones If
necessary the persons marked shall
be made way with, the member of
the society upon whom the duty shall
devolve to be notified by secret cipher
that he has been selected by lot to
carry out the order of the board of
directors, a body composed of men
unknown to each other and who make
Individual report of their conclusions
to the secretary.
AS every member is sworn to Sc
crecy and implicit obedience to the
orders OF the directors and secretary
tary. the organizers of the associa-