Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1892 — Three Classes of Anarchists. [ARTICLE]

Three Classes of Anarchists.

Harper's Weekly. The sober fact is that when we look at the anarchists individually, we can distinguish several classes of them. One class consists of young men with some natural brightness, but little education, who consider themselves too good for steady work, who first started as socialists, and who were carried away by the ambition to distinguish themselves by being more radical than the rest, by (imposing more violent “remedies” or existing evils, and by runnhag their half baked theories to more ab-

sorb extremes. There are some sfircere fanatics jjmong these who will do atrocious things with w-eertsun conciousness of self-sacrifice, and also meet death with composure. but the character of their dementia makes them no less dangerous nor less criminal, either in the eyes of the law or thoses of common-sense. bawlers, who have nothing in their heads but a rich vocabulary of catch words expressing their detestation of the “capital beast,” and theireagernes# for “revenge.” Herr Most is a fair representative Of this class. He has tbe reputation of being personally acoward, but nobody pronounces Hie blood-thirsty formulas of bis creed with greater fluency and a richer affluence of language. There are, however, anarchists more radical than lie, who set him contemptuously down as a “reactionary.” A third class consists of men who, under the guiSe of avenging the wrongs-of the poor or of vindicating the rights of labor,commit any crime that promises to satisfy their needs or that suits- their tastes. They are well represented by the Frenchman Ravachol!, who- recently met his fate on the scaffold. They are simply common' robbers and assassins. But in the same measure as the other classes of anarchists use the same means to effect their “‘social revolutions,” they will have practically to be treated as belonging to the same category.