The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-06-04
TIRE ANARCHISTS.

For long time the American press
and people pooh-poohed the suggestion
that the Anarchists would or could be
come SO numerous in the United States
as to threaten the public peace or en-
danger the government. We were in
the habit Of thinking that where so
much freedom was allowed to the indi-
yidual only the cranks could demand
more, and that there we're not enough
of these to alarm anybody, much less
to menace society and set the nation to
trembling. Few realized how rapidly
the pernicious doctrines we're spreading,
and not until the recent Outbreaks did
the masses begin to understand that
Anarchism had grown to such proper
tons that-it must be at once and rigor
ously dealt with. 1t was then that q
demand went forth for the punishment
of the miscreants, and the choking Of
the life out of the monster that had
been growing and fattening because he
was unmatched.
Mezerof, the Russian Nihilist and
author, whose work on the manufacture
of explosives has been republished and
widely circulated in this country. gives
a better evidence of the strength Of the
Anarchists in the United States than
had hitherto been conveyed. II he may
be relied upon We are almost as badly
afflicted by the disorganizing classes. as
some European countries. According
to him there are fully 10000 Anarchists
in America, resident as follows: Chi
cago, 5000; New York, $500; and $500
in other cities, principally Milwaukee.
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Cincinnati.
ST. Louis and Buffalo. According to
the same authority there are but IS 600
in Europe. Germany having 5000,
Switzerland 1900, Russia, Austria
Bohemia and Hungary 10000 each.
and 5000 in France, the others
being in Great Britain and the
smaller principalities. The most
desperate and fiercest Anarchists are
the Russian Poles, the Bohemians and
the Hungarians. and their doctrines are
rapidly spreading among those people.
The Irish are agitstors and discon-
tented, but they are not Anarchists and
do not take kindly to the doctrines.
There are really no Anarchists, pure
and simple, in Ireland.
N zeroff may have overstated the
facts somewhat, but his exaggeration
has not been. reckless, as recent events
have proven. The exposures made
before the Chicago Grand Jury the
other day were a revelation to
many. The stories told there
were not sensational, though
startling in their nature. 1t was shown
by the officers of the law that the
Anarchist conspiracy has existed in
that city for many years; that the or
ganization has regular sources of in
come; that men were taught and en-
couraged 10 manufacture dynamite.
and others were trained and drilled in
the use of firearms and explosives,
that correct plats of the city were in
possession Of the rogues and that plans
were devised and men appointed for
wrecking parts of the town. The fail
ure OF the recent scheme to blow up,
burn and plumber a section of Chicago,
was due to the exposure of the scheme
and the cowardice of some OF the
scoundrels designated for the hellish
work.
Having finally gotten at the facts and
learned the nature and extent OF the
organization, as well as its aims and
tendencies. the American people will be
neither slow ner gentle in dealing with
Anarchism and Anarchists. .