The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-13
The REpREsNoN OF ANARCHY.

0octor of Divinity in the Congrega-
ltionaI Church, wrote a paper, in winch
he described a world and its inhaol-
Itants. made by chance. The article was
amusing. but it taught one of the deep
est lessons that mankind needs. All the
lexisting order of thfngs-the stratif1ca-
ton of the rocks. the ocean currents
the winds. the entire adjustment OF or
ganized Nature-was jumbled into
snroniscuous chaos, in which law and
system were hopelessly disarranseo'
Mems arms and legs were scattered
over different parts of the body; the
nositions of the head and the heart,
| of the lungs and the liver, We're re-
versed. The eyes were frequently set
into the feet, the mouth gaped from
the pit of the stomach, the organs OF
hearing protruded from the ribs. and
no two individuals correspondent in the
locations of their constituent parts
This grotesque description practical
| lied the modern theory of anarchy
which literally means confusion or dis
order, but as promulgated by Pierre
Joseph Proudhon between 1909 and 1862
and by Bakunin, the founder of Rus
sian nihilism and also the promulgator
of anarchistic socialism in the south
of Europe, is the antithesis of govern
nient and the supersession of law by in
diyidual will. It's keynote is violence
and its favorite method murder In
book called The Dynamiter," which
had a great vogue, the fundamental
sentiment of anarchy is well expressed:
A torpedo cried Zero Frightening, "a
torpedo in the Thames. Superb. dear
fellow. L recognize in you the marks
OF an accomplished anarch.'
1t is a remarkable. though not un-
usual fact that. in its struggle to put
down authority and power. anarchy
should have exaggerated the evils it
was designed TO suppress and have been
organized into the most mysterious and
the most absolute combination that has
ever been devised. There are different
classes of anarchists. Some are of
benevolent type and repudiate the doe
trfne of assassination as an end, though
practically accepting it as means
Others regard the knife, the bullet, the
explosive, as agencies to be employed
at intervals and in emergencies. The
mass of men, however, who have been
drawn into the movement, consider the
murder of rulers and statesmen, de-
IiberateIy calculated and unfiinchingly
executed, their principal instrumental
ty. The net result is that. in order to
the conception of God and
the Moral Law and all modes of gov
eminent, through which order personal
rights, subordination and property are
protected and civilization and progress
the worst form of despotism,
in which each man below the central
authority is a mere automaton, is Sc
cretIy maintained
The developmer of anarchy among
the discontented masses in Europe, who,
to cure the ills they have, would fly
to others that they know not of, is
not perhaps surprising bu. c is marked.
Nor is il singular that parts of the
United States should have become CEN
ters of the insidious crusade against
humanity. In this country, where the
tongue and the press are free and I'M
restrained, except by penalties rarely
inflicted for degeneration into unbridled
license, the opportunities for interna-
der British institutions, Leicester
square has been to some extent and
still is a converging point for revolu
tionary committees. British law, how
ever, amended and improved as occa-
sion demands, while guarding the prop
! er exercise of individual liberty, has
become more and more an effective re-
straint upon the perversion of essential
rights and more and more safeguard to
foreign governments and communities.
There, while acquisitions for political
A
against life can be arrested and punish
ed on the spot where their criminal
schemes were concocted. New Jersey
in this country has become a seat of
anarchistic vilainies, projected in Sc
curity and carried out with precision.
other states. and even the territories,
ARE equally eligible.
An itemized list of political assassina-
lions and attempts at assassination has
been recently published which, if cor
rect, as presumptively it is, throws a
lurid light upon the growth of anarchy,
since 1899. From that year to 1860, there
were five murders of statesmen and rul-
ers. Since 1860, eliminating the less i'm
portant instances, nine conspicuous ex-
amples have occurred. Three Presidents