The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1901-12-07
RISE OF ANARCHISM.
GROWTH OF THE CULT SINCE The
HERkE CONVENTION
Born Of the Revolutions OF l840 in
Teuton and Latin Europe Anarchy's
Campaign Plan -IostIgator Of Assassns
The Haymark ct Murders.

Campaign Plan -Iostlgator Of Assassins
The Haymarxet Murders
| Contrary, perhaps, to general belief
the rise Of anarchy as a distinct So
Geological belief is quite recent phen-
omenon. .Anarchism as principle. II
the idea be not contradictory, and an
and their finding has resulted in big
sensation for the immediate locality and
gold mine for the fellow who took 1t
UP for exhibition purposes. More
frauds have been perpetrated IN this
way than even in dime museums. Inc
bureau ha, suppressed more OF these
| frauds within recent years than 1t has
stopped to count. and there is not year
| without its good sensation IN the local
office itself. 1t is seldom. however, that
archists as enemies of the existing order
bark back about twelty five years if one
accepts the date of the Berne oonven-
ton. 1876. when the insurrcctionary
propaganda was approved of, as the cri-
teal date.
Leaving out the question Of formal
| dates for the moment, anarchlsm is real
| ly the child of the revolutions OF IS4o
III Tcuton and Latin Europe. with the
forbdding spirit OF Russian nihllism IN
the person of Michael Bakunin as its
evil genius But whatever the various
revolutionsst of 1873 Planned to ac-
ccmpi h. were they dreanerS, poetlcal
believers in impossible utopias. or fana-
! tical men imbued with hatred for
| governments or not. there ensued ioi
twenty years a period Of loose and
formless national and international agl-
tation. During this psriod, however.
there was tendency toward crystaliza-
ton around the revolutionary socialism
| Of Proudhon, 1900 1865; of La ale
1895 1864, and OF March, IsI6-ISS3
and about the nihi,ism CT Bakunin. 1874
1876 At the close of the period Of
confused wcltcr Of impossible doctrines
and formulac. such as Proudhons 5 ia
nous property is that with the or
ganizations of international soc.e,lcs, os-
ten itly IN the interest Of workingmen
4 new era set in which lasted for fifteen
years. from 1865 to 1885, and whatever
else it developed closed with the sep
araticn Of socialism and SOC caiistic ideas
from the extreme anti-social philoso-
phies of schemes of violence advocated
| by the exponcnts of anarchy.
| The extremists, it is true, had always
existed in the various associations and
they had begun to map out campaign
| of violence long before 1876, when it
was approved at Bernc, but it was rot
until the London conviction of 1881, no
matter what had been done elsewhere in
any of the national centers, tina the real
"plan Of campaign" peculiar to anarch-
ism as it is known the world over to-
day was officially adopted. 1t is one Of
the ifonies of fate that the capital Of
Great Britain, which has harbored the
various European revoluticnists for
thirty-three years, should by this con-
vention of extremists of 1881 be for
ever associated with the origin of a pro-
paganda of assassination which had for
its first victim the Gar Alexander II,
in 1882. and it last King Hunbcrt, in
| 1000 Whether Great Britain could
have scotched anarchism in its very in
fancy is question, b,:t there IS no ques-
tioning the historic fact that it did not,
ard that the repclent leaders like Bak
unin and his satellites. and then Most
and Kropotkin. found the freedom of
England their opportunity and made the
most of it.
At the convention Of 1881, when the
destruction of all rulers was dcoreed as
an act of faith, Most and Kropotkin
were the leaders, the latter man of
thirty-nine and it is curious COM
mentary on affairs that Most to- day, af-
ter having done more than any other
one man to encourage assassination the
world over. has now quieted down into
kind of harmless bar room fixture in
New York, while Prince Kropotkin as
sumes the airs and privileges of phil
osopher and philanthropist and finds
lnaudlin admirers even in our own col
leges. who view him as some profound
thinker and prophet Of redeemed hu-
manity. AS matter Of fact, Kropot
kin's hands are red with the blood OF
murderous deeds instigated by him and
so admitted by him, and as hi, philos
ophy regards a return to the conditions
of even such primitive savagery as exists
in TERRA del Fuego as an ideal exls
tence its wirthlessness and alb urdity
need no demonstration. kropotkin dli
fers from Most merely in education and
tastes, for from 1880 to within recent
years they were equally blood-thirsty
equally the enemies of society. no mat
ter whether it was an autocracy or a
democracy, and Koipotkin's reception in
this country last spring was a. piece of
absurdity that was almost criminal i'll
its stupidity.
Until 1895. when the anarchists in
Chicago attacked the police. few years
after Most had arrived here. having
found even London too hot for him,
most Americans INDUCED themselves in
the pleasing illusion that the anarchists
were downtrodden foreigners who were
irving to rid the world Of rulers ad-
mittedly tyrants. And even after the
hideous Hayn,arket murders there was
la more or less conplaisant belief prev
alent that while the anarchi IS might
not like the American police they were
not conspiring against the institutions
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