The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-24
DEALING WITH ANARCHISTS.

Tr.
We find in the Literary Digest a
resume of press opinion on the subject
of how to deal with anarchists, which
is of special interest at this time. The
Digest says:
The editorials and communications
that are appearing in the newspapers
on the problem of the anarchist and
what to do with him afford an inter
esting variety of remedies for what IS
universally conceded to be pretty
grave problem. 1t seems likely that
Congress will take up the matter at its
coming session, and Senator Allison, of
Iowa, is quoted as saying that "a
statute prohibiting gathering Of an
archists is not improbable - 1T is to
be hoped" says the washington Star,
ssthat before the winter closes Congress
will have passed law to strike directly
at the root of the evil and put stop
to the assemblage of persons preach
ing and entertaining views inimica1 to
the institution of government in gen.
erai, under as heavy penalty as may
safely be imposed" Such a. law, the
San Francisco Call observes, was pre-
pared in 1894 by John G. Carlisle, then
Secretary of the Treasury, but failed
OF passage because Congress was so
taken up with the discussion of the
tariff bill of that year. Information
for the use of Congress is being col
lected, 1t is said, by postoffice inspec-
tors all over the country, who will OBJ
tain lists of all the anarchists in their
districts and forward them to Wash
ington, where Chief Wilkie of the secret
service will have them printed in a
RED Book" In Rochester, n. Y, JUS
tice Davy of the state supreme court,
according to despatch to the New
York Sun, has, ordered a searching in
vestigation of the group of one hundred
anarchists in Rochester, and ordered
that every person found to be a mem
Der of the local society be indicted for
conspiracy to overthrow the govern
nient. The Seattle Post-Inteliigencer
says: IAN avowed anarchist has no civil
rights superior to those Of the avowed
thief. The community can be rid of
one as readily as of the other. Every
anarchist nest in the United States can
be broken up and its members dispers-
ed, every public anarchist meeting or
parade can be prevented, and the en-
tire anarchistic propaganda checked If
not suspended, by local police regula-
tlons, and a few general state statutes,
which will not conflict with the provi-
sions of the Constitution" And the
ST. Louis Globe-Democrat adds similar
ly: Civilization has been tardy and
weak in dealing with these demons.
They should be deprived of a citizenship
they denounce and denied a place in
the communities they seek to plunge
into chaos. When the fact is distinctly
grasped that every anarchist Is an
assassin in his tendencies and propa-
ganda, the hardpan of truth in his case
viii be reached and the remedy applied
win be adequate. Punishment and ex-
clusion are the only effective resources.
The disease must be cut out with
steady, resolute hand"
Mr. John r. Dos Passos, a New York
lawyer who is regarded as an authority
on constitutional law, urges in COM
munication to the New York Times that
alien anarchists be banished, that $50
cieties which advocate such doctrines
must be exterminated," and that the
Government make it misdemeanor
for any person in public or private to
profess anarchist principles as defined
by law, or to counsel, advise, direct,
command, or incite any one or more
persons to become anarchists and COM
nit the crimes of anarchy" As a part
of this program he would 'extinguish
their Journals and literature The
idea of banishing the anarchists seems
to meet favor in many quarters. Dr. I,
K Funk, in a letter to the New York
Sun. makes the picturesque suggestion
that they be deported ito some one
fruitful island. distant from land and
from the usual roads of the sea, suf-
ficiently large to comfortably hold and
support all of this class of anarchists
who may be ound in the different civil
lied countries of the world; that this
island be strongly guarded to prevent
escape, otherwise these people to be
allowed absolute freedom, free from all
law and all control, free to practise
anarchy and work 1t out to its logical
results 1t would be interesting" he
remarks, ITO see what these anarchists
would do with the thief, the murderer,
and other criminals who may rise up
among them. The whole experiment