New-York tribune., 1885-02-10
PRICE THREE CENTS
ANARCHISTS IN NEW-YORK.
NOT 1000. BUT LESS THAN 200.
GROSSLY EXAGGERATED STATEMENTS ABOUT rnz

GROSSLY EXAGGERATED STATEMENTS ABOUT THE
STRENGTH OF THE ORGANIZATION.
The fumes Of cheap cigars and the smell of bad
beer filed the dark and damp beer shop of Justus
Schwab, at No. l5O First-st, yesterday afternoon,
when TRIBUNE reporter called. Schwab leaned
over his counter reading an editorial from the last
issue of Frahet clarifying the memory of Reinsdorf
and calling upon the people" to extermnate tho
police, the clergy and the kings. photographs Of
Rensdorf Hoedel. Nobiling and Anton Kammcrer
hung upon the walls. They have all entered the
Anarchists heaven through the aid OF o hangman's
rope or the executoner's sword. dozen men sat
about the room at tables drinking beer They did
not speak-they never do when stranger Is around
but listened. stared at the photographs and drank
Schwab's beer.
The proprietor shook his head of yellow hair
when shown a statement in Philadelphia news
paper that there 1000 Anarchists in this city.
"pll have nothing to say to the press" he said.
The press has left aside the fundamental principles
on which it was founded. and has become an ally
of money; it is a satellite of the moneypower."
"Dont they give you pretty good showngr
asked the reporter.
"No7 replied Schwab; f" they have not asked that
justice be done to me- They are in league with the
police. The police are enemies of the people. My
little boy to-day was riding on his velOcpede on the
btItttS duu pOIlcc ulofc tuo oiuO"ans
Last night they broke up concert because was to
declaim The Dying Actor and Herr Most Der
Revolution Theyiwould not allow the Econcert 10
proceed. Well, their time will come " and Schwab
gazed first at the silent beer-drinkers aud then at
the pictures on the wall.
sThen you will not say what you think o! that
statementp
ats nonsense" answered schwab.
A number of welknown Socialists and labor
agtators who were spoken to on the subject said
that the figures given we're absurd. Instead OF
1000 in New York. 1t Is doubtful If there more
than 700 in the entire United States
"Thc International Workingmen's Association"
said a leading Socialist " was founded in Vienna
about twenty years ago by Karl Marx, then chiefly
known to fame as the author of work called
sKapital' The organization spread throughout
Europe and included in its membership such men as
Henri ROchefort of Paris. In Paris were finally
placed the headquarters OF the movement, bus IN
the wild liberties OF the commune hiteen years age
the leaders were mostly shot expatrated and the
organization was abandoned. On the ruins OF this
movement was founded the Sociastlc Labor party,
and its headquarters transferred to this city.
We have been here ever since, and have grown
amazingly both in numbers and resources. We
hope by continuous agitation tob bring about the aim
OF our party. which can best be expressed in the
words cooperative production We wish that
everything shall go into the hands Of the com,
munity; that when railroad is built or canal
dug il shall lie done by the State. The State will
consist of the oeople2not the loud d-mouthed poll
ticians who congregate at Albany and w asnington
"But while we do not condemn dynamite any
more than we condemn powder-both OF them are
fair weapons of war-we do no: believe dynamite
will help us gain our ends. 1t only makes loud
noise and kills a few innocent people and incenses
everybody. We are patient and If you understand
that, you will perceive where we diner IRON
Anarchists They are few desperate men; %nc
They want to subvert the order of things by vic.
lence by the dagger, by dynamite, by murder. 1t
They are few lin Plumbers, but Ereach into every
country in Europe and every city OF prominence IN
country In all the tn sfte o y Sy HnsSn
there are less than 200. mean only those who are
banded together by vows of blood and hatred to
They hate u.s. the
| Hartmann and Rochefort are in the organization.
| In this city they are formed in small groups -
side among the French is Victor Drury; on the east
side are men like Herr Bachmann. Schwab and
Most are blatant mouthpieces, whose usefulness Il
mainly in drawing away attention from the real
deyiltry OF the like Bachmann, who is In every
reglcidal plot in Europe Did You never see Bach;
mdnnP He came here from one OF the free cities OF
| Germany about five years ago. lie is an old man,
bald as bat, with deep sunkcD eyes and long
gray beard that gives him striking resemblance to
side, but sold out and dcvotes himself to something
else now. thought that he had gone to Europe,
but saw him at the meeting in Cahcordia Hsi that
"You were at that meeting thenF
ayes, was TO be one of the speakers. We were
the Socialists. but Sehwab and Most and MS
crowd of Anarchists were bent on breaking IL up.
They knew that they stood no stowtO DO SO them
selves so they sent word 10 Pat Joyce that they
wanted to turn the meeting into one m favor OF
dynamite and he promised to send 400 lrishmen up
there to help capture the meeting They did t-y to
drive us out, but were unsuccessfnl Ihey were
too small in numbers and men of their foolish views
always will be small in numbers"
The Central Committee of the Socialist Labor
party has decided to call another meeting in place
of the meeting broken up on Monday. evening Q
week ago, by the Anarchists. The meeting is to be
mite outrages in London-and il to be held at the
same place, Coucordia Hall, in Ave.-A The An
archists and Extremists will be excluded.