Note E13 — Chapter XX · AUTOMATIC CONTRASTED WITH SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION—Continued.

But the protection to property afforded by arms is only temporary. An increase of the standing army involves an increase of ignorance and poverty, and the last analysis of ignorance and poverty is anarchy. The anarchists of Chicago [1886] were of foreign birth. They came to the United States from the standing-army-ridden countries of Europe. They were the product, the victims, of the European governmental system. Hence, the proposal to adopt arms as a remedy for anarchy is a proposal to abandon the American idea of government for that of Europe. To preserve the society of to-day from violent dissolution, it is necessary to shoot the anarchist. But to assure the permanence of society it is necessary to educate the child of the anarchist.