The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-09-02
EMMA GOLDMAN
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llOlh po6O OhOf
this city who while scre aiming for law are
the first to break it by ignoring their
cont ract with the doctor. The law does
not depend on the Eagles or on what they
may do toward carrying it out, but rather
on the eternal nature of things which in
time revoutionizes all
"My subject tonight was to have been
Ante Mlit arism and Unionism, but in
lieu of the difficulties which we have met
with tonight l shall change it to "Anar-
chism' | will try to tell you the Anar-
chism that / know, that ! feel and that
l want you to know and feel. 1t is not tn
Anarchism of spooks and fantasy as your
grandmothers told you about, nor does it
stand for riots, bombs, and death. 1t is a
be autiful dream, dream fit only for the
highest intellect and mind. Anarchisms
does not mean death nor bloodshed to
humanity but it does mean death and it
does mean blood for the institutions OF
to-day. 1t is an ideal but every ideal OF
Yesterday is the reality of to-day, and so
this ideal will in its turn be the thing TO
come out of this mound of darkness and
be the living pulsaiing life, the free,
joyous, happy life of the morrow Poll
tical and social thinkers of all time who did
not agree with their day and generation
have lain in chains and letters, been
burned at the st AXE and tortured on the
rack while to-day their thought is the
prevailing reality of all people. Such is
the mad cratic thought of the decades
that have past. Yes, Anarchism is an
ideal and will be an ideal until the people
can Judge for themselves.
If YOU want to know what Anarchism
really is you must study modern science
to which the subject is closely related, the
theory of social development from the
individual unit and then upward. The man
of to-day knows nothing of the power OF
the human mind for he is a dependent on
his brother man and has been brought up
so from childhood He has no individual
impetus, the only means for man to
find his true self. the self which the man
found who lived in the wilderness with
their own choice, their own mate and their
own reliance and thought. Social beings
are never at war in the individual state
and it is only collectively and by unnatural
means that this blood Of the brother Is
shed. Anarchism means freedom, absc-
lutte unconditional freedom. That is
Anarchy. 1t means that there shall be nc
constraint of law upon the soul or body OF
the man and no duty except the duty tc
ones self Each individual is to be
law unto himself and no modification Of
any right save just regard for the right:
of Others.
The greatest hindrance to Anarchy j
property. This is an institution whici
benefits only those who are so fortunate a
have grasped it from their fellow MAJ
while he. the loser, starves, with brothe
in plenty, lounging in lassitude by IN
side. sees nothing. The criminal code /
also decidedly wrong for in the eyes OF tn
law only the man proved guilty is Grim
inal. If you are not caught you are al
honest citizen. l sneer at such system
with its illogical sequences, that VA
allow man to steel railroad and b
elected to high Office while the petty the
who has not the cunning and eXperlenc
in downright robbery is imprisoned
, Anarchism is beautiful dream
have found it so, dream in which ther
shall be no Washington to domineer owe
the private liberty nor big STICK I
. enforce predatory law, but man an
) woman will live beyond mans law. The
r the essence of all relation will be low
l Not free love but Just love. Free from a
, the conventions that beset us at the pr
sent day, free of all the ceremonies and ire
of all the influences save the promotloi
of love itself. There shall be no state, II
God. no priest, no rulers, no policemen, Il
Judges in the entire world. But befol
I it is made over the present institution
will have to undergo change, they mu
be destroyed. Yes they all must go. M
!, by bombs, though, but by the new ide
S of the sacred invasive privacy OF man
being"