Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-06-07
ANARCHPS PRIESTE5S.

1t would seem to a thinking
and reasoning person that while
it is right and proper to grant
independence and liberty to all
that there is a continued increase
in the ranks of those who abuse
such privileges. They fail ut
terly to appreciate what this
government affords them.
There are comparatively few
homegrown anarchists in the
United States and this should be
a source of pride to every good
citizen of the land. But anarchy
is Jl@ne increase and the ranks
are swelled from foreign lands.
The great majority of our anar-
chists are imported, as are the
greater numbers of those agita-
tors who are identified with
strikes. The mass of these un-
desirable creatures had either
to keep within the laws Of their
own countries or flee. the land.
They were so lawless as to choose
tho latter alternative, and it
seems that invariably they sue
ceeded in reaching the United
States.
Many of these are murderers
at heart anarchists, if you
please, for to be an anarchist of
average standing requires the
possessing of the quality to do
murder. Professed anarchists
have their "dens" in nearly
every large city in the United
States today. The authorities
are aware of this, and yet it is
allowed. The arch-priestess of
all this is Emma Goldman, whose
every utterance is opposed to
law and order, to all the elements
that go to make good govern
ment. She is woman-too
bad. 1t is pity that there were
not a third sex for such Great
ures, as she will ever prove
thorn in the flesh of every good
man and woman.
She came to this country some
thing like a quarter century ago
and at once began the task, to
the greatest of her talents and
ability, of disrupting our govern
ment. She has always appear
ed as the champanion of all acts
of violence and disorder. She
has been preaching her anarch-
istic doctrines in Portland during
the past week and in the course
of one of her harangues, said:
In what respect has the organized
Government OF this country contributed
to the welfare and peace of it's people,
Investigate the aa1als of the labor trou
bles of this country and you will find
that in every iostance, in all 'controve
sizes between labor and capital, organized
authority and government have been op-
posed to the interests of the laborer and
the producer. This fact was demonstrat-
ed "a The labor troubles in Colorado,
when the militia was called to enforce
the orders of the authorities. The same
condition has been more recently wit
messed in the labor troubles in San |
Francisco, where the striking street car
men asked for few more cents day |
pay and few minutes shorter work day, |
concessions which all labo-Ing men are !
entitled to ask. In the trial that is how
in progress in Boise, the accused men
are promised "iaie" trial. but that trial |
will only be as fair as the government /
and the ca italist may choose to give,
unless the virtue of a conscience-awak-
ened manhood OF the laboring men of
the country asserts itself and prevents
another such a crime as was committed
in Chicago in 1887.
It seems about time for the
to re-enact the clos
ing scenes "of such crimes as |
were committed in Chicago in
1897"