The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-13

| anarchism: we now have a home ma d 6 l brand of the artice. and although the 1 original plant of this infant industry
 was undoubtedly imported. the domestic | product Is large enough to graveiy l trouble us. Anarchiztu is the product of two conditions which prevail to a greater or less extent everywhere | among the less enlightened classes of modern civilized society. namely. the
 decay of religious faith and measure of superficial and therefore unsound. popular education.
 I am not here to discuss problems of theology or metaphysics. if. for any one among those who hear me. all
 beliefs in a God or a hereafter; In q life for man beyond, and in ends for man wherein time and space and ma teria1 things have no portion are mere empty dreams, I have no quarrel with him for my present purpose. I pause only to say that is he be right and such beliefs belong to dreamland, then. for me in the words of well known writer, fit is only for the sake Of the dreams that visit it that the world of reality has any certain value" It is sometimes said that anarchism and socialism as systems. are mutually antipodal and destructive. should be very sorry to diminish whatever
 hostility the adherents of either "sys- tenn" may feel for the other. for the old adage as to the consequences of such strife to honest men embodies small
 measure of truth; but to my mind this
 view of their relations Is superficial.
 They are two divergent stems growing
 from the same root; that root is the
 doctrine that all men of right ought
 to be. and should therefore be made and
 kept precisely equal
 Socialism and Anarchy.
 A Socialist is essentially. although
 not always. avowedly. or even con-
 sciously one who sees that the equality
 demanded by this doctrine can be fully
 among slaves on a Southern planta~
 tion before the war, constituted. SC far
 as the negroes were concerned. very
 nearly a sociaIistic community, and
 they were probably as nearly equal as
 human can be permanently kept.
 In this community, Socialist more ly substitutes for the omnipotent. om- niscient mastef an omnipotent. omnis- cent corporation made up of the slaves themselves, ensiaves each one Of them as an individual. to all in their corr porate capacity and names this cor poration the State"
 An anarchist diners from him by seeing that he has introduced a new service of inequality, for the corpora ton he creates can exercise his author ity only through agents, and these 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 Government at all. It was a sin against equality that any one should be President while Czolgolz was not. and knew he never would be. It but added bitterness to this wrong that so many around him would deem the President worthy of his great office. while the few who knew Czolgolcz at all, knew him as an obscure, unattrac- tive vagrant.
 How Can It He Cured.
 So much of the evil. How can 1t be cured2 It we mean cured in a day, month, a year, a decade, answer un- not at all Anarchism will not be removed within a given time or through q special measure or set of measures, perhaps 1t will not be wholly removed in any time or by any means It will be for years, perhaps for genera tioDs, a saurce of some peril to our pub lie men. source of some annoyance 1 and some anxiety. possibly at times, | of some alarm to the American people.
 It is the product of causes which can \ not be eradicated by legislation, how | ecer drastic. of causes which lie deep | In the scheme of modern civilization. | But because I have no panacea to rec ommend, it must not be supposed that would have nothing done I believe that anarchism has been already made less and can be made much less danger ous and harmful by being dealt with and rationally.
 In other words, I would see ourselves | and our public servants in earnest and willing to be guided by common sense | and experienced in seeking a remedy | without regard to a little doctrine prejudice and little pseudo-humani- Iarien claptrap. In the first place, the | unlawful acts prompted by anarchism should be made crimes insofar as they are not, stricriy speaking crimes all ready, and as crirnes they should be wis., tied with such penaisl~s As are partIc- alarly distasteful to the criminals and therefore the most eftoctive deterrants to crime
 Tn dealing with convicted anar- shist, two facts may we'll be remem- oered, the chances of his real reforma- lion are so small that they may be safely neglected, and we can appeal for practical purposes to but one motive on his part to discourage a repetition of his offense, namely: the fear of physI- sal rasn and death. To keep him for years in penitentiary merely bur lens the community with the support of an irreconcilable enemy with the risk of his escape or pardon md the certainty, that whenever he leaves he will be. if possible, a worse nan than when he entered
 On anarchists the death penalty should be unequivocally imposed by aw and infiexibly executed whenever he prisoner has sought directly or in- lirectly to take life; for offenses of ess gravity, advise a comparativeIy brief but very rigorous Imprisonment, by complete seelusion; deprivation of all comfort and denial ,f any form of distraction. and which .ould be to my mind advantageousIy by a severe but not a public whipping. The lash of all pun most clearly shows the eul- ,flt that he suffers for what his fellow nen hold odious and disgraceful and rot merely for reasons of public policy. !
 Any abridgment from fear of the an Irehists of that freedom of speech. and # the press, guaranted us by our Itate and Federal constitutions, would ,e neither a wise nor a worthy policy; ut these privileges In no wise shield ouncilors of crime nor instigators of lisorder and rebellion
 Any changes. however sweeping, in UT laws and government. may be urg- d, and any arguments, however wild or U otesque, advanced to justify them, ,rovided the method of change be or erly and lawful; but published writ ng recommending the murder of the hief magistrate. and the violent over