THE ANARCHISM.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3106, 11 June 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE ANARCHISM.

The London Times, in commenting on th e dynamite outrages in Paris, says:—'' The poorer quarters of the great city and of its suburbs are notoriously the lurking place of a society of desperadoes, which possesse ramifications all over the civilised world. These men make little concealment of their doctrines, or of the means by which they hope to realise them. They are the declared enemies of human society in all its organised forms. They desire to annihilate it' and render its resuscitation impossible, in order, as they profess, to prepare the way for some fantastic Utopia of their own. Their end, they announce, is to purify and to regenerate mankind ; and, as this end is undoubtedly excellent, and they are staunch adhereuts to tho creed that the end justifies the means, thoy propose, whenever they find themselves in sufficient funds, to blow the present social fabric to pieces. Probably it ie not though requisite to extirpate the whole body of believers in tho existing state of things. The immediate efforts of the Anarchists do not, at any rate seem to be directed to such a considerable feat. Their present purpose appears rather to be to paralyse the action of the social machine, by intimidating the classes which control its operations. When they have been effectually terrorised, tho delicate mechanism which they guard and superintend will quickly cease working of itself, and the successful conspirators will be able to pull it to pieces at their leisure. Accordingly, the principal attempts to tho Anarchists are levelled against those who, in one form or another are the appointed defenders of society. In Rus-ia, the person of the Tsar, round which the whole system of tho national life revolves, has been the special mark of their hostility. In the United States of America, in Spain, France, Belgium, and other parts of the Continent of Europe, they have "ndeavourod to murder judges, policemen, or soldiers, whore they had the chance. They do not, however, confine themselves too rigidly to any special kind of victims. They are content to create terror, and to undermine that spirit of common security on which, as they quite rightly perseive, the present organisation of society rests. When circumstances, therefore, make it inexpedient to assail the officers directly concerned with the administration of the law, they choose any other conspicuous personage as tho object of their attack. Wealth and rank are naturally exposed in an especial deuree to their hostility, but the callousindifferenoo which they habitually display to the sufferings of the poor who chance to be injured by their porforinances conclusively proves that they are no respecters of persons. Thoy blow up tho rich because to do so is a good advertisement of themselves and their intentions. If the poor bappjned to be ruined or mutilated or smashed to pieces by the performance, so much the worse for the poor. There are, it is true, political offences which civilized States find it expedient to treat with a measure of indulgence, but those offences are distinguished by a wide and clear Hue from the misdeeds of the anarchist and the dynamiter. Tho crimes of the latter are not aimed a'j municipal governments. They are levelled at the whole commonwealth of nations, and tho who'o commonwealth of nations must combine to fake join action against them, if this uuvel species of laud piracy is to be effectually quelled'