| Show I WHAT IS AN ANARCHIST I Mr Wordsworth Donisthorpe is an English I En-glish writer of some note and his opinions opin-ions of anarchy are of some interest Mr Domsthorpo is not himself an anarchist I hut he is an individualist and therefore I in close sympathy with much of the phi I 1 losophy which the more intelligent of the i I anarchists justify themselves withal He I presents the anarchist as a rather fine I typo of humanity impatient perhaps I and in advance of his age but on the whole encrou hearted and dangerous only because society by its repressive I I measures has made him so Here is what Mr Donisthorpe has to say I In this theory of social organization there is nothing peculiarly offensive In deed anarchists are of all men the least aggressive TheIr whole political philoso phy may be summed up in the words Let be They hold that every man has I I a right to do whatever he chooses so I long as he does not thereby violate the I equal rights of his fellows This Is the creed of liberty It is a creed which no I civilized people can suppress and which even republican France cannot hope successfully suc-cessfully to resist very long S 4 Individuals recognize the fact that society is a growing organism They would no more dream of thrusting highly developed institutions prematurely upon I a people than they woufU present an urchin of six summers with a sixshocter The extreme anarchist is usually more sanguine and less patientperhaps he is I more generous He feels within himself i that he Is capable of higher things fit for a nobler form of social arrangement I and he gives his fellowcitizen credit for I equally elevated sentiments The cues I tion which troubles him is not How far are we ripe for the higher social life but How is the new regime to be brought about By persuasion or by force But let us ask ourselves In all sincerity what is the answer to this question which Is taught him by those in authority Can any sane person deny that the answer is writ large in all the laws of his own country in the cpnsti tion of all countries known to him in the International dealings of all people great and small Nay more all nature cries aloud through all her works F ce brute force If France and Prussia uiffer as to which of the two bipeds should sit on the Spanish throne do they appeal to some international tribunal of justice I No to the arbitrament of the sword I |
