A Periodical of Anarchist Thought, Work, and Literature

A PERIODICAL OF ANARCHIST THOUGHT, WORK, AND LITERATURE.

VOL IX. NO. 21. , , 25, 1902 \ . CHICAGO SUNDAY MAY . WHOLE NO. 363. The Rejected Banner. Thefact thntwc at present arc still a small tion in the work of the proletarian revolution (THE RED FLA <1.1 minority is in reality unimportant and in- involves. But even the number of theactive Flag of flame, tfao linked with glory, significant. The question is not whether the followers grows daily, and the promulga Clean of shame and rich with story. number of adherents is small or large, but tion spreads, and on the day - Fire of blame and misdeeds gory of insurrection whether the ideas o , Trail thou in the dust. í Anarchist Communism this minority will become the majority arc in accord with the evolution of the hu * Tifl the right be hailed with gladness - # • . man mind, which at present, and especially War and fightforgotten madness. History shows us that those who before And the night fades with its sadness. among the Latin races, arc developing. In the revolution were in the minority, on the Trail thon as thou must. this respect all doubUs are removed. The day of uprising liecame the decisive power, Flag of flame, thy heroes slunilier. tendency of evolution is not toward author- provided they represented the popular striv- Without (nine, in countless numlier. itarianism ; but its consummation tends to- jnRS and when and that is another cssen Without shame, in peace they slumlier. ward the freedom of the individual, toward tial provision —the duration of the - Like thee, in the dust. rcvolu producing and consuming groups, the free tion lasts long— enough, so that the revolu- " - Sleep they still until the morrow. communc and free federation. Neither does tionnry ideas are given an Sleep they will, till crime and sorrow, opportunity to evolution tend toward the property- loving sprout and to l>car fruit. Let us not forget No more fill the world with horror, Individualism, but Then thou will, rejected Imnner, toward joint production that it is not a revolution of a day or two Be uplifted from the «lust. and consumption. In large cities nobody is which we expect will transform society into scared Ross WINN. by Communism when mark it well Anarchist Communism. An uprising of so O Anarchist is in— question Communism . In short a duration can overthrow onegovern « Revolutionary — Minorities. the country evolution travels on the same ment and substitute another ; it can replace- "All you say is well and good,” our op- road. And indeed, if we except some parts a Napoleon for a Fabrc, but it cannot often remark Jules ponents . " Your ideal An- of France in which its populace developed transform the foundation of a society. It archist Communism— is admirable, and— its under particular conditions, one must admit may perhaps require a period of insurrection realization would indeed signify comfort that the peasant has much in common with of three or five years to accomplish our rev- nnd pence on earth. But how few men de- us, which especially becomes apparent when olution in the province of property relations sire and comprehend such the common use of , condition, and implements is observed and the modeof federation. It required five how insignificant is the numlier of those who It isfor this reason that we are everywhere, years of a permanent revolution from 1788 possess the necessary spirit of sacrifice that in the centers of industry as well as in the to1793 to wreck the system —of feudalism ideal , met with the realization of this involves You villages approval, as soon as we —and the power— of kingkraft, and it will take only a small minority of ^ explain our ideas arc weak and scat- to the great mass, when- three or more years to break the power of teringgroups, here and there,lostaltogether ever we talk to them in their own and com - the bourgeoisie, the power of plutocracy, in the great and indifferent mass before prehensible , ,and language supported by practical In such revolutionaryperiod, in which the you stands a terrible,well organized enemy, illustrations,and telling them of the coming mind works with extraordinary , , education revolution rapidity, armies capital and at his com- . when the whole world, in the cities ofsplen fact, the struggle you And could be mand. In have under- it otherwise ? If Anarchy dor ns well as in the dark huts, exhibit- taken exceeds your power.” and Communism were nothingbut the prod - great interest for publicaffairs; whenfcople the objections a Such arc of certain of our uct of philosophical speculation, coming talk, discuss and try to convince others , often also forth from , adversaries and raised by our the shadows of a college room, j„ this fermenting period the Anarchistic— well meaning friends. verily,it would own - Very well. Let nowhere find its echo. But ¡deas, which are even now disseminated by whether the objections these ideas came , us see will stand the forth from the people the existing groups, will sprout and bear test. That the Anarchists compose They arc the expressions the only a of worker, the fruit,and implant themselves inthe mindsof small minority to those millions peasant, of which pop- everything he thinks and talks the musses. Then will the indiflerent of to ulate France, Spain, Italy, Germany as soon as hc- - , etc., sooner or later-discards day becomeadherents of the new ideas. Such who will deny ? But have not all traditional superstitions aggrega- and begins tocon. was always the course of new ideas, of tions, representing a new ideal, began with template a better future. They ex are the - which the great French Revolution is an a small minority ? Y’cs, it is very likely that pression of a long mental development, the example. we as far as our organization is concerned expression of the tendencies of - large the Certainly the French Revolution was not of remain in the minority present century. -will till the day of Finally, they are the po- such deep natureas will be theone of But is that an pular conception which revolution. argument against of the revolution which Wc dream. Aristocracy was ideal ? Shall wefor that shortly will carry overthrown our reason embrace justice, solidarity and and the bourgeoisie substituted. The power opportunism because the opportunists have fraternity into the villages. forth Coming of private property was not shaken ; on the at present the majority behind from the people, themselves ? these ideas arc readily ac- contrary, its authority was strengthened Is reason to l cepted by that enough >ccomc opportu- the people, whenever they are jt was the French Revolution that inaugu nists ourselves ? Till 1790, the royalists presented in a plain,comprehensive manner, — rated the system of exploitation of the hour- and constitutionalists were in the mnjority. Here fact, - in rests the force of our ideas, gcoisie. Yet the abolition of serfdom Vas a Should the republicans of this epoch there and not in the number of their • - active and great thing came thru i . Tuis force, which * fore have renounced their ideal and become organized adherents, who are courageous proved itself more effective than the law. royalists, until the abolition of the kingdom enough to face all the dangers and conse- The French IWftt ion has cleared the way - was near at hand ? quences of the struggle which the participa- for an era qf'revohmfms, which at short in / ^ - \ i mâ

