Show p 1I1 A C1LANCE FOR ANARCHISTS If Anarchists and Socialists are honest in their expressed preference for a revolution revo-lution in government it is strange that they omit taking one of the several opportunities op-portunities this country offers of trying the actual experiment of living under their own conditions Each of the five civilized tribes in the Indian Territory for instance is almost purely socialistic The State controls the land the money and the labor to a great extent while the people have nominal equality in i political power This ought to satisfy the Socialist Social-ist He ought to go down among the Cherokees or Chickasaws and marry a squaw assume the privileges and comforts com-forts of Indian citizenship and be happy No respectable squaw would marry an average Socialist but there are squaws who might be persuaded v The anarchist will find the realization of his dreams in NoMansLand No government presses upon perfect liberty there A man can freely express his opinions and act precisely after the dictates dic-tates of his own morality If he gets too free he will probably be shot but an anarchist an-archist rather likes death for a good cause What Prince Krapotkin calls free aggregations compose the population popula-tion Beaver City and Benton the chief towns are independent of each other and of the rest of the world A chief official is elected just as the juncture junc-ture seems to demand and his word is the only law in force His rule lasts until the active citizens grow weary of his style He is deposed or if he resists is shot and another regime begins be-gins About our great cities the Socialists and Anarchists gather and talk of revolution revo-lution Yet none go where their ideas actually do prevail They throw bombs but the miserable cowards dare not take their chances where the police whom they denounce and the laws which they revile are not present to protect their worthless carcasses They hide behind the defenses of society and plot treason against their fellows They claim alliance alli-ance with the outlaws but they would not for their souls pass a day with their allies The squatters in NoMansLand would be ashamed of the company of such sneaking traitors Their intercourse would be that between a healhty tiger ama am-a dyspeptic tomcat The cat claims kin with the tiger and scratches the hand that feeds him but he would take refnge under the house in an ague of terror if i the tiger roared a mile away while the tigers scorn of his pitiful little relative would be equally a measure of the distance dis-tance between them Kansas City Times |