Show ANARCHISM considered the recent assassination of the austrian empress by an anarchist has ha s revived the discussion of the aims and purposes of those Ishma elites of the modern civilization some influential european journals advocate the adoption of the most stringent measures for the repression of anarchy the st james gazette for instance says that the mere act of belonging to an anarchist society ought to be made a capital offense and that the law ought to be firmly applied this it Is believed would rid society of this terror as surely as a tree free use ot 0 the rope cleared india I 1 of thugs another suggestion made in a pamphlet by professor bruek brack is that the anarchists be put upon an island from which they cannot escape and that they be given tools and arms there they might be left to their own devices in the most perfect freedom freedman free doan from the rules of civilized society they could not complain of their treatment since they do not recognize any authority they ought to feel satisfied if placed entirely outside outride the pale of civilization and left to demonstrate the practical bearing of their theories it to is well understood that anarchism Is a logical consequence of infidelity the motto of one of their chiefs was neither god nor ailor master they re eject auth authority brity of every kind they hold that the liberty of man consists solely in obedience to the laws of nature not mot because these are imposed upon him by anybody but because he recognizes them as laws but these laws of nia mature ture meem in many in sta stances inces to be identical with the instincts or cravings clavings cravi of a depraved na ture the assassin therefore who thirsts for blood and plunges his knife ifa into the heart of an unoffending worna or innocent babes is but obeying law of nature as the beast that slays its prey to prevent him tron from following out his murderous plans la IS to curtail his liberty even to vote I 1 la a I 1 according to the teachings of some anarchists ts to make oneself a slave it la is submission to a master and a confession of incapability of conducting ones own affairs such are some of the tenets of anarchism ar commencing with the rejection of divine authority it proceeds on oa this line of reasoning until all authority Is set aside and man mac Is placed on the moral level of the brute it Is not safe to regard this monstrosity aa a harmless it has to be met whether it be regarded as crime or lunacy it Is 1 no wonder if clear seeing statesmen of europe are commencing oommen to look to the church for the antidote against th the poisonous philosophy that threaten the life of modern modem institutions realizing that some of the ills of our age az are the result of the antagonism between betwee rp two institutions that never were intended ta bo be at war one with another |