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tion by thic, public of the land ra.
lues which the public itself creat.
ed, and not the monopolists who at present pocket tliem. In 11 sincerity Freedon is: toilny a champion of Kaiserism and land lordismi. Well it ousted Kropoikin aud leherkysuli it bexo gared itsel: of brairis.
No. 212 1915 If ry, The gave Burocratic interference with personal life, writes llenry ll.
Nevinson, long the plague of 11105 European capitals from Lisbon to St. Petersbury, threat.
ens to infist the world. We are called upon to accept the expert as our controlling guide, and eficiener as the final test of Hovernment. Bees and anks, are eficient, but their progress appears to have stopped stopped dead, as we say; or if you want expert governin nt, watch the law and order of sleep before a dog. liven murder the most efficient officialdomi, tite. kovern; ed suffer a legrading loss of per.
sonality. It is disastrougato.
maintain order, lowever meclia.
nically perfect, or to organise virtue and comfort, however ju.
diciously proportionale, if personality and variety are gone.
Self govenment is better than good government, and self goiernment implies the right to go wrong: It is nobler for at nation, as for a wasi, u strugkle towarus excellence, with its own natural force anci vitality, however blindly and rainly, than to live, in irreproachable decency under cApert guidance from without.
We can think of nothing truer thun tinati of 119 ret which it could apply nore aptly than to the present; of 110 country more seriously menaced by the blights ot Purcancracy than is the United States. And nitul States bureaucracy now has its we on lexiic.
English Section fic has to live, nothing can be Jacobins, were aflame with a we have no nige fot tbox who tatec denim done; that until then all schemes great idea che ilberation of the morracy while acting as not even Hlo Edited by WM. OWEN for improving his condition by people from those unjust privi Infallibility. thu Pupe, texiay dares to public schools and similar futili leges of which the feudal sysSUBANDUN KATES Send money payable to ties are palpably absurd. Listen tem was the iniurpation, But Hy what God given instinct does Wilson knows that Carranza is purer than Single copy, cts.
How to Dr. Rowe, who says upon they were pioneers, lacking in Villa, more upright than Zapata, more ENRIQUE FLORES MAGON his lead: Onedollar a year. 1110nths. Soc. Satur. a, Nov. 13, P:0; Box 1236, Los Angeles, Cal.
experience, possessing for their in touch with the masses than Ricardo The anarchy of recent years guidance none of that great body Mugon, and so on down the list? Who kreat ludustrial and poliital pir: froin the public tlie very infor has served to make it clearer of establisheit facts which the made THEE a ruler over US?
WHERE WILL STATE ilice levy on the tabor vf. a world mation which it was directly the than ever before that the prima last century has placed at our We anticipate that facts will prove todas; that no Louis XIV, how public interest to obtaini, fundamental problem con: disposal. Almost to a man they SOCIALISM STOP? ever absolute bis authority imay the Kuiser has shown the world fronting Mexico is, in its essence. looked to the State 49 to their Eęgland has been forced into a big hits educational.
seen to have been, ever dared to low hollow was the pretence of Those who are savior; almost to a man they be tog position she will have to go the hurl entire nations into war, as self government in Germany, best acquainted with the Méxi lieved that the one will of the whole hog and adopt conscription. But Deep, dcep pess misili scems do our modern dress coat kings. Wilson has performed the sain that through education he can be Supreme if out of chaos order Labor but the Privileged Class also can peon entertain no doubt centralized government must be she must go the whole hog. Not only every wliere to mark the workers; The Kaiser set the, avalaticle kindt, vilice of the smugly sel sa tiade not only an efficient work was to come.
must be coriacripted. Now that Eng. pessimism withi wliiclil personIf ever devoted lard has to fight for her very life those ally have little patience. Eversa ilt moti011; the Kaiser was the tistiod voters of the United States.
er, but a capable citizen, suffi State Socialists seized the reine who claim to own her should be made wbere the distrust au hatred is first to step boldly to the front They thought theinselves sovreciently strong in his convictions of power those State Socialists to contribute to their last acre.
