Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-16
ANARCHISTS AND WIDESPREAD pLo1sv

ANARCHISTS AND WIDESPREAD PLOTS"
, The country is ringing with the stor,
Oh an alleged anarchist plot directed
against the churches and pretty nearly
everything else that anarchists view
with distavor and which is said to ex
tend over two hemispheres. Head
quarters are in Chicago. 1t is a good
| story with enough detail to gain
cfeoence from the average reader.
however there is no cause or occa-
sion Tor the church and organized
society to tremble lest their founda-
lions be undermined and the struc-
lures fall in ruin. Without much doubt
| the Chicago police has unearthed a
nest of anarchists Anarchy as ex.
ernplfied in Chicago and other cities
Oh the U. S. is part viciousness. some
what degeneracy. laziness and booze
but mostly wind. Every now and then
coterie of alleged anarchists nest
together and attract the attention of
detectives seeking fame and notoriety
Then we hear of widespread an
archist plots that include all the
crowned heads and rulers Of the earth.
the churches, the banks and every
thing that an anarchist would like to
have but isn't willing to work for
OF course the mouthy outfit have said
it all: more kings are killed and more
sub-treasuries looted over the beer at
one meeting of an anarchist circle
than could be built in a hundred years.
But looking over the anarchist activi-
ties in this country we see no ruins
and remark that nobody except Emma
Goldman and a few anarchistic wind
instruments ever looted anybody ur-
less in a dark alley
The sub-treasuries still stand. the
banks are busy and the churches stand
in more danger OF a lightning stroke
than Of an anarchist bomb. The an
archist of this country is as dangerous
to the government and society as the
dry goods box orator and statesman is
valuable.
Every now and then these anarchist
meetings and their mouthy propaganda
set a lunatic on 70 crime. McKinley's
assassination is an example. But Gar
field was murdered by a degenerate
whose homicidal impulse was born Of
political agitation. The anarchist
plot" that frightened Chicago into
Mysteries and alarmed the entire coun-
try some years ago came about in a
similar way. Most of the men who
met to denounce law and order and
society We're merely mouthy orators,
purposeless except to film themselves
before others as brilliant orators"
But one. Ling, was a degenerate and
an assassin at heart. He hated and
acted. He made the bomb and threw
it when the police came to dispense the
meeting in the Haymarket. He es-
capped hanging by blowing off his head
with a dynamite cap crushed between
his teeth. The others who We're
hanged were perhaps properly hanged
but a whipping would have done as
we'll. Ling was the real thing. He
would have murdered neighbor or
fired a barn had ne been born on a
farm. The others were four flushing.
Anarchy isn't rampant IN this couL-
try. 1t has nothing to feed upon. 1t
is confined to a few twisted intellects
that think crowwwise and appeals only
to the ignorant and degenerate minds
that deplore labor and crave license.
Perhaps there are a hundred actual
anarchists in the United States who
ought to be in prison at hard labor.
Some there are who ought to be in
Jail but the average anarchist only
needs kicking out Vi the saioun into a
job. Give him a bank account how
ever small, a roof and family and the
anarchist is spoiled forever.