Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-06-09
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and hateful, but so dangerous as to
make it imperative that society shall
| take effective measures to protect 1T
self and those whom ii chooses to con-
duet its affairs. Today the anarchists
direct their attacks against the lives
of officials. Tomorrow they may be
throwing bombs into the windows of
any atizen for whom they entertain
dislike.
When we see a man with a torch
in his hand pouring kerosene upon
shavings under a house we do not wait
until he has started confiagration.
we see a rattlesnake coiled and ready
to spring We do not wait until he has
bitten u.s. We stamp the life out of
him at once. An anarchist has all the
evil disposition which we attribute
to the snake and is much more danger
Gus. as he is more intelligent. Why
society, and particularly American so
ciety, does not seriously set itself to
the determination of all these pests
is hard to understand. Still harder is it
to realize that we not only take no
actual steps to get rid of them, but
that we permit them to publicly de-
fend and inspire the crimes that are
committed in the name of anarchy
as witness the incendiary addresses Of
two anarchist Jail birds in Chicago on
the same day as the attempted mW'
der of King Alfonso.
There are but few anarchists in the
world, but since, few as they are, they
have declared war of savagery on
civilized society, it is folly not to
recognize the fact and deal with
anarchists precisely as We deal with
dangerous wild beasts. Some of the,
mpshy sort object to severe dealings
with avowed anarchists, because, as
they claim, anarchy is mode of in
sanity and must be dealt with as such.
Possibly, as to the actual murderers,
that is so. There are but few of them
-yet-and we do not know them until
they have done their actual work. We
are not referring to them, but to the
ana-chistic yawpers who plot murders
and find their instruments in the
crack Drained derelicts whom they at.
tract, inspire and direct. These noisy
shouters are safe enough, as is proved
by the precious good care which they
take of their own skins. 1t is not they
who murder. 1t is the victims whom
they enthrall and inspire with their
own malignant hatrel to mankind
who do the deadly work, which those
who inspire them are too cowardly to
attempt. The way to stop the muir
ders is to suppress the schools of mur.
der.
As TO the method of dealing with
these Notwithstanding all who pro-
fess on propagate anarchist doctrine
that which is most commonly pro-
posed is to prevent by their absolute
seclusion the notoriety upon which
they thrive. Certainly we do not
wish TO cumber ou prisons with them
tho moral atmosphere of our prisons
is bad enough now-and the method
commonly proposed of buying two
islands. well separated, one fo7 the men
and the other for the women, and send
ing them there as fast as caught, COM
mends itself as sound common sense
We should hear no more of them and
| they would hear no more of u.s. They
could have anarchy which they desire
and we could have well ordered so
ciety which We desire. At any rate
society owes it to itself to take meas
ures. which upon trial prove effective,
to suppress the anarehistic propa-
ganda. Russia has tried killing anar
ehists and il does no good. 1t gives
them just the notoTiety which they
seek. The best cure for anarchy is
oblivion and any plan which assures
it viii be effective. If we sequestrate
lepers and smallpox patients, how
much mone should We seqnestrate such
moral lepers as those who conduct
schools Of murder.