Under the above title, Francis B. Livesey, the noble, self-sacrificing reformer, whose letters have gone before millions of readers, writes of the two kinds of Anarchists, naming Dr. J. C. Barnes as the representative of one school, and the man who killed the king of Italy the other.

Let us see how much difference there is between the two schools.

If brigands should make a call upon Comrade Livesey for the purpose of carrying off his wife and children, I am of the opinion that he would make a strenuous resistance if he had the least idea that it would avail to save his dear ones from being captured. Again, if the ruffians should be successful and depart with their booty, I still incline to the opinion that our comrade would be willing to accept the services of his neighbors to effect their rescue, and that, if the robbers were killed in the effort to retain possession of their booty, he would feel that they had met their just fate. Now, let us look at society. Anarchists claim (and with truth) that the people’s heritage has been stolen from them, and that so long as the thieves retain possession of the plunder it is utterly impossible to have a peaceable and harmonious society. As a matter of morality, is it wrong to kill the robbers to get back that which was never rightfully theirs? Certainly people are justified in taking what belongs to them, and if a member of the brotherhood of thieves occasionally loses his life at the hand of one of the dispossessed, why should there be such a hue and cry raised over the incident?

The question, then, resolves itself into one of expediency rather than of morals.

So long as ninety-nine out of one hundred men we meet in our daily rounds are ignorant of the fact that they have been robbed of their birthright, it is useless to advocate the employment of force to better things. This being the situation today, it is for us to do all that lies in our power to educate those around us as to the methods by which the fruits of their labor is stolen from them. Explain to them the absolute necessity of having free land, free money, free trade and why the patent laws should be abolished.

When enough of the people shall learn that those are the main factors in stealing the fruits of their toil, then the days of the exploiters will come to an end.

Of course we all hope that this change may be made by evolution rather than thru revolution, but the men and women who defend policies of benevolent assimilation and then open the vials of their wrath on the heads of the militant Anarchists, are not the ones to give us points on morality, or aid in the work of establishing equal liberty among the people.

Joshua T. Small

Provincetown, Mass.