2 PRBB SOCIETY. * tcrvals are repeated, which more and more wages are demanded ). Two years Inter, Criticisms on the Propaganda. lead to the Social Revolution. She has im ¬ 1789, the peasant already goes much fur¬ If the comrades will pardon a few friendly planted French into the people that revolu¬ ther. A universal idea then finds : tionary birth comments on the methods of propaganda, I instinct, without which the peoples Full emancipation the ‘‘ from yoke of the will deign to offer them I write in the kind ¬ V of EurojK* would for centuries smart . under nobles , the priests, and middleclassproperty liest spirit, and having the movement at the most painful oppression. She has left in owner " . Since the peasant realized that heart my words e'omc spontaneously with ¬ the entire world a fertile stream of ideas for the government had lost the power to stifle out any desire to offend anyone. Knowing the future; she has awakened the spirit of his uprisings, ‘he rebelled against his foes. some of my own shortcomings, and finding indignation and given the French people a A few determined individuals set fire to the some faults in the words and work of others, revolutionary training. If France in the palaces , while the great mass still remained I wish to stimulate an improvement. If my year 1871 proclaimed the Commune, if she submissive , and in fear till the flames of the remarks bedeemed worthy of serious consid ¬ today accepts with joy the ideas of Anarchist burning mansions reached theclouds; before eration,all well and good. If not, they Communism, while other people still have wander it was thought of to hang the taxcollectors been written in vain. My remarks are not in the authoritarian or constitutional period to the same gallows, which before had to inspired by any particular case, nor directed (already laid aside by France before 18 8, + carry the weight of the farerunners of the àt any particular comrade. Most of wlmt 1 that is 1789), it is because this nation went Jacqueries . But this timethearmy docs not shall say 1 am as much ammendablc ¬ I thru a powerful revolution at to my the end of the save to crush the uprising; it is ¬ self anyone eighteenth century busy else ns else. It is not my province to . where, the Revolution spreads from hamlet dictate to any comrade how he or she shall Now, let us remember what a sad picture to hamlet, from village to village; soon half conduct the propaganda, but the sacred France presented before the Revolution ; let of France is in flames. While the future right of criticism no comrade will deny me. us * remember also,howdisappearing!} small revolutionists of the bourgeoisie still fell on I hold it to be every |K* rson’s privilege to the number wasnvhich dreamed of the abo¬ their knees before the king, and the great express his opinion in language of lition of the kingdom and feudalism his own . personages of the later revolution sought to choosing Yet 1 must question the efficacy Thepeasant lived in such misery . of and igno¬ dampen the indignation, inasmuch as they certain methods of propaganda, rance, as we can today especially hardly picture to made concessions to the rebels, the cities the propaganda of denunciation ourselves. Lost in their villages, . without and villages revolted a long time before the The Anarchist propaganda has been any relations with the outer never world, not Assemblage of the Imperial States and the at that level where could I knowing happened it lie reasonably what at a distance of speeches of Mirabeau Hundreds of revolts accounted sufficient twenty . to rail at the powers miles, these poor beings, following broke out in thevillages (Taine counts three that be and shout, "To hell with gov¬ their plows with stooped backs, or lived the in hundred of them) before those with pikes ernment; to hell with the law. I am an infected holes,seemed destined eternal for serf¬ and some bnd cannons stormed the Bastile Anarchist, and don’t care who dom. A common sentiment knows it. was impossible, of Paris. Hurrah for Anarchy Such every disturbance was crushed !” may arouse by hurried Thus it became impossible to check the the coarse passions of the mob, the passions troops, and the agitators were hanged on Revolution Had this revolution i . broke out that deify men today and behead them to¬ the eighteenTeet high gallows standing near only in Paris, had it only been a parliamen¬ morrow. Such passions had better IK* held the well. We can hardly speak of those un ¬ tarian revolution, it would have been in subjection until tempered and refined by known propagandists, who roamed thru drowned in blood; the troopsof thecounter the preciouselements of Anarchist reason. the villages to arouse hatred against the revolution would have carried the white The elements of hate, prejudice, jealousy, oppressors and awaken hope in those few flag from village to village,from city to city revenge, etc., have no place— in the Anarchist individuals that had the courage to listen and slaughtered the peasants and sans mind. The counter elements of * , to them. The peasant love com ¬ hardly dared to big culottes. But luckily the Revolution in be¬ — radeship, tolerance, etc., must rise upper¬ for bread or for a reduction of the tithes. ginning assumed on entirely different char¬ most in the human breast before we are fit Just read the old records of the villages and acter. It brokeout in a thousand places at for the life our ideal depicts. Theformer are you will be convinced of it. once ; the revolutionary minorities in every the chief elements of the savage brain ; the What mainly characterized the middle village, in every borough, in every insurrec¬ latter are the result of ages, countless ages, class, was its cowardice. Only single, tionary rare provincial city, strong in their bold ¬ of associate life and elements upon which individuals sometimes dared to attack ness and the the calm re-echo which their aspi¬ Anarchism is based. The logical tendency of government, and awaken the spirit of rebel¬ ration found in the masses, they immediately the propaganda, therefore, must IK* toward lion thru daring deeds. But thegreat mass went conquer about to the palaces, thecity the further development of those love ele¬ of the bourgeoisie disgracefully bowed their halls, the Bastile ; they terrorized the aris¬ ments, for on them depends heads before alone the ulti¬ the king and his court, before tocracy and higher citizens, and abolished mate realization of Anarchy the nobility , and its servants . . One needs thefeudal privileges. The minority enflamed The present form of society is based upon only read the records of the parliaments to the Revolution, and dragged the masses hate. Hate begets force, which is govern ¬ be convinced of the low servility with which along with it. ment. Government, therefore, is the natural thewords of thebourgeoisie war permeated . • offspring of hate, and the chief enemy of or¬ It was cowardice, the unworthy most cow ¬ The Revolution, whose approach we fore¬ der and Anarchy. Hate exalts the brutal ardice that , tlieic is, which was expressed in see, will take the same course. The ideas of the cruel, and the strong above the their words, refined, a cowardice that only in Louis Anarchist Communism, which today arc the tender, and the weak. Love equalizes Blanc and other toadies could excite no ¬ in advocated only> by a small minority, but all men and women and makes of them lov¬ dignation. crushing A despair took hold of which more and more¡>crmeate thespirit of ers,comrades,and friends. Hate is traceable the few revolutionists of this time, as soon the people, will find their way into the great back to the cave; love enshrines our ideal at # as they threw nglance at their environment mass. However small number the . the of scat ¬ uppermost heights of human conception. I Camille Desmoulins correctly says in * those tered groups may IK, powerful thru the Hate is of the past, love belongs to the fu¬ famous words: We were scarcely a dozen “ support of the j>eople, they will be the first ture. Hate is slavery and death, love is lib¬ republicans before 1789.” — to raise the red banner of the uprising. In¬ erty and life. Hate was and is, love is and But nothwithstanding, * what a revolution asmuch as the revolt breaks out in a thou¬ will IK. Hate conquers the bodies of the of things or four three years later. Since sand places at once, it will prevent the re¬ weak, love conquers the hearts and the the power of the kingship there the march establishment of any government, which minds of all. of events tottering, the was mass attempted would only retard the march of the move¬ If men are converted to Anarchism thru to rebel. During the whole time of the year ment; the revolution will last with all its preaching the doctrine of hate, they are yet 1787, it is the isolated, small peasant riots, vehemence till its mission, the abolition of the same men, having changed only their as today t small he strikes, that appeared private property and government, is ful¬ creed; convert them thru the preaching of on the surface of France r ; by and by they filled. On this da3 the minority of the pres¬ love, and you have transformed them One succeed . in spreading, they become general, ent will IK* the people, the great mass , and Anarchist has a creed to which I would not and it was hard to overcome them. Two this insurrection of the mass against private conform, and he hates me, berates me, and years before one hardly dared to beg for a property and government will lead us to calls me by some other name to which he reduction of the titters ( as today higher Anarchist Communism.— Peter Kropotkin. has attached an odious idea, while another 1

