l’ensemble de notre programme et moins il y aura de propriété et de gouvernement dans la société nouvelle. Et nous aurons fait un grand travail parce que le progrès humain se mesure précisément en fonction de la diminution du gouvernement et de la diminution de la propriété privée.
Et si aujourd’hui nous tombions sans renier notre drapeau, nous pouvons être certains de la victoire pour demain.
IS IT ALL A DREA.M·...
BY JAMES F. MORTON, JR.
The old cry that Auarchists are haters of mankind, and apos- : tIes of wholesale destruction, is beginning to d.ie out. T :te educational propaganda of today is ma}.dng its influence felt in most unexpected quarters. Multitudes of earnest and thoughful men and women of every class are beginning to recognize the : ;ublimity of the Anarchist ideal. The ground of criticism has entirely shifted. Instead of being denounced as human mOBsters, Anarchists are noW accused of being unpractical idealists. Only the grossly ignorant now assail us from the old standpoint. It has become quite the fashion for the more progressive Socialists, Single Taxers, and reformers of other schools, no less than for many scholars, artists, philosophers, and men of letters, to ·announce themselves" ultimate Anarchists." Yet the goal of Anarchy appears to them so lofty and distant, that, out of sheer despair of attaining it without centuries of struggle, they fall back on what they consider measures of immediate practicability. Hence they w...· ar out their lives in ceaseless political contests, chasing one ignzs fatuus after another, only to be repeatedly led astray into the swamp. For lack of a unifying principle, each petty success proves utterly futile, as a means of securing permanent results. The causes of social evils being left in full operation, all tampering with mere result~ ’is as vain as the labor of Sisyphus. Experience demonstrates that it is wiser to move straight toward the true goal, concentrating all our energies on the removal of obstacles from the path, than to wander into the devious by-ways, however attractive, along which rapid progress
