New-York tribune., 1886-08-02
ing policy which Great Britain and Germany
have pursued.
THERE ANARCHISM IS BRED.

Mr. Hjalmar II. Boyesen writes In The Congre'
nationalist an interesting article on the responsible
ty for Anarchsm. setting forth the extent 70
which the enterprise" Of transportation COM
panes operates In saddling this country with
swarms Of European peasants and laborers pre-
pared, by generations OF oppression and enforced
ignorance to hate all government. and to Join any
movement for the overthrow of law and order. MT.
Boyesen points out that numbers of immigration
agents are constantly at work all Europe, dis
semnating the most reckless falsehoods and mis-
representations gauging the extravaganza of their
assertions about the splendor of tho prospects In
the United States by the ignorance Of their hearers
and thus persuading thousands who are utterly
untitled fo- migration to sell all they have ana
come across the sea. Inevtaby,in'a a large number
of such cases the result is cruel disar rpointment
The people find that there Is little demand for the
unskilled labor they can alone supply. They soon
exhaust their small capital. And then they are
ready to lend an attentive ear to the advocates OF
Anarchy.
A large percentage of the foreign immigration
procured by the agents of steamship companies
colonizng associations ana other nstrumentalites,
IN fact consists of material at present quite in
capable of assimilation. The Posen Poes driven
out by Bismarck because they cannot be German
ized are turning this way, and they prove no less
incapable of being Americanzed The Bohemian
peasants and labOrers. who as tho result OF long
msgovernment bring with them sort of instinct
for seditiOn, join In the agitation OF the Mosts.
Schwabs, Spies and Other champions OF tho black
flag. The considerations which appeal to imini-
grants possessing some knowledge Of free instltu-
tions and civilized life have no weight whatever
with such people. Knowing nothing Of democracy,
preudiced in advance against o society in which
wealth throws poverty into sharp relief finding
that the promises of well paid work made to them
by immigration agents were false, this class ol
immigrants grayitaes almost inevitably to
Anarchy. Their difference of language also no
doubt exercises an influence upon their action
They do not come in contact with American IDEAS
or views. They cOnsort only with men OF their
own race and condition. They therefore preserve
their isolation and remain foreigners to the end.
Not n few of the German speaking Anarchists
have como here with tie express purpose OF for
warding subversive projects. They have heard that
American law is liberal that there ia no restraint
upon speech or publication that all kinds oil agl-
tations are legitimate here that in short the epub
lie of the United States offers special and uneX-
mpel facilities for revolutionary Vaccinations.
50 these professional up,ctters of society come
over and 70 work deliberately to organize all our
unstable ignorant and turbulent elements. and TO
weld them into a compact mass to he employed III
overturniug everything. These men, together with
those most liable to fall under their influence are
beyond and outside the reach of American theories
and Institutions. real poverty, real misery.
Is with them the foundation upon which all KINDS
OF subverslve notion, are built. They have no SEN
timent al associations to check or restrain them
They have no patriotic feeling TO move them by.
They are the product OF European oppression. over
taxation. and indigencc. and they como here to
take revenge upon American society for the wrongs
done them and their ancestors IN the O.d World.
IT is clear that such material for Anarchisn cannot
be dealt with after the old fashion We are face 10
face with problem here which is more formidable lc
and menaclng than any Chinese question.