The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-08-14
ANARCH|SM
Discussed by Secretary
Bonaparte at the Cum
berIand Chautauqua
Sunday Afternoon.


noon Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte
delivered a strong and interesting ad-
dress on "Anarchisns and It's Cure"
which was listened TO and applauded
by an audience of 5000. MIR. Bona
parte was in excellent form and took
occasion to defend the many meas
ures that have been advocated to
stamp out anarchy in the United
States and also to denounce those
who have been attempting to inter-
fere with the freedom of the press on
the ground that certain editorials have
been productive of anarchy He made
a somewhat bitter attack on socialism
as a genera? proposition and this,
coming as it does from an "aristocrat
of the 1aristocrats," his remarks are
bound to be severely criticized.
"A southern plantation before the
war, constituted, so far as the ne
groes we're constituted, very nearly
a socialistic community" he said.
To-day the socialists establish them
selves in a capacity which the name
socialist is all that the word implies.
The anarchist holds that the man
who possesses any kind of superiority
over another wrongs the other by the
mere fact of having it. Therefore
comes anarchistic assassinations, they
holding 1t to be sin against hui
manity for one man to be above his
fellow man. We can, however, make
the unlawful acts prompted by an
archism crimes where they are not
already so, and visit upon them such
penalties as are distasteful to that
class Of criminals.
DEATH FOR ANARCHISTS.
On anarchists the death penalty
should be unequivocally made by law
and infiexibly executed whenever the
prisoner has sought, directly or indi-
rectly, to take life; for offenses of
less gravity, l advise comparatively
brief but very rigorous Imprisonment,
characterized by denial of any form
of distraction, and which could be to
my mind advantageous to the pris-
oner. The lash of all punishments
must clearly show that the culprit
suffers for what his fellow men held
odious and disgraceful, and not mere
ly for reasons of public policy.
IN most countries such an act
would constitute treason, and, al
though not considered within the de-
finition of that crime in the federal
constitution, it has all of its moral
obliquity and nearly or quite all of it's
peril to the people.
THE final and most truly vital con-
dition of success in ridding our coun-
try Of anarchists in practice is that
American public opinion should re-
cognize the seriousness of the an
archist
GIVE UP ASSASSINS.
Now by all means let us give up
any assassins. or would-be assassins
of foreign rulers who reach our shores,
whether these call themselves an
archists' or not. and whether the
country which reclaims them is or is
not willing to do the like for us;
this viii be a good riddance of bad
rubbish for America, whatever it may
be, and no preliminary concert of
the powers is needed to justify us in
thus advancing our own interests.
There is much to be said in favor
of those restrictions on immigration
which are intended to shut out for
eign anarchists from our shores; and
it was we'll to arm the federal exeeu-
tive with wider powers to deport or
otherwise rid the country of disloyal
or turbulent aliens, whether these
call themselves anarchists or not.
The fewer of such people we have in
our midst the better But, while we
may thus reduce the number of our
anarchists it is sadly certain that we
cannot thus get rid of anarchism;
we have now a homemade brand of
the article, and although the original
plant of this infant industry was
imported the domestic
product is large enough for us.
"Anarehism is the product of two
conditions which prevail. to a greater
or less extent, everywhere among the
less enlightened classes of modern
civilized society, namely, the decay of
religious faith and a measure OF sup
erfieial, and therefore unsound, pop
ular education. 1t is therefore ne
cessary for us to remedy these condi-
tions as soon and in the most direct
manner possible"
HUGHES OFF FOR CAMP.