Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.

...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.

... the keynote of government is injustice.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.

The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing too outrageous to be employed against this philosophy and its exponents. Therefore Anarchism represents to the unthinking what the proverbial bad man does to the child,-a black monster bent on swallowing everything; in short, destruction and violence.