Greymouth Evening Star, AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1901. AN ANARCHIST PARADISE.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 30 December 1901, Page 2

Greymouth Evening Star, AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1901. AN ANARCHIST PARADISE.

The necessity for prompt measures for the suppression of Anarchism has been aroused by the assassination of President M'lunley. The most practical proposal is contained in a Bill lately introduced into the United States Senate by Senator Hoare. This provides for the setting aside of an international island for Anarchists; and the same idea is elaborated in an article in the Forum by Mr R. A. Pinkerton, one of the heads of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. The writer complains that whilst European nations have practically combined to force all Anarchists to the wall, the United States, far from joining in the effort, gave these people an asylum. As a result the murder of the King of Italy was plotted under American protection, amithe promulgation permitted of doctrines, which ultimately brought about the murder of their own President. As a remedy for this condition of things Mr Pinkerton advocates as a first step the passing of a law to permit the deportation of every man and woman who preaches the overthrow of Government and the principles of Anarchy. As a necessary corollary he suggests the establishment of an Anarchist colony, defined as “ a place where every person who wants Anarchy can have it.” To this end the United States Government is urged to set aside one of the islands of the Philippines, and equip it thoroughly with appliances for tilling the soil. Comfortable houses, provided with necessary conveniences, even to the extent of expensive comforts, are to be erected ; and to this place everybody who wants Anarchism,'is to be sent. When all were together on the one island, they would be in a position to work out their own ideas of selfgovernment—or absence of government— without restriction. They should be left entirely alone, with no outside interference except the establishment of a patrol system to intercept escapees. “ I know of no other single experiment that would be at once so beneficial to this country as such a settlement,” writes Mr Pinkerton ; so instructive to the Anarchists themselves and to the world at large as to how their opportunities for individualism and freedom from Government restraint would work out. There we could send our Goldmans and our Mosts, and all others who are constantly striving to tear down what has so laboriously been built up, and who in doing so are raising up a constantly growing army of danger-breeding converts.”