ination. But in this country the State has no right
to teach any form of religion whatever. Persons of all religions
have the right to advocate and defend any religion in which they
believe, or they have the right to denounce all religions. If the
Catholics establish parochial schools, let them support such schools;
and if they do, they will simply lessen or shorten the longevity
of that particular superstition. It has often been said that
nothing will repeal a bad law as quickly as its enforcement. So,
in my judgment, nothing will destroy any church as certainly, and
as rapidly, as for the members of that church to live squarely up
to the creed. The church is indebted to its hypocrisy to-day for
its life. No orthodox church in the United States dare meet for
the purpose of revising the creed. They know that the whole thing
would fall to pieces.

Nothing could be more absurd than for a Roman Catholic priest to
teach a public school, assisted by nuns. The Catholic Church is
the enemy of human progress; it teaches every man to throw away
his reason, to deny his observation and experience.

_Question_. Your opinions have frequently been quoted with regard
to the Anarchists--with regard to their trial and execution. Have
you any objection to stating your real opinion in regard to the
matter?

_Answer_. Not in the least. I am perfectly willing that all
civilized people should know my opinions on any question in which
others than myself can have any interest.

I was anxious, in the first place, that the defendants should have
a fair and impartial trial. The worst form of anarchy is when a
judge violates his conscience and bows to a popular demand. A
court should care nothing for public opinion. An honest judge
decides the law, not as it ought to be, but as it is, and the state
of the public mind throws no light upon the question of what the
law then is.

I thought that some of the rulings on the trial of the Anarchists
were contrary to law. I think so still. I have read the opinion
of the Supreme Court of Illinois, and while the conclusion reached
by that tribunal is the law of that case, I was not satisfied with
the reasons given, and do not regard the opinion as good law.
There is no place for an Anarchist in the United States. There is
no excuse for any resort to force; and it is impossible to use
language too harsh or too bitter in denouncing the spirit of anarchy
in this country. But, no matte