Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-06

Tho officials OF Illinois and Chicago
are very properly busy unravcling the
supposed plot which led TO the murder
Gus attack upon the Chief of Police. a
few days ago. They are making Inn
portant arrests and arc obtaining
some important Information. They are
also considering measures for the sup
preston of the propaganda of anarchy.
One OF the precautions decided on u.s.
it is said, to prevent Emma Goldman
from addressing her associates In Chi
cago 1t is a delicate matter In this
country to interfere with free speech
but when free speech is abused to tbs
extent that It comes TO mean an APP
peal to the passions in the interest of
murder and robbery there can be no
doubt that the law must interfere.
Free speech is necessary In the SER
vice of liberty. and the law permits its
use in that service. but not to aid muir
derers In their crimes A knife is a
necessary implement in the service of
industry, and so is o match. Their use
for legitimate purposes is freely per-
mitted but that does not prevent the
law from interfering with the rights
OF the assassin. or the incendary, to
use those implements for purposes of
their own. Free speech legtimately
used is helpful; turned against So
clety II becomes menace, as has been
abundantly proved.
Emma Goldman is an enemy Of So
ciety. She is an unscrupulous agita-
tor In her public addresses she cares
more for effect than truth. And the
effect she aims at is nothing less than
violent revolution.
If 1t is doubted that this is the
avowed aim OF anarchy, let the anar-
chists themselves testify. Kropotkiu
says that ito prepare mems minds" for
the approaching revolution is the task
of those who foresee the course OF
evolution. This is especially "the task
AIRY organizations. The anarchists, he
says, ARE today as yet a minority, but
their number Is daily growing Will
grow more and more, and win on the
eve OF the revolution become a major
ity." But how is the revolt to be
brought about? Kropotkin says, the
spirit Of instruction must be aroused;
the sense OF independence and the wild
holiness without which no revolution
comes about must awake" Further:
What form is the propaganda TO take
Every form that is prescribed by the sit
uation. by opportunity. and propensity
never leave fact OF public life
mobseryed. To keep minds alert, TO give
alinent and expression to discomfort,
TO stir hate against exploiters. 10 make
the government ridiculous, and to DEM
onstrate its impotence. But above all,
to arouse boldness and the spirit of
insurrection, 1t must continually preach
by example" Preaching insurrection
by example" Is just what murderous
anarchists believe in.
Kropotlin tells OF the French revolu-
ton. He recounts the acts of the
mob that hanged, burned, quartered in
efiigy, and reyiled and jeered those in
authority. He describes the way in
which the leaders trained the mob to
defy the police and the military. He
sets forth the awful deeds of the masses
that were intlamed beyond control,
and then he characterizeS his story as
IA precious instruction for u.s. That
gives some idea OF the dangerous char
acter of the agitation of which Emma
Goldman Is one of the leaders. Can
society afford to extend liberty OF
speech and hospitality to the promul-
gators OF such doctrines?
And yet, the class TO which Miss
Goldman belongs is not the most dan
gerous, There are others who would
chIsts though they are untiring in
preparing the soil for the seeds OF an
archy. They tell the worl<ingmen OF
this free country, that they are but
slaves. They preach the doctrine that
all who have succeeded in business
are thieves, They tell the unfortunate
that the laws are made TO Cypress
them and grind them down; that the
courts are corrupt, and that all are
scoundreds and rascals but the in
competent, the unfortunate. the dssi-
pated. or the agitators. The teach
ers of such doctrines are more dan
gerous to society than Emma Gold
man and her associates. For they
preach anarchy in disguise. Instead OF
appealing to the people to seek redress
In law against the abuses OF the com
manders OF wealth, they preach law
lossness. II The question IL of lighting