ows. The Juggernaut
of society moves on, and the wretches are still crushed beneath
the great wheels. These men who are really good at first, filled
with sympathy, now become indignant--they are malicious, then
destructive and criminal. I do not sympathize with these methods,
but I do sympathize with the general object that all good and
generous people seek to accomplish--namely, to better the condition
of the human race. Only the other day, in Boston, I said that we
ought to take into consideration the circumstances under which the
Anarchists were reared; that we ought to know that every man is
necessarily produced; that man is what he is, not by accident, but
necessity; that society raises its own criminals--that it plows
the soil and cultivates and harvests the crop. And it was telegraphed
that I had defended anarchy. Nothing was ever further from my
mind. There is no place, as I said before, for anarchy in the
United States. In Russia it is another question; in Germany another
question. Every country that is governed by the one man, or governed
by the few, is the victim of anarchy. That _is_ anarchy. That is
the worst possible form of socialism. The definition of socialism
given by its bitterest enemy is, that idlers wish to live on the
labor and on the money of others. Is not this definition--a
definition given in hatred--a perfect definition of every monarchy
and of nearly every government in the world? That is to say: The
idle few live on the labor and the money of others.

_Question_. Will the Supreme Court take cognizance of this case
and prevent the execution of the judgment?

_Answer_. Of course it is impossible for me to say. At the same
time, judging from the action of Justice Miller in the case of _The
People vs. Maxwell_, it seems probable that the Supreme Court may
interfere, but I have not examined the question sufficiently to
form an opinion. My feeling about the whole matter is this: That
it will not tend to answer the ideas advanced by these men, to hang
them. Their execution will excite sympathy among thousands and
thousands of people who have never examined and knew nothing of
the theories advanced by the Anarchists, or the Socialists, or
other agitators. In my judgment, supposing the men to be guilty,
it is far better to imprison them. Less harm will be done the
cause of free government. We are not on the edge of any revolution.
No other government is as firmly fixed as