New-York tribune., 1886-05-06

TIE UORK OF FOREIGN ANARCHISTS
The riotng that has occurred at Chicago ana
Milwaukee has been the work Oh 1oreieh
Anarchists, The use of the dynamite Domp III
Chicago and the deliberate attack on the ponce
were the outcome of the same foreign SOclailsm'
The men who have for months been preaching
sedition. arson and massacre are not Amerl-
cans. probably not citizens of the United States,
Init rutiians who were driven out of their own
country because society could not tolerate their
criminal doctrines. They have come nere'
obtained an asylum, and at once devoted them
selves to the propagation of lncendiarism anu
outrace. and have taught their ignorant
cOnntrymen hatred of American laws AN"
institutions. 1t is evident that the crimes
melted and committed by this element are IN no
way connected with the lawful efforts o1
American wOrkingmen to improve thelr
condition. But American Labor cannot afford
TO let it be believed that it sympathzes in the
,emotest manner with Anarchism. There Is
indeed an element which may be expected to
do so, and that is the criminal class Wherever
disturbance exists, wherever an attempt is
made to overthrow law. the criminal class IS
sure to be found, waiting its opportunity to
pillage, and ready to lend n helping hand to the
rioters if the odds do not appear too heavy.
The Anarchist leaders and journalists who
only live to teach the gospel OF dynamite ana
TO argue away the scruples OF their dupes
concerning the propriety of wholesale murder
and destruction of property, and who plainly
avow themselves enemies of society, cannot be
expected to care much whether the professional
| criminals follow in their track or not. 1helr
purpose is to overthrow everything, and they
| do not even trouble themselves to take thought
for what shall follow. They have hitherto been
treated bv the American press and people with
q contemptuous sort of tolerance. We have
trusted so confidently to the saving power of
free sneech that their most rabid utterances
have only been laughed at. But the event
proves that though Anarchism takes no hold on
American opinion, there is an element in the
country which is capable of being moved by IL
which regards it seriously and which is even
prepared to realize it in action. W neither TINS
foreign element will eventually Outgrow Its
present dsorderly tendencies is question
which, however interesting, has no practical
importance for the time being. The fact, put
plainly before the country, is that the Anarchist
press has melted serious uprisings against the
law, and that its sinister teachings have caused
hideous crimes to be committed Ill American
cities.
| The nature of these outbreaks, their ferocity
and impractcabilty, leave no room tor doubt
as to the manner of treating them. 1t Is not
merely mistaken or excited citizens demanding
the redress of grievances with whom the
authorities at Chicago and Milwaukee are now
confronted. 1t is mobs of irrational but de-
liberate rioters, bent upon dong as much mis-
chief as possible eager to take life and destroy
property, and hostile i'll the intenscst way to the
social system which they have been ADMITTED
TO. Only the sharpest and stenest application
of force can be employed against them, theie
fore. They must be put down with the siron;
hand: with the hand of the American People
whose enemies they declare themselves. Their
: is no question of the rights of Labor involved
The Anarchists are not honest wOIkingmen, bu
prates making war upon society, and as sue
: they must be dealt with. The question of thci
: teachers may be rendered less difficult by tn
| audacity with which they have pursued thei
work: an audacity which probably brings thcr
within the reach of the law. But the danger @
the kind of propaganda 4 which they have bee
engaged Is now brought home to the publ
mind. They control ignorant men, who no
only possess no comprehension OF America
governmental principles, but who are dissuadc
from acquiring such knowledge he AnaI
chst press in short is an agency which tends I
prevent large part of our foreign immigratio
from becoming fitted for citizenship, and whic
not only does this, but converts the foreig
element referred to into body hostile alike
democracy and to ordered society in any form
This state of things will have to be considere
seriously sooner or later, and the sooner til
, better