Anarchy and Killing
A wrVteffM'n'the Canterbury Press com menting on the Chicago and Belgian riots says :-rJn England, whether it be due to that sa&rig'era'ce of common sense which charactfc*i߀is John Bnll, «»p to the lateni hope that everyone has of some day becoming'iiimself an owner of property, {.lie AnarchisCViWM ,# 'h? ir assiduity, huve really but a smttll Following. Their e»it.^.«.-irie.4 are T»r the most part con tinenfcal gentlemen who do not escape From tliedesirV of the British workmen to " eave'Ar'f a J brick at 'em." The British instir cfc i< to hold life sacred, and it requires a upod di-al to provoke blood«tied. i[tis-stringe that in America it should -fee iufi the * reverse. / That wh« one of the a.-pects of American civilization that puzzled Mr Freeman, the historian, when he - ivisited the States i ' the smal i value tbi(t.isf.Bet.ou.iffei.j;-lt s.eems..quitiin conflict with the old Virgilian "gui trans cur runt coelum nonani'mum mutantV^tkqS, |hpse w:h&v go;-; across , thi', sea may mafee ftclKnnge.'Ofrpb lll^ 6^ lll ;^ 0 not ohanger.ftheir jli<ippsCtion,Vi TJie, ex-: planation> : wtouhi jseem ;to ,be; that there are a great;. :i maij/, in America besides the British.: iss indeed there are parts .of, the. jequntry where Englishes fiot^'th^ language 'most oonimonly sp^^iV' I ' And ii is noticeable 'that a largenumjier «f jßermah names figure in the »ffw^C^go% The promptitude with which th^.bjMnlv were explpded and revolvers driawn,^bear's but "the story of the man out ■ west, -who hnving been threateßetf, r 'wVrit'to a : lawyer! to take 4 hi*' advice a* tb' what he flduld de. ! M He ha* threatened to i:i shobt you'- remarked; the law»«v l# "Wel^iny advice to youisi 1 the next time you meet, y«u shoot first." •
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 3, 19 June 1886, Page 4
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280Anarchy and Killing Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 3, 19 June 1886, Page 4
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