V ) r i FREE SOCIETY. 8 \ an «-ill love me in spite of a difference of opin of our propaganda ; and shall have learned We all know there is nothing so like - of ion. vea.maintain it my right to differ from what very poor weapons they are. Argu- Anarchist as a Quaker. At the beginning him in a thousand wavs without forfeiting ment, logical argument, based upon fact and theslaveowner's rebellion therewerea great ( his love and respect. Which of the two are tempered with the soothing emotionalism many Quakers in Virginia and Tcnncssce thc the more commmendabk. which the more called forth by the love of our ideals, will mountainous part). All were anti-slavery worthy of the title Anarchist ? then be the lever that will move the world ; and Union men ; which is doubtless why the The man who hates is yet a governmen- and we will forge for mankind a strong rebels hardlyever molested tliem-also why talist, no matter how loudly he may pro- band of love of comradeship that will bind General Sheridan , under ordersfrom General claim himself an Anarchist; for to hate car- us. one to the other, the wide earth round. Grant.devastated their portion of thecoun- rics with it the unavoidable desire to force JAY FOX. try with peculiar barbarity. One day. a thrdo hated to do or not to do something o rcb., of the Colonel Ezekiel Vaughan type. kept by a Quaker, as to a which called forth the hate. The coming •* Philosophic ” Anarchism. came into a store od sa h mself disagree man and woman must not hate, must not , M Clarke thinks it is time to acknowb P< * PIaccfor makinR ' - abk\ w th ut correction. But he rec one have enemies. The doctrine of hatred ought that there are Anarchists and Anarch- ‘ without', etc° . for liefore he had blown off not to be preached. If hatred overcomes isls sonic who do believe in assassinating - > ha,f h,s cam theQuaker ordered h«mforth hatred, of what arc we the gainers ? tyrants, somc who don't, etc. But suppose ^ . 0, n 1 propulsion « «ats Discontent is rampant. Nearly everybody there arc not ? It is very much my opinion 1 P P . °,f ^f , u bat * sa d Co onc \ a g h an . is ill at ease with the present state of things. that there are not. There are indeed, a few * . . ^bt oa d dn 1 lt ^ What is wanted to be preached is a basic Anarchists, among whom Tolstoy is best thou£ >' ¡ 9e! ‘ , The ; sanctified don’t fight,” replied Ephraim, knowledge of the cause of our discontent. iknoWn-nrt.ix.. who say they doAn not think fightingfi«rht ncr and presentation of the ideal of Anarchy. ho had reached boiling water heat but a an(, bloodshed ean ever be justifiable. But " - “ ivc that I am not sanctified yet. This can best be done by cool, not unfeeling, japprehend that the distinction drawn on 1 Pf colonel. argument,rather thanby fierydenunciation; this ground between them and other An hx* “ the - , to give those who for denunciation is never argument and can archists is reallya distinction without a dif- Machiavellian^ , moral only beused where argument is wanting. The ferencc. Because what they say is abstract deal w th thc pbjlosophic Anarchist AMKS object of our propaganda must be to arouse and metaphysical. Make it practical and " Don t trcad on mc* L- L- J - men to think and reason by first ovcrcom- concrete ask them with which they sympa o ing their old prejudices Damnation talk ¡ - . th zc as —between Bresci and Humbert, Case Punishment. will never accomplish that end. . It may des rio and Carnot, Angiolillo and Canovas,- - If there isS only one thing above all others troy an old prejudice only by supplanting it , | , etc„and vo„would |Ulck y find then take ‘"£7' V * iS as other Anarchists. Co, ' Amirchism is not a patent medicine that be Roman certain crimes became '^ *tbat can be injected into people thru the pores of he jJC apt, not only to answcr in the ? * J BT ’ their hatred for the present order of things. negatiVc, but to give reasons for disapprov . Anarchy is a high ideal for cool, rational - U ‘ iiffbYtrd - ing. llc wiM say that rebellion means war; Í ‘ ‘ to inrrrnv minded men an womcn to ponder over, to VTnflontinurd* that assassination means terrorism ; x. ‘ ' ¡V , )„ reason about, and to absorb into their be d 1 Irv md of Rome l rim the ^ - war and terrorrism are the methods of gor- ° " J?refo- a ings thru their warm hearts and thinking J 4 eminent, and cannot destroy government, ÍLíTíS, LulZLZa^ ® samarao.» "; can grasp the message of Anarchism Why, i . ous); that the only weapon which can IK “> s x B fiery Is there his stpp the-offen«M. BvBy non means, thevthe then, all this denunciation ? expected ultimately to conquer war, terror- , - > * flour shc al1 not hatred enough in the world alreadj t ism, and government, is reason ; tbat-m ^ c tc I know how hard it is to restrain oneself ; ' hoc sig\JO r »ces-victory bv means of this °^ " V, n thods n at times in sight of the mountains of iniquity is certain; while by flourishing red flags on ' ti! ' í n ^ Twii1 s1u,w vm nnc where and injustice which everywhere abounds. the foremost barricade nothing can be ex ^ , - Lhom,vvwc,dcs andnn ^erimes^ of a bmta na nn are But we must talk less, and read and think ? í pected fleast under very generally prevail r ? , „ \ ' ^ 4 L - Cr ^ 1 f counto , more, rather than mimic our favorite ora- ing circumstances^ , but set backand disaster. ' ? í ’ 0rS 0r . Now- for the í , So much for the facts applica- a notorious fact in this country, that to do. The propaganda will #become a tion. trough- of mediocrated sop, unworthy of I perceive that some comrades credit me a man w >tb a ,arKc fortiinc or a high social consideration of thinking minds unless we with a Machiavellian way of looking at position is seldom convicted, or, if so, he light sentence. If he is who write and speak in its name befit our- things, which, from the standpoint of a rev- g* s a comparatively selves better for the task before entering up olutionary movement, is a very useful way. willing to use money freely he can generally - frc , on our work of love. I do not mean to ex- Assuming then the premises of Machiavelli, £° scot Ç un |< ss popular opinion is too elude anyonefrom the propagandawho feels the two kinds of Anarchists may have been strong against him. In short, d a man lias . enough money he can buy most anything, he or she can advance the good work with good stuff to talk when most people sup - , I tongue or pen. But I do wish to urge the posed Anarchists to lx the members of a fro n a scat in the United States Senate to - immunity from punishment. Leo, in Prison youth to a deeper study of the fundamental secret society which met in lager beer sa- \ Mirror,Stillwater, Minn , — principles underlying the philosophy of An- loons and selected individuals to kill persons archism, and to a better knowledge of thc alloted for thc purpose. But that view is O they to work, ausgespielt It has been abandoned by the language in which propose . LETTER BOX. Unless we give this important matter more multitude to lawyers by lawyers to pencil - Hy »,e ur e«,c„t attention the cause will suffer greatly, our pushers, by pencil pushers to preachers, and .> IluMij.atilill rcach HS „„IHore own individual advancement crippled and by preachers to our president accidental . , Lupntimcr. Xvw York City. Kindly send us jour Anarchism be deprived of representatives of Consequently it is not worth guarding y„ur k-ucr!m» unfortunately— i*cn mislaid, its exalted ideals. against . ,i of c t- /.., /I Ir i t ' > M*.

