Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-09-12
HOW TO DEAL WITH ANARCHY

Nearly every newspaper that comes
TO hand these days contains emphatic
demands for the suppression OF an
archlst organizations In this country,
and suggestions as to how that object
can best be accomplished. There is no
difference OF opinion regarding the ne
cessity OF removing from the majestic
tree OF liberty, the poisonous parasite
that threatens its existence, but Il is
felt everywhere that the undertaking
Is particularly difficult, without at the
same time injuring the Institutions that
compose the strong limbs and luxurious
foliage under which the nation dwells.
The Philadelphia North American has
obtained the opinion OF all the United
States congressman on this question:
do you favor legisletlon forbidding
the entrance into the United States Of
those called anarchists and believing IN
the destruction, overturnng and sub
version Of established government, and
an amendment TO the naturalization
laws making these principles dis
qualification for citizenship
Every reply received Is said to be In
the affirmative,
Former Attorney General Miller sug-
gests that murderous assaults upon
presidents be classed as treason and
made punishable as such. This APP
pears plausible because such assaults
as that Of which President Mckinley
was the victim. are not aimed merely
at a person but at the government he
represents. But treason Ii defined IN
the national Constitution and II would
require an amendment to that instru-
ment to make possible such provision
as that suggested.
The San Francisco Chronicle voices
very general sentiment in the follow
ing strong paragraph:
Anarchists should be put outside the
pale of the laws, whose authority theY
denounce and 90 whose protection thes
have no claim. They should be driver
from the country and, II need be' I'M
prisoned until some other country u
ready to receive them. TINS applies t'
Tho so.called peaceful wing as wei
os 10 the violent groups. The for
mer are. In fact. the more dangerous
Comnosed OF the more cowardly anC
eontemptible of the clan. they arr
merely preparatory schools where thu
minds OF the weak and vicious are fittet
FOR final instruction IN the schools OF
murder. Women anarchists should re-
ceiye less mercy than any others. Nom
ia so low as a fallen woman, and IN,
devilsh malignity Of those unseNed
hays surpasses human conception and
would be impossible 20 male OF th'
species"
tits also suggested that the immigfa
ton laws be 50 amended 80 TO exclude
from the country all persons who can
not present a certificate from reliable
authorities, stating that he, or che, Il
not an Anarchist. As necessary com
plemeni OF such permission It Is pro
posed that another be framed for th'
deportation o. all persons now here
who are connected In any way will
Anarchist organizations.
These suggestions show sufficiently
the trend Of public thought on tn
question OF how to deal with Anarch
lists. But 1, strikes US that even II thel
were all adopted. they would offer onl!
partial security. When an Anarchis
makes M his mind TO Kill the chief ex
ocutive Of nation, he IS not deferred
r. experience teaches. by the fact tina
his act Win bring death upon himself
on the contrary, he glories In such