Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-27
ADVERTISEMENT MENTION.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE,
BLIGHTED AMBITION.

A Sacramento Printers Desire to be a
Boss Anarchist.
There was, in the group of Anarchists
which exploded the night of May 4ih. at
Chicago, printer named John A. Henry,
who s.. type and held cases at the Tribune
ompOsingroom. He was formerly a COM
positor on the DAILY UNION in this city.
and is well remembered by quite number
OF persons now in this Office. He came to
California from Memphis, Tenn, and
learned the trade of printer in the old Cali
.torn1G Express office at Marysyille. He left
Sacramento several years ago. and had been
lost sight of until the late Socialistic up
heaval in Chicago brought him to the sur
lace. t appears that of late his spare time
two or three days week-was devoted
to speech making, whereby he advocated
blood and thunder, and was joked by his
comrades, for at that time it was not a nat
ural feeling to believe bomb would ever
be thrown at people. Bat alas the bomb
was thrown; the police, confronted with
the possibility of thousands of arrests, Sc
lecteG the leaders, and refused 10 honor Mr..
Henry with such a title. This the CORY
minded printer resented. He visited the
station house and demanded the right of
incarceration and martyrdom. He was
politely but firmly kicked out into the
street. He distributed handbills of some
kind dcring the minor state of siege follow
ing the massacre, and was arrested, tried
and sentenced to the Bridewell as an infe-
rior offender. This inglorious end of his
Socialistic campaign was averted by his
wife,WbO came TO Chicago. averred that her
husband was crazy, and took him off to
Madison, Wis. Thence he went East, and
is now in Boston. There. 1t seems, a Chi
cago Socialist is lion. The mild Boston
reporters have no sooner prodded this lion
than he roars and brays through four long
columns Of the daily papers. Referring to
the inflated Anarchist, the Chicago Current
says:
The Sunday Herald crowds Adam
Badeau into a corner that poor Henry may
be great man for the nonce. and then the
editor p9unceS upon the subject for lead
ing editorial. We may tell the Eastern
people not to make SO much of these ignor-
ant and bioody-minded social philosophers.
1t causes them to think they have discov-
cred a truth. 1t builds the gallows for
greater numbers of victims. As for this
man Henry possessing an educated mind,
the statement of the Herald is erroneous.
He IS smart enough to be a good type
setter He did not show qualities in Chi
cago under practical test, that would Justify
his advancement to proof-reader much less
to assistant telegraph editor, at both of
which tasks he was, in the ordinary course
of events in daily office, given opportuni-
ties to make an impression on his COM
rades. He is morally honest but danger
ously ignorant as to cause and effect He
should not be pulled up. The plea in his
behalf has been that he was crazy-a mono
maniac on Socialism, and on Socialism
because it offered chance for him to be-
come famous without the exhibition of ex-
traordinary mental ability. To meet Mr..
Henry on the street and tell him you had
heard he had made n speech would so con-
fuse him with personal qualification as to
arouse the ordinary observer to 4 suspicion
that something must be wrong with the
man. The best way to retard the progress
of choisra and yellow fever is to isolate the
existing victims Bismarck has shown the
efficacy OF such treatment of Socialism.
Whether or not 4 bOmb-thrower's millen-
mum be assured to America in the future,
we can 90 much to defer its advent"