4- FREE SOCIETY FREE SOCIETY ment of individnal liberty. It makes a con ¬ year or two, before the requisite amount of Formerly TIIK FIREBRAND. tract, which it is bound to fulfil. Individu ¬ red tape shall lie fully unwound. " als who advocate the abolition of govern ¬ Meantime,the liberties of two of our mem ¬ Published Weekly by...... 4. ISAAK. ment form no exception to the general rule. bers are in peril. Lois Waisbrookcr, at 70 ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. The exeercisc of private opinion on their years of age,is a victim of Wayland’s bestial ' part does not place them outside the pale. instincts. He got his pet grand jury to ¬ Address all Comimmicat-onB and make all Money in Orders payable to FREE SOCIETY, 331 WALNUT Unless they commit what the constitution dict her for obscenity, basing the charge on ST., Chicago. III. defines as an overt act of treason, they are filthy imaginings of his own indecent mind. Entered at the Chicago post office as second-class entitled to every right claimed by any citi¬ The article he cites is a plea for fair play to matter, October 29, 1901. zen. Any other conclusion is fatal to the woman and high ideals in love. It takes a governmental position, The publishers as suca arc not necessarily in agree¬ since even the full- Wayland to find in such an article the “ ob¬ ment with anyopinions expressed by the contributors. fledged govcramentnlist will admit that scenity ” which he himself brings to it. Out ¬ ANARCHY. A social theory which regards the union government is a means, not an end, and rageous tho the charge is,it must lie vigor ¬ of orderwith the absence of all direct government of that the people have a right to alter itwhen ously defended ; or we shall have the un ¬ Jtan by man as the political ideal; absolute individua they desire. Those who are not actually in speakable shame of seeing this aged toiler .ilxety. Century Dictionary. — arms against it cannot legitimately be chal¬ for human rights, dragged to a felon’s cell, lenged, on account of their wish to spend the last years of has CHICAGO, SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1902. expressed a life which that it were changed or abolished . A polit¬ been devoted to active cflort on behalf of 363 ical inquisition is an indefensible monstros¬ humanity. ity. The fact that this monstrosity actually Mattie D Penhallovr, the other comrade If these figures correspond Vh the number printed . - exists, and that individuals are continually under indictment, is the victim of ns scurvy on the wrapper of your FREB SOCIETY, your subscri]»- tion expires with this number. harassed on account of their convictions, a trick as was ever hatched in the brain of substantiates the Anarchist contentionthat a Wayland or a Comstock. She was the Notice all government is misgovernment. It is im ¬ postmistress here, whom Wayland hated, . possible for power to be exercised with even because he could not get her to prostitute Correspondents nnd exchanges will ¡ approx mate justice. Tjje Anarchist knows her office, by becoming a spy. Hence he de¬ please take note that we have moved that this is so, and knows why it is so. vised the following scheme. After deciding from 515 Carroll Ave., and change and Hence the forces of organized greed hate to indict Lois Waisbrooker, he induced the direct their mail accordingly. Our new him, and seek to crush him. They would weak or corrupt postmaster at Ballard, address is 331 WALNUT ST. force him to become party to a contract Wash., to write a decoy letter to Mrs. Pen- • • against his will, and because he protests hallow, pretending that a certain Ballard • against the injustice, would compel him to subscriber to Mrs.Waisbrooker’s paper bad intended for PRO¬ Also all mail LA be subject to all the disadvantages of the failed to receive the Deceml>er issue, which TESTA ÜMANA should be sent to the pretended agreement, without sharing any was the number containing the article that same address. of its benefits! Wayland’s filthy mind pronounced obscene. But there is more behind this postoffice It was intimated that her office was looked Certain Comments. matter. Cushman knows almost nothing upon as atfault in the matter. The Ballard The temporary suspension of.Discontent, about the people at Home. Nor has the postmaster knew that he waslying,at Way- ns the result of government machinations, postal department any other information of land’s instigation, since the “ subscriber,” has not in the least dampened the ardor of a reliable nature. C. L. Wayland, the pos¬ whether Wayland or a decoy duck actingfor the comrades at Home. In Tacoma and tal inspector, official sneak and unscrupulous him, did receive the paper, and the wrapper Seattle, and thruout western Washington, liar, who has several times visited thecolony in which it came was shown by Wayland to the attempt to persecute the members of the in the hope of making trouble, has never so the grand jury. Mrs. Penhallow fell into settlement at Home has resulted in making much as spoken to more than eight or ten the trap, procured a copy of the pajier from friends for the community, and in advertis¬ out of the hundred members of the commun¬ Mrs. Waisbrooker, and enclosed it in her re¬ ing Anarchist ideas. The colony was never ity. He knows absolutely nothing of the ply to the Ballard postmaster. This was in so good condition as it is today. character of the people, whom he has so in ¬ what Wayland had foreseen and hoped for ; The latest outrage, the removal of the famously maligned. The postmistress very and for performing this act of courtesy, the postoffice, being altogether unreasonable properly declined to act as spy for him, the low-minded scoundrel had her arrested. and unprovoked, has set many people think ¬ rules of the office not requiring herto perform That she cannot be convicted in a fair trial, ing. It is a fine object lesson of the tyranny any such dirty work. Upon this, the filthy is clear enough, since she had not read the of government, and of its hostility to pro¬ wretch, whose name should lie perpetuated paper, and did not know its contents when gressive thought. There is not even a pre¬ by the side of that of Comstock, his vile mo ¬ she mailed it. But Wayland, whose chief tense of justice in the matter. The post ¬ del, made a lying statement to the grand delight is.in working malicious injury on his master general, in response to inquiry by jury, about the postal privileges being fellow men, will eagerly swear to anj’ lie, Senator Turner,informed him that the post- “ abused ” by a group of Anarchists and free and will leave no stone unturned in his cow¬ office was abolished on the recommendation lovers. In the secrecy of the grand jury ardlycrusade against womanhood. He has of Congressman Cushman, because there chamber, thedastard could retail falsehoods already lost the respect of all decent people ; and he emerge from was no suitable person at Home for post ¬ to his heart’s content, safe from contradic¬ who know him will , branded with an ineffaceable master. In other words, we are to be de¬ tion. 11is mendacious slanders prevailed on this affair prived of our rights on account of our opin ¬ that long-eared bod}' to recommend the stigma. ions. We must be subject to all the