Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-08-16
Lash For Anarchists.

Secretary of the Navy Charles j.
Bonaparte delivered an address on
Saturday last on "Anarchism and Its
Remedy" before large gathering at
the Allegany Chautauqua, near Cum
berland.
Opening with reference to the as
sassination of President Mckinley by
Czolgosz and the popular cutlery
against anarchists which it caused,
Mr.. Bonaparte analysed the doctrines
of the anarchist. Then he discussed
the various means suggested for rid
ding the world of this cult, dismiss
ing most OF them as impracticable.
He commends the provision in the
migration laws barring anarchists
from the country, but complained
that these would not do away with
the anarchist born in this country, of
which he said there was large num-
Der. He said, in part:
so much of the evil; how can it
be cured? If VIC mean cured in day,
a month, a year, a decade, l answer
unhesitatingly, not at all. Anarch-
ism will not be removed within a
given time or through special meas
ure or set of measures; perhaps it
will not be wholly removed in any
time or by any means. 1t will be
for years, perhaps for generations, a
source of some peril to our public
possibly at times, of some alarm to
the American people.
In the first place, the unlawful
acts prompted by anarchism should
be made crimes, in SO far as they arc
not, strictly speaking, crimes already
and, as crimes, they should he visit
ed with such penalties, as are particu-
larly distastcful to the criminals and
therefore the most effective deterrcnts
to crime.
"On anarchists the death penalty
should be unequivocally imposed by
law and infexibly executed whenever
the prisoner has sought, directly or
indirectly, to take life. For the Of
lenses of less gravity advise a COM
paratively brief, but very rigorous,
imprisonment, characterized by COM
plete seclusion, deprivation of all
comfort and denial of any form of
distraction, and this could be, to my
mind, advantageously supplemented
by q severe, but not public, whip
ping. The lash, of all punishments,
most clearly shows the culprit that he
suffers for what his fellowmcn hold
odious and disgraceful and not mere
~ for reasons of public policy.
i am a thorough believer in the
efficacy of free speech as an antidote
for the vagaries of cranks. The peb-
bles on a seashore are made smooth
in surface and uniform in shape by
perpetually tumbling over each other.
Let us steadily rub the cranks of a
community one against the other I'M
til their rough edges have been worn
down and their odd forms brought to
normal type. In less figurative
language, let us give each one of
them that true sense of proportion
between himself and the universe that
is most surely and readily gained
when our fads are mercilessly ridicul-
ed, and we laugh, with as little pity,
at those of others, and our product
may well be the most useful of citi-
zcns.
I'VE shall thus go far to effect that
of enthusiasm which Ma
caulay thought the greatest proof of
strength in strong religion. As he
says, it would be folly to chain up a
spirited horse as though he were a =,
wolf merely because, if left to himself i
in a crowded thoroughfare, he might
over run vehicles and trample down
properly broken to mans !
service, taught the great lesson of {
his spirit will double his .
There is nothing so pleasant as that c
bright, cheerful, at-peace-with-the-world
'esling when you sit down to your break
last. There is nothing so conducive to
rood work and good results. The healthy q
nan with healthy mind and body is a -.