The colored American., 1902-03-08
WHAT BREEDS ANARCHY.
tosbua T. Snall's Analysis of
Economic Evils That Provoke
p esista nee to the Social.
Editor The Colored American:

/, embassies the fact that 90 out of
ererv 100 writers on the subject are
;norant of the fundamental principles
af Anarchism. Anarchists are working
70 carry out the ideas contained in the
Declaration of Independence, which,
mt in words, announced to the world
hat Governments derive their just pow
ers from the consent of the governed, y
and the handspring of all their actions
is found in the belief that liberty is the
onIy salvation of society from the social
and economic evils that encompass us
on every hand.
To comprehend anarchiSm one must
understand the rise and growth of mod
ern capitalism, for one has kept pace
with the other.
With the discovery that steam could
be used as the motive power for rum
ming machinery, followed by the invent
ion of labOr-saving machinery that null
tiplied the ability of men to produce
wealth in some instances 400 fold, the
tools of production rapidly slipped into
the hands of the capitalists, who, by the
fiction maintained by law that rent, in
tcrest and profits are entirely natural
have been enabled to divert to them
selves the lions share of the products of
labor until we have reached that point
where all the governments of the so
called civilized nations of the earth are
engaged in the work of finding foreign
markets for the apparent surplus wealth
that has been created
Apparent, | say, because, when we
come to analyze the situation, we find
that it is only because our present unjust
system of distribution does not permit
the toilers to get the reward of their
labor that such a thing seems to exist.
Now. it is owing to the various
monopolies in the land that the laborer
has to feed on huskS while the kernel
goes to the capitalist.
The money monopoly that says no
person can engage IN the business of is
suing circulating notes unless he joins
the National Bank Ring, which is pro-
tected by a 10 per cent tax levied by
Congress on all other issues than theirs;
the land monopoly, that gives one man
the power to hold title to millions of
acres of land, so that the occupant of
these acres must pay tribute to him in
rent; the tariff monopoly, that today is
so strong and powerful that it is enabled
to sell goods in Europe at prices far be-
low what it charges for them at home,
by reason of the taxes wrung from the
American people and the patent monop-
oily, that forces the people to do without
many things that may almost be called
the neceSSaries of life, are the monopO-
lies around which all the smaller ones
are grouped.
The Anarchist, looking squarely at
the situation, finds all these mOnopilies
existing by the grace and permission of
the government, and he says that the
only remedy for it is to cut away the
special privileges and let each tub stand
on its own bottom; then, if the National
Banks can furnish the best money at
the least cost, it will do the business,
otherwise, their sceptre will depart from
them and so it will be with the other
combinations, when the principle of lib
erty in economies is given recognition.
In what l have written your readers
Will see that Anarchism implies some
thing besides the tearing down process,
Tor, side by side with this work, goes
the education of the masses as to the
need of uniting their effOrtS-of estab-
fishing our industries on the basis of
voluntary cooperation, in such man
ner that the parasites who now live and
thrive on interest, rent, and profit, shall
have no place in the social hive.
If in these few lines l shall have in
duced any of your readers to study the
question of Anarchism with the sole idea
OF getting at the basic facts, my labor
will not have been in vain.
JOSHUA 7. SMALL,
Provincetown, Mass, Feb. Fl, 1902.