Smyrna times., 1906-08-15
ANARCHY And
ITS REMEDY
Secretary BOnaparte Advocates Whip
ping Post For Lesser Grimes.
CAN'T BE REMOVED BY LAW

Cumberland, Md, Ang. 13.-Sccre.
iary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte
delivered an address at the Allegheny
Chautauqua, near Cumberland, before
n large gathering, his subject being
"Anarchism and Its Remedy" He was
introduced by Congressman George A
Pearre, of Maryland, and said in part:
In September. 1901 when the American
people heard that their president was
an aSSassn'S victim, there mingled witt
the universal amazement grief and indig
nation feeling of peculiar horror arous
ed by the apparent absence of any
proVncation or even intelligible motive
for the crime. Lincoln was slain when
whole people. exasperated by four bloody
years of civil war, were desperate in the
certainty of hopeless and Overwhelming
defeat inflicted, most of all, by him that
a wicked and reckless man should have
conceived and carried out. at such n mo.
ment. a scheme for his murder, however
deplOrable, not. after all. surpris.
ing The wretch who murdered Garfield
combined such intellectual frailty with
such moral depravity as to seem rather
a hideOus lusus naturae than a fair type
of any class of men. But CZOlgOsz wa.
at once recognized to he probably nc
worse than some thousands of men and
women in our midst. and many more
scattered throughout the civilized world
men and women who accept the name
and share the opinions he avowed. Sc
far as could be seen. his reasons for kill.
ing President Mckinley would lead any
one of them to Kill President Roosevelt
should opportunity offer, and with thi.
practical application of their theories
their existence became source of rea'
peril, not only to presidents. but to al
public officers and to all eminent men
And to the alarm they caused, there
was added "A hearty and practically uni
Versal detestatiOn for their doctrines
| their language and their lives
Anarchism is the product of two con
| dtions which prevail, to a greater ~
! less extent everywhere among the les,
! enlightened classes of modern civilized
| society. namely. the decay of religion.
| faith and a measure of superficial and
| therefore, unsOund popular education.
| So much for the evil: how can it b,
| cured? If we mean cured in a day.
| month. a year. d decade ! answer un
| heStatingly-not at all. Anarchism will
not be removed within a given time ol
| through a special measure or set of meas
| ures; perhaps it will not he wholly re
| moved i'm any time or by any means L
| is the product of causes which cannO
| be eradicated by legislation. however
| drastic, of causes which lie deep in thu
| scheme of modern civilization. But be
| cause ] have no pInacea to recommend
| it must not be supposed that | would
| have nothing done I believe that an
archism has already been made less anI
and can he made much less dangerous
and harmful by hcing dealt with seri
Ously and nationally. In other words.
| would see ourselves and our public serV
ants in earnest and willing to be guidcc
| by common sense and experience in seek
! ing a remedy. without regard to Il lit
! tie doctrinaire prejudice and IA littr
| pseudo humanitarian claptrap
! In the first place. the unlawful act.
| prompted by anarchiSm should be madl
| crimes in so far as they are not strictly
| speaking. crimes already. and, as crimes
| they should be visited with such penal
! ties as are particularly diStasteful to th,
criminals. and therefore the most effec
| tive doterrants to crime.
On anarchists the death penalty shOul,
! be unequiVocally imposed by law ard in
| fexibly executed whenever the prisone
| has sought. directly or indirectly, to TAX
life. For Offenses of less gravity, ! ad
| wise comparatively brief but very rig
| orOus imprisonment characterized b.
| complete secuSion. deprivation Of al
| comfort and denial of any form of dis
traction, and which could be to m,
| mind, advantageously supplemented by
severe but not public whipping The lash
| of all pInshmentS. most clearly show
the culprit that he suffers for what hi
fellow men hold odiOus and disgraceful
| and not merely for reasons of publi
| policy.
The final and most truly vital condi
tion of success in Kidding our country o
| anarchism in practice is that American
public opinion should recognize the ute
emptiness. the inherent folly of its theOr
and of all the kindred ready made, fur
| nished-whilc-y -yOu-wait schemes for tn
social regeneration of mankind. Civiize
society as it exists today, if il be moth
| ing more. is the outcome of all the striv
ings for justice and happiness of the hu
man race during thousands of years
What monstrous presumption. what pre-
posterOus cOnceit for any man. were h
the wisest. most learned. the most justl
famed ofs his own age or of all ages. [
imagine that with but the dim flicker
ing lights of his own dull. feeble mind
with but the few imperfect lesson
of his own short. ill-spent life to guild
his hand, he could cast down and bull
up again, this incredibly vast. this in
finitely complex fabric and improve o
its structure.