The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-09-04
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WHO is RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
ANARCHISTS

AIN n IGCI 10 .
The recent trials of anarchists in Nil
waukee and in Chicago, and of boyc IT.
tiers in New York, have revealed the
existence in our midst of a large body
of unnaturalized foreigners, who labor
not to build up but to destroy the Re
public. The undesirable Poles whom
Bismarck is expelling from Posen, be-
cause they are incapable Of being Ger
manized, are coming here, it appears,
and are justifying Bsmarcks policy by
demonstrating that they are also inca
pablo ofbeng Americanized. B ,hemians
and Hungarians whom Austria has for
generations oppressed and taxed within
al inch of their lives, nd,who have been
reduced to a state Of brutality mcon
ceivable to those who have not seen
them, are fl ckiny in great numbers to
our shores, not for the purpose of bone
fitting by our free institutions or "shar-
ing the blessings Of liberty us we
fundly Imagined, but rather in order
t. avail them selves Of the supposed lax
ity of our laws to prey upon an ill-pro-
tected society. | remember, some years
az, having long conversation on in
emigrant train with II German shoe
maker, who stated this in 50 many words
The smallness of our army and navy,
he said, and the weakness of our whole
repressive machinery (Which he was kind
enough to regard AS a great virtue in
our institutions, removed all obstacles
to the carrying eat of the will OF the
people. AMI the will af the people, he
WIS crclibly inform i, was 90 make
lush Of the capitalists" to do away with
all government, aud to give to each
alan an equal share in the fruits IF th4
earth and IN equal title to happiaess.
That the enormous, oppressive mil
tary svstemin Europe h;ts bred scnti-
ancnts Of this kind in the breasts of {;
vast number of people, recent events il
Germany, France and Belgium have
sufficiently demonstrated; and as the
inconveniences anl dangers Of thcil
propaganda at home increase, the apo
ties Of anarchy naturally turn their it
tcution to this country us or, co
genial field for their labors. Thu. we
who have reduced our own army ever
below our actual necessities, reap tn,
fruits Of European repression and tyral
Nv In sense Bismarck leyislates fo
us, too; and his huge krupp guns re
VERTEBRATE on our side of the ocean. Aus
trials neglect to educate, but unfalin
regularity in overtaxing, her Bohemia
and Hungarian subjects, causes blood
shed and destruction of property il
Pennsylvania, Illinois and Wisconsin
and Englard's heartless policy towar
ireland is the indirect cause of munic
pal corruption in New York, Cincinm
and Chicago. Thus it ii seen that tn
civilized world is q great and compile
organism, every part Of which SUITE
more or less acutely from the presen'
of disease in every other part.
have, ofrecent years, endeavort
on a necessarily restricted scale, to a
certain the effect of American life upC
the various immigrated notionalitie
and | have incidentally obtained son
curious information. The most impC
tant item, for my present purpose,
the fact that the emigration agents a
responsible for more anarchists th'
the editors of the Freheit and the A
bter-Zeitung. At least thirty rece
immigrants, out of thrice the numb
Intercepted, have told me variations
the same tale of disappointment a
despair, all due to the misrepresent
tons of unscrupuious agents for ri
road and steamboat companies. Ia
myself repeatedly witnessed the sen
tion which the arrival Of these plar
bic Munchausens created in the On
rural communities Of Norway, Swed
and Germany. Crowds of credulous =
supplemented people stand spell-bou