burdens abolition of the Home postoffice. This was All that is needed is money to meet the and disabilities of government, without before the trial of Larkin and Adams on the necessary legal and other expenses, that this sharing the few privileges which it affords. ridiculouschargeof obscenity. Itsochanced cur may not be allowed to triumph in his A few shallow would bc wits are wont to that the prosecuting attorney in that trial, shame. Thecomrades at Home are working make merryover the supposed- inconsistency to whom the course of Judge Hanford in di¬ . hard in the matter, and have secured the of Anarchists in expecting to share in the rectingan acquittal wasa stingingand richly same lawyers who did such splendid service facilities provided by the government. But deserved rebuke, is the brother of Congress¬ in behalf of Larkin and \dams. In this case involved the principle of free speech, the there is no inconsistency in it. If the gov ¬ man Cushman; and the assault on our post- are our two comrades and perhaps ernment would only take its hands off, we officíT'is-'hifl cowardly and dishonorable re¬ liberties of , ¬ could provide all these facilities ourselves. venge for defeat. The rights of a whole the life of one of them and probably the res The postoffice and other public services are community can be basely trampled in the toration of our postoffice and a decisive but meager compensation for the injuries dust to gratify the spite of a sneaking spy end to the persecutions of the Home colo¬ A clear victory will win the attention and inconveniences entailed on us by arbi¬ and the mortified vanity of a third-rate pet¬ nists. trary authority The government seeks to tifogger. Of course, we shall keep at the of thousands of people in Tacoma, Seattle . , justify its existence, on the plea that it matter until we get our postoffice back and the country round and will enormously in western makes an adequate return for the curtail¬ again ; but it may take months, or even a strengthen the propaganda

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Washington. Is it any wonder we are nr that the preachers are wrangling over the What Is Liberty ? - 1 sec from your answer toa correspondent gent in oar appeal ? We arc poor in cash, empty ceremonies and inconsequential stu - . and need help to make this fight. Contri- pidities of childish creeds; all this I might that you do not believe in equal liberty is ¬ butions, small or large, will be thankfully note and comment upon,but it is not worth Now in contrast to equal lilxrty there un lilxrty Do you be¬ received . Send all such to Oliver A. Terity the while. The mass of humanity is strug restricted or absolute . . - at it, Home, Wash. Money orders should be gling forward blindly, busy with the small lieve in that ? And, while you are , , grim, sits would you mind telling me wlmt you mean drawn on the postofliceat Lake Bay, Wash things but Destiny, silent and , A little help from each will quickly meet the brooding with hand upon the switchboard, by liberty when you use the term ? Then dis¬ needs of the defense. But there is need of and we who watch her face, must wait, jxrlmps we could enter into a friendly great haste, as the trial is set for July. 1 Something is going to happen before long, cussion on some points of vital importance ? hope no reader will pass this by without We cannot guess its nature, but it will haj>- to the understanding of WHAT IS ANARCHY some rcsjKmsc. I shall lie pleased to give pen. How do we know? Well, jwrhaps Boston, Mass. A. H.SIMPSON. anj* further information about this case, or next week I can tell you. Ross WINN. concerning affairs at Home. o What liberty means ought to be toler¬ JAMES F. MORTON, . A Protest. ably obvious. Any external restraint on JR As no o Comrade Winn’s announcement that he the will is minus so much liberty. to his will, there can Current Comment. intends to publish a paper under the name one’s power is equal lie no absolute or unrestricted liberty, if you The world, and especially the United of Winn' s Firebrand will not let me rest. come to metaphysics But from the stand Stares,is upon the brink of a financial panic. Too many almost hallowed memories are . - nbso- of the nproaching col associated with the name of Firebrand in point of social science, liberty is called Already indications - no laj»sc can lie discerned by the close student the mindsof its founders, so I cannot refrain lute or unrestricted when limited by presents a contrast of public affairs. The shrewdest among the from suggesting to the comrade to choose human law ; and thus to equal liberty, to lx established speculating money kings arc already quietly another titlefor his coming journalistic ven ¬ assumed by law , absolute or drawing in their investments,gettingagood ture. I am certain, even without having . Liberty unrestricted hold money, preparation for the asked any of the surviving founders of the in this sense, is what Anarchists believe in. on their in , crash. The less informed and more reckless old Firebrand, that every one of them dis ¬ The proposition that liberty should beequal each person giving up a little of his to ones will go on for a few months \*et, but likes to see this name appropriated. The own form a combination for of rc gradually all will take alarm, and then a privations endured, the ceaseless labor, the the purpose - jxlling invasion, is the theoretical basis scramble tocover will precipitate the crisis. any and all means employed bythefew com ¬ " ” , The tcmjxirary inflation of business, which rades to keep the paper afloat in the first of government and clearly quite ojiposcd t«> Anarchism With the proviso that this has prevailed in this country* particularly yearsof its existence have endeared the name . of liberty indi¬ since the war with Spain, will prove a very so much to us that we almost feel it as a jxtrtion surrendered by each vidual should be the least necessary rejxl great boomerang for the plutocrats, and sacrilege to haveit resurrected with thepre- to cspcciallv for the Republican party. The fix " Winn’s.” " invasion,” it might lx, and often is, called- spirit of revolutionary discontent will then The old Firebrand was thorqly Anareh- Individualism; and is supposed by some in ¬ receivc a powerful impetus, for the people ¡«tic and « lid not recognize the ownership of nocents to beAnarchism. But the difference as soon give will be forced to realize that they have been anyone; it was the comrades’ paper, every becomes clear as we the theory of Individualism a little study The badly buncoed bythe false cry of prosperity, reader had an equal interest in it, and the serious . Individualist says it is ¬ As a matter of fact, the “ prosperity ” hus group furnished at the end of every year an " wrong" to " in i existed only as a figment of Republican as- expense account, for the information of all vade ” others and “ right ” to combine for sertion. The people are about to realize concerned. the purpose of preventing others from " in ¬ that they have the gold standard and the Shades of HermanEich and John Dawson, vading ” us. All that is metaphysical. It is an example of those impositions t empire and their inevitable concomitant arisefrom vour resting places and smite this about slavery. A