The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-18
The commanists Of Now York-Thelr
secret Meetings aud Movements.

That there exists in the city of New York
disturbing element known as the Com
munists' was demonstrated on Tuesday last
in Tompkins square, and again last night in
Cosmopolitan Hall. Although frustrated in
Tuesdays open attempt to defy the lawful
authorities which forbade their assembling, or
at least their parading the streets in process
sion, there is no knowing at what hour or by
what prsconcerted and secret action they may
| commit some overt act and cause widespread
I CONSERVATION among the community.
These dangerous conspirators against So
ciety are not confined to New York nor to
Paris; they are spread the world over. They
declare. as one of the prisoners arrested on
Tuesday last did, that the red flag is their
only flag; that they spit upon all other
| flags; that they demand equal rights in
all things the equalization of property, the
apportionment of good things" and 'free
| love, as it is commonly known, in its broad
est sense. They have no religion and no
respect for person or station. In Now York
| the body is controlled in mysterious
manner by an unseen so-called Com
| mittee of Safety" only few of
whom have appeared upon the surface The
movements of this committee are as secret
and mystical as those of any known secret
organization. Their leaders attempt to cover
their OVID peculiar objects and schemes
| by advocating demanding the en-
| ployment of laborers upon the public works.
| These laborers, it is generally known, are
mostly Irish Catholics and if by their
demands they succeed in securing employ
ment for this class of people they take all the
credit therefor, and hope thereby to win the
Catholic laboring element to their side and OBJ
tain their assistance in their Vaccinations. In
these ridiculous demands, however they have
thus far failed And when the Irish Catholic
laborers are made to realize the hideous con-
duct of these Communists during their reign
of carnage and terror in Paris, when the
highest prelate in their Church in that I'M
fortunate metropolis-the beloved Arch
bishop Darboy--together with other VEN
Grated and venerable magnates Of the
Church, was savagely butchered by these
| frenzied semi barbarians, and the sacred
shrines of their churches ruthlessly robbed of
their precious jewels and treasures, they shun,
as they would pestilence, all utilization with
these foes Of Christianity and civilization as
we'll as of law and order Evidence of this
may be cleaned from the fact that of the large
number of arrests at Towpkins square on
Tuesday not single Irish Catholic was found
among the number. And another significant
| fact may be mentioned here-that of all those
arrested, with only two or three exceptions,
none were either native born or adopted citi-
zens or foreigners who had declared their in
tentions of becoming citizens in short, the
great majority were men who recognized only
the 'sred flag as the flag of their nationality,
and who 'spat upon all Others" The Com
munists attempt to cajole the German laborers
the same way they have the Irish; but they to
almost as great an extent have failed with them
as with the Irish. 1t is even intimated that
| the Communists have threatened to burn
schoolhouses in order to give employment in
| their reconstruction to both Irish and Ger
| man laborers.
1t may be asked, where does all the money
come from to support the extraordinary
operations of these men-men who work like
motive, with peoples passions for tramways?
They must have money, though professedly
poor and starving for if allowed to appear in
procession they are ready to make gorgeous
display of banners and legends Of regalia,
gold shields and other paraphernalia that
must have cost thousands OF dollars. At
their meetings, which are seldom held twice in
the same place or at the same hour when the
places are changed, they have free lunch at
which many o poor fellow out of work and
out of money, is glad to get the wherewith to
appease the pangs of hunger. These cost
money, and it is the best possible way for
them to spend it. The leaders-the engineers
of the COMMITTEE of Safety do not seem to
be very mpecunious, one of them (if not Of
this, Of some other similar, if not SO radical
an organizalion) exhibiting in his shirt bosom
on certain occasion thousand dollar
breastpin while shrieking for 'sbread or
blood" The money to support all these
things, we say, must come from some source,
or may it not be here already? May not the
booty of the plundered churches of Paris be
now furnishing the material aid to carry on
these nefarious proiects-projects SO menacing
to the peace and safety of this whole commu-
nifty? 1t is known, as has been before init
mated in this paper, that large amounts of
precious stones, without setting, and concealed
in balls of wax, together with numerous
other treasures, the spoils of the Paris churches
we refer to- were secretly conveyed to this
country during the temporary but sanguinary
regime of the Communists in Paris. Hence is
it not reasonable to suppose that the product
of these treasures Of the sanctuaries is en-
! ployed in the work of these incendiaries, con-
spirators and revolutionists?
We do not think that there is any imme-