of civilization as a whole; the avid put to the proof of action the edgns and it was well that they to resist the allurements of false were the French Jacobins; and day of the real Social Revolution is drawing very near. What is the Usc? attitud; the general conviction that Labor, should learn the truth. If loudly heraldea Jeffersonian leaders and selfseeking politi they discovered, to their imFor a year payt nine tenths of this al It too much for me and give from all its high flown talk it rip tone of dispair; disgust only a vulgar bluffer; the Kaiser Democrats turn their coais tte cians. To make such education measurable confusion, that their legedly self governiug nation has been with the entire business and, at was the first to tell his subjects moment they get into office and possible will require great finan remedy was far worse than the down on its narrow bones, praying to cial sacrifice on the part of the original disease they sought to bile Great Father bend every energy toward increas.
at Washington Bottom, a longing to get back to that they were his subjects and nation, but the permanent stabil. cure. They abolished the com to keep it out of war. That gives the the wild.
of our self reliance, That No one who follows nothing else; slaves of his State sing the imperial power of the ity of Mexican institutions can paratively harmless Louis XVI measure.
be secured in no other way.
shows the level to which a generation attentively the talk at labor ard chessinen to be moved hither and State, we have no right to be asand crowned in his stead the of paternalism and worship of the State tonished at any thing a vowed agitation incetings can fail to thither as his brain dictated, maRepublicans The situation becomes, there. arch type of the warrior auto has brought us.
may do or annonce notice this. There our entire so Chine guns fo fire when he Tuis he told them their wish to do, for the Repuba ican revolutionists have done Napoleon the Great, to weaèh the the order, fore, clear as crystal. The Mex. crat, whom men still speak of as Having crawled out of the lusitania cial system is denounced constantcontroversy with Germany, our carly as rotten from top to toe, every bluntly in a notable address deli lican party has always been the party of Protection, of Paternala their utmost to rid themselves Europe of his day the lesson it toonists now picture Uncle Sam beamone is said to have his price; inci vered some twenty years or more of their ism of power concentrated in the undesirables; those only half digested and is now re ing with satisfaction over An incident This, he repeated so fre ago.
who preyed upon the workers. learning. Since then, closed, dern life is treated as a As If such an incident ever warfare of conflicting interests, quently that the thoughtless State Senator Borah, of Idaho, The secretary of the Pan Am saintly character of the State has COULD be closed!
for example, seeks its in which quarter should be nei came to regard it as a joke; but for the presidency, and Senator erican Commission, who may passed under a black cloud of However, Mexico is looked on as a ther given nor expected; immedli. observe that late estimates give justly be regarded as represent. doubt. Since then that doubt Mr. Easy Mark; and it is thought. alBorah has a State Socialist pro: ing President Wilson veiwpoint, has grown and grown in the beit there are doubters, that the game ate material gain or loss alone is the German losses in this war as That gram which even Germany might considered discussion, already five million lives.
hopes that, with the recognition minds of the intelligent and well worth the candle. Dame Partington worth Rarely does any speaker attempt is the supposed joke coine hoine envy. He urges that, crippled of Carranza, these undesirables informed; of those who trough Europe will be for years ulti of nation; good at a puddle but cowur.
to rost.
to jock away this gloom, for to to come, we must protect ourmay be induced to return to Mex mately shape the thinking of ing boforo storm.
Mdanwhile other rulers have nos Inject liumor is to incure the su:selves against her armics, her ico and help once more to govern even the most thoughtless. Topicion of being insincere. No; been slow to follow ihe Kaiser labor and her products; that in her. The revolutionists have day Labor shares that doubt.
When you say you are too proud to labor and revolutionary meetings 1:add, understanding well from his short, as the New York World been a unit in declaring that un Today Libor, while sleepishly fight for right and justice what do you REALLY mean?