peck of trouble is brewing for— fellow on the brain,who wantsto appropri- Everything in General which are quite too Terraagant Teddy and his imperialistic ate as his own private property the banner general to apply, and thus mean Nothing in crew. we first unfurled to the breezes and storms Particular. Take a case ask who is to de¬ * , * of discontent, the banner which after many cide whether refusing to lx— vaccinated,sing¬ This is about the place to assure my reail- unsuccessful efforts on the part of others, ing a bawdy song, keeping a saloon any ers that I am fully aware I am not writing has been the rallying point for the English common subject of jxnal legislation— you up to the heading of these notes. I have ran- speaking radicals in North America, please "invades” the "equal liberty ” of —, sacked the daily newspapers for something Ross Winn's Firebrand ! How do you like others and is a projxr subject for them to "current ” upon which to “ comment," but I that Mrs.Squires, you who niuned thebaby combine against: you will then see at once have found nothing new. The world wages before it was born ? What is the matter that the Individualist doctrine is just the on without any special incident, and why with J. II. Morris’, Henry Addis', A. Isaak's, general doctrine of government / ibis a mild should 1 bore you with a stale rehash of Mary Isaak's, Chas. Doering's, anil Mrs. indefinite recommendation not to govern what was last week a rcjxtition of the week Squires’ Firebrand? Comrade Herman Rich , oppressively. Then it is not Anarchism. before ? 1 might tell you that a few more the reincarnation of Heinrich Heine, lost his The true Anarchist is not a metaphysician, scandals in governmenthavebeen unearthed lift while canvassing for the paper, and our lie believes in liberty as absolute and unre¬ in Washington; that fresh facts concerning belovcdjohnPawson,alias"BobJngersoll," stricted asentiré absenceof government can the awful brutalities committed in the Phil- 1ms disappeared.* The above mentioned make it, not because he has any dogmas ippincs by our brave soldier heroes have comprised the old group, about right and wrong, invasion or non-in ¬ come to light ; that the British government Thelack of originality on Winn’s part sur¬ vasion, equality, egoism, altruism, or any¬ isstill murdering Boer women and children prises me. If heinsists on going thundering thing elsesjxculativenial incapable « .fixing in the concentration camps of South Africa ; down the endless lane of history as a pub- tested ; but because he is not, like the Indi¬ that a few more victims of our industrial Usher of a radical pajxr, why not give it a vidualist, afraid of his own logic, and be¬ barbarism committed suicide this week, lx- more euphonious name like “ Winn's Winn- cause cx{ xricncc.teachcs-him,as it also does cause they saw no other way to escajxfrom owing,” or " Vaporings,” or “ Wisdom,” the Individualist, that the more there is of poverty’s hell; that a few more "mergers” anything of that kind, but leave the Fire— - restriction, human law, trying to fix it so and trusts were formed ; that crime is still brand alone ? It cannot lx resurrected, that everyone will haveequal liberty, giving increasing ; that the courts of the country Mt. Tabor, Ore. CHAS. DOURING. upa little liberty to combine for the purpose ~ * arcgrinding outllidr usualgristof injustice, r¡ ¡;,;7Fr„„, u,c imndwriiini: ,„»i „rivai, i 7. of preventing invasion, and so forth, the convicting the jxtty criminals and ignoring umtiun, Comrade Join. Paws.». is resurrected- under^ worse off we are. The worse that is , not in the larger ones; that capital, proud and ar- the ^mini.: of Curios - Candor, who makes.“ A Call to the metaphysical -sense of being Içss hajij.y, Comrades' in this issue. Comrade Giovanni roguat , sways national and State legisla ¬ Dr. Rossi, for no one knows anything about that, hut Itlumcnau SantaCnthcrinn Itrnzil, to whom we tion; that labor, sullen and discontented, is . . wrote in the practical sense of not getting those p.r information lieforc we decided to publish tito call, restless and rebellious; that the politicians , particular things we iirettyytVcU ipe to 1

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All with ) Hamburg, Bremen, and English steam ¬ other, precious little. The Kil¬ malt factory ; a large wine factory ra each have frequent this port. kenny cats had equal liberty while they immense storage cellars; a grancry and ers also will be seen, with these chances, oppor¬ were suspended over the clothes line by their large grain and fruit dryers; a large attic It for tunitiesand inducementsheld out,thatCos¬ tails. They were better off when the drag¬ for rqx-ning of bannanas; amplestables once settled by energetic, willing to oon cut the tails and let them run, tho one cattle, hogs and poultry, and a good sized mos - - comrades, even without money, must might perhaps scare the other from the back frame house at the wharf used as a ware work , as all causes likely to effect S house, and lastly a building fitted out for a be a success fence thereafter. C. L.JAMI.' . or retail store. 1 have the greatest water a failure, are either removed have never , power in this part of the coast— sufficient existed. Should a failure after all happen people What A Coll to Comrades. for four water wheels of from six to eight it can only be the fault of the . a is most needed here is willing working Comrades! I herewith send a call to all metres in diameter, one half to one and lx‘st drinking hands. Of course, comrades who can come of you: irres|ective of sex, nation, or opin ¬ half meters in width. The > with a little cash are very acceptable. If ion! All you whoare tired of making pro|> water, the finest scenery, land and location - not willing to add it to the general fund, aganda only and consequently are desirous imaginable. they can have shares in the business stock of tasting at least a part of the good things Cosmos colony is reached in a three hours if so desirous (any round sum taken) receiv ¬ of this earth in your own time of life : who drive and in a half hours’ crossing of the ing the end of each year their part of the wish to realize in part or in full an ideal bay by ferry from Joinville, a town of 70C0 at half dividends in proportion to theamount in¬ mode of living come to me in any way you or 8000 inhabitants; or in a twoand a ' , and vested. can ! The afterward— is assured. hour s sail from Sao Francisco the best Having in my opinion amply set forth for and theorizing never filled largest and most important port in South Philosophizing anyone wlTo may take an interest in my an empty stomach, put a coat on a naked Brazil. Inhabitants. 3000 to 4000. in¬ offer and project, its advantages and Ixne body or helped humanity a bit to enjoy life My intention is to conduct only such - to fits, it remains only to outline roughly the and the things of this world. Let us put dustries as tlu place is already fitted up need different possible ways and means each in¬ preachingaside for once and practise instead. carry on, and such new ones as will require little habitant might arrange his or her mode of We all have done enough of the former to little capital to start,and that , and }* living, working, and diversion. 