Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-31

1t is claimed BY some of the leading So
cialists of America that they have no
sympathy with Herr Most and his COM
panions. in fact they say the anarchists
are their worst enemies. 1t can hardly
he denied. however, that the fundamental
doctrines of the socialists and anarch-
lists are identical, and that they only dill
feras to the means to be adopted to at
tain their ends. In other words the an
archists are only the more extreme and
violent of the socialists, and, doubtless,
do the cause more harm than good.
prominent member of the socialist
labor party in an interview in New
\ ork the other day, while denouncing the
anarchists, admitted that many social
lists were readers Of Most's paper, the
Freheit, but claimed that they only regard
it as funny sheet, and that they loved to
laugh over ''the rawlings OF the infuriated
fool"
Most is denominated the father Of an
archism in America. He has only been
in this country about three years, and his
incendiaIy teachings seem TO have been
received in soil well prepared for their re-
gest that the socialists were largely in
strumental in preparing this SOIL and that
the anarchist groups OF to-day are COM
posed in the main of members Of the So
cialist clubs of yesterday.
Most first came into notOriety in the
English speaking world about five years
ago, In 1881 he was publishing a social
ist paper in London which bore the name
of his present journal, the Freheit. The
agitator was almost as outspoken in Lon
don as he has been in New York, and his
extreme utterances caused him to be
closely watched by the authorities. When
the news OF the assassination of the Car
of Russia reached London, Most pub
lisbed an editorial In the Freheit
rejoicing and exulting over the
event and intimating that other
great heads would soon be brought low.
He was indicted in the Central Criminal
Court for the publication OF "scanda-
llus liheP' and for deliberate intent TO
incite 70 murder" The sentence on which
the latter charge was based read: ''From
Constantinople to Washington thew
meaning the rulers simply tremble for
their long since forfeited heads" He
was convicted on both charges. but,
strange to say, recommended to the mercy
of the court. The case was taken up to
the Court of Appeals, but the verdict
was sustained, 1t being held that 1t
was not necessary to show that any par
ticular person had been melted to commit
murder, but that the publication was an
attempt TO incite every reader of the
paper, which had circulation of about
1,200 copies. The court sen fenced Most
TO Imprisonment at hard labor for sixteen
months, and remarked that the penalty
would have been transportation to a
penal colony had it not been for
the recommendation of the Jury.
1t was a somewhat remarkable coin
cidence-it might be called-that just
three days after the sentence was passed
on Most in the Central Criminal Court at
London, for clarifying over the assassin
alton of the Russian ruler, and asserting
that "FrOm COnstantinOple to " ashng-
ton they simply tremble for their long since
forfeited heads" the President of the
United States (Garield) was shot down
in railroad depot in the latter named
city by man, supposed to he a crank
from Chicago, which is to-day the hOtbed
ofanarchism in America. When Most was
in London he could not speak the English
language, and an interpreter had to be
employed in the trial.
At the expiration of his sentence-the
autumn of 1852 Most came to America,
and his career here has been, if possible,
more Infamous, and 1t seems, more sue
cessiul than his career in London. He
/ believed that liberty meant license under
| our laws. that is so far as incendiary pub
| locations were concerned, and his paper
has been filled with libels against society
and articles intended to incite to riot, MUIR
der. robbery aud arson. He has been con-
victed of melting the New York anarchis Is
TO riot, ana doubtless ne will receive the
severest penalty authorized by law. His
| Infamous career should be brought to a
close in America as effectually il not as
speedily as it was In Austria, Germany
and England.