The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-04-30

a terrorist, criminal, destruction
list, murderer. Let us call spade
spade and be sure we know what
spade Is, and we will understand each
other better.
Anarchism Is an old and respectable
philosophy. The anarchist is an ind-
vidualist. He is in favor of a free life
for the individual. He is opposed to
turning over the individuals power to
the state. He argues that great
power delegated to government limits
the growth and freedom of the indi-
vldual. He dreams Of an ideal state in
which human beings will be so perfect
they need no law. His doctrine is an
enlargement, an exaggeration of the
idea that the government which gov
erns least governs best. He isn't
lawbreaker. He is a law abolisher. He
reasons that when murder leaves the
human heart there will be no occasion
for laws against killing; that the
statute against murder Is only printed
words on the page Of law book, ut
terly and entirely without meaning, or
existence. to the man who is incapable
OF killing his fellow man. He says
that we should develop our artistic
and moral sides and by evolution
gradually repeal one law after an
other until all law disappears. 1t Is
pure idealism--it is a movement to-
ward perfection. 1t is the millennium
1t is poetry. Kipling wrote its con-
stitution when he wrote:
And only the Master shall praise US.
And only the Master shall blame,
And no one shall work for money,
And no one shall work for fame,
But each for the Joy of working.
Each in his separate star
Shall draw the Thing as he sees II
For the God OF Things as They Are.
Merely a Beautiful Dream.
Few people win contend that this
theory is anything more than a beaut-
full dream. Probably the first and
greatest of the anarchists was the
great Greek philosopher Zeno. from
Crete, the founder of the stole philoso-
ply, who died 270 years b. G. 1t is
disturbing to find dynamiters called
anarchists, and in the same breath
hear included some of the greatest
idealists that have ever trod the
earth. The very mention of the two
types In the same class gives respec-
liability to the totally ugly, depraved,
ignorant, lawless criminal.
went to standard authority for
a common-sense definition of bolshev-
ism. I was in Prague on my way up
toward the bolshevik front. l spent
an afternoon with President Thomas
G. Masaryk Of the new Czecho- Slo-
vakian republic. He is Slav. He
knows Russia. He was In Russia dur
ing the revolution and at the begin
ming of the counter-revolution which
put bolshevism In the saddle. He has
written Of Russia and Is accepted as
an authority on the subject. l asked
him, what Is bolshevism?" His an
swer was: "Bolsheyism is consistent
socialism"
Bolshevism is an old, untried
theory Of government. Its object Is to
secure greater production and
more just distributions Socialism says
that men are without motive for eff
cient work today because they do not
get a fair share Of the things they
produce; that the way to stimulate
production Is to edopt common owner
ship. Under such a plan. they say,
every man would be working for him
self. In the sense that all would BE-
working Tor the state, and that as Al
are an equal part @ The state thslr