Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1894 — ANARCHY AND LIBERTY. [ARTICLE]

ANARCHY AND LIBERTY.

The insane attempt of the the Anarchist Vaillant to destroy the lives of the French Deputies, thus endangering the safety of hundreds of spectators who could by no process of reasoning be held in the remotest degree responsible for the alleged evils under which the poor of that country are struggling, has produced a reaction in France that will make the struggle harder than ever. Repressive laws have been enacted that in their very nature must faork further harm, if they do not actually throttle the .progress pf free institutions. Socialism and Anarchy are the product of exalted ideas of personal liberty taking hold upon improperly balanced minds with a natural tendency to radical views on all subjects. Conservatism is an unknown and probably an impossible quantity with such people. It is certainly a matter to be regretted that the modern idea of liberty has so largely taken this form, or has been influenced by rabid and impracticable malcontents who seize upon every trivial or irremedial wrong as food to feed the flames of fierce desire, and seek to lead the hosts of liberty to impossible and unknown heights only to land them in the quicksands of defeat and dire disgrace.