The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-11-18

orally. a fact which explains what has
long been a puZZle to many. namely:
how the Anarchists who have been here
tofore deemed poor and downtrodden and
ignorant. could have found the means
TO commemorate those whom they style
martyrs. in so cosby ana creditaple
way.
1t Is noteworthy in this connection
that the pardoning or the Anarchists by
Governor Altgeld was only tho result
OF patient and persistent agitation which
had been going on for years. The men
who got these convicts out OF jail were
Americans II will seem a strange thing
TO Americans, but IL Is an undoubted
fact that the Anarchists Of this country
possess great and increasing measure
Of social and political influence.
HOW Our GOVERNMENT OPPOSES ANARCHISTS.
The public panic is a pretty we'll recog-
nized thing I'm the United States by this
time. We now have all sorts of pat.ics
Whether they are aroused by cholera
or by political corruption seems to make
little difference in either their duration
are at their height we enact legislation
OF one kind and another with the same
alacrity with which everything connected
with the subject Is forgotten by the
time the panic has subsidcde. \ very
prominent Anarchist. William II. Van
Ornum, has effectively dealt with this
matter in one OF his numerous filings
against government
The latest panic in which the American
public revelied was the result Of the
assassination OF the President Of the
French Republic All sorts OF eXpedients
were proposed as remedies Tor Anarchy
and the only certain tnlng about theu
was that their sponsors had not the
faintest notion OF who and what AmeTl-
can Anarchists are Congressmen with
a mania for introducing bills drafted
measures i'm a violent hurry, some OF
which proposed the deportation Of all
persons calling themselves Anarchists
who now are or subsequently shall en-
ter within the borders or the Unlten
States. There are az present SIN my
sures pending In Congress against AZ
archv. II is not easy TO see how such
enactments can be effective. No Amerl-
can citizen can be eXpatrlated without
his consent and the only Anarchists ~
this country OF any influence IN lle
movement are Anne tican citizens or ma
tive birth II has further been pro-
nounced nv so competent an authority
AZ tho Sunreme Court Of the hlteH
states that il is the undoubted right W
the people OF this country 10 alte' ~,
abolish their form of government AT any
&c.. tho deem IL necessary to 90 So
Nov, tho Anarchists claim that thls i
all thev are attempting TO DO. .,.,...
II is often asked how many AnarChIS T.
more arc I'm the United States Btnla
6n1 nersons in this country i'm sympathy
with tho Anarchist tendency, alth0uSu
~ number Of aVOwcd plumb liners
ie mite small. These Anarchists sup
mort quito a literature and their pun.
GATORS nave been always admitted ~
no Tr,tted states mails without question
In is estimated that about $4,000 Is now
Invested I'm publishing plants deVoted ~
the nropaganda of Anarchy. various al
tennis have been made to exclude theSo
notifications from the United states mars
but hitherto the Anarchists nave DceI
able To- exert influence enough 10 pIeNtH'
this. The best legal talent H. the country
Is at the command OF IN" AlId' Cii'9 80
,liCh accounts for their mysterious III
10 attempt has been made here to sci
fCrth tho Anarchist views II marriage
IeIigion, economics AMI so forth. There
il nothing I'm them that would be new
n NAV be obs served. however that al
Anarchists profoundly revere the utter
ances of Michael Bakouni1e of Perrlt
Prudhon and Of JCsiah Warren. II Is
somewhat singular fact that the very
first rlpounder OF the movement now
known all over the world Is Anarchy
vas an American citizen and q linedl de
sccndeut Of that immortal warren VIC
fell at Bunker Hill rms AnarcHlSl va
Josiah Warren, long since dead but II
tie cause he ranks with the creates
Of its leaders
What the future Of Anarchy i'm America
will be is a mystery. But If the people
Of the United States propose 10 deal W.
il IT all adequately they must ablndpt
tho misrepresentation that foreigners
alone are affiliated with IT, For Anarchy
american in orieir. counts It's devote
followers among the flower Of our youth.
0'' ''''' ~ J. c. JOHNSON.