New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-03

in the latest wholesale massacre vi i''''
people. Paas, who failed in Kiliihs "enei"'
Martinez Campos a month before was ho' oii
their lists. 4 Barcelona correspondents WIN mas
for several months been making opser'auoi'
of the Anarchist centres of that c'y-caieS'
reading clubs. private resorts-reckohs the men
Of action, at 200 and gives 5000 as the total
number in city and environs. warning was
given in August that trouble was brewing. and
three days before the attempt Of Pallas the po-
lico raided one Of the principal centres. Maps
and REPORTS were found from all parts, among
the rest being a letter from a companion in chi
oooo who SIGNED himself "Menier." Yet the police
have been unable to prevent one of the bloodi-
oct feats Of Anarchy. In Valencia, Cadz. Jerez
and Malaga 1t has required all the force OF the
authorities. civil and military to keep the An
archist element in order ever since the warfare
on society was begun.
A French authority has calculated the adj
herents of Anarchy as revolutionary party
throughout the world. at 100000 bound together
by $50 newspaper organs, most OF which are
insignificant enough and by constant inter
change Of private correspondence. when Is iull
Of meaning for. by this means the acting heads
Of the movement communicate 10 the RANK
and file everything of moment. from designat-
ing the city or special institution when IL ripe
for their plots and attacks all the way to recipes
for making dynamite and bombs. In general II
10 safe to saw that London. with the legal shell
ter it affords to all political refugees is the
chief present centre Of theoretical Anarchy.
New-York comes second on the ls'' WIN
TWENTY-FIVE Anarchist sheets. Anarchy in prac-
tice has its leading adopts in Paris. barcelona
and Chicago. At least this IL the Anarchists
own account Of themselves. The presence oi
Italian Anarchists in Spain. France and even
In South America. and the peculiarly hidden
and destructive character Of the movement IN
later years throughout the world would lead one
to believe that Rome is not the least danSI
Gus centre Of these militant Anarchists.
In France and notably in Paris, 1t would
be idle to calculate the uncertain spread of
groups But 1t would be foolish TO underrate
the splrit which they manage to breathe into
n large portion Of the lowest class Of laborers.
and that still larger and lower class OF those
who will not labor at all. The morally low. OF
course are meant. for in France. at least
there there are few Anarchists who are mere
theorists or fanatics. and nothing more Many
are old criminals who have adopted their inc
DRY to defend their practice RaVachol ana
his friends to this day openly declare that
sufficient reason for him to Kill the hermit Tor
whose murder nc was executed was that the
h.r,uit had money and he had none. So In
barcelona the hungry may be- excused for kill
ing those who cat I'D the food. Others among
these Anarchists are simply cranks. helped To
be SO by a half-education. which allows them To
take In some sounding theory and does not
make them able TO see the impossibility Of re-
alizing 1t in practice. With this must be- Joined
the cruelty which has grown apace with misery
ever since religion has been taken away from
sl. a..r.l..
would join the spread Of unbridled sexual IL
cense with this starting up Of the more cruel
instincts Of the bette humane
SOME GENTLE CrTTnRo,Ts.
II is only fair however. to acknowledge
that Anarchy does not necessarily mean Grim
inaI violence. though 1t seems nowhere willing
TO limit itself 10 that constitutional action which
alone common men consider - be right and
lawful. II Is impossible TO believe that men
like Prince Krapotkin or Professor Reclus would
connive for n moment at such exploits as the
barcelona mountaineering. But their abstract
theories and intense feeling against the present
order Of things become sadly transformed AZ
they filter down into the lower strata 81 dis
content and crime Add to this that people
who ought To know better have been SO long
playing at Anarchy that the ignorant and worse
still the half-learned. may almost be- excused
for believing that some beneficial change can
result from violence done 90 society. The other
night the fashionable Paris audience that gath
cred to hear Ibsen's "Enemy OF Society" amused
itself with crying "Vive rAnarchie" Up 10
the time OF his Imprisonment for incitemcnt 10
murder and for insult 10 the arrsy. ~ d'Axa
edited an Anarchist journal. thoroughly Paris
ian in it, tone. and filled with the contrthu-
tions. prose and poetry. Of the lights Of the
young school Of literature.
But II Is the "Perc Pcinard." written In work
mans slang. that sells its 5000 copies 10 the
laboring population OF Bellcvillc Even here
Ibcls an Independent but powerful painter Of
standing has given the aid Of his illustrations.
The editor Is former clerk Of one Of the great
Paris shops. dozen years ago he founded
the Syndicate Tradc-Union Of Commercial
Employees. along with the present Socialist Dep
uty Toussaint. who has just been preaching to
recruits to the army that patriotism is "A snare
set by capitalists. Pouget the editor In ques-
ton. helped to placard all Paris with Anarchist
posters on the eve Of July II. 1881. The mex!
year he was arrested. at the same time With
Louise Michel. for the sack Of tho bakers
shops. and with her was condemned to seven
years Of prison. When he came out he founded
the "Perc PcInard." which the Government is
TO prosecute only now.
A woMAN's ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION.
Nothing In truth is prcttcr than the words
with which Nine. Severine-a daughter Of Puri-
tanic bourgeois and n woman Of high talent,
who Is succeeding to the place Of Mime. Adam in
French poltics-pleads the cause Of the BARGE
Iona Anarchists in the Echo de Paris" of No
vembcr Il. She speaks Of the stupor made up
Of uneasiness, fright. wrath. that has invaded
hsnh Ia ont hat ,,,lI
when 1t sees the Anarchist thundcrbols falling.
has in it's eyes the look which the men of the
ancient civilization must have had when they
saw the barbarans coming In hordcs. uncouth
and frenzied. rushing on to the assault of the
old Europe" This lady, who knows whereof
she speaks (she has served soup at the An
archist conferences). amid much sentiment
which is not all hystercal. puts few questions
which those who love society as 1t is cannot