The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-28
MOST ON CARNOT
The Anarchist GlOatS Over
Assassination.
THE BE-WHISKERED ANIMAL
Two Murderers Examined, SantOn and
Prendergast--t the latter Condemned
to Die of Old Age.
BE-WHISKERED
ANIMAL
Herr Johann Most.

New YORK, June 26.-The anarchists
hall. Socialism and Anarchism" was
to have been the subject of the evening,
but little else was spoken of but the
exalted bravery of the martyr who
assassinated Carnot. The leader of
communists anarchistics in this city,
Herr Johann Most, was located yesterday
in saloon on Park row, where he was
eating his lunch. He said:
''What do think of Carnot's death?
Well, think the hog should have been
stuck long ago. You don't see any
mourning band around my hat, do you?
Well, neither would you if the whole
brood of autocratic hogs were butcher" |,
all in heap. They ought to be given
their quietus in droves of 40 and so.
Not that Carnot was any particular
luminous mark to aim at. He was not
exactly what one would call a despot,
but the big overbearing pig scrawled his
name to every document that STEPPED
honest folks deeper and deeper into
slavery. 1t was just right, it was
glorious, to extinguish his life. The
czar's time will come yet. 1t costs
about 81 100000 year to hedge that
hogs life around with safeguards, but
with all the precautions he finds every
day some such pleasant souvenir as
deaths head painted on his bedcurtain,
or dagger stuck into his counterpane,
or miniature bomb lying under his bed.
He's the hog with the biggest grunt,
and some day he'll have to go like your
Carnots and your other beasts. Herr
Doves bullet-proof coat of mail may
not avail him. He'll be reached,
though he sit entrenched within a tower
of steel thousand feet in thickness.
As for your brood of reporters, want
to say" continued Herr Most, in a
crescendo voice, as he rose from the
table, having finished his meal, "you
are not your own masters. know you
are the slaves of the big combines that
send you hither and thither to do this
and that. Today you're sent to inter-
view anarchists, the next day hog of a
so-called statesman, and the third day
you report the execution of some other
murderer. But mark you, though you
are slaves, 1 give you warning that if
you do not treat US with greater fairness
than you have been doing-slave or no
slave-you will some day come into con-
tact with the knife's edge, and in way
that will not please you.'
Most also spoke of the manner in
which weapons and dynamite ought to
be used to prove most effective. He
had published an editorial in the Frei-
heit, which vas translated for a morning
paper. In it he treats of the superiority
of some weapons over others in dispatch
ing rulers and the bourgeois. He gives
prominence to the knife. When asked
concerning the coincidence between his
having advocated the use OF the knife
and its employment by the Italian who
murdered Carnot. Most said: "You
don't mean to say that my advice was so
quickly acted upon?"
Calus Zimmerman, editor of the Flam-
ling Torch, said Carnot richly deserved
his fate. Continuing, he said:
''He had been asked to pardon VaiE
laRt, and he treated the committee like
SO many dogs. The committee wished
to show that Vaillant's trial was unfair,
and that he was not guilty, but Carnot
showed the committee to the door, and
the martyred Valiant was executed.
Carnot could have saved him with one
stroke of his pen.''