New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-10
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copwfght; 1892; By The Tribune Association.
London, April 9.-Interesting news from the
anarchists has been pouring in all the week, from
Cain. from France from Germany. from Poland,
md from England. Some of il relates to Anarchy
and Anarchists in their simplest form some of
!, 10 their first cousins who for the present are
oontent to be known as Socialists The two are
90 mixed up in Spain that to distinguish between
bem is not always easy. In Here's they were more
socialist than Anarchist; in Madrid they are more
Anarchist than Socialist, perhaps because they are
foreigners. 1t is not easy to see why Frcnchman
and Portuguese should feel themselves called upon
10 regcnerate Spanish society by blowing up the
Chamber of Deputies. But the missionaries OF
Anarchy are as free from the narrow preJndlces
of patriotism as a New-lorlS MuSwump. Their
enterprise as they are always telling us, is inter
NATIONAL or cosmopolitan. Delboche and Ferriera
are but outposts in the great European army of
dynamite The explosion in Madrid, had II only
come off, would have been the echo OF that in the
Rue de Clichy in Paris, which was in fact echoed
in Anglers on Tuesday
The enemy attacked is everywhere an oihcer
If tbe law. or a maker Of law 1t is in Spain
the legislator, in Paris the public prosecutor, and
the soldier in Anglers: the police in Poland, a
the political authorities in general in Berlin The
French are said to make a sort of hero out of
Ravachol, the more so now that his guilt is
avowed The English are less given to hero
Worship of that particular kind. They have tried
the little gang Of scOundrels known as the wal
sail Anarchists, acquitted two, who abroad would
certainly not have been acquitted, convicted four
and sentenced of the four TO five ana INC
others to ten years penal servitude. Deacon
who got of with five, was recommended 10 mercy
by the jury. partly because he confessed anu
partly because he had "a good character, winch
most people would think good reason for douo-
ling his sentence Here, as abroad, 1t is the ola
story Of bombs and pamphlets, a choice assor'-
ment of the instruments and literature OF disorder
The Government thought the prosecution lui-
portant enough 10 require the services OF uie Az
,orre,-G General. The Berlin police believe they
have broken up the Anarchist gang IN 'hat CITY,
which was never more than 100 strong. they say
and perhaps they are right. 1t may oe 'he us
rersal Of these people, the explosions from Paris
and Perrin. which account for the news OF out
rares, or nreparatiors for outrages, from so many
.or+s az once. from Ancona, Liege, Doual. Bar-
cslona and elsewhere The press cries olt lot
International legislation against international
,rorcbv They are enemies of the human race
Let them be treated as such.
practical application Of this doctrine ana 'he
GOOD results of it may be seen IN the prompt
instice done on the assaSsins of Count IohhsAl al
Koscelee. in Prussian Poland. The Executive
Committee Of the Polish Anarchists wanted luhus'
and sent four armed men 10 get them from Oouh'
Poninski. Upon his refusal they shot MIN, IL Is
thought not TO death. Ills brother ana lour
friends rode after the Anarchists, overlook them
and killed two. Two more shot themselves ana
The law officers are saved further trouble. 1t
reads as if it had happened in the far "est' eN-
ccpt that the English abstain from preaching about
il. There seems to be some doubt whether these
Polish Anarchists were Anarchists proper or com
mon robbers and murderers. The distinction Is
not worth dwelling on.
Another branch Of the Socialist movement may
be studied in England 1t is less violent and
less destructive in its aims, but still violent ana
if it does not menace society as whole. menaces
the industry on which social prosperity depends
The strike on a great scale is the form Of protest
which the English workingnan thinks best suited
to further his present purposes The miners pro
ceedngs in Durham and the engineers strike in
Northumberland excite far less interest than those
in Yorkshire, which came to a speedy and ridicu-
lous end Yet the Durham miners are showing
some stubbornncss, and doing much harm TO them
selves AMI TO tie community. The engin' ers strike
on tie Tyne and Wear also continues, and be
tween them they have reduced the two great
counties of Durham and Northumberland 10 dire
distress.
Never says competent observer, in the
history of trade and industry in the North, has
there been so grave crisis" There could not be
more convincing proof Of il than the fact that
every single berth in the Tyne is occupied by Il
vessel laid up in idlenesS. There are omuous
rumors of great failures. Firms of European rep
uation are described as in jeopardy. If the miners
and engineers only hold out long enough, they may
SEE the whole commercial and industrial fabric on
which they and so many others depend come tum-
bling about their ears. They will have had the
satisfaction of running their employers, and an
opportunity of determining for Themselves whether
labor without capital is likely TO have a good time
Of it.
Tie engineers strike has now lasted nearly
nine weeks 1t started with a trumpery dispute,
whether certain class Of work should be given
10 engineers or TO plumbers. 1t is officially stated
that this very work had been refused no long time
ago by the engineers too trivial. The arbitration
court gave it 10 the plumbers, and the engineers
struck against the arbitratOrs decision. That is
but one Of many instances in which English work
ingmen have refused 10 abide by decisions 70 which
they stood pledged in advance. Not less than 20 600
men absent from work on this account. Not
less than 100000 altogether are out counting the
miners in Durham and Cleveland.
OF course there is widespread suffering. There
would be were the men getting full strike pay,
but 1t is reckoned that for the Durham miners
alone ful strike pay would require at least
S20O,OOO week. The sum actually available
from trade union funds is about one-eighth Of
fhss
one Of the most powerful bodies in the Kingdom.
The Durham miners, however, stand alone. They
make no part of the great Yorkshire federation
which lately called out 300, 900 men in a freak
and at the end Of week sent them back again
In both cases like causes produce like effects