THERE ARE TWO CLASSES OF ANARCHISTS.

The Assassins Are Selected by Lot, While the word “anarchism” has been much before the public during the past two weeks, and while everyone doubtless knows in a general way that its purpose is to abolish government, a brief exposition of it may not be amiss.

There are two classes of anarchists, says the Albany Journal, consisting respectively of those who call themselves individualistic anarchists and those who are known as communistic anarchists. The main purpose of both classes is the same—to abolish all forms of government a id substitute for it the authority of the individual. They differ in a few details of their creed, but principally in the methods by which they seek to carry their plans into effect. The individualistic anarchists believe in agitation without violence as a means ultimately 10 accomplish their object; the communistic anarchists are the advocates of destruction of life and property as the means to reach the end which they have in view.

The individualists are believed to maintain no organization, but as their name indicates, they seek to promote their cause mainly through the circulation of anti-government literature. They are as bitter in their denunciation of all forms of government, including that of the United States, as the communists; they regard elections as public acts of folly, courts as instruments for the exercise of despotic power, compulsory jury service as an infringement upon individual rights, and property, as it is now held, as the cause of all evils with which society has to deal. They deny the existence of God, but would not abolish religion. Marriage they would degrade to a contract terminable at the will of either party to it. At the same time they declare that they rely upon reason and the sense of right to keep society orderly and pure. While they are opposed to private property in its present forms, they would not forbid individual possession of property when once government had been abolished. Money they would abolish and in its place create a paper medium of exchange based on products. As far as possible they would pay for products directly with products, and for services directly with services.

The communists are opposed to all private possession of property, and would have it held by communities. They maintain an organization consisting of groups having each a small number of members. It is these groups that plot the murder of rulers and the destruction of property. The member who is to <illegible>his identity know only to the members of his own group. All groups are known to the leaders, who have their headquarters in Europe, but it is not known that there is any direct relation between the groups. It is because of this fact that the ferreting out of an anarchist conspiracy is a difficult matter. The individualists are the theorists, the advocates of a gradual, peaceful, social revolution. Between them and the most radical socialists the dividing line is not well defined. II they had no company they would be as harmless as the socialists. It is the communists, the advocates of abolition of government by force and violence, the anarchists who seek to carry their confused ideas into immediate effect, who constitute the dangerous element.

STATE EXCISE STATISTICS.

The Number Of License And Non-License Towns In The State,
-Excise Receipts, Etc.

State Excise Commissioner Cullinan gives the following information as to the number of license and no-license towns in this state on March 23, 1896, when the present liquor tax law took effect, and on the 1st day of January of each year subsequent thereto, which shows the variations from year to year in the results of submission of local option questions under section 16 of the excise statute for the period covered. March 23, 1896, license towns 283; January 1, 1897, license towns, 663, no-license towns, 279; January 1, 1898, license towns, 680, no- License towns, 262; January 1, 1899. license towns, 670, no-license towns, 263; January 1, 1930, license towns, 657, no-license towns, 276; January x, 1900, license towns, 660, no-license towns, 273; September 1, 1901, license towns, 649, no-license towns, 285. On April 23, 1897, the town of Greenbush, Rensselaer county, was merged into the city of Rensselaer; on January 1, 1898, five towns in Richmond county and three towns in Queens county were merged into Greater New York city, and in November, 1900, the town of Piercefield was erected according to law, thus changing the number of towns in the state from 942 in the year 1895, to 934 in the year 1901.

State Commissioner of Excise Cullinan reports that the total excise receipts In Erie county from May i to September 4, 1901, amount to $1,000,224 04, this being an increase of $79.61495 over the receipts for the same period last year.

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