, 1892-05-07
THE ANARCHIST OUTRAGES.
From the Times j.

existence and their DOCTRINES. Probably thew
will succeed, and if they do, SO much the worse
for the Anarchists. They little know the pow
err of the civilization they defy, or the spirit
which their recent proceedings have kindled
IN the breasts Of honest men. So long az they
contine themselves to the production and the
distribution. Of murderous literature, and TO
the delivery of incendiary harangues, the
classes winch they assailed were satisfied
in many countries to took upon their idiotio
rawlings with amused contempt. The wicked
ness of these productions was indeed manifest
but The imbecile folly " hich distinguished them
was SO fragrant that it was generally believed
they could do little harm even amongst the
most depraved and ignorant of the criminal
classes. The events now passing in various
Continental countries seem to show that to q
certain exteutthis Judgment was ~ foundtd
Here and there the anti social propaganda
has done It's work. Ravachol and his broth
er apostles have won over a certain number
OF recruits tothelr systemof social regeneration
by the bomb, The malignant invectives de-
HVered against the primary principles Of all
civil politics have found willing listeners
amongst the classes which in all States hun
ger after the property Of others. The doctrine
that robbery, arson, and murder are acts not
only innocent, but Nirtuous, when perpetrat-
cd with tie design Of benehting humanity.
SOUNDS marvellous y comfortable to those who
have a natural propensity TO commit them.
Accordingly such persons have focked to the
Anarchist standard. They call themselves
humanitarian they declaim against the
iniquities Of society. " hich they burn to pun
~ and TO amend; they protest against its cal,
lous brutality and its sanctimonious fraud.
and now they have begun to inaugurate the
great reform, and to accelerate the advent Of
the golden age when property and war shall
be no more by blowing up magistrate police
men, and Innoc' Mt spectators with the dyna.
mite which they have stolen.
The attempt made upon Tuesday nightto des.
troy the police station at Anglers FORTUNATELY
did not result IN any injury tolife. That howev.
er, does not seem ohale been the fault of it's
authors. The bomb employed was evidently
designed to produce the most deadly result
amongst a crowd Of men. 1t was made Of
sheet iron loaded with ails, rivets, and scrap
iron, and charged with an explosive. It
was LAID upon the window-sill Of the building
in which the men IN night duty are posted
and it exploded with such violence that two
Of the fifty four projectiles which have been
recovered were picked UP three hundred
feet away. The interior of the station is des-
cribed as ''riddled with bullets" and it il
clear that had the police been there when the
bomb was fired most, if not all, of them must
havebeep nutilated or killed. Luckily the hour
at which the majority of them leave the
building has been recently changed. and ow-
ing to this circumstance only a single officer
was wounded. The perpetration Of this au.
dacious feat a few days after the promuloa.
ton Of the drastic law against dynamiters
just passed by the French Chamber NAV be
a mere piece Of wanton bravado on the mart
of an isolated knot of criminals at AnGers
On the the other hand, it is impossible NOT
to be struck by the growing frequency and
bolGnfss OF similar chimes within the last few
weeks. Is il conceivable that the criminals
are acting upon any concerted plan, and thew
really imagine. that the season for hunting
"the wolves of capital and power has begun?
Criminals, like other persons of a low intel
lectual organization, are VIGOROUSLY an jmj-
tatiye class and it is improbable that many of
the crimes lately accomplished or attempted
in Belgium, Italy, Portugal, and other coun.
tries are merely clumsy copies of RavachoIs
performances. But the plot to blow up the
Chamber Of Deputies at Madrid wears a diff
ferent complexion. Thepapers said to have been
found upon Delboche and Ferreira, the men
seized with the bombs upon their persons con.
tains the outline of a comprehensive scheme
to paralize the whole mechanism Of the
State, and it is remarkable that the heading
to the most atrocious of those Documents da"