Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-02

and college graduate. a days work.
he held. was a days work whether
the work were good or bad fast or
SLOW Hours constituted the measure
OF worth Quantity and quality " re
never to be reckoned in assessing
value.
Incoherent discursiye and rhetori-
cal, Proudhon left a code, which
stripped of it's highfalutin idealism,
now governs the Russian bolsheVihi.
But first it had to be reduced to
understandable terms. translated
down to the ordinary intellect Of the
ordinary human being by Michael
Bakunin.
1t might be said that Proudhon was
anarchy's thistle-seed philosopher
and Bakunin its stern practitioner.
The former died at home: the latter
in exile. Proudhon, imprisoned once,
fled to Belgium and escaped another
term in Jail. Yet he offended no more
than IN the writing of two books.
Peaceful then, comparatively, were
his days.
"Drect action" however, and the
arrival of Bakunin were almost ST.
multaneous occurrences. The French
man talked and wrote. The Russian.
did both and more, being. as he said,
the apostle of universal destruction"
Thrones were to be demolished and
kings assassinated, and he busted
himself with such projects i'll diff
ferent parts of Europe.
A Russian. born in 1914. and a mem
Der of the aristocracy he received
the education of his class, then enter
ed the army. and afterward traveeld
extensively on the continent. He was
in Dresden at the outbreak of the
German revolution in 184S. and was
active in-that abortive undertaking.
When he returned to Russia he was
a mr. RI
years later he arrived in London,
having escaped from Siberia, whence
he fed to Japan.
During the remaining fifteen years
of his life he vigorously spread the
doctrines of anarchy in Great Britain,
france. Germany and Russia.
Switzerland, however, was the base
of his operations, and In that country
he died forty-two years ago and was
buried at Bern. e
1t was the boast of Bakunin that,
he neither recognized the will of God
nor the laws of man. 'In word"
he said, 1--WE object to all legislatiopj
all authority and all influence. priv
LEGGED, patented. official and legal,
even when 1t has proceeded from uni
Versal suffrage. convinced that it
must always turn to the profit of
dominating and exploiting minority
againss the interests of the immense
majority enslaved."
IS
The lingo of thus dgitator has been
adopted, in part, by demagogues ev-
erSwhere, and now in most languages
can be read and heard such words
as privilege" "expioiting," Cen
shaved dominating" and so on
"The important risings in Spain in
1873" says Thomas Kirkup, the Brit
ish writer on anarchy, "were due to
Bakunins. activity and the socialism
OF italy has been largely inspired by
him"
The bolsheviki of Russia are APP
plying in "a practical manner the
principles of Bakunin. their mastsr.
Murder and piilage, idleRess and
drunkenness are the big Jewels in the
crown of anarchy. ~, -
Until 1914 governments in Europe,
as a rule, imprisoned or exiled men
who were no more than supposed to
be anarchists There was no, waiting
and watching for an s.oysyt act, The
man under suspicion was locked up
or sent away, This, prosecution of
anarchists caused many of. them to
emisrate, to the United States,
,prociaiming their adoetrines'oor pro-
grams. Those from Italy. indeed,
were speechless. On the face of mat
ters,' they were honest and industri-
Gus workers. Many of them were
weayers. They found employment
and in some instances opened &C
counts at savings banks. o.
The italian anarchist. notwithstand-
ing his temperament, Is never the,
atrical lie doesn't mount a box and
harangue a listless multitude. The
proselyting work he performs for
anarchy Is personal, cautious and
subtle. He drops a word here and a
word there. until he is sure, or his
ground. t.;t,...
When he kills he Is as undramatic
as the butcher who, slaughters an OK.
No italian assassin has ever rushed
upon a stage in a theater and shouted
isle semper tyrannis." The Italian
who murdered fumbert 1, King of
Italy, Ia the. year 1900. had been n,
silk weaver In New Jersey. He had
/, :sss1 ,h.sN sli ss.Atry.