The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-09
ITS CAUSE AND CURE.
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tiaries be emptied. Let murderers be
relieved of all stigma, and thieves be
permitted to ply their trade without
hiudrance and without disgrace.
to nihil-to a nebulous chaos-leaving
to future generations the task of or
ganizing and building anew the ruined
fabric of all social and political insti-
tutions. This is the programme of an
archy. and this has given it it's dupli-
cate name-nihilism-by which it is
designated in Russia.
No Limit to Its Evil.
Nor does anarchism stop here. 1t
proclaims that the marriage bond is
a relic of barbarism, and parental pre-
negative a myth. 1t would abolish the
ideas alike of filial obligation, and of
parental responsibility, and would de-
stroy the very name of husband and
wife. For the innocent pleasures and
hallowed associations of the family and
home, it would substitute the orgies OF
free-lovism; and for the tender, indy
ing love of husband and of wife.
1t would substitute the capricious favor
of the harlot and the changing fancy
of the libertine.
Further than this mission of ruin,
il does not inspire. 1t has TO plan
for the new political and social Or
ganisms that are to rise, Phoenix like,
from the ashes of the old. It's Wanted
mission is one of pitiless ruin, and be-
yond the speedy accomplishment of
that object it does not look. There
seems to be among its votaries a vague
hope that a long period-centuries, per-
haps-of alternate destruction and re-
newal may evolve at last a social sys-
tenn in which all will be harmony and
happiness a government in which
there will be no tyranny and no error
"a hope that ultimately the world will
realize in the infinite projections of
mankind all that was ever dreamed of
by pagan or by Christian in the con-
ception of an all-wise, omniporent God.
Anarchism seeks, in a word, to defy
humanity by destroying the world. 1t
whets the knife. or fills the bomb, or
loads the pistol of the assassin, or
places the torch in the hands of the
incendiary, saying meanwhile, Let US
march on to the conquest of the Cod
headi'
Such in all it's horrid deformity is
the fully developed fruit of infidelity.
new Pandora's jar has been opened,
and whirlwinds of moral and political
pestilence begin to blow. In Russia, in
Switzerland, in Germany. France,
England and America, these tenets are
held by thousands. No monarchy or
republic or church or court of law-no
institution of our modern civilization
will be spared if this gospel of ruin
shall prevail. The Inquisition of Athe-
ism would be a thousand-fold more
terrible than the Spanish Inquisition
of the Middle Ages. Its history like
that already written of the French
revolution, whose doctrines 1t avows,
and whose programme it would repeat,
would be written in tears and in
blood
Cure for Anarchy.
$50 much for the cause. Let us
briefly consider the cure. Our second
text announces the remedy-the only
remedy that will ever cure a religious
and political disease of such malignity.
Render unto Caesar the things that
are Caesars, and unto God the things
that are Gods Obedience to civil law
and reverence for the institutions of
religion are both necessary in order
to save us from the peril of anarchy.
Both go together. Civil law
has no real basis and no essential
sanctity unless it be regarded as the
expression of the Supreme VIII. AS
we have seen. irreligion and lawless-
ness go together; and the history of
all governments may be adduced In
proof that pure religion and enlight-
ened civil legislation go hand in hand.
There is needed in our land a re-
vival of reverence for law. In the cpl
demic of lynching of which so much
is now being said by the pulpit and
the press, we see the fatal tendency
toward anarchy. OF one thing, indeed,
we may be glad: that the mouths Of
Northern fire-eaters are stopped, since
it has been demonstrated that a ne
gro's life is no safer in Ohio or Indiana
than in Georgia or Texas, If he COM
NIT 1.-The usual crime" The preach
ers of the North can no longer pirate
of the South as a region given over to
lawlessness and savageism, nor can
Northern editors scribble their dia-
tribes of hate, since recent occurren-
ces have shown that human nature is
the same on both sides of Mason's and
Dixon's line, and that like causes will
produce like effects. But in this grow
ing disposition to resort to mob law
there is evidence of fearful degener-
alton among our people, North and
South, and a menace to the perpetuity
of our free institutions. What is mob
law but anarchy? If a mob may in
flict the death penalty for one offense,
why may it not for another? And UNI
less this tendency of the maddened
masses to take the law in their own
hands be stopped, the time is at hand
when every community will be gov
erned, if governed at all, by a self
elected vigilance committee. And what
is that but anarchy?
Labor Day at Tybee.
1.-THE recent occurrences at Tybee but
illustrate a fact that has become pain
fully patent to thinking men since the
war with Spain. Our army is filled
with men who have no regard for law.
1t would seem as if the soldier, dis
guised in his uniform, regarded the
civilian as his inferior. and the police
man as his natural enemy. He thinks,
as do multiplied thousands in this
land of the free and home of the
brave that a free country means
country in which every man may do as
he pleases, law or no law. And hence
it is that the progress of the organiza-
ton and drilling and transportation of
our army was almost everywhere
marked by riot and brawl and blood
shed. There were mutinies and riots
in camp and on transports bound for
Manila, and on trains going home
ward. And when our soldiers have
landed on foreign shores, they have
proceeded to conduct themselves
oftontimes more like brutes than
like human beings Only in China
let it be said to the credit of our reg
ular army--did our soldiers in their
dealings with the poor natives show
themselves proper representatives OF
cur great republic; and there they were
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