Milford chronicle., 1906-08-17
ANARCHY And
ITS REMEDY
Secretary BOnaparte Advocates Whip
ping Post For Lesser Grimes.
EANT BE REMOVED BY LAW

Cumberland Nd, Ang. 13.-Secre-
tary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte
delivered an address at the Allegheny
Chautauqua, near Cumberland, before
a 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 assassins victim, there mingled with
the universal amazement, gg!ef and indiS-
nation a feeling of peculiar horror arous-
ed by the apparent absence OF any
prOvocation 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
q wicked and reckless man should have
conceived and carried out, at such mo-
ment, q scheme for his murder, however
deplorable. was not, after all, surprls-
ing The wretch who murdered Garheld
combined such intellectual frailty with
such moral depravity as TO seem rather
a hideous lusus naturae than fair type
Of any class of men. But Czolgosz was
at once recognized TO be probably no
worse than some thousands OF men anu
women in our midst and many more
scattered throughout the civilized world
men and women who accept the name
and share the opinions he aVoWea- %
far as could be seen, his reasons for XIII
ing President Mckinley would lead any
one of them to kill President Roosevelt
should opportunity offer. and with TINS
practical application Of their theories,
their existence became a source OF real
peril not only TO presidents, but 10 an
TubIic officers and to all eminent men,
And to the alarm they caused, there
was a6led a hearty and practically UNI
versal detestation for their doctrines
their language and their lives.
Anarchism is the product of two con-
iitions which prevail to greater or
less extent everywhere among the less
enlightened classes of modern civilized
society. namely the decay Of religious
faith and a measure of superficial anu
therefore. unsOund, popular educiliou'
So much for the evil; how can II De
cured? If we mean cured in day
month. a year, a decade, / answer uii,
Northumberland at all. Anarchism VIII
not be removed within given time, OF
through a special measure or set OF meas
ures; perhaps it will not be wholly re-
moved In any time or by any means IL
IS the product OF causes Wilch cdllIo'
he eradicated by legislation, however
drastic. of causes which lie deep III the
scheme of modern civilization. But be
cause ] have no panacea to recommend,
it must not be supposed that Woulu
have nothing done. / believe thal an
archfsm has already been made less ahu
and can be made much less dangerous
and harmful by being dealt with seri,
ouslv and nationally. In other words, !
xvouId see ourselves and our public serV-
ants in earnest and willing to be guided
nv common sense and experience in seek
ing a remedy without regard to a lit
tie doctrinaire prejudice and niue
pseudo humanitarian claptrap-
In the first place, the unlawful acts
nrompted by anarchism should be made
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 distastetul to the
criminals, and therefore the most eftec-
tive deterrants to crime
On anarchists the death penalty shoHld
he uneauivocally imposed by law and IN
dexibly executed whenever the prisoner
has sought. directly or indirectly, to take
life. For Offenses of less gravity, ad-
wise a comparatively brief, but very rig
orous Imprisonment, characterized by
complete seclusion, deprivation Of al
comfort and denial of any form Of DIS
1raction. and which could be, to my
mind. advantageously supplemented by a
severe but not public whipping The lash'
Of all punshments, most clearly SHOWS
The culprit that he suffers for what his
fellow men hold odious and disgraeetul'
and not merely for reasons Of public
policy. -, .-...s.
The final and most truly vital eondi-
tion Of success in ridding our country OF
anarchism in practice is that American
public opinion should recognize the utter
emptiness. the inherent folly of its theory
and of all the kindred ready-made, tur-
nished-while-you-w schemes for the
social regeneration of mankind. CiViilzed
society as it exists today, if 1t be moth
ing more, is the outcome of all the striv-
9ngs for Justice and happiness of the hu-
man race during thousands OF years
What monstrOus presumption, what pre-
MYSTERIOUS conceit for any man, were he
4be wisest most learned, the most justly
Famed of his own age or of all ages, tc
Imagine that, with but the dim Kicker
ing lights of his own dull, feeble mind
with bat the few imperfect lessons
of his own short ill-spent life to gulde
his hand he could cast down and build
an vrain this incredibly vast. this in
5initeiy complex fabric and improve on