WANTED ORDER
Yes i order. That is what we Alltrchists are strugegliug
to get in the place of the shameful " chaos end disorder "
fhat we see around us.
The disorder in the World and the Misery of the
Workers is caused by the system of MIonopoly and Capitalism,
and by the brutal working of the laws, made by Monopolists
and Profitmongers to protect themsclv-es rand their dishonest
gains.
It is to the interest of Monopolists and Capitalists to
make you believe that Anarchists are "enemies of society".
They tell you that Anarchists want to turn the world
"upside down".
Workers! "The world is upside down already" and the
Anarchists are people who are giving their whole lives and
powers in trying to set it on its feet.
Anarchists are not enemies of societjl, but they are
enemies of the Capitalist system of Competition and the
Government by Mamulon, which keeps society in wretched
confusion, filling it with Crime, Fraud, and Cruelty, and
Iiisking n-eii the enemies of one -aother, instead of friends.
Under the present MVammon-based system of society,
everything is in the wrong place, ant' goes by contraries.
Everything is out of proportion. Everything is put to false
and fetal uses. There is waste everywhere; there is went
everywhere.
All the natural resources of our rich and beautiful
world nre at the? disposal of a few idle men. Workers are set
to make shoddy clothes, to jerry-build houses and to manufacture and mix rubbish and poison in foods and drinks.
The starving and shivering poor must pay hack their
hard won earnings for these wretched mockeries, which
their own hands have been forced to make only for the
exploiters' profit.
Is fhis "order"?
Language is used to defraud and deceive. The commercial advertiser, the politician, the priest, and even the
labour-leaders use fair words for their own ends, either to




make you buy some profit-making sham, or believe some
profit-protecting lie.
If a man is rich, no matter by what means he has
become so, he is flattered, allowed to live in idleness, and
to dominate the lives of the workers. He is so far free; and
law  (which, mark you, knows nothing of justice) protects
him in his idleness.
If a man is poor, there is one rigid condition on
which alone society allows him the necessaries of life, he
must become the wage-slave of some exploiter. He must
give his time and powers of body and mind to producing
something to present to a profitmonger. Then a pittance
will be returned to him, and he must live on it how he can.
The exploiter pockets his present; the slave pockets his
hopelessness.
Not merit, not need, decided who shall be supplied with
the world's resources. Money, or credit the phantom  of
money, decided that. And law protects and upholds this
arrangement, and perpetuates the human hell that it results,in.. Is this order?
It is said that soldiers and police, armies and arsenals,
torpedoes, dynamite, and the taxes that go to pay for all
this brute force, are "necessary". Necessary  for what?
"Why, to keep dis-order in the world!"
Workers! citizens! the "order" which is kept by these
brutal means is the order of a smart tomb, with a putrefying corpse inside it. Corruption is the order of the present
day. Monopoly and Exploitation are two great, cruel Crimes.
Society is heaped up, in its present hideous disorder, on
these Crimes as its foundation.
All the anxious sorrows of the workers, all the depravity and degradation of those whose lot is yet lower in the
social Chaos, are due to these two great cruel Crimes. All
Governments came into existence, and remain in existence,
to protect these two great Crimes to protect the Monopolist and to protect the Exploiter. (Aye, and to protect the
priests and other menial hangers-on   to the skirts of
mammon!)
All wars are fought to defend Monopoly to open markets
for the profitmongers, to secure wage-slaves for the exploiter,
to force the will of the strong upon the weak and of the




rich upon the poor. How long?
Mttmmon governs Man; and until Mammon be destroyed,
and the fiction of "Property" be abolished, none of us can
help ourselves. Till then all must stifle the voice of honesty
within the heart, and compete for money in order to live. And
all must compete for profit (that is, defraud and over Ireach
other competitorsj if life is to be free from anxiety, if leafiure
is to be enjoyed or the faculties allowed full development and
exerci se.
nlarmon makes law; and law holds your necks under the
yoke of this anomalous, homicidal system, where there is Private Property there must be Government. And where there is
Government there cannot be Freedon or Justice.
"(Law and Order" are jingled together in a phrase, by
those whose turn it serves to pretend that they nieau the same
thing. mWe Anarchists declare to you-and it is a matter of
social life and death that you heed ns,--that where there is
man made law there can bn, no order. It is to get Order that
we are determined to abolish Law.
Law hinders Order. Law keeps food out of hungry stomachs; for it protects the stores of the exploiter, and punishes
with penal servitude the starveling who would seize a loaf.
Law keeps the rich,rich: and the poor,poor.Law keeps safe the
gains of the sweater and the swindler.Law forbids Industry to
till uncultivated lands, unless at the exploiter's bidding; anil
takes from the worker the fruit of his tillage, should he be
employed.
T'orkers, insist that all this shall be changed. Refuse to
be governed. Resist the exploiter. We must get possession
of the means of life. WVhen everyone is fitly occupied and
everyone's needs fitly supplied, when nien co-operate as
friends having common ends in view, and when each is
allowed the scope proper to his own individuality, then and
not sooner will Order take the pi-ace of Chaos, and Society
be worth the nanie.
9Ve Anarchists do nof desire to enrich ourselves. ~We
do not want your money. We do not want to rule over
you. We do not want praise,or pay, or privilege, or power.
We want for you, for ourselves, for all, free rtccess. to the
Means of life, We want Justice. We want Honesty. We
want Human Brotherh~oo. We want ORDER.




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