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FAIR PLAY. tt7 Vol. II. who can wage war on the Church have lost the right of presenting themselves under those denominations. I do not mean to condemn all the liberal schools frpm which I differ, but without mentioning suffragists of the W.

C. T. U. type, it seems to me that the result of such conventions as the Washington women's convention of three years ago (where so many red ribbons and high hats were displayed and where Miss Willard made such long prayers), the Denver congress mentioned by Mr. Cohen, the Kansas equal suffragists' convention mentioned by Lillie White and many others prove conclusively that the work of women is gener-ally puerile if not bigoted when they are left to their own devices.

I can not see why unequal conditions condemn women to "certain means of agitation," those means being speech making, press reports, blue stocking efforts and no more I can not understand in what respect I have shown myself bigoted and lacking in sympathy for those who are not dyed in that particular shade of blueness which pleases me best. The particular shade I prefer is certainly logic and fairness. I do not find it in Voltairine de Cleyre's letter. Very fraternally yours, Caroline K. de Maupassant.

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When the Communists of the Most stripe withdrew their support for this reason and because, as Most expressed it once, they had been disappointed in their expectation of winning me over, there was not one who could bring the charge that I had ever been different than what I was when I edited the Alarm in this city. As all this is matter of history to all my friends in New York City, whether of my "school" or not, 1 leave it to them to render the verdict as to who is the liar. Lum. Mr. Lum's history and record in No.

17, Vol. II. of Fair Play is such a startling disclosure to a constant reader of the old Alarm under Comrade Parsons and the new Alarm under Lum, that it appears to me to be not out of place to quote some of his articles in the old Alarm, even if for the purpose of refreshing his memory, only. Mr. Lum in his "history" says: They were "disappointed in not winning me Why should they not be "disappointed," Mr.

Lum? Had we not a right to expect that you would conduct the Alarm upon the same basis as when you were associate editor with Comrade Parsons, at least so long as you carried at the mast-head of your editorial page the last editorial written by Comrade Parsons, turning the management of the paper over to your charge and calling upon all comrades Communist-Anarchists to support it, as his last request, and sustain you as worthy of their confidence. For the purpose of refreshing Mr. Lum's memory I will ask him to read the following two editorials, signed "Lum," which appeared in the Alarm of March 6, 1886 the last number, two, that appeared under Parsons before its seizure and suppression by the Chicago authorities on May 6, 1886 and I leave it to the readers of Fair Play to decide whether or not Mr. Lum's history as well as his memory does not need revision In order to economize space we have left out such portions of these articles as do not bear directly upon the point in controversy. Eds.

F. P. COMMUNAL ANARCHY. A distinction has been sought between what has been termed Mutualistic Anarchy and Communistic Anarchy, but it is one we fail to recognize. Anarchy, or the total cessation of force government, i3 the fundamental principle upon which all our arguments are based.

Communism is a question of administration in the future, and hence must be subordinate to and in accord with the principles of Anarchy and all of its logical deductions. Anarchy proclaims that sovereignty of the individual, the abrogation of all artificial inequalities, and the total cessation of coercion over a minority, even if that minority be a single individual. To secure this end it demands the abolition of the State. This involves the destruction of the privileges now legalized and which are the cause of our social discord. To abolish the State is one blow to destroy special privilege.

With the fall of the legal scaffolding property ceases to be a ravenous beast and is converted into a useful domesticated auxiilary to individual effort. Government exists merely for the protection of special privileges their laws confer upon property. Anarchy being our fundamental principle, no scheme of social administration we may advocate, must be contrary thereto. In using the word Communism, therefore, we in no wise abridge the rights of the individual. But why use the word at all? it may be asked.

In speaking of the individual we believe Anarchy covers the whole ground but in speaking of society in its associative phase, forming into groups for the purpose of production and distribution, we prefer to use this old term, and by associating it with the qualifying word Anarchy, Tescue it from the abuse into which it has fallen. Each writer in The Alarm is responsible for his own articles, but in giving them editorial space they become representative of principles inculcated by this paper. We would therefore say that The Alarm does not advocate the institution of any system whereby individual right can be invaded. We demand the abolition of the legal sanction to property, believing the destruction of exclusive claim to products for speculative purposes will leave property communal. We recognize the right of each to own and possess the result of his own labor; he may make a machine if he wish and call it his "private property and no one can object, for under communal-anarchy his claim would involve no infringement upon other's rights.

But where the claim has no sanction in law it becomes harmless. In attacking private property we are combating the legalization of privilege. In using the word State we refer to any alleged source of authority and hold the principle to be as operative in the Social Communes of the future as in the political republic of the present. This is also another matter of history IS THE COMMUNE A FINALITY Accepting this fact Social readjustment through revolution, I look for the inauguration of productive enterprise by what is known as the Commune that is, a voluntary association of workmen who take the tools and appliances of production into their possession when the legalised incubus is destroyed. In so believing it by no means follows that we have attained finality.

We can not, as Anarchists, assert that the revolutionary method, adopted instinct-' ively in the Social upheaval, must remain a permanent Social institution. While believing in the inauguration of the Communal method that trade associations will avail themselves of the existing plant set free from legalized capital, I am not blind to the fact that the method may be questioned as the best suited to future exigencies. I can readily sympathize with the Individualist who sees in the enfranchisement of the laborer from bondage to privilege, the highest incentive to develop his natural capacities to their fullest extent, and believes that this will be best attained by going it alone." To a great many, such will be the case. It may also be true that such emancipation the full consequences of which we can not foresee will lead to such unfolding oflnatural capacities as will render the Ccmmnnal method of the revolutionary stage no loneer essential. To deny G.

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While we insist that he shall not encroach on the equal liberty of his fellows, within the individual sphere we must not invade. Man is wiser than men let us not forget that in our enthusiasm for pet projects for man's advancement, and that man has no organ save through the genius of the individual. I find by reference to my complete file of the Alarm that Mr. Lum was always in thorough rapport with the Commwnis-Anarchists, whose-organ the Alarm was under Parsons' editorship. I ask Mr.

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