Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-09-03
SEPTEMBER 3, 1885
ANARCHISTIC AMERICA.
difference Between Socialism in
the New World and the Old.

The socialism of New York, saws the
Herald Of that city, is merry travesty
on grim, gaunt, and serious subject
"Proletarians of all lands unite" con-
| cludes Karl Marks manifesto-"and
come to Justus Schwab's saloon, where
socialistic beer is exchangeable for cap
italistic nickels," the leaders OF the east
side have appended. "Let destruction be
your end and aim, humiliation your
prayer" taught Bakunin. And there
being no stray sovereigns in the vicinity
of Tompkins square to "efface," with
commendable zeal the "annihilators" set
to work on the destruction OF vanished
pretzels.
Only fourteen years ago the Interna-
tionale Arbelter association saw the light
in the dingy hosiery Zum Rothen Igel,
in Geneva, and now its qualifications ex-
tend all over the civilized and uncivilized
world. Indeed, during the past year
Comrades Oliver Pain and Osman
Digna have rendered the most efficient
services to the cause. A movement is
even now on foot for the purpose Of hold
ing Mahdi apotheosis, and the Soudan
has at last obtained its proper recognition
as fruitful field for agitators. Indeed,
it is respected as the banner country of
the decade.
THE COMING OF sCHwAB.
Some ten or twelve years ago, i'm
fiasco, it seemed that, as far as New York
aOo;o1,o,,,
dark winter of discomfort for the old
time socialists, however, was banished by
the landing of Justus Schwab and his
leonine beard upon the shores of the new
world. His arrival was a most oppor-
tune one, coming as he did for a severe
thrashing at the hands of the police DUR
ing the Tompkins square riot, "the 26th
of May" in the annals of New York
anarchism. Illustrated by the clubs of
the police, Schwab made great impress
sion, and he found many followers He
formed GROUP" and became "Comrade
No. ~ and has remained so up to the
present time.
The coming of Jonathan Most, some
two years ago, equipped with the printing
paraphernalia of the Freiheit and the
reputation of having spent seven years in
prison for the "cause," lent great impetus
to local anarchism, as was demonstrated
last winter in Concordia hall, where LOO
comrades showed their disrespect for the
free institutions of the country by knock
ing Capt McCullagh down and then sit
ting on him.
Most is a man OF checkered history,
and like many he owes his notoriety to
accident. Playing as little boy in the
streets of his native Prussian city of Dorf,
he was severely kicked on the temple by
a mule. His countenance was disfgured
and his brains added. Since that day,
with wonderful celebrity, he has by his
words and deeds climbed the dizziest
heights of idiocy, to which it would be
folly for any ordinary mortal to aspire |
without first having been kicked by |
mule. Most's personal courage is not |
above question even in the minds of the |
most ardent believers in his principles, or
rather want of them. After the ARRAY at |
Concordia hall he was seen issuing forth |
from a curtained-of space, where, it was
charged, he had taken refuge. This in
cident has enriched the "Agitator" with |
a satirical title, "Der Gardinenheld"
(the curtain hero). Coward or not, how
ever, Most is verbose, and it is chiefly to
the size of his iconoclastic vocabulary |
that he is indebted for his not unlucrative |
position as editor-in-chief of the Fret
heit