The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-18

The decision of the United States
Supreme Court in sustaining the action of
the immigration authorities at New York
in deporting the English Anarchist. Tur-
ner, will be very gratifying to lovers OF
law and order throughout the country. The
claim was made in Turner's behalf that he
is a lecturer on sociological subjects and
an Anarchist in theory only. but the court
held that though he professed TO regard
the absence of government merely as
political ideal. yet his illusions in his dis
courses to the universal strike" and TO
the execution Of Spies and his associates
as Legal murder. and his appearance in
company with Most as a speaker at mass
meetings led to a justifable inference that
he contemplated the realization of his ideal
by the use of force and that his speeches
were indictments to that end. This is GER
theoretical Anarchist" is usually the one
who makes all the trouble He may be,
and often is, a cowardly creature with no
intention whatever of engaging i'm any act
i've movement against the existing order
of things; it is even possible that he may
be free from any wish to stir others to
revolutionary action and is a sheer vision
airy; nevertheless, the words of all such
men have influence with Unbalanced, igno-
rant and fanatical followers and like
lence. The man who shot Mckinley, for
instance, was led to his course by the
teachings of "theoretical'' Anarchists that
all government is wrong. If they did not
actually aver that those who represent 1t
should be removed" such an inference
might easily be drawn by weakminded
creatures like Czolgosz. and for this rea-
son there are men more guilty of this muir
der than the one who actually COM
mitted the deed and suffered the penalty.
To the argument of Turner's lawyers
that the ruling was unconstitutional in
that it interfered with free speech, the
court responded in substance and with un-
conference.-the logic that wien govern
ment has exercised its inalienable power to
prevent the entrance to its dominion Of
cut on from free speech and other priv
ileges of citizenship, but by force of ex-
clusion and not through interference with
constitutional rights. In short, being nei-
ther citizens noy subjects, they have no
constitutional rights in this country.
In. opposition to the Anarchist political
ideal of no government there exists in the
minds of political students and thinkers
an ideal government which shall meet the
needs OF every citizen and administer equal
and exact Justice to ALL In this country
it is believed that the nearest approach to
such ideal is found in the form of a re-
public. Because human creatures are fall
lible. however, no government can be with
out defects in It's actual workings. and the
ideal can never be fully attained. If it
were not fallible. then the Anarchist theory
of individual independence might be safely
followed. Human nature being as it is,
there will always be those who Will pro-
test against the existing order OF things,
whatever it may be. and seek to overturn
it. But, since the vast majority are seek
ing to establish the best and safest condi-
lions for themselves and others. destruc-
ton of these conditions by the few who are
dissatisfied should not be permitted.
Anarchists whether such in theory or
States, and now that the immigration Off
GERS have authority to bar them out a
troublesome problem is settled.