, 1888-11-14
ANARCHY NOT DEAD.
The Dangerous Organizations
Now in Existence.
A Membership of Over 5000
in Chicago.
The Day Set for a General
Uprising,
The Anarchists.


Anarchy is not dead or even sleeping. On
the contrary, it is more thoroughly organ
lied than even at the time of the hay
market riot and its. membership is larger
than it has ever been. The demonstration
of last Sunday at Waldheim was not a
gathering of a few sympathizers of the
friends of the dead anarchists. 1t was an
organized %outpouring of internationals who
had thus arranged to come out and con-
centrate at any point agreed upon. In
spector Bonfield, who is known to have
kept detectives watching every movement
of the anarchists during the past few
weeks. when asked if there were many
anarchists at the celebration, replied:
Yes, there were. Most of them were
anarchists"
Then you think they are still organ
lied and have a large membership"
Il have had men out looking up their
meetings and we know where they are
and have the names and addresses of their
leaders and the most radical anarchists
SO we can reach them in case of
trouble. They meet in smaller
numbers than before, but there are more
of them and they conduct their
meetings differently. There is not so
much preparation in these meetings for
fighting and drilling with arms and ex-
plosives, but what is far more dangerous,
they are thoroughly organized Just within
the pale of the law, and all we can do is
to keep our eyes on them. The worst
thing about it is that they have several
schools here for teaching anarchy, which
they call Anarchy Sunday Schools. In
these they teach the children to hate the
law and the officers Of the law, and teach
them the worst principals of anarchy.
Why, the wife of trusted employe of
the county board is an organizer and
teacher of one of these schools, and there
are no less than 5000 able bodied anarch-
lists In Chicago to-day, ready and organ
lied, waiting for the appointed time.
Trouble must come sooner or later. They
have set the day for it at h~eadquar-
tiers, but in the meantime they
will avail themselves 2 of every
opportunity to carry out their object of
destruction to all organized law and order
institutions. They sent out circulars be-
fore election asking the legislative candi-
oates expression of their opinion on the
state conspiracy law enacted at the last
session of the legislature. Many of the
candidates replied that they were in favor
of a modification of the law, and some of
these candidates were elected, too. So,
you see, they are becoming wiser and con-
sequentlV more dangerous, because the
most radical of them aret no afraid to ex-
pertinent to get there with explosives as
long as the law is as it is"
You say they have the day set for an
uprising and mentioned their headquar-
tiers. Have you any information of this
phase of the internationals?"
Yes, much more than | can give you.
But you may say that we have positive
evidence of their organizations, their of
ticers, plans, etc. Their central points
are in London, with Paris as the next,
then Brussels, New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago and San Francisco. All the
principal countries have vice presidents,
the United States having two-Chicago
one and New York the other. In the
strength of their numbers they rank France
first, Germany second, the British isles
third, ETC., with the United States and
Mexico last. In America the central
headquarters are in New York. So far
they have agreed on the Tooth annIver-
sary of the fall of the bastile as the day
for a concerted uprising. l do not think
the people can take this too much in ear
nest. They may have to change it, but
they will certainly make the effort. 1t
must come as that is inevitable