ANARCHY. A Nail in its Coffin.

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 63, 14 September 1901, Page 8

ANARCHY. A Nail in its Coffin.

AT painfully iiequent mteivah sonic misguided moiabst ,uoihi i s himself to a sense of Ins dut), and kills a leader It niatteis not to him 01 to his society who the victim may be so long as he 01 she is a leadei Pei haps the iccent attempted assassination of the Piesidcnt of the United States Ameiua will do more to 10b these sjeiitleinen ot then occupation and set them seeking foi pastutes new than any pievious assassination 01 attempted assassination has cvei done The Piesident of the United States has gained a vciy laige share of the affection of the people, and no event could have stung them moie effectually into levolt against anaichy than the attempt to assassinate him If Aineiiean methods are as thoiough as we believe them to be, the path of the anaichist will not be stiewn with loses in the futuie A pccuhaiity of the existence of these sccict societies is the fact that it is no seciet at all Only then opeiations aie secret, and the police m«"\ at any time, put then hands on the suspects If a membei of these hideous clubs is condemned to death ioi assassination the whole of Ins associates who incite him to the act aic moially as guilty and as deseivmg of the penalty Unity is the watchwoid of the age and certainly unity foi the puiposc of cxtci minatmg the assas&inatois of the woilds bnghtest men is a consummation to be wished It is noticeable that the Bntish do not become victims to the mad exaltation that induces the deeds of these

people "who have a duty to perfoim ' Certainly, anaichy may be deemed to be a moral disease that demands more drastic treatment than the latest type of humanitarian (who wants to coddle criminals, and soothe the feelings of muidereis) would lecommend » * • That the disease is about to be com batted in the United States we may be assured, and, providing the Piesident successfully recovers, the event will have the effect of dealing to anarchy a severe blow We believe that even though Mr McKinley lives, and even though ten years is the maximum penalty to be awarded foi the attempted assassination, the perpetrator is a doomed man, and that the way of the anarchist m future will be extiemely rough The latest outrage will possibly mean voluntary or forced banishment for many of those societies, but, whereevei they go, it is reasonable to assert that a blow will "be struck at anaichy that will make it totter and finally fall