1. Commu ¬ know what it amounts to. Ah ! if all these work and bring large profits read instance, the nists of all phasescan enjoy Communism in ages, all had practised as much as they sales here and abroad. For- , making of wine its full sense. Can have separate housekeep¬ preached,in what good condition would we drying of bannanas the ¬ ing in a single house, communal property. ! But is already too late ? 1 think , and champagne of same, distilling of essen live it , Can enjoy land to lx bought and paid for better late than never. What do we achieve tial oils, fruit preserves and marmalades and , , with money. 2. Individualists of all phases by continuing in the old style ? The answer extracts of coffee mangue vanilla ; mangue leaf¬ can enjoy Individualism in its fullest sense lies before your vision everywhere. Where cocoa and their preparations fabrication of in separate houses without land. Can en ¬ is our gain ? I for one will not any longer drying and grinding and the . Fish and joy separate houses with sufficient land sail on this tack which only gives pain and tannic acid from the fresh leaves , planting and bought with money. Individual’s products no reward. 1 am in for another ; one that large shrimp canning tobacco arc mainly de¬ (labor ) will be bought and paid for in either will lead me into the right course, at the preparing. These products A saw mill to util¬ money or goods. Both Communists and end of which lies the natural port the whole signed for exportation. also later on, Individualists can have money shares in the race have been looking for all these ize our valuable timber will human , gardening and general stock. ages. Those who go with me derive the not come amiss. Farming , just enough for Another good feature is the independency same benefits that accrue to me, in our joint all appertaining to these . The profits of the that individuals of the feminine sex can undertakings. But should no one go with our own consumption ! partly used in the buy¬ realize in the preserve and fruit industry, me, well then, I shell go alone. You thereby sold products to be , the build ¬ which, if there are a sufficient number who a comrade; whereas 1 lose you. ing of more land and machinery lose fund. As so desire, will be left entirely in their hands; what inducement can I offer ? By ing of houses , and as a reserve Now, the gathering and cultivating of as well as I do, I yet more land can l>e obtained very cheap, besides working and producing different aromatic flowers. From four to can guarantee independency, sufficiency and adjoining mine. go in for gold digging five millreis a day on the average can be diversity in all life s necessities, free¬ Those who care to ample ’ close by, but I realized, possibly more. from oppression and last but not least, will have an opportunity dom great would I myself hold that men and women should to enjoy life and some of cannot undertake to say how ^ enough spare time , equal rights in all things, including this world, for you all, be their findings. What I have, however have the good things of and intercourse. Full freedom in welfare of your children. and which is certain to lx- in the future very assembly includingthe future and action, each one tolerating the of the prospect in view : remunerative is an extensive porcelain clay sjx'cch Here is an outline in all others. In Cosmos there can be ¬ pit. If enough capital same 1 have 3000 acres of Hat and hilly wood field and asphalt to utilize the former for no restriction, force, censure, or war, dis¬ , one third of which is cleared, could lx- arranged land about it would putes and jealousies, as every one has the one half of the latter stump free, ready to the manufacture of porcdainware. grandest as well as the only industry chance and opportunity to arrange every¬ IK put under the plow, this Ix- ing a rarity, be the . - this of its kind in the whole of South America. thing to his individual liking as not one farmer of the coast range of am article of exporta ¬ Consider, and act, comrades; for 1 State has more than ten acres of plow lancl. Another remunerative which arc very numer¬ alone in this vast State, and you can judge pasturage and hundreds , tion are our orchids It also contains it how lonely I am. The fare from New York trees, mainly orange, ba ous and variagated in this part. In fact of different fruit - , or any of the large European cities , as well as dozens of is a natural llowcr garden, a paradise for City nauna and cuajaba part ranges between $40 and $50. fruit trees. This land lies on botanists and other naturalists; for no other kinds ol of beautiful Letters for further information in any Eu Francisco, the most beauti ¬ of tlie world has the.amount - the bay of Sao , will * answered the , bugs, barbcletas and other insects, rojx'an language lx in , largest and deejx’st bay on theeast birds ful the colored same. of South America. The climate here harmless and high- . const to the future success Note: I herewith warn all worldly wise very healthy, productive and stable; A great advantage is location, in the thcorizers and philosophers, not to waste , grains, plants and vegeta¬ of Cosmos colony is its nearly all fruits ), paper, pen, and ink and little brains in semi zones midst of an ignorant population ( natives their bles of the temperate and -tropic call for comrades. I am not of , Blumenau,etc., lxing mainly in¬ criticising this arc cultivated here. I have a number Joinville - and certainly no by Germans, with a few country in need of their wisdom large, massive stone buildings ( the main habited

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FREE SOCIETY. r one else is. They can use their powers to a with cvervl>odycourteously but cautiously, does not really obey any law, he only fails to better purpose, and I can use mine in better and to keep him always at arm’s length. disobey it in letter. Obedience conscious work than in answering is tlicir criticisms. So far ns practicable in daily life, trust no¬ designed conformity. Every Anarchist is, 1 I shall not do so on any account.- body, make no promises or contracts, and judge,more or less philosophic, in fact every CARLOS CONDOR assume . no obligationsof any kind. Thus one has to some extent "rationalized think ¬ Colonia Cosmos, , S Catharina, Joinville . and thus only can you continue to be your ing." Is not all thinking somewhat ration ¬ Brazil. Poste Restante. own mnstcr. alized ? Let us lx- more anxious to live truly The growth of power and the increase of our ideal than to concern ourselves whether A Plea for Mrs. Craddock. despotism has come fromthe same source in thepeople shall regard us as " troublers" or all countries March 17, Mrs.Ida C.Craddock,a and at all times it always not. A true man will drive all else but in ¬ woman comes of education and refinement residing from small beginningsand—from harm ¬ dividual betterment out of his inspiration in New less concessions at York City, was sentenced to the city prison first. Usually something toaction, well knowing that manhood lifted is done from a on Blackwell's.Island by Judges Hinsdale, sense of duty, in nine cases up will lx- magnetic of unmeasured blessing out of ten something McKcon and Mayer, for selling one of her to please the Lord, to the