Arizona republican., 1906-08-13
SECRETARY BONAPARTE
 PRESCRIBES FOR ANARCHY
The Disease Not Immediately Durable But
 It May Be Checked
He Thinks the Lash Might be PrOtabIy Applied When the GallOws and the Electric are Not Available.

Cumberland, Md. Aug. 12-The fol- lowing is an abstract of an address on "Anarchism and it's Remedy denv- cred by Secretary of the Navy Charles J. BOnaparte tonight before the Chau- tauqua society at Cumberland. Md.
 "Anarchism is the product" said MT. Bonaparte "Of two conditions which prevail to a greater or less extent everywhere among the less enlight- ened classes of modern civilized so- ciety. namely decay of religious faith and measure of superficial, and there fore unsound, popular education
 The speaker first showed the differ ence between socialism and anarchism. Then taking up the cure for the latter. he said tt could not be accomplished in a week, a year or decade. It will take perhaps generations.
 But" said he. "because 1 have no panacea to recommend, it must not be supposed that I would have nothing done. I believe that anarchism has been already made less and can be made still much less dangerous and harmful by being dealt with seriously and rationally. In other words. I would see ourselves and our public servants in earnest and willing to be guided by common sense and eXperi- ence in seeking the remedy, without regard to a little doctrinaire prejudice and little pseudo-h humanitarian clap trap.
 Tn the first place unlawful acts prompted by anarchism should be made crimes. in So far as they are not, strictly speaking, crimes already and as crimes they should be classed with such penalties as are particularly dis tasteful to criminals and therefore most effective deterrents to crime. In dealing with convicted anarchists two facts may well be remembered. The chances of his real reformation are so small that they may be safely neglect ed. and we can appeal, for practical purpose. to but one motive on his part to discourage a repetition of his of fense. namely, the fear of physical pain and death.
 On anarchists the death penalty should be imposed by law and infieX- ibly exerted whenever the prisoner has sought, directly or indirectly to take life; for offenses of less gravityI ad- wise comparatively brief but very rig Orous Imprisonment. characterized by complete seclusion. the deprivation of all comfort and the denial of any form of distraction and which could be. to my mind, advantageOusly supplement- ed by severe but not puDllc WhlpplHS- The lash. of all punishments. most clearly shows the culprit that he suf- fers for what his fellow men hold Odf- ous and disgraceful and not merely for reasons of public policy.
 Any abridgement. from fear of an archists. of that freedom of speech and of press guaranteed us by our state and federal legislations would be neither wise nor worthy policy; but these privileges in no wise shield coun- sellors Of crirAe nor instigators of dis order and rebellion. Any changes, however. sweeping. in our government, may be urged and any arguments, wild or grOtesque. may be advanced to justify them, provided the method of change be orderly and lawful; but published writing recommending the murder of chief magistrate and the violent overthrow of the government is seditious libel at common law and there is no good reason why the pub lie utterances of spoken words of the same purport should not be made like offense by statute.
 'The final and most vital condition of success in ridding the country of anarchism in practice is that the Am