are not cheerful, experience that they also can T:marks editorially: We must til land monopoly is overthrown applauding the politician prom. This dejection stands out itt siap their fingers safely at the follow the evil example of a secand the disinlıerited peon put ises, of thrusts its tongue iuto its Reverting to the President Amertalk shops, Everye tion of Europe that ignores the again in possession of his naturn wheek and cocks its eye in shrewd ica first speech; former Senator marked contrast to the optimisin national which characterized the firench re were, with war it the saddle, individual and deifies the State. al inheritance It is idle to talk of suspicion. Today Labor, down Bourne; head of the Republican Publivolutionists of the seventeenth political governors have taken to It adds that, according to Serrat of State School and those other pointment, is damning in its the diplornacy of Seward and Blaine uplifting him by the institution cast by years of bitter dissap city Association, puts it thus; century; men who felt themselves theinselves authority they never or Borah, to be truly great, gemimcharitable devices which heart of hearts the whole of that and Root and Hay with that of Bryan certain of their goal, confident of would have dreamed of usurping America must accept the tutelage success, positive that tliey had an in times of industry and peace. of Germany in iis Socialismi, in have proved themselves the most intolerably toilsoine and detesta and Lansing and Wilson. We are willing all important mission which they One can understand how it is lave that the French, attacked and in dizement of Government. Once its militarist and in its aggran palpable of failures in other bly monotonous slavery we dig to put in parallel columns Mr. Wilson were destined to full.
countries, and notoriously in the nify with the name of Civiliza nytes to Germany and Mr. Blaine notes to Italy. We do not regard a trict vaded, submit lo enormously an that strait jacket, tariffs, subUnited States found a similar optimisini atlong The micretary, tion; though it means the de axolotability, which was not enforcert, many Mexican revolutionists, a. creased doses of State Socialisin sidies, espionage and tyranny if the peon is taught his letters toxicating elevation of the few; dond, which produced results, on the otlier hand, considers that gradation of the many and the iu as equal to a Perdicäris alive or Raisouti mong a few Anarhrists and Sr. as a medicine rendered tempora will come as a matter of course, rily necessary by the war into cialists, but seldom, if ever, bit rougte, perhaps, but, as it seems It is the Pan American Inter, all will be well with him, wealtli beyond the wildest dreams to us, straight to the point.
annone Trade n onists, of whom which they have been: plunged. national lligla Commission which Thus State Socialism invariab. of avarice for the paupered dara for many years had wide and in One can understand the similar is supposed to have decreed this ly works out, feeding the fam. ling of the State, and poverty If the German and Austria 11 timate experience. And this in case of England, hitherto the intervention in favor of Carran ishing with glittering phrases such as no savage will endure for its turn means that Tabor, as a most stubbornly individualistic of capitalists really started this za, but the voice was indubitably and heading off which glowing the State victims; the, subverwar, as so many of our revoluwhole, ling still no confidence iu all countries, But the United that of President Wilson and his promises and troops every sin sion of all natural law to maits future; has no self reliance. States la ave not been threatened inmediate advisers. it happens, cere attempt by the disinherited chine made artificialities which things, they were intiy think, they certainly were poor is guiltily conscious that it still seriously by wat, and here today however, that Dr. Rowe to get actually the actual things outrage at every turn of Life e business calculators. Not only lacks the plack to face its pro mi itarism, whose God is or secretary of lie Cominission, ba they actually need. And just as deepest varieties. The stormhas their foreign trade been blems and, therefore, simply ders anel whose ideal is couicen published an alleged explanation worship of the State has led the clouds are, gathering and we blown to smithereens but they drifts. a thing of ciremustance tration of authority in the hands of its action, and from this Germanis into their Kaiser bait shall do well to heed them. Alhave been compelled to contri tool ready for the first master of a commender in chiel, is for quote for the benefit of any who ed trag, with a loss already of ready we have a large nest of bure in forced loans a sun genhaud that lias grit to the moment sweeping all before it, How many free born Anmay still suppose tliat the inter Some 5, 000, 000 lives, so will our inaddened hornets within erally estimated as approximatseize it. Roosevelt kulowX that: ests of the Mexican masses were own idolatry cost us a logs in life own borders, and there is much ing 000. 000, 000, which is no Wilson knorys it; the dominant erican citizens will you find to those the Commission sought to no man as yet can estimate and danger in thrusting our hand aneezing matter.
political minds or mis ken. protest. against Wilson impe further. Here, for example, is weaken incalculably our whole into that beyond the Rio Graneration all recognize that they rially autocratic. decirit that what Dr. Rowe lias to say con social fabric; materially and mo.
We call attention to the car.
can swing Labur whicle way ury Cirranza shall be President of cerning the patriotic Mexica ns rally.
