Show THE DRIFT IN THE DIRECTION OF VIOLENCE STRONG tendencies toward anarchy re not confined to the misguided watches who are seeking by destructive means to demolish every species of organization established to protect bu humanity manity against itself they are cropping butiu out in innumerable shapes in almost every department of affairs to in all the nations out outside taide of the operations of the social anarchists now making a stir ofir ju in europe the drift in the direction of ef chaos is in nothing po co wrongly wrongly tron gly exemplified fled as in the im mense increase of deeds of individual siule uce that are everywhere occurring with astounding astour iding frequency the exciting causes to the commission commis Blon of the junu kocl ties that catt cast 4 a blemish u the civilization of our times are varied and frequently crift trift tag id eve i this once peaceful and exemplary territory has caught a draft of the breeze of passion which sweeps the globe violent deeds having multiplied remarkably of late years this cannot be except in part accounted for on the ground of increase of population and not altogether on the basis of the character of the later influx although a this second cause has much to do with it the violent crimes have not been the work of the older class clasi of settlers but we wish to speak on this subject in a general rather than a local sense the newspapers newspapers evince the fact that taking the world as a whole there has not been in all civilized history a tune time when deeds of individual violence were as numerous ss so now this fact to is no more significant than the other indisputable truth that their multiplication la Is progressing with alarming rapidity if this peculiarity of our times be viewed in connection with the clashing interests of different classes of the people in all the nations the outlook is terribly forbidding the animosities arising out of the complicated condition of buman affairs are becoming keenly intensified indicating that the earth is in the incipient stages of a revolutionary revolution ry period the machinations of the anarchists proper are not directed against any ADY particular formoe form of government but against all alike popular as well as despotic and every intermediate grade their operations are secret and the mea means no of assassination of the most cowardly character dynamite and poison an exemplification of the innocence and helplessness of some of their victims and of their own injustice and cruelty was illustrated bythe by the fact lately coming to light that they doomed the king of spain apai a to death and went so far as t draw lots to decide who should kill him happily the conspiracy was wars un tarther tar thed therling Ther The King eKing is not a public enemy but a bright little innocent prattling boy who could take no part in affairs of state for many years to come the anarchists are not merely the enemies of the countries where they reside and against whose governments and people they hatch and execute numerous conspiracies they ari are enemies of the human race and as such should be so regarded and trea treated teJ while they exist in one nation n no other nation is safe hence there bisno is no adequate safeguard except it be upon the basis of international mutuality on a subject of such common interest how strikingly correct is the delineation of these secret combinations given by the prophet moroni book of mormon page he predicted that they would arise in our times that their objects would be jk get power and gain those who sustain these murderous organization a seek to overthrow the freedom of all lands land a nations and countries 12 and the same prophet says that thai where they get the upper hand band they bring to pass the destruction of the people he also asser asserts it to be the duty of the nations to suppress these destroyers of social organization in order to avert the consequences sequences of their gaining the ascendancy according to revelations given through the prophet joseph smith EL a time will come when everywhere except in one place every marks mans hand band will be against bis neighbor for offensive or defensive purposes thirty or forty years ago there seemed to be no natural possibility of a period of such universal commotion in humin human aff affairs a ir becoming a reality A comprehensive view of the general situation of the world with special reference to the drift in the direction of individual and class violence together with the special growth of anarchism leads to the opinion that even from the standpoint of unaided human reason such a situ tion alon comes within the range of the possible we believe it to be inevitable unless humanity shall wheel into closer line with the requirements of the moral universe of the almighty i the general disposition in this diorec tion tien is not at present sufficiently kroml isi i si M u NO nent speaking as ae a whole as to be ap preci able so that which bach was wag foreseen foremen A by the prophets must be fulfilled fulfill ea |