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cies are developed in one generation and transmit- 

 ted to the next. 



Nihilism and anarchy are inevitable results of 

 class hatred. Children born of parents of the 

 middle and lower classes frequently have an 

 innate antipathy for the wealthy and those in 

 authority. This inborn aversion is easily fanned Nihilism and 

 into hatred by the political agitator and often Anarchy. 

 results in anarchy or crime. 



If the Government is to stop the rapid increase 

 of this dangerous class it will be necessary to 

 respect a man for his manhood regardless of his 

 bank account, stop irritating for political pur- 

 poses the antagonism between capital and'labor, 

 and cultivate a more kindly spirit between the 

 masses and the classes. 



Many criminal anarchists have received pre- 

 natal impressions which strongly inclined them 

 to commit crime. Ling, who cast the first dyna- 

 mite bomb in the Haymarket Square riot, in 

 Chicago, inherited his hatred for th'e nobility 

 from his mother. She was a housekeeper in the Ling the 

 home of an English landlord and is said to have Anarchist, 

 suffered many impositions during gestation. 

 She not only despised her oppressor, but in her 

 moments of anger threatened his life. Ling, like 

 Ishmael, was born with a deep feeling of revenge 

 interwoven in every fiber of his nature. 



A striking illustration of the evil effects of 

 class hatred as a prenatal influence is seen in the 

 atrocious crimes committed by colored men in the 

 South during the last quarter of a century. It is 

 a significant fact that most of these colored crim- 

 inals were born during the agitation preceding 



