The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-08-13
WHAT is ANARCH|SM2
Secretary Of the Navy Bonaparte
Discusses 1t, Its Cause and
Its Remedy.
COMPARES IT TO SOCIALISM


Born Equal and Should Be Kept So.
Calls Socialism Form of Slavery.
Drastic Penalties For Anarchists.
Cumberland, Md, Aug. 13.-Secre-
tary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte
delivered an address at the Allegheny
Chautauqua, near Cumberland, before
large gathering on ''Anarchism and
Its Remedy" He was introduced by
Congressman George A. Pearre of
Maryland and said in part:
"Anarchism is the product of two
Or less extent among the less enlight-
ened classes Of modern civilized So
eiety-namely, the decay of religious
faith and a measure of superficial, and
therefore unsound, popular education.
1T is sometimes said that anarchism
tually antipodal and destructive. l
should be very sorry to diminish what
ever hostility the adherents of either
system may feel for the other, for
he old adage as to the consequences
If such strife to honest men embodies
10 small measure of truth but, to my
mind, this view of their relations is
altogether superficial. They are two
divergent stems growing from the
Iame root That root is the doctrine
hat all men of right ought to be, and
lhould therefore be made and kept,
precisely equal.
"a Socialist is essentially, although
lot always avowedly or even con-
lciously, one who sees that the equality
demanded by this doctrine can be
lully, or even approximately, secured
,nly among slaves. A southern plan
ation before the war constituted, so
ar as the negroes were concerned,
Tery nearly a socialistic community,
Ind they were probably as nearly
EQUAL among themselves as human be-
ngs can be permanently kept. In this
community a Socialist merely substi-
utes for the omnipotent, omiscient
master an omnipotent, Omniscient cor
poration made up of the slaves them
,elves, slaves each one of them as an
Individual to all, in their corporate ca
pacity and names this corporation
The State
New Source of Inequality.
"An anarchist differs from him by
seeing that he has, in fact, introduced
/ new source of inequality, for the
corporation created by the Socialist
IAN exercise it's authority only. through
agents, and these agents must be by
necessity armed with powers which
make them no longer the equals of
their fellows, just as If the master
Of the plantation made one of his
slaves his overseer. The anarchist
therefore demands that there be no
such agents, or, in other words, no gov
ernment at all. It was sin against
equality that any one should be presi-
ient while Czolgosz was not and knew
he never would be. 1t but added bit
terness to this wrong that so many
around him should deem the president
worthy of his great Office, while the
few who knew CZolgosz at all knew
grant.
$50 much of the evil. How can it
be cured? If we mean cured in day,
4 month, year, decade, | answer
unhesitatingly-not at all. Anarchism
will not be removed within given
time or through a special measure or
set of measures. Perhaps it will not
be wholly removed in any time or by
any means. 1t is the product of causes
which cannot be eradicated by legisla-
lion, however drastic, of causes which
lie deep IN the scheme of modern civ
ilization But because l have no pana-
cea to recommend it must not be sup
posed that would have nothing done
believe that anarchism has been al
ready made less and can be made
much less dangerous and harmful by
being dealt with seriously and ration
ally.
Drastic Penalties Recommended.
I'm the first place, the unlawful acts
prompted by anarchism should be
made crimes, in so far as they are not
strictly speaking, crimes already, anG
as crimes there should be visited will
such penalties as are particularly dis
| tasteful to the criminals and therefore
the most effective deterrants to crime
In dealing with a convicted anarchis
two facts may well be remembered
the chances of his real reformation art
| so small that they may be safely neg
lected, and we can appeal for practica
purposes to but one motive on his par
j to discourage a repetition of his of
fense-namely, the fear of physica
pain and death.
'On anarchists the death penalty
should be unequivocally imposed b,
law and infiexibly executed wheneye
the prisoner has sought, directly or In
directly, to take life For offenses d
less gravity advise comparativel.
brief but very rigorous imprisonment
| characterized by complete seclusion
deprivation of all comfort and denia
/ of any form of distraction and whicl
could be, to my mind, advantageous.
supplemented by a severe but not
public whipping. The lash, of all pun
ishments, most clearly shows the cul
prit that he suffers for what his fellow
men hold odious and disgraceful ant
not merely for reasons of public policy
Suppress seditious Speeches.