| Show LAW AND the news to is to in receipt of several communications from persons in the East advocating anarchistic principles one of the letters lettera to from a lady the correspondents all agree that this journal in its reference to anarchism some time airo aio hardly treated that 4 philosophical system with impartiality and they ask for space apace for explanation too letters received however are but repetitious repetitions of the made by mr already published publish eil in ID the NEWS and can have no further interest inte reet to the he general f readers ol of this paper ove one of the principles principle involved in the between the professed prot ened dis Proud hon and society Is i that thai so aa to jaw and nu aW authority bority on this polo point I 1 one of the expresses enough when he be layf ay we demand that no law shall ever be enforced by violence viol enoe except la laws laa a against the criminal use nse of violence we do not an 8 anarchists object to the use of violence once in violence nor to the masking baking of any law whatever on any subject so long as the means used to enforce jt it are not violent anich is in if words mean anything any thing soother another way of that according to ito the principles of anarchism every body must be allowed to do pretty much whatever he chooses f r if law cannot be enforced enor ced they are utterly use ue bem fem as a great number of did men and women amen are constituted in at Is ft areat aror to appose that we 00 beat object and of the of bority to Is natt artely rely of a prohibitive nature or a barrier violence it has a much higher ulab luft much wf tt ft awis at the education of the buff loin that badh which 1 governed by ia law la is also preserved by y law and perfected and by the earner while thit that eke tb to become a law unto itsell P cannot can tiet be sanctified by law neither by bercy justice nor judgment la Is a profound ly philosophical ph il doctrine setting getting forth the true reason why by sub mission to law faw and authority lo necessary it in ia the ay only way ay oy by which human beings can be preserved and perfected it to la to the moral char actor acter what ie 18 to the intellect and the fact is IB that even 1114 Imper tec MO laws lawe as aa those of human origin are bave have the power of worming a morally croog strong and healthy character as aa long as ae they are submitted to and administered with justice and morcy arbe most primitive laws lawa of society in ita its rudimentary stages have had the effect of educating or perfecting that society until higher laws lawa could be received history both sacred and pro fane abounds in broms proms of this thir man kind has gradually progressed under the tuition of lawful authority not withstanding sill all imperfections imperfection and failures tallu reB and it will conti continue aue to pro gress reb until the very highest laws lawa cut cai be comprehended and obeyed but will never result in emancipation froin authority nor in each individual being his bis own lawmaker to the human being that would be as disastrous as ae the suspension of the law of gravitation ia the universe would be to the earth it would mean luin destruction it would be anarchy applied to the planetary system so no greater mischief or more far reaching in its results re aults can be doue dotie to society than the illegal tearing sounder asunder of the rules lulea by it is ia governed whether this be done by those who in ID defiance place themselves outside its ita domain or by those who are entrusted with the guardianship of the law aud yet for selfish it without regard to justice probably the th a are the th a worst alam of I 1 ate extent extant all the dangerous because of the honored h positions they hold aa it both the he lews laws mut be enforced whether the authority to do do is ia an a a last io in abw people as ag in this country or ju in a few uala nals or in even one person so as in other countries any other course will anu lead to 10 fatal coast quence |
