The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-22
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to the views of this paper, especially of the industrialist movement, asks if the Industrial Worker endorses the violence and lawlessness of the members of the I. w. w, and advo- cates following, what he is pleased to term. the anarchist policies which are being pursued. If so, he says this paper ought to openly advocate anarchy.
 We believe that many share the views of that reader and it is there fore only fitting that the views as upheld by the Industrial Worker should receive more fulf and more careful exposition.
 In the first place the idea of anar- chy is all wrong. The anarchist op- poses the idea of man made law, de- nies the use of discipline and collec- tive action and hence social organi- zation Anarchy is the legitimate conclusion of indivdualism and the trouble is that the situation as it exists today is hopelessly perverted so that the real anarchists. violent opponents of the law and the legal rights of those whose economic in- tcrests differ from them, are upheld as law and order people, when they are nothing of the kind.
 The ground law of the United States is the United States constitu- ton. That by law prescribes cer, tain limitations to the authority ot officials and certain limitations to the powers of legislative, judicia and executive functions. It limits them bv defining the duties and the privileges which appertain to sucl positions. and the relations betweei them as the state, and the people.
 Powers not definitely granted them as officials of government ar' explicitly reserved to the peopl' or 10 the states. And the state con stitutions invariably follow the fed cral constitution in this.
 Among the rights which the peo ple deemed it well should be invioi ate and inyiolable by any of tn branches of government were tn individual and collective rights c Free Speech, Free Assembly am Free Press. That is definitely an' explicitly the law of the land It ha become the law Of the land Hni after series of struggles here tn in older countries, where much sun ering and much bloodshed marke the path of progress.
 That law applies to everyone citi zen of the United States or subJec of a foreign power having treat rights extending them equality 0 treatment with the United States as is the ease with practically ever country whose people emisrate | America.
 What we find is that uotwitl standing tue constitutional right above spocitiodo being aelmitel end explicitly stated and approye' during labor troubles in variou sections of the country. in order ouen strikes and to bull-doze th workers, those constitutional righ are everyone of them suspended as if they never did exist. Trial fury is set aside, free speech b comes an ofensc. Police break iii meeting halls and arrest all presen Men are sumarily taken into cust dy. without trial are deported others sections and papers al seized, the forms destroyed al machinery broken up.
 These things are done not on with the consent of those sworn uphold the laws, but even with the active aid And when the worke endeavor to assert their rights, u co-callcd forces of law and ord which have trampled order und foot and sulied the law with fiitl ordure have the audacity to pr claim themselves the guardians
 law against lawlessness.
 It is an astounding condition wh' men who ought to know better f. to perceive the actual truth things We may affirm that prac cally all the lawlessness at Bayonl for example during the last stri