Had the people of the WÁ. OWEN. toon Ei Militarismo Prepotenwill, and tliey intend to swing it Alexicu? How many will be ira chiefly Cientificos aud land United States been really consulta te (in free translation Alilitar in their own direction. That di cignant over that gross ustirpa. monopolists who ran at the first ed as to intervention in Mexico; isin on top. which appeared in rection is muestionately Suta ton of power by whiili III issued our işkile of Oct. There, ay Socialisın, the more towerings corders that this country should their tom of disorder, leaving had they been informed as to the JOTTED DOWN their own country to stew in her true conditions the ruin wrought the editor of this section consiambitious all goverument medicine trrow neutrality to the winds by. Ow11 juice: by land inonopoly, the monstrous do not want to live under a philato ders, is the real origin of this ever forinulatert by the listiian kiving Carranza troops the adDuring the five years of tur fortunes inade, by worse than of by the government, wither directly war, and militarien is essentially mind, vantages of passing umnolested. moit through which Mexico has worthless speculators out of the rɔ by any instrument though which go the creation of the State, InThere will be resistence; resis. through United States territory, been passing a large proportion life blood of the starving peon; vernment is acting. And Again: dustry seeks customers, but nitence of the most stubborn and while those of Villa or other lead of the men best fitted to co oper. had they been really consulted. for one, do not care to live litarism seeks territory, land; bitter type; a conflict beside which ers are to be shot down as ban ate in the rehabilitation of the and really informed, as partners in a country called Proe, ever under and that is quite another matthat now rending turope will dits? How many will compre country have either exiled them liave the right to be, never would kind masters. prefer to live under no masters at all. And yet again!
pale into obscurity; the desperate hend that in all this we hi ve selves voluntarily or have been they have consented to the shed dont care how benevolent the master Natural law, says a writer opposition, for many years to gone back to the days of absolute compelled to do so. The same ding of one drop of blood or the is going to bere will not live unders in the Middletoni Guardian, of come, of a minority too intellj. monarchy and are subinitting to spirit of helpfulness which anim spending of one cent for the re. master. ro There Anarchism for you! England a stalwart opponent of gent to look on indifferently while a one man rule far more danger ated the deliberations of the establishment of those iniqui The quotations are from The New our race, with freedom in its ous than that which provoked us hy Woodrow Wilson, Land Monopoly and staunch Pan American conferees in ties which it has beeņ the rightPresident of the United friend of the Mexican Revolugrasp, passes into the very worst into rebellion against George III Washington and New York eous business of the Revoļution States, The Alarm, brought tion asserts the right of indiof slaveries. That minority will of England? note that. Waslıshould now lead them to impress to overtrow. But they have out once more by the International viduals to life. Karl Marx and light, and fight to the death. ington now warns the transpor upon the newly recognized gove not been consulted. All has been Propagauda Group of Chicago, reprc.
the German Emperor deny this.
That minority inust light, for it tatiou companies against furni.
will have as its would be execu, ing supplies to Carranza en ciļiatory policy a policy which scenes; hatched out in darkness. The same paper cites Forbes. as a State property or chattel. ernment the importance of a con secretly arranged behind. the duces them.
The former claims the individual tioner the will to lower of the anies, and ask again Where will restore to Mexico the. valua. of the privy couucil; based on financial editor of the Chicago Even the latter as a chattel of a unilidominant few eising tlie will less will tliis one ınan ordered intei ble elements shie has lost. the prejudiced reports of secret ing American, as pointing out many as its cudgel. All this we vention stop?
tary clespot. Tlie consequence is The Revolution rid the couis detectives whose first anxiety is annually in this country we pass five can see developiug under our very noses in these United States, Professediy, and by writings on with concentrated in Los Ange the fancy of a single dictator ng the last five years 62, 600 new laws the War God in a similar qualifi.
Wilson is allegedly a Dernocrat. try of these parasites, who forth to please their masters: shaped to times as many laws as do all the other a belief by Marx in the divine. countries of the world combined. Dur. prescience of the State, and by which, passing annually five times which he was content to rest his les, San Antonio and other fash. who, with democry ever on his were passed. And still we are neither cation possessed by himself, more laws than all other civiliz tittle to fame before politics got ionable resorts, where they plot lips, is the type par excellence of good nor happy.