world. . M. CLARKE. and we make some J books called “ The Wedding Night ” to a man our agent, our rep¬ detective. resentative. We come to look upon him as our benefactor Here ami There. Sucha verdict isone of theboldest assaults . This man in the course of time becomes our The Swiss republic still does police service on the freedom of the press that can well be master,our governor, our king. thousand times this for the European monarchies.Comrade Mo imagined. Mrs.Craddock believesshe has a Ten bit of his¬ - tory has rnndi was wanted mission in life to give the people instruction l>een repeated in the past of this by the Italian govern ¬ world first a servant then ment and the republic obeyed. on a subject of the most vital importance to — , an agent, then a representative, the human race, and in the book she discusses then a protector, and Near Hare, Italy, f> ,000 peasants burned finally a monarch the sex question in a way to arouse all the or master. the revenue houses and finally stormed the And then people venom of that self-appointed censor of the arcso f>roud of masters! courthouse in thecity. They regard them as their masters, and the morals of American jxople, Anthony Com ¬ Bolschanoff, the splendor that they Kold Russian rclxl who shot stock, ¬ lx around them as - who determined to crush her if pos - the minister Sipiaguin and has been sen sible. i/jc/rsplendor. It isalltheirs their palaces, ¬ — tenced to death, utterly ignored the farcial Mrs. Craddock is well known England, their army, their exploits, their renown. in . court proceedings and did not reply to any where she was employed at one timeby Win. Well, these things do lxlong to the people, questions Hut when he was asked whether T.Stead , the famous British journalist On and they might well be proud of them, for . . he had any accomplices, loudly proclaimed : hearing of herarrest, M r Stead they pay for them with their own toil and . atoncewrote " Yes, certainly, the Russian government her a letter commending her for the work with their own blood. Unfortunately peo¬ ." ) she was doing, and with the letter came a ple can Ixcome accustomed and finallyindif¬ I r.Skarvan,an ex -military doctor of Aus¬ ten pound note from the writer, to help her ferent to anything, even to a despotism. tria, now living in Switzerland, refused to pay his pay the expenses of the trial. People who are born under a despotismcan- taxes and sent the Locarno munici ¬ She was also defended by Rev. Ransford, notconccivcof any bettercondition of affairs pality the following letter: bat the opinions of these noted men counted than that which they find in their own “ If I was sure that the money collected by the government * for nothing with Judge Hinsdale, who, in country. That is the advantage that ty ¬ would lx employed for a passing the sentence on the woman, declared rants always have. People never like a \iseful and moral purpose,1 would willingly change and sothey pay double or that “ I have never before known of such in , arc content to go on and threefold the amount the - suffer indefinitely government demands desrcibable filth... . We consider her a dan ¬ . J. WILSON. from me. Hut I know ger to public morals.” I think I may safely that the Swiss government— like any other assume that the readers of FREE SOCIETY government rules by violence, maintains •• Philosophic — will consider the judgment of the brilliant " Anarchism. its assassins called soldiers and a regiment journalist and famous clergyman of greater In the last number of Discontent Friend of useless officers, builds prisons for the men weight than that of an unknown judge who Mortondefines coward as “ one who deserts led astray, helps the rich and oppresses the has used his power tosend a woman to^ jail his colors in the. time of danger.” How poor, supports the priests who falsify the for uttering words of wisdom and warning about one who does not dare to ever show Chi istian truth,— for thcscand other reasons to the rising generation. And I think they his colors ? Is cowardice notequally shown I would commit an immoral act if I would failing pay only will also agree with me that the battle for a in to ever advocate the Ixtter as he a centime of tax without protest ¬ \ free press is far from being won, so long as understands it as in desertion afterward ? ing, and I will yield only to force.” such outrages can lx perpetrated Is he who openly advocates " obedience - . to Comrade Emma Goldman delivered herlec¬ law while it exists" Provincctown, Mass. J. T. SMALL. a courageous, manly ture on the " Modern Phases of Anarchism, advocate of " absolute ” individual liberty,” to a large audience in Paine Memorial Hall, cspecialiyivhen all present Liberty. methods of effect ¬ Boston, May 11. ing changes in the law are to an Anarchist How is it that men lose their liberty * One comrade was out of and utterlj objectionable ? Again he says: run town from become slaves in civilized life ? - Monroe, La , because As a rule " Every propaganda has those attach . he had distributed a this loss who is a result of their own shortcom¬ from number of copies of the pamphlet " Roose¬ themselves to it good reasons” (philo¬ ings, their indolence, their supineness, their velt, Czolgosz, and Anarchy sophic ?) and "those who do so without suf¬ .” recklessness, their pride, their avarice and ficient reason.” Who is to lx- the judge of Comrade Kropotkin’s “ Memoirs” have their fondness for display They begin . by “ good " or " sufficient" reasons or reason ? been published in the French language by P conceding a little to * . those whom they ac¬ Is there an absolute good "or " V Stock, Paris, under cept as their “ sufficient,” . the title Autuur representatives, and it is a an increatc per se? “ Anarchy .is something il unc Vic. short and easy matter after ’ that. These more than a creed.” Well, then, must it not benefactors aresoon transformed into mas¬ lx somewhat deed ? Wc are told that the Home Defense Fund ters and oppressors so it always is and " - . philosophic Anarchist may draw ten thou ¬ Amount previously reported must be. It is dangerous— to give gifts, and $55.7S sand erroneousconclusions,and make a mil O. M ., Wash 5.00 still moredangerous to accept them Where - . lion mistakes in action ” ! Well, it rather A. J He II..Calif. 6.00 little is given at first, much is demanded Mrs. N Wash seems to me that "philosophic Anarchism" . M . 2.00 shortly . I,. ' after. So it is and has been in all needs doctoring! "Our J , low ll 1.50 interloping comrade Mrs. M . \W Wash the processes and ¬ 1 OO transformations of gov [does a nom de plume logically denote . ernment the H . M . Wash 1 ( Hfc in the past. We begin entrust ¬ ' by quality of the writer ?]says that . C\ , Conn . ing our business it is absurd J ...... A 1.00 to others and putting our ¬ claim M . ! .- . . to that we olxy the laws because no¬ K. >., Calif . - .. 1.00 selves in their power, the most dangerous - K. . II. « >rc... body docs ol>ey all the laws,"and Comrade J . ..— 50 innovation that wasever— permitted by man. Morton adds, " Nobody disobeys all the The only safe rule in this world, is to Total $72.78 deal laws." The true Anarchist, as I ' conceive, Home, Wady*!ay 12, 11»0^1 < j. A. VKHITV, Tr.

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