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THERE are many persons who OF the I'M
preston, knowing little of the subject, that An
archism and Communism or Socialism or
less closely allied. Nothing could possibly be
farther from the truth. Anarchy lies at end of
the swing of the pendulum; Socialism lies at the
other And between the two, at about the center of
the arc, lies good government we understand it.
However, the idea that the two are connected in
some way is so prevalent that the first press dis
patches announced that Czolgosz Socialist.
The difference between the teachings of So
cialism and Anarchy is this The Socialist believes
everything should be left to the government and
that the individual should be but intelligent cog
in the great machine that all railroads, manufac-
turtles and Industries of every description should be
owned and controlled by the government; that men
should work with hand and brain for the public
welfare and that the state should be in the broadcast
sense the parent and the supreme head. The Anar-
chist, on the other hand, recognizes no form Of
unto himself, absolutely free to do exactly as he
chooses regardless of the rights of Others and that
the individual should reign supreme In other words,
he would the progress of time and return to
the dark ages when might-brute force-made right.
AS Rob Roy sang, the Anarchist, all oblivious Of
where such condition would land him, says, 'Let
him take who hath the power, and let him keep who
can"
Anarchy invades America from Europe. It is
the legitimate offspring of Nihilism. The first
Anarchists with ideals. They were men
harred from pillar to post worried to madness and
trodden to earth by the autocratic governments
under which they eked out their existence. Hot
blooded and naturally chatting at restraint of any
kind, these lost all reasoning power and were
able to only their own wrongs. They lost the
most valuable perqusite of the thinking mantle
sense of proportion and perspective They soon
became creatures of single idea-that Of destroying,
even at the cost of their lives the existing order
They had no very clear conception Of what would
replace it, but trusted bndy to nature to right their
wrongs and bring about some change for the better
out of the chaos they had evoked. There was that
which called forth something akin to sympathy in
the theories advanced by the first Anarchists their
practices repealed civilized world with horror
1t will be seen that from the first conception of
the idea Anarchy Was Numerically opposed to
Socialism The first Anarchists were fanatical, mis-
guided whose energies hopelessy mis-
directed but nothing worse; the Anarchists of today
egotistical madmen too lazy to work themselves
and calling down eternal tortures upon all who do
work. The Socialist is in quite different category.
After his days work is done he leans back in his
chair and dreams of Utopia to come, but he does
his days work before he takes his rest and it is
manifestly unfair to connect him with the bomb
throwing maniac at the opposite end of the pendu-
lum's arc.