Montana labor news., 1932-07-14
TIMELY AND UNHMELY OBSERVATIONS
THE WRONG ANARCHISTS
(By ADAM C~OALDIGGER.)

CHICAGO, ILL. (And how)=Duing the breathing spell between the
two Rebunocratc conventions, twelve more banks busted in this burg.
Mayor Cermak is in Washington trying to touch Helpful Hoover for
eighteen million dollars. If he falls down OF the job the red flag of the
auctioneer is hoisted over every busted business concern and civic institu-
ton, Chicago will look redder than Moscow Oh whatever they call their
Fourth of July over there.
Way back in the eighties, they hung a bunch of anarchists accused of
trying to blow up Chicago. 1t seems now that they hung the wrong
anarchists. They should have strung up the anarchists who blowed up
Chicago.
You SEE there re two breeds of anarchists; First there IRE the
philosophical anarchists who preach that all governments are criminal
conspiracies Of heightened hi-jackers and are the philosophical anarchists
of hghtone hijackers and low-down cutthroats for the purpose
Of robbng the betwixts and betweens. From this they reason that
the best way of doing away with the heightened hjackers and low-down
cutthroats is by destroying their principal hangout robbers roost-gove-
eminent. They also claim that if monkeys can live together without a
government charging them half of the cocOanuts they pick to prevent them
from swipng and cracking each others cocoanuts, man, the crown of ere
Then there ire the anarchists of the deed, Oh rugged individuaists as
Brother Hoover calls them. Their motto Isl Every fellow for himself
and the devil take the hindmost," which of late has been amended by add
ing, until the devil takes US ALL"
The creed of this breed is something like this
/. The American form of government is the best form of government
ever conceived by the mind of mortal man.
2 From which it follows that this government is both too crooked and
stupid to be entrusted with business.
8 Business is the art of buying something for a nickel and selling it
for a dime.
A. Consequently anything that can be bought for a nickel and sold
for a dime must be left to private enterprise.
5. By the same token, anything that costs a dime and is sold for a
nickel o is given away free is government business.
Operating on this credo, the rugged indivduaists who raped Chicago
ever since they hung the philosophical anarchists have converted such
business while gracousy leaving to the city such al-outgo and noincome
enterprises as fire and police protection, street paving, sewerage disposal,
health service and the education of its YOUTH etc, etc.
Now it goes without saying that such a partnership under which party
of the first part takes the profit of the oncern while party of the second
pdb dSSuHSS Le iOooSo CAL Oy Dt 1ONeu Ou d SO-Cdhtu sovereign people
by gaining control of their government. And this in turn is achieved; first,
by befuddlng the public mind, and secondly, by modifying the criminal
element in defense of government.
Hence, government rs W see, feel and smell it today rests OF four
props, towi:
Campaign contributions of public utility corporations and other re-
cphns of special privileges engaged in the lucrative undertaking of
selling nnkes for dimes.
The appalling ignorance of the voters pertaining to everything relat-
ing to political economy, which is nothing but public housekeeping.
The systematic doping of the public mind through school, press, pull
pit and rostrum.
The manipulation of elections by fraud, ballot stuffng, coercion,
brow beating, administered by the criminal elements who in return
receive he nrOtGiOnO of eTnm so elected
In the case of Chicago, the power trust, represented by the insult in
teress, supplied the bulk of the campaign and corruption funds for both
political parties.
The bebamfuzzing of the voters was carried on by the newspapers led
by the Chicago Tribune, powertrust endowed educators CD golden calf
cerics, champions of the deer peepool with corporation Doodle in their
jeans, and the poor school teachers, who if they knew any better, weret too
helpless to make things better
The least savory task of vdesteaing, repeating balotbox stuffing, slug
ging, etc, was until very recently handled by AL Capone and Co, and is
now handled by his heirs, asignees and successors.
A list of the rugged indWiduaists who made Chicago what it is today
would include most, if not all, of the prominent characters who figured in
the social financial, industrial, journalistic, commercial, soulsavng, and
criminal record of the city during the past so years. Reform administra-
tons came and went, but the rule of greed, ignorance, and crime remained.
For nor of them struck at the source If Chicagos shame, the private
ownership of public business.
By the way, and not changing the subject, went to the 100 yesterday
and spent most of my time before the monkey cage. What nice, we'll
hammered, lovable critters these monkeys are. Here were hundreds of
monkeys, all kinds of monkeys, big monkeys, little monkeys, tailed monkeys
and taless monkeys, and not a single monkey cop with club and gt to
keep them from robbng and numbering each other. Not a single magis-
tate to lay down the law to them. Not a cleric t. scare them with hell
fire and birthstone. Not a book, magazine O. newspaper to fill their hairy
heads with hare-brained notions concerning vested rights, the sscredness of
contract, and the divine origin of government-too CROOKED and stupid to
pump gas into the homes of its citizens.
However, what struck m most forciby was the way in which these
monkeys picked flas off each other. 1t seems a flea is a flea to a
monkey, n matter what monkey the flea is biting. So instead of each
fCont;cuod m, paro Savanl