Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-13
KILL ANARCHISTS,
SAYS B0NAPARTE
SECRETARY OF NAVY FAV0RS
DRASTIC MEASURES
Capital Punishment Is Urged in Some
Instances and Terms Of lrnpris-
onment and the Lash In
Others
nx AssocIa ted Press.

BY Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND, Md. Aug. 12.-sec-
retary of the Navy Charles ]. Bona
parte tonight delivered an address at
the Allegheny Chautauqua, near Cum
berland. before a large gathering.
His subject was "Anarchism and Its
Remedy" and he said in part:
"Anarchism Is the product of two
conditions which prevails to a greater
or less extent everywhere among the
less enlightened classes of modern civ
ilized society, namely, the decay of re-
ligous faith and a measure of super
fetal, and therefore unsound, popular
education.
ut is sometimes said that anarchism
and socialism, as systems. are mu-
tually antipodal and destructive, but to
my mind this view Of their relations is
altogether too superficial. They are two
divergent stems growing from the same
root. That root is the doctrine that all
men of right ought to be, and should,
therefore, be made and kept precisely
equal.
Possibly Generations
"How can the evil be cured? If we
mean cured in a day, month. a year, a
decade, I answer unhesltatingly--not at
ALL Anerchism will not be removed
within a given time. or through spe-
cial measure or set of officers.
twill be for years, perhaps for gen
eerations. source of some peril to
our public men, a source of some an
noyance and some anxiety, possibly at
times of some alarm to the American
people. 1t is the product of causes
which lie deep in the scheme of modern
civilization. 1 believe that anarchism
has been already made less and can
be made much less dangerous and
harmful by being dealt with seriously
and nationally.
Favors Death Penalty
"In the first place. the unlawful acts
prompted by anarchism should be made
crimes, in so far as they are not, strict
ly speaking, crimes already, and as
crimes they should be visited with such
penalties as are particularly distaste-
full to the criminals, and therefore the
most effective deterrents to crime
"On anarchists the death penalty
should be unequivocally imposed by
law and inflexibly executed whenever
the prisoner has sought. directly or in
directly. to take life; for offenses of
less gravity I advise a comparatively
brief but very rigorous imprisonment,
characterized by complete seclusion,
privation of all comfort and denial of
any form of distraction, and which
could be, to my mind advantageously y
supplemented by severe, but not a
public, whipping.
Lash as Lesson
The lash, of all punishments, most
clearly shows the culprit that he suf-
fers for what his fellow men hold odi-
GUS and disgraceful, and not merely
for reasons of public policy.
"AnV a bridPement for fRar Of nm
archists of that freedom of speech and
of the press guaranteed us by our state
and federal legislatures would be
neither a wise nor a worthy policy; but
these privileges in nowise shield coun-
selors Of crime nor instigators of dis
orders and rebellion
Any changes, however sweeping, in
our laws and government, may be
urged. and any arguments, however
wild or grotesque, advanced to justify
them, provided the method of change
can be orderly and lawful; but a pub
lished writing recommending the mur-
der of the chief magistrate and violent
overthrow of the government is a sedi-
tious libel at common law. and there is
no good reason why public utterances
OF spoken words of the same purport
should not be made a like offense by
common law.
TT is already a crime to advise a
felony or grave misdemeanor if the ad-
vice leads to the crime suggested. and
there is again no good reason why this
should not become a substantial Of
fense without regard to it's conse-
quences, as is criminal conspiracy.
"The final and most vital condition
OF success in ridding the country of an
archism in practice is that American
public opinion should recognize the ut
ter emptiness, the inherent folly of its
theory and of all the kindred
ready made, furnished whitley -you-wait
schemes for the social regeneration Of
mankind. Civilized society as it exists
today If it be nothing more, is the out
come of all strivings for justice and
happiness of the human race during
thousands of years. What monstrous
presumption, what preposterous con-
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