The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-04-21
ANARCHIST BECKMAN To
Be FREED NEXT MONTH
Jail Of Western Pennsylvania
To Be Opened For Release
of Frick's Assailant.
Much Ado About Nothing.
Worse Anarchists Loose
Than Beckman or Most.

On the 18th Of next month Alexander
Beckman leaves the Allegheny prison
OF Western Pennsylvania, after having
served fourteen years for the attempt
ed assassination Of Henry C. Frick,
shortly after the Homestead massacre
in 1892.
Beckman was supposed to have been
an Anarchist, but it is said that his
long servitude has tended to temper
MS views. He can now converse flu
emily In eight different languages.
Frick. 1t Is stated. does not take
much stock In Beckman's conversions,
and Is preparing for his own pro-
lection. He has made arrangements
with a prominent detective agency to
keep Beckman under close surveillance.
His every move will be watched, and
the first false STEP will again land
him in prison.
So the poor, unfortunate wretch will
be bounded by Pinkertons, and whether
he wants to be good or not his fate
will be the same
A letter from a Pennsylvania friend
tells us that Beckman will leave the
keystone state prison very much
changed man. He entered this institu-
ton fourteen years ago, ignorant. sui
len and bitter. He Is to leave it the
master Of eight languages, with
splendid knowledge of the worlds lit
erature, with broadened intellect and
higher conception of the necessity Of
organized society for the advancement
Of men.
After the death Of Herr Most two
weeks ago some one started the rumor
that Beckman was to become the lead
er Of American anarchists. The truth
of this story Is denied. for it is alleged
that Most was not a violence anar-
chist, and therefore if Beckman still
held to his original opinions, he could
not be a member of the Most school.
Most was an individualist. He be-
lieved in a condition Of society that
would enable a man to live without
law. He advocated the perfection OF
man SO that one would be 50 good
that laws would be unnecessary to re-
strain him from doing wrong.
The last decade has produced anar-
chists infinitely much worse than evan
Most was ever charger 81 being; THE
Standard OIL company, the monstrous
octopus that has destroyed human lives
and, property rights to perpetuate its
monopol1stic power, that has f7aunt-
lngly violated the laws Of every state
In which 1t operates is an anarchis-
tic corporation, and has been shield
to the most dangerous anarchists the
world has ever known. 1t was the or
lglnator among the modern corpora
tions In substituting the press, neutral
izine the church, purchasing legisla-
ton and influencing the appointment
OF attorneys from it healthy envir-
onment to fill the benches in our
courts. 1t has thus created an army
OF sycophants whose opiatic influence
has deadened the public conscience and
placed the nation entirely at the mercy
Of opulence and greed.
This is supposed to be a govern
rnent OF the people. The Standard Oil
company and it's allies, through their
servants have made it distinctly class
govornment-a capitalist class govern
ment. This class gets its wants with
out public effort. The middle class.
in its desires for freight rate regula-
tion, the abolition of the private car
system and a hundred like wants. se-
cures recognition with much difficulty.
while the labor class, s,e malien ed
and the prosecuted, cannot even secure
the passage of law to protect their
lives from the dangerous ma chinery.
or the unsanitary surroundings of the
favored classes great institutions.
The anarchists? They are not i ,h
with scales. They are Of the feathered
game. Don't look down for them!
Look up! Take your eyes or Most and
Beckman and Emma Goldman! Thev
could do not you any good or harm
If they wanted to. Search for the real
destroyers Of popular government, and
whenever you get an opportunity drive
them from power as you would a
thief from your home.
through the ballot can anarchv be
doomed, the American people aroused
from their slumber and popular gov
ernment regenerated. Why not get
ready to act now?