Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-18
AN ANARCHIST DEN,

AN ANARCHIST DEN.
A reporter of the New York Sun recently
paid visit to the headquarters Of John
Most, the blood-thirsty anarchist. The fol-
lowing are some of the extracts taken from
the reporters observations:
ave turned into William street and soon
arrived in front OF 167. This is where un-
diluted anarchy presents itself through the
medium of Freiheit, weekly publication,
which has succeeded so we'll that it has been
enlarged to double it's former size.
Entering the hallway, you will notice. as
soon as your eyes are able to penetrate the
darkness, large red banner on the wall
bearing the inscription, 'Viye Ia Commune.
A cast-iron letter box, marked John Most,
attracts our attention for moment, anu We
then ascend two flights of narrow, creaky
stairs, and step into large di!apidated
room, extending over the entire top floor Of
the building. Here the Freiheit is written,
put in type, and, after being printed else
where, mailed to the subscribers. Aperfect
deluge of revolutionary pamphlets, intended
mainly to food the countries of the Old
World, issues from this ravaged loft.
s'We found about Il dozen men engaged
in folding and wrapping the latest num-
ber of the Freiheit. Every one of
these savage-looking specimens Of hu-
manity strives TO assume an air that sug-
gests his merely waiting for q favora-
Bile opportunity to slaughter aI monarchs
and capitalists on the face Of the earth.
There are Germans, Frenchmen, Russians,
Bohemians and Dane in the group. Reg
uar employment is a notion too conserva-
tive, aud wholly foreign TO their minds
They are here folding papers TO serve the
revolutionary cause, and receive no other
recompense than the consciousness Of hav-
ing performed their duty. One of the he
roes, who evidently desires to overawe rs,
takes small quantity of gun cotton out of
his pocket another produces u sample of
dynamite, and each asserts that the stuff he
carries is an excellent agent 10 further the
grand idea of universal anarchy. All join
in dispute concerning the most effective
methods for blowing up all modern iusttu-
tions, and the folding business is meanwhile
neglected. The anarchist chief, 1err Most,
has been conversing with good-lookiDg
young female anarchist, who CAME for the
purpose of paying her respects to the great
dynamiter, but his attention is directed to
the ot-headed disciples. Get through with
your work, he shouts; you may hahhie all
you want afterward!
II conclude to invest five cents, and
COPY of the Freiheit is handed to me. The
editor reflects upon the proprleiy of a ma
not choice, hut rather painfully harsh.
Here is fine sample. Our army
of unemployed, probably, will give
thanks that the capitalists are so very
prosperous. Poor, haggard women will give
. 10, hoir ga
bread that they have been allowed to lay up
wealth for their employers. Factory child
rem who never see anything but the grim
shop walls by daylight will give thanks that
they have been brought into this beautiful
world, and hard working day laborers, lucky
enough to have any kind of q job, will give
thanks that the cormorants of society have
not taken the last mouthful away from
them Another article deals with the anti
Chinese movement on the Pacific coast, and
urges the white workers to expel every
greedy monopolist instead Of prosecuting
the poor Celestial.
My curiosity prompted me to pick up a
pamphlet l saw on table, bearing the title
Elements of Revolutionary Warfare Open.
ing at hap-hazard read The best of all
preparations to be used for poisoning wea-
pons is Curari. By heating a dagger and
then tempering it in oil of oleander, the in
Fiction of slight wound will be sufficient
to produce blood poisoning and death. The
cheapest and least expensive way is to apply
mixture of red PHOSPHORUS and gum ara
bicum to the dagger, cartridge, etc. This
precious stuff (dynamite), which is able to
blast mass of solid rock. might also dc
good service at an assembly of royal and
aristocratic personages, or at an entertain.
ment patronized by monopolists.'
"a number of rifles were piled up in the
room, the majority breech-loaders, formerly
used in the United States army, and bought
by Most in large lots at auction for retailing
among his followers. On shelf above the
editors desk variety of the most danger
GUS poisons, liquid and solid, are openly
displayed. The anarchist chief remarked
with grim smile, that he seriously contem
plated breeding cholera and yellow fever
germs for the purpose of exterminating man
kind, rather than suffer the present condi
tion of society to perpetuate Itself.
sThe walls of the room are almost totally
covered with pictures and portraits of nota
| BILE communists, anarchists and others
newspaper headings, etc.
"Most takes especial pride in gibbe
traced in red lines on the whitewashed wal
and bearing photos of the following persons
The Emperors of Germany, Russia and Aus
tria, Queen Victoria, President Grevy, Kinl
Humbert, King Christian of Denmark ant
his Premier Estrup, the Shah of Persia, tn
Sultan, the Emperors of China, Japan an,
Brazil, President Cleveland and ex.Presi
dent Arthur.
"The German Chancellor Bismarck i
carcatured in dozen different ways, an
blood thirsty sentiments are written beneat
the pictures. A large picture presents tn
| famous Russian conspirators against Alex
ander H.; another recalls the trial {
Reinsdorf and his comrades, charged wit
| high treason; then follow some scenes fror
the Paris Commune in 1871 Anarchist p.
i pers from every quarter of the world al
! pasted from ceiling to floor"