The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-13
Bonaparte's Address.

extent, everywhere among the less en-
hghtened classes of modern civilized So
ciety, namely, the decay of religious faith
and measure of superficial, and there
fore unsound, popular education.
Il am not here to discuss the problems
of theology or metaphysics; if for any one
among those who hear me all belief in
GOD or hereafter, in a life for man
beyond that of sense and in ends for
man wherein time and space and material
things have no portion are mere empty
dreams, / have no quarrel with him Tor
my present purpose. L pause only TO say
that, If he be right and such beliefs be-
long to dreamdnd, then. for me, in the
words OF a Well-known writer, 1t is only
Tor the sake of the dreams that visit ii
that the world of reality has any certain
value
Anarchism and Socialism.
1T is sometimes said that anarchism
and socialism, as systems, are mutually
antipodai and destructive; | should be
very sorry to diminish whatever hostility
The adherentS OF either system may feel
for the other, for the old adage as TO the
consequences OF such strife to honest men
embodleS no small measure of truth; but
10 my mind. this view of their relations
is altogether 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.
Only Among Slaves.
"A socialist is essentially, although not
always aVowedly or even consciously one
who sees that the equality demanded by
this doctrine can be fully. or even approx
lmately. secured only among slaves. a
southern plantation before the war con-
Stltuted, SO far as the negroes were con-
cerned. very nearly a socialistic commun-
lily; and they We're probably as nearly
equal, inter sese, as human beings can be
permanently kept In this community a
socialist merely substitutes for the ON
nipotent, omniScient master an omnpO-
tent, Omniscient corporation made up of
the slaves themselves, enslaves each one
OF them as an individual, to all, in their
corporate capacity. and names this cor
poratiOn The states An anarchist diff
ferS from him by seeing that he has, in
fact, introduced q new source of Unequal
ity. For the corporation he creates can
exercise its authority only through agents,
and these agents must be ex necessftate
armed with powers which make them no
longer the equals of their fellows; lust
as II the master of the plantation made
one of his slaves his overseer.
Demands of Anarchy.
THE anarchist therefore demands that
there be no such agent, or, in other words
no government at all; it was sin against
equality that any one should be presi-
dent while CZOlgOSZ was not and knew
lie never would be. 1t but added bitter
him should deem the president worthy of
his great office, while the few who knew
Czolgosz at all knew him as an obscure,
rnat1ractive Vagrant.
so much of the evil How can il be
cured If we mean cured in a day, d
month, year, decade, L answer unheS-
itatingly-nOt at all. Anarchism will not
DE removed within a given time, or
through a special measure or set of meas
ures; perhaps it will not be wholly re-
moved in any time or by any means.
A Source of Peril.
1T will be FOR years, perhaps for gem
eratiOns a source of some peril to our
public men, a source Of some annoyance
and some anxiety. possibly at times, 1f
some alarm to the American people. 1t
Is the product of causes which cannot be
Cradicated by legislation, however dras-
tic. of causes which lie deep in the scheme
of modern civilization. But because i
lave no panacea to recommend it must
not be supposed that | would have moth
ing done. | believe that anarchism has
been already made less and can be made
much less dangerous and harmful bV be-
ing dealt with seriously ana nationally.
In other words, | would see ourselves and
cur public servants in earliest and willing
Il be guided by the common sense and
experience in seeking a remedy. without
regard TO a little dOctrinaire prejudice and
a little pseudo-humanitarian clap-trap.
Cannot Be Reformed.
prompted by anarchism should be made
crimes. insofar as they are not, strictly
speaking, crimes already, ana, as crimes
they should be visited with such penal
ties as are particularly distasteful to the
criminals andt therefore, the most effec-
tive deterrents TO crime. In dealing with
a convicted anarchist two facts may well
be remembered, the chances of his real
reformation are so small that they may
be safely neglected, and we can appeal
Tor practical purposes, 10 but one motive
on his Part to discourage a repetition OF
lis offenSe namely, the fear of physical
pain and death. To keep MIN for years
in penitentiary merely burdens the com
munity with the support of an irrecOn-
cilable enemy with the constant risk of
his escape or pardon, and the certainty
that. whenever he leaves he will be, if
possible, worse man than when he en-
tered.
Penalties Proposed.
ION anarchists. the death penalty should
be equivocally imposed by law and in
fleXibly executed whenever the prisoner
has sought directly or indirectly. to take
life; for offences of less gravity, / adj
wise a comparatively brief. but very rig
crous Imprisonment characterized by
complete secluslon. deprivation of all
comfort and denial of any form of dis
traction, and which could be to my mind
advantageously supplemented by a severe
hut not a public whipping; the lash, of
all punishments most clearly shows the
culprit that ne suffers for what his fell
low men hold odious and disgraceful and
rot merely for reasons of public policy.
Feionious Spoken Words.
ANY abridgement from fear of the an
,archist of that freedom of speech and of
the press guaranteed us by our state and
federal legislatiOns would be neither a
wise nor a worthy policy but those priv
ileges in no wise shield councillors of
crime nor instigators of disorder and re-
bellion. Any changes. however sweeping.
TO our laws and government may be urged
and any arguments, however wild or gro |
tesque advanced to justify them provided
she method of change be orderly and law
full; but a published writing recommend |
ing the murder of the chief magistrate
and violent overthrow of the government
is a seditious libel at common law and
there is no good reason why public utter |
ances of spoken words of the same pur- |
port should not be made like offense by |
F, the statute. 1t is already crime TO ad- |