A point of vital importance on which Anarchists differ with all other social reformers is liberty, freedom from external restraint. State Socialists, Single Taxers, etc., all believe in liberty, but merely as an end. As a means to cure social ills they propose to use authority—organized force—and thru it establish their pet systems, which they claim will ultimately result in liberty, the complete freedom of the individual.

The Anarchist claims that social ills can never be cured by governmental methods, or liberty achieved thru authority; but proposes liberty first, last, and all the time as a means and as an end. In liberty and in liberty only, he sees the cure for social ills; and no real Anarchist would ever think of affiliating with State Socialists, Single Taxers, etc., as some propose.

H. W. Koehn