Evening star., 1894-01-06

There are (and this Is the estimate Of Die
Autonomie of London and La Revolte of
Paris) 10000 anarchists. adherents of the
revolutionary party. They are scattered
over the world. and are held in a sort of
vague comradeship by $50 newspapers Lon
don is the headquarters Of these propaganda
lists Of dynamite outrage. Great Britain, of
course. shelters political refugees of all sorts.
1t protects the worst scoundrel who robs or
murders under the cloak of a political move
ment. In his place in parliament, Mr. John
Burns refers feelingly to the legal muir
der Of the Chicago anarchists. London,
with its careless hospitality, is naturally
the home of the propagandist of destruc-
tion. They were men of all nations-those
noisy, mysterious men who met in that hall
in Tottenham Court road. those familiar
fellows In shabby paletots, who idled stren-
uously In the drinking shops of Soho.
And next to London comes New York
You know well enough the strongholds in
this city-Justus Schwab's basement saloon
on the west side, Grobe Michels basement
on the Bowery. the Dingy Garden in Pike
street. You may not know, however, that
twenty-five newspapers advocating the So
cial revolution are published in New York.
This Is nearly as many as there are In Paris
gerous man. Those who know anything of
the anarchy OF New York laugh at the idea.
He Is on the outside and Is useful to the
police when they want to fiaunt an arrest
name to give interest to STORY" Peu-
kert is the leader of the autonomists. He is
a dark, slight, bearded, feline man, an Aus
trian and man of parts. The individual
lists, like Emma Goldman, brand him as a
spy. In any case. in a society which refuses
leaders, he Is the figurehead.
Their Numbers Unknown.
The anarchists themselves say their most
efficient members are in Paris. But here 1t Is
almost impossible to arrive at any approx
mate estimate of the number. Pouget asserts
there are 10000 avowed anarchists, adher-
ents of the revolutionary party, propagan-
distS Of violence. dynamite and the knife
But In addition there Is in Paris a large
class OF idle and vicious. old criminals IA
natics, who hang on the skirts of any move
ment that makes for disorder. They can
hardly be called anarchists, for they do not
trouble themselves With a theory to cloak
theft and murder. Nevertheless they are to
be rtckoned withal.
The movement in Italy is noteworthy. In
that country there was no split between the
socialists and the extremists. Easily and
gradually socialism was intensified into an
archy. There was, as 1t were a develop
ment of the theories of Karl Mara, a de-
velopment that passed through the inter-
mediate stage of Bakuninism, to the advo-
cacy of plunder and bomb-throwing. In
1891 the Italian federation Of the "Anar-
chist Revolutionary Socialistic Party was
at the SOuSTeSS SdpO LaXO. IL rec
ognized the autonomy of the separate
groups and their methods Of combined ac-
ton.
There followed an immediate spread OF
anarchy. The remarkable thing is that 1t
was not confined to the cities, as is the case
In all other countries, Russia not excepted.
1t made conversion perverts-among the
peasants. There sprang up in Sicily the
Fasci di Lavatori. 1t has adherents in al
most every part Of southern Italy.
The college Of the Propaganda in Rome?
There are two of them. One breaches
Christ, and the other sends out the mission
aries Of the red terror.
Come down into Paris for a little while
Not here in the bOulevards, where the cleo
trio lights fiatter the asphalt into silver and
the gay people Haunt themselves like flags
Come down into the underworld out of which
the social revolution" is to come-the
world of the cut-throat, thief. the visionary
the declasSes, beggars, paupers-all the
damned. 1t Is here that anarchy works
Montmartre. which saw the beginning and
end OF the communist war-or was 1t a re-
bellion?-of 1871, is still the home of the
revolutionists. Their chief rendezvous is in
the neighboring suburb of Blignancourt.
You turn to the right out of the Iiue RAINY
into a blind alley. At the further end Is a
low, shambling brick house. There is an
obtuse angled roof of tiles over It, The
windows are narrow and high up. The door
faces the Rue RAINY. This is the Maison
du Peuple. The socialists built it, They
contributed the bricks and tiles, joists and
mortar. Each man gave a days labor to
the building. Not penny was spent on ii.
In its first better days 1t was
used as cooperative warehouse.
This socialistic enterprise failed. Citi-
zen Lisbonne, a noted firebrand OPEN
ed wine shop there. The hottest OF
the revolutiOnists gathered there. When
the government closed the Bourse de Travail
the expelled workingmen made this their
headquarters. All save the active anar-
chists have been crowded out. however, and
the Maison du Peuple is the House of the
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