Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-30

lows: Good, Ravachoi you killed an old
hermit because he had money and you had
none. They have cut off your head, but
you are a martyr, and We will revenge you
on society. Bravo, Pallas you threw
bomb under the horse of a general who has
done more than anyone else to keep the
present order Of things in Spain The Span
ish government has had you shot but we
have paid them back by sending up to hea-
ven a few dozens of the best citizens OF
Barcelona Hurrah. Valiant. the old revo-
Iutionists could only assassinate a single
king or tsar. but you have all but blown
up whole parliament of the French re-
publici'
Words equally violent with these appear
constantly on the news stands. Until now
there seems to have been no proper law
In France against publishing such incite-
ments to crime. The Revue Anarchiste
makes pretenSes even to literature; il de-
Tended Leauthier. The Pere Peinard is
written in workingmen's slang; 1t exulted
over the massacre OF Barcelona. The Re-
wolfe. paper inspired BY Prince Kropot-
kin and Professor Reclus on the very morn
ing before the last explosion gave society
TO understand that bombs are bound to con-
tinue. A fashionable young poet at a BAN
quet of writers and artists two nights later
applauded the beau geste of Valiant
Every anarchist has this idea in his head
that he is engaged in war against socie-
ty, just as republicans waged war against
kings hundred years ago. II YOU ask him
why he kills the innocent he answers, mo
one who has money in his pocket while /
have none is innocent" Sometimes he
adds. in the words of anarchist reunion
of last Sunday: THE poor who starve are
also innocent"
The Voice of Anarchy.
The Paris anarchists, not to go out of
France, show that great many working
men are ready to catch up this insanity.
They nearly all appear to have the same
history. Leauthier. before he was fifteen
years of age, had learned that God is lust
fable to keep the poor people down. Then
he came across an anarchist lawyer who
iroculated him thoroughly. The young man
came up to Paris and worked well for a
time. always Keeping up connection with
the anarchist group of Marseilles, whence
he had come. He lost his place chiefly
through offended dignity, and he could find
no more work. He began to starve silently.
and at last put his anarchy in practice He
Is perfect example OF the saying Of Pro-
lessor Jaures, the socialist, to the parlia-
ment few days before the late explosion.
GU have taken away from the poor the
nope OF enjoying the life to come and Won
have not made it possible for them to en-
JOY the present life. What can you expectY''
Many Of the lower working people of
France have no real family ties. Either be-
cause marriage is made difficult fer them
by the state regulations, or for some other
reason of their own, they often live toseth-
er without tying the knot. This leaves
also takes away the ambition of a man to
nVe and work for others than himself This
living an unprincipled and disconnected life
which is constantly nursed by the reading
of the literature 1 have described and is
joined with idleness and restless wander
inss, turns out the full-blown anarchist
variant, VINO threw the bomb in the
chamber of deputies. was years ago a great
pohtfcaf agitator in favor of Bouiangist
socialism. Then he was in South America
where he left one wife He returned to
Paris, where he took another whom he en-
.lced from a fellow workman. Last of all
ne was trying to found a philosophical
Cub and Free Library" probably for the
purpose of organizing an anarchist group
1t Is said that he never worked steadily
that he was noted for getting out of his
quarters with rent and board bill unpaid
On the police records he is down for theft
before he was sixteen years old and later
for begging. He came to Paris and tried to
follow some of the socialist free lectures on
political economy; but he seems to have
been too undisciplined even for that in
spite OF his intelligence. Half crank half
criminal. full of false ideas and DESTROYS to
i've at the expense of others he, too, is a
type of his class. Most of them like Raw
achol. add to all this an insane desire to be
talked about, especially in their own circle
me present project OF police is of the opin-
ion that half the bomb throwing would
stop II the Theatrical element could be
hindered. Ravachol quite broke down at
his execution. when he found that he would
not pe dIiOWeU TO snow on by reading his
final testament. Lastly, while these an
archlsts are not regularly professional
CRIMINALS, nearly every one of them has had
some trouble with the laws of property
Rocherort, whose violent radicalism has en-
couraged the movement in spite of his own
condemnation of IT. tells a good story in
this line. He received the visit in London
where he lives in exile, of an anarchist who
complained that he had had difficulty in
leaving France Ion account of the courts"
he at last owned up, not without some van
ny, mat the diff1rulty was caused by an act
which he characterized as 1.-The social re-
Vlndication of a gold watch
Spread of the Disease.
Perhaps the most curious thing about the
anarchists is their itching to make converts
They are always talking up their ideas and
writing letters in every direction. This is
the way in which anarchy is spread In
barcelona the police came on recent letters
from Chicago. Here in Paris, in the apart
meAt OF Cohen. young Hollander, they
nave found nearly a thousand differently
communications from his own country and
Germany. No one thinks that the anarch-
lists form a secret society. But each indi-
Vldual, as he takes the craze, seems bound
10 give II to others. The attraction toward
secret conspiracy and deeds OF violence
the love of showing off theatrically and the
missionary spirit make up the disease of
anarchy.
l. must not be imagined that America Is
without her share in the epidemic. l have
been able to compare the names and char
acter or the principal anarchist papers pub
lshed in the United States with those of
Europe Out of fifty-one in all, eleven
abuse the liberties of our republic. In New
Y Ork there is The Firebrand, The Anarchist
and Freedom. in German; Liberty and Soil
darlty. in English, and the Free Voice of
Labor, in Hebrew characters but German
words. SO much for New York city In
Brooklyn there is the Spanish Despertar
which is also the name of the Barcelona
paper implicated in the late attempts; and
IN the bohemian language there is the
Nolne and Listy, which is also the name of
an anarchist sheet published in Vienna
Chicago has it's German Harbinger and
Detroit its Poor Devil in the same Ian
guage; while Cambria county. PennsyIva-
MIA, published in French. The Miners
Alarm.
Here in France, people have at last made
up their minds that. since anarchy is a dis
ease of ideas. governments ought to pay
their first attentions to Just such publica-
tons as these. They think the anarchist
breeding newspapers should be suppressed
STERLING HELLO.
Americas Paper Making Capacity.
From the New York Telegram.
The United States has a capacity for
producing about 15,2j0.0oO pounds of paper