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252 William Butler Yeats
WHERE THERE IS NOTHING
"
WHERE There Is Nothing
"
is as true an inter
pretation of the philosophy of Anarchism as could
be given by its best exponents. I say this not out
of any wish to tag Mr. Yeats, but because the ideal
of Paul Ruttledge, the hero of the play, is nothing
less than Anarchism applied to everyday life.
Paul Ruttledge, a man of wealth, comes to the
conclusion, after a long process of development
and growth, that riches are wrong, and that the
life of the propertied is artificial, useless and in
ane.
Paul Ruttledge. When I hear these people talking I
always hear some organized or vested interest chirp or
quack, as it does in the newspapers. I would like to
have great iron claws, and to put them about the pillars,
and to pull and pull till everything fell into pieces. . . .
Sometimes I dream I am pulling down my own house,
and sometimes it is the whole world that I am pulling
down. . . . When everything was pulled down we would
have more room to get drunk in, to drink contentedly out
of the cup of life, out of the drunken cup of life.
He decides to give up his position and wealth
and cast his lot in with the tinkers an element
we in America know as
"
hoboes," men who tramp
the highways making their living as they go about,
mending kettles and pots, earning an honest penny
without obligation or responsibility to anyone.
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