That seems to us well put. In ed nations combined, forges the hold of hin, lie was a Jefferson ted unceasingly for the restora that State Socialist dictatorship chain so deftly that the prisoner jan Democrat and believed that tion of the old regime. The Com which in Germany has blossomWilson America firat speech was our view State worship always still thinks he is being born. 1e government the best that govern mission, now looks forward ed out into the Kaiser and his challenged immediadoly by the Republi always ends in war.
his opening bid for re election and was ends in autocracy, and autocracy ward freedoni. Yet even now inced least. In office, however, he hopefully to their return to Me war mad following: cans, who score him mercilessly for these United States the intelli 11. 19 slown himself. ug. far the xico and participation once more lave spoken of liat opti lying down to Germany. At the com. The saine paper takes Freegent are beginning to understanel most autocratic of all our Prusiin the mis conduct of their coun inisin which marked the leaders ing session of Congress they will ardom (London organ of the Comthat no priesthood ever dired to dents. Not even Housevelt, when try.
of the French Revolution and is raign also his autocratic, star chansbor regulate the lives of its followers be created a revolution in colom methods in the matter of Mexico, and minnist Anarchists) stéroly and Again: if the Revolutionary so conspicuous by its absence in ay our City Councillors regulate bia and swiped the anava strip. straggle of the last five years insist on production of the public doc. most properly to task for its the modern labor morement. ments hitherto witheld by President gross ignorance of what the folthe life of the American citize11 acted so entirely yn his own i. las taught us anythiøg it should For that absence, there is good Wilson on the plea of publie utlHty. lowers of Henry George, who are today, that 110 biron of the Mid tiative as Wilson has acted in be tliat until the disinherited reason; a reason that, gaziog on These happen to be the very grounds numerous and active in England, dle Ages, watching from his this matter of Mexica no former Mexican receives back his herit Mexico and Europe, we should be on which wo have attacked the Presimountain cyrie, cyer levied on Freedom thinks Presiilent none ever actori so se dent in the last three numbers of RE really want age, becoming in sonié way ow. able to understand. The origithe labor of a country as our We have no use for thoke they want to tax land whereas cretly; none kept o assiduous er uf the land on and by which nal French Rerolutionists, the who make warmly on the weak, what they seek is the expropriaseemi to ilis Our ter, In Sa Francisco, where the Stirbus politiian ruled the ruost so many years. Labor candi.
dates for Mayor went down receutly to inost in nominious. de feat. Ju Los Angeles Progrehe sivrisni, Alich lorierly swept all before it and absorbed tlie Socialist movement, has lotesi 10wed under. Wlu carts a suap of the finger guday whether Secialisin qacs or cloves pot control Milwaukee? And us tor the So.
cialist Party itself, about the only peep it now tintires tú let out is that carmon militarism is showing lis low ficient anıl, therefore, nesir. ibile in State in increment and worship: The IWW. is nuteriulisly. blister Balloon and the. Imerican Heleration of Ladvor, wursted invariabile in its ball learted :flicts with capital, sinky 111 Te and izgore dople in to die mudofades a ring Cullservatismi.
As for the Anieliets, Jean Gravi, who is peripsta ir leading Buropean sprokesmaij, begins his leaving, ar icke in La Libre Federation with the assertion that at this actual lour they are disorganized and, more and 1010re, ilesorientes. which means that they do not linow whither they are leading. Yes, indeed. novement that does not understand that its basis is the free individual; that does not understand that freedom implies abstention from invasion and battle to the death peainst the invader such amovenient has cxactly the strength and consisten.
cy of a rope of sand, The future necessarily belongs to Anarch: işmi, forman unquestionably is destined to be free. But it will be all Anarchism founded on principle and 110t the sensational hudge podyp that lias of late, under the driving of freeds nuo toriety hunters, usurped the name. The clouds are freaking and tlie great contest of the future, that between Freedom and Authority, is taking visible sliape. With a true German rey volutionist, though of an age how past. Ludwig Plan we sing: Thank God, this too batha King;this too hath agreat.
King done!
now hat GENERACION.