Will Anarchy Soon Subside?
By Editor
A NEW YORK paper compares the anarchistic utterances now made in New York and elsewhere to the conditions that brought about the Haymarket riots in Chicago in 1886, but offers the hopeful suggestion that just as the leaders in that riot were tried and executed, so will the leaders in these present movements be summarily handled. It may be very desirable to say things that have a tendency to allay the nervousness of many people because of present-day conditions; but it is well for us, at the same time, to look the situation squarely in the face. This world is agitated from side to side by discontented people who are earnest in their cause, and who believe that they have unbearable grievances, and who are also sure that these grievances are not occasioned by a diseased imagination, but are based upon the indisputable facts of their every-day experiences. The extremists among the aggrieved are continually uttering revolutionary and even anarchistic statements; but these few extreme radicals to one side, there still remains the vast army of discontented men and women who are ready to do and to dare in order that they may better their conditions. And we are greatly beside ourselves if we believe that this is something that will soon blow over and that can readily be remedied. If men will awake from their dream, they ought to be able to see that the world has even now reached a point where supernatural power is the only hope of terminating conditions that now threaten.