Show WOULD Sf AMP OUT ANARCHY r Secretary Bonaparte Delivers an Address at Allegheny Chautauqua Maryland WHIPPING IS ADVOCATED f DEATH PENALTY P NAL TY FOR SERIOUS ik OFFENSES Cumberland Md 3rd Aug 12 Secretary of the Navy Charles J Bonaparte delivered an address this evening at the Allegheny Chautauqua near Cumberland before a large arge gathering his subject being An Anarchism Anarchism Anarchism and Its Remedy Secretary Bonaparte said In Iii part Address Anarchism Is the product of two con conditions conditions which prevail to a greater or less extent everywhere among the less en enlightened enlightened lightened 1 classes of modern civilized so society daty cloty namely the decay of religious faith and a measure of superficial and there therefore therefore therefore fore unsound popular education hI I 1 am not here to discuss the problems of theology or metaphysics if for any one on among those who hear me all belief bellef in God or a hereafter In a life for man beyond that of sense and in ends for forman forman man wherein wh time and space and material things s have no portion are mere empty dreams I 1 have no quarrel with him Tor Tormy r I my present purpose I pause only to say t that if 11 he lie be right and such beliefs be long to dreamland then for me in the words of a writer It is only lor for the sake of the dreams that visit it that the world of reality has any certain value alue Anarchism and Socialism It is sometimes said that anarchism and socialism as systems are mutually antipodal and destructive I 1 should be bevery beery bevery very ery sorry to diminish whatever hostility the adherents of either system s stem may feel for the other for the old adage as to the consequences of to honest men embodies no small measure of truth but butto butto butto to my mind this view of their relations is altogether superficial They are two divergent stems growing from the same root That root is the doctrine that all allmen allmen allmen men of right ought to be and should therefore be made and kept precIsely equal lUal 4 J 4 Only Among Slaves A socialist is essentially although not t always alwa s avowedly or even consciously one who sees that the equality demanded by this his t doctrine can be fully full or even approximately approximately secured only among slaves A southern plantation before the war Avar con constituted constituted constituted so far as the negroes were con concerned concerned concerned very nearly a socialistic ity it and they were probably as nearly P a equal Inter sese as human beings can be If permanently kept In this community a socialist merely substitutes for the om em omnipotent omnipotent omniscient master an omnipotent omnipotent omnipotent tent omniscient corporation made up of the slaves themselves enslaves each one of them as an individual to all in their corporate capacity and names this cor corporation The states An anarchist dif differs differs differs fers from him by seeing that he lie has In fact Introduced a new source of ity lt For the corporation he creales cre es can exercise its authority only through agents and these agents must be ex cx necessitate necess tate armed with powers which make them no longer the equals of their fellows just justas as If the master of the plantation made one of or his slaves his overseer Demands of Anarchy The Tue anarchist therefore demands that there be no such agent or in other words no government at all it was a sin against equality that any anyone one should be president president president dent while Czolgosz was not and knew le never would be It but added bitter bitterness bitterness bitterness ness to this wrong that so many around aroundhim aroundhim aroundhim him should deem the president worthy of his Ins great office while the few fed fe who knew Czolgosz at all alJ knew him as foS an obscure unattractive t na ve vagrant t tSo So much of the evil How can it be cured If we mean cured in a u day dar a month a year a decade I answer not at all AnarchIsm will not be 11 removed within a given time or through ugh a special measure or set of meas measures J ures uros perhaps it will not be wholly re rc removed 4 moved mo d in any an time or by any means A Source of Peril It will be for years perhaps for gen generations a source of some come peril to our public men m n a source of some annoyance and some anxiety possibly at times of if f seme alarm to the American people It Itis Itis Itis is the product of causes which cannot be bea a eradicated by legislation however dras drastic drastic tic Uc of causes which lie deep in the scheme of modern civilization But because I II have lve I ave no panacea a to recommend It must not idt be bc supposed that I would have noth nothing nothing ing done I believe that anarchism has bum already made less and can be made much less leES dangerous and harmful bv by be being jug ing dealt with seriously y and rationally In other words I would see sc ourselves and cur Lur ur public servants In earnest and willing tt t 1 be guided by the common sense and ancl experience in seeking a remedy without regard to a little doctrinaire prejudice and anda a little claptrap Cannot Be Reformed In the first place the unlawful acts prompted by anarchism should be made mad insofar as they are not strictly speaking crimes already and as crimes they should be visited with such penal penalties ties tes tt s as are particularly distasteful to the criminals andt the most effective effective tive deterrents to crime In dealing with witha WIDla a convicted anarchist two facts may well be he remembered the chances of his real rea reformation information are so small that they may mav maybe maybe be safely neglected and we can appeal I lor br practical purposes lo to but one motive on his part art to discourage a repetition of ofus Ms us offense namely the fear of physical pain and death To keep him for years ears earsin in a penitentiary merely burdens the com corn community with the support of or an Irreconcilable Irreconcilable enemy with the constant risk of his escape or pardon p and the certainty certain that whenever he leaves leav s he will be If possible a worse man than when he en entered entered entered Penalties Proposed On anarchists the death penalty should be equivocally imposed by law and in inflexibly Inflexibly Inflexibly flexibly executed whenever the prisoner has sought directly or Indirectly Indirect to take life lIe for offences of less gravity I ad advise advise advise vise a comparatively brief but very rig rigorous orous rous imprisonment characterized by complete seclusion deprivation of all ail comfort and denial of any form of dis distraction distraction distraction traction and which could be to my mind advantageously supplemented by a severe hut but not a public whipping the lash of all punishments most clearly shows the culprit that he suffers for what his fel fellow fellow fellow low men holl odious olous o lous and disgraceful and rpt rot merely for reasons of public publia policy polley Felonious Spoken Words Any abridgement from fear of the an anarchist anarchist of that freedom of speech and of the press guaranteed us by b our state and federal legislations would be neither a wise nor a worthy policy but those privileges privIleges lieges in ng ne n wise shield of crime nor Instigators tors of disorder and re rebellion rebellion bellion Any An changes however sweeping to our laws and government may be urged and nud any an arguments however wild or gro grotesque grotesque grotesque tesque advanced adv to justify jusUf them provided I he method of change be orderly and law lawful lawful lawful ful but a published writing recommend recommending lug ing the murder murde of the chief magistrate te and violent overthrow of the government is a seditious libel at common law and there Is no good reason why public utter utterances utterances utterances ances of or spoken words of the same pur purport purport port ort should not be made a like offense by bythe b bythe the statute It Is already alread a crime to ad adIse rise Ise a felony reloY or grave ave misdemeanor If the advice leads to the crime suggested and nd there Is 3 again no good reason rc son not become b bc come ome a of without t regard to its consequences as IS is a criminal conspiracy ac |