Source: Mother Earth
Source type: magazine
Document type: editorial column
Document title: “Observations and Comments”
Author(s): anonymous
Date of publication: October 1907
Volume number: 2
Issue number: 8
Pagination: 295-302 (excerpt below includes only page 297)

Regarding the reference to Bonaparte below: The preceding editorial in this column alludes to Secretary of Navy Bonaparte’s suggestion a year prior that “Anarchists should be punished by flogging” and points to his genealogical connection with a “family of Corsican banditti” whose “family virtues” include “[b]rutality, arrogance and stupidity.”