St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-04
they lNDORSE BOMBS
Ominous Meeting Of the Reds
on Trafalgar Square.
STREET BLACK WITH POLICE.
But the Anarchists Assemble
Just the Same.
SENSATION LOVERS LOOK on
SENSATION LOVERS LOOK on
While Ineendiary Literature
Is Being Distributed.
BARCELONA FIENDS EXT0LLEl.

people of London were treated this aft
ernoon to sight rarely seen in Eng
land. 1t was little less than anarchy
bidding a bold defiance to the law and
to the authorities, who made a display
OF police calculated to strike terror into
the hearts of the evil-minded. And
while this was going on thousands Of
laW-abiding citizens looked on and won-
dered if this were "Merry Eng land" and
asked each other if the world were not
coming to an end. 1t all came about
through the announcement made by the
anarchists of this metropolis to the ef4
feet that they intended to hold meet
ing on Trafalgar square, at the head of
Whitehall street, where the government!
officers are in the main situated and not.
far from the residences OF the most
aristocratic, and within rifle shot of the
palaces of royalty. Such thing could
not be tolerated, said Right Hon. Henry
Asquith, the secretary of state for
home affairs, when questioned upon the
subject in the house of commons last
week, and he promptly issued
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE POLICE,
ordering the chief commissioner, Sir
Edward Bradford, to take the steps
necessary to prevent the meeting from
taking place. The anarchists thereupon
declared their intention of holding the
meeting in spite of the authorities. At
first this was looked upon as being only
an idle threat. but as Sunday drew near
reports reached the chief commissioner
of police indicating that the anarchists
inta To hair
to meet on Trafalgar square in defiance
of the authorities, if the latter did not
take most energetic steps to prevent
them. The anarchists had upon several
previous Sundays held meetings upon
| Trafalgar square, aud they had been
| tolerated by the authorities on the
| ground that they were not at all dan
| gerous, and that the mere fact of S sup-
| pressing them would call call undue
| attention to class of people
whose vaporings were only danger
ous when brought to public notice
by attempts upon the part Of
the authorities to prevent them from
airing their wild doctrines. But the at
| tention of the house of commons was
| called, through the newspapers, to the
| fact that the anarchists, upon the occa-
| sion of their last meeting in Trafalgar
square, openly advocated
POLICY OF BLOOD,
and held up for glorifcation the dyna-
mite outrages at Barcelona, at Mar
| seilles and at other places, and
practically urged the anarchists of
| England to follow the example of their
] brethren in Spain and France. The
| result was that the home secretary did
not dare to allow any further rope to
the reds of London, and the police
this afternoon mustered strong force
at Trafalgar square, in the Strand
and III Cockspur street, while re-
serves were stationed in Regent
street, Waterloo, Charing cross
road, Northumberland avenue and
on the embankment. One would have
Imagined that this display of police
force would have deferred the anarch-
lists from making anV demonstration
but they were evidently prepared to do
their utmost to carry out the threat to
meet in Trafalgar square in spite of tho
authorities, for they began to muster at
Z o'clock, though both sides of the
square were black with police. This
display of force caused many thousands
of people to flock to the neighborhood
of the square, and the front of the ma
tional gallery was soon so packed with
people that it was utterly impossible
for vehicle to pass through the crowd
unless assisted by the police. The
gathering of these crowds was just what
the anarchists wanted, and it enable
them to do more towards
SPREADING THEIR LITERATURE,
and thereby ventilating their dynamite
doctrines, than any meeting which they
could have held upon the square would
have done. Male and female anarchists
mixed among the thousands of people
assembled about the square and began
hawking anarchist literature, which,
owing to the novelty of the situation,
found a ready sale among the people
assembled. Copies of the Common
Veal, the organ OF the anarchists of
London, found a ready sale in the
crowds, its frontispiece being an Illus
tration of labor as Samson pulling
down the pillars of church and state
This specimen of anarchist literature
also contained an anarchistic article
headed "Bombs," and in which the
writer welcomed the Barcelona bomb
outrage at the Lycee theater as ga great
and good act," and gloried in the fact
that thirty people were killed and eighty
injured by dynamite bombs thrown lntc
the audience assembled upon that occa
casion. Anarchist and socialist mani
festoes were also distributed brOadcas
among the crowds assembled about the
square. Gradually the number Of
socialists and anarchists gathered abou
the square was so augmented that
THEY GAINED COURAGE
enough to rush towards the center O
the square, which place they had pre-
viously fought shy of owing to tht
large number of policemen stationed
around. Finally a large and eXcitet
crowd of anarchists and socialists col
Iected inside the square. Among then
were noticed many of the lower clas
of foreigners, French. Germans, Rus
SLAMS. Spaniards and Italians, many o
them wearing slouch hats and red neck
ties, thus causing considerable excite
ment in the neighborhood, as all the
law-abidipg citizens expected that the
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