Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1914 — AN ANARCHIST PARADE. [ARTICLE]

AN ANARCHIST PARADE.

A thousand anarchists, masquerading as the victims of no employment, marched up Fifth avenue Saturday last, shouting defiance to the law and interfering at every step with the rights of others. The gang was led by Alexander Berkman, who served a prison term for attempting to murder Henry C. Frick. Behind him marched Emma Goldman, Carlo Tresca and other members of the ' n .ttstrial Workers of the World. The flag under which they marched bore the watchword of the Italian anarchists. "Demolitione.'’ Berkman, Goldman, Tresca, Marmor, Tannenl.aum the names j indicate the foreign nature of the movement. Possibly there tiiav have been a few Brown-, Joneses and Robinsons in teh procession, but they were not its inspiration.

Many of the leaders have not for years been engaged in any productive employment. The Goldman woman, for instance, is nothing more than a professional anarchist and revolutionist. A few years ago she spoke in this city before a representative audience, attempting to show how effective, and yet how harmlessly philosophical, anarchy was. Here is what she said in New York Saturday: Your toil made the wealth of the nation. It belongs to you. The rich are keeping it from you. The officials do nothing to help you. March down to the mayor. March down to the police. Margh down to the other city officials. Make them tell you what they are going to do to give you food and shelter. , Go to the chuhches, go to the hotels and restaurants, go to the bakeshops, and tell them they give you something to keep you from starving. This started the shrieking, hysterical mob. if jt was like other I. \V. "*• mobs it was composed of men many of whom would not work at any job. Nothing could be mere unAmerican. There are plenty of people in this land who, even in hard times, manage to find Work and' wages. But they a not join mobs whose object is to live without working. Over anu overagain the Ameri'■n toilers have showed their hostility to this organization and its methods, as well they may, for they ave suffered because of them.

Wc note that'Mr. I.inooln Steffens interceded for this gang, and per suaded the police to allow it to use 1 nion Square as a place of meeting, '•\«-n though it had no permit. And this suggests that this country has mad, at least for the present, quite enough of the preachments of Stef- *' us and his kind. Manv people have,been led to believe that eondii ns in the l nited States Were fund- » ntally wrong, w hereas tlmy are JVettir and always have been—in i cis country than in any 'other. There is much to be done in the wav of reform. But it can and will ' '• done under the forms of law:, and as a result of the sober action of the people. Never in the history of the world were men and women as free as they are in the United States at the present moment. The . government is their government—not one imposed on them. Our sentimental philosophers would do well to reconsider some of their views in the light of the facts.—lndianapolis News.