The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-15
HE WOULD FLoo THEM.
How Police Superintendent Byrnes Would
Serve the Anarchists.

"If / had my way would put up
whipping post for Anarchists" says
Superintendent of Police Byrnes of New
York. ''This class of our citizens is the
most cowardly and dangerous element in
this OF any other country. They are not
martyrs to their cause, though, and /
have no difficulty in securing information
from any one of the widely scattered
bands in New York. They have all their
lives long been disobedient to the law
for mans industrial, social and moral
welfare.
'sThe aim of the Anarchist is to get
food and clothing and shelter, and things
beside, without earning them and with
out the expenditure of any real toll or
manual labor. Their purpose changes
every hour: they have no plans of any
moment; their eyes wander, their grasp
is not firm, their pull is feeble. their &C
tual strength, measure for measure, is
less than that for ordinary men and wo-
men, although at times some desperate
effort excites their utmost force and they
do an act of terrific violence. But that
is all they can do. Persistent, steady
exercise of force is impossible to them,
and therein passes the danger to our
citizens from Anarchists.
''They can neither walh, nor fight, nor
think, nor pursue physical or men4al la
Dor for any period. Their endurance is
nil. They have no stability. They are
natural-born towards. They have no
love in their natures. The quality is I'M
known to them. Their love even to
themselves admits of doubt, for they do
not pursue their own interests, nor con-
Germ themselves with the things that it
would be natural they should do. They
are led by a few men in the country who
are Anarchists for revenue only. All the
world knows how free America has been
from an organized movement of Anar-
chists. 81
''There is no room for the red here,
and his quick detection has weakened
the bands organized about the country.
have rooted them out of New York,
practically speaking. / know just who
is of anarchistic belief, and whether
this, too, and my exposure of John Most,
my detectives, shattered a great anar-
chistic idol in America. His sheep-like
followers had idolized him. When l
sent him to the penitentiary bringing
and bawling, Anarchists began to see
through Most. He was a natural born
coward. When find a character becom-
ing leader among the Anarchists in
New York. / expose him, and he disap-
pears to new fields. There are no good
leaders among the Anarchists in this
country, and there will never be arepeti-
ton here of the recent outrages in Paris.
The police of the principal cities are
working hand in hand with me to wipe
out the organized bands of reds.
There need be no more fear from An
archists because Berkman, half-witted
crank, tried to kill Mr.. Prick of the Car
negie company He was nothing more
nor less than a poor deluded fool who
had an ambition for notoriety. He
wanted to be a leader, and failing in that
he tried to kill a prominent man. l do
spirators. There are no conspirators
who are endeavoring to kill among the
anarchis IS in America.
The anarchists over here are totally
different from those in Europe, where
able men are leaders. Men become an
archists in Europe from necessity. The
real strong men in the bands across the
ocean are those who are willing to work
if they can get it. Such men are to be
feared. 1t is not the cowardly vagabond
who is known in America as an anarchist
that is to be feared. He wouldn't work
if he could.
/ found that the most effective way to
deal with anarchists in New York was to
scare them, and that task is a compare
lively easy one. There is little difficulty
experienced in securing evidence OF in.
formation. The moment policeman
shows up at a meeting they all want to
get out. All would confess if we wanted
them to, so wholesome is their dread of
the law. 1t is only from a few cranks
that there will ever be trouble. Now and
then a crank may try to kill or destroy
property, but in this century at least
do not believe the anarchists will trouble
us much"