The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-13
B0NAPARTE
 ON ANARCHY Secretary of Navy Makes
 Address. AT CUMBERLAND cHAUTAUoUA Holds Out for Freedom of Speech
 and Press.
 - Admit. that Anarchi.m is a Curse, But Says Muzniing of Right to Talk
 and write |.
 Supreme.

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 Cumberland, Md. Aug. I2.-Eecre tary of the Navy Bonaparte tonight ad dressed the sChautauqua Society a Cumberland on Remedies for An archism."
 tremendous audience heard tn speech. Secretary Bonaparte said:
 Tn September, 1901, when the Ameri can people heard that thefr Presiden was an assassin's victim. there mingle. with the universal aInazen1ent grie and Indignation. a. feeling of peculia horror. aroused by the apparent ab sence of any provocation or even in tellfgibIe motive for the crime. Lin coin was slain. when a whole people exasperated by four bloody years O civil war. were desperate in the cer tainty of hopeless and overwhelming defeat inflicted. most of all. by him that a wicked and reckless man shouit have conceived and carried out at sucl q moment a scheme for his murder however deplorable. was not. after all surprising.
 The wretch who murdered Garfield combined such intellectual frailty witE such moral depravity as to seem rather a hideeus Iusus naturae than a fall type of any class of men. But Czolgocs was recognized to be probably nc worse than some thousands of mer and women in our midst and many more scattered through the civilized world. men end women accept the name and share the opinions he avowed.
 So far as could be seen, his reasons for killing President Mckinley would lead any one of them to kill President Roosevelt should opportunity offer And with the practical application of { their theories, their existence became a source Of real peril, not only to Pres idents, but all public officers and to all eminent men and to the alarm they caused there was added hearty and particularly universal detestation for their doctrines. their language and their lives.
 The anarchists were. in short, in- stinctively recognized as dangerous odious and disgusting public enemies and for some months. perhaps q year afterward, me were favored with many and varied suggesfions as to how we might be rid of them.
 Too Many Cooks.
 In a multitude of counseIiors there is wisdom largely because their null titude. which prevents the acceptance of much of their counsel. Most of the plans put forward to rid the world in general and the United States in particular of anarchists and aaarchism were soon shown by the discussion they provoked to be either wholly or in greater part useless. mischievous or ifnpraeticable; and some danger lest there seemed to be some danger list perceiving the undoubted dificulties of the problem and questioning with much reason the possibility of it's prompt and complete solution, public opinion might tolerare indefinite post ponement of the whole matter, and we might drift along as we had drifted in the past, until another great crime should call forth another outburst Of popular wrath and dismay.
 While this did not happen, yet the measures finally adopted were SO plainly mere palliatives that even now 1t may be well to consider briefly what merit, if any. can be found in some of the more radical remedies then pro- posed for this evil and also what are its real nature and origin, and this seems to be the more appropriate be- cause to my mind no little ignorance Of the facts and consequent confusion Of thought were displayed in the dis cussion and from time to time since have appeared in its echoes
 Concert of Powers.
 It was first of all suggested that an archism be eradicated through "a con cert Of powers which should reeog- nize the crimes 1t inspired as always covered by treaties of extradftion Ev all means then let us give up any as sassins or would-be assasstns of for eign rulers who reach our shores. But we must not imagine that the extradi. tion of anarchists will rid us of an- archism.
 A concert of the powers" win not suffice to destroy anarchism, any more than the like concert existing now Coz theft.
 The next proposal to be noted was that any dissemination of anarchistio literature and the publication of anar- chistic doctrines whether by speech or writing be madeand punished as a crime. This suggestion was of far less obvious merit
 In some quarters the same plan of Fepressing unseenly language as a safeguard against violence of this character was advocated in a form wei more open to question
 If our country is to continue free we must and will continue to talk ana write as freely as our fathers have always done.
 Doubtless much that is said of them from the president down, is always has been and always will be unjust. uncharitable and foolish, but ths American people can judge soberIv as to this With us intemperate criticism is never effective, Indeed a little os 1t often spells the effect of much sound and timely ceusure Although nine tenths of our blame may be fully merited, the public will not overlook that tenth part of prejudice or over statement which dishgures it
 In any event. to discharge or even forbid a free expression of public ontn- ion as to public men. would certainly not destroy or even check anarchism
 There was and is. much more to he said in favor of those restrictions on immigration which are intended to shut out foreign anarchists from our shores, and it was undoubtedly well to arm the Federal executive with wider powers to deport or otherwise rid the country of disloyal or turbulent aliens whether these call themselves "anarch- tsts' or not.
 Fewer the Better.
 The fewer of such people we have in our midst the better and although I do not believe 1t wlll ever prove prac- ticabIe to slam the door in the face of anything like all of them. all that we can bar out will be so much gained
 But while we may thus reduce the number o3 our anarchists 1t is sadly