Of late years, too, this country has been invaded by a horde of alien malcontents who, under the guise of a new philosophy, are sedulously preaching the gospel of universal hate and promiscuous robbery. All laws should, according to their theories, be repealed; every man who, by his thrift or industry, has accumulated property, is a thief; the real criminals are not those who steal horses, but those who pretend to own them; all forms of government are tyranny; and there can be no true liberty, no real freedom, until governments and laws are all utterly obliterated. This is the doctrine of one wing of these malcontents. But another gang, going to the other extreme, preach the theory that the government should be everything and do everything. They would blot out the individual, utterly. The government should own all property, conduct all business affairs, monopolize all industries. Everybody and everything should be reduced to a dull, dead level; every man, woman and child should be controlled, in all he does, by the State; should do nothing except in the service of the State, and have nothing except by permission of the State. These anarchic and socialistic forces are, however, although as wide apart as the poles in their theories, allied like Siamese twins in their common hatred of the existing order of things, and howl, in sympathetic tune, “Down with the government;” “Down with law;” “Down with property rights.” Every thoughtful, sensible American citizen, native-born or naturalized, should unite in demanding that these apostles of hate and lawlessness should be suppressed. They outrage the liberty of the land. They degrade our boasted freedom of speech. They abuse the generosity of our laws. They are public pests. They should be regarded and dealt with as criminals. Organizations such as yours should hold them to be public enemies, as obnoxious to public order and safety, and far more dangerous, than are the horse thieves who invade your barns or your fields. Is not a man who preaches and advocates wholesale murder, arson, or robbery, a more vicious criminal than the man who murders, burns, or steals in a retail way? And why should the rope of the scaffold dangle and the doors of the penitentiary open for the one class of criminals, who actually perpetrate these crimes, while the other and more vicious and cowardly class are permitted to run at large, and howl their atrocious doctrines through the press or on the stump?