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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-06
Red Terror.

long, low room, seating, perhaps, 800, a
hall and a tavern. Everywhere are relics
of the Commune-pictures of Blanqui, Eudes,
Trinquet, Rossel. Obituaries and notices
hang on the walls. The air is blue with
smoke. Walters pass from the high, zinc
covered bar to the tables, carrying wine,
beer and absinthe. There is the noise of
clanking glasses and the drone of converse
ton. That hgh-shouldered man with the
SMALL pointed beard and the long, thin nose
Is Pouget, He Is the editor of 'Fere Pei
nard," an anarchist sheet. written in the
slang of the gutter. 1t sells 1000 copies a
day to the workmen OF Belleville. He was
one of those who raided the bakers shops
in lSS2, and spent seven years in New Gale
donia. That stout man in a gray suit, peer
ing short-sightedly through his eyeglasses,
is d'AXa, editor of "L'Anarchie." With
him are half dozen of the young wri-
ters'' of France, symbolists, poets men OF
genius and insanity.
At the far end a woman gets up and
makes speech. Her voice is strdent, with
worn edges, like the voice of a street singer.
She has a tangle of white name on her head
and neck. and a face SO curiously like
George Eliot's that it startles one. A gaunt-
hard. vitriolic old woman-Louse Michel
the red nun.
Her influence is paramount in the under
world of Paris. She rules there. In Paris
an influence of this sort Is of the first i'm
portanee. 1t attracts the drifting class OF
rascality which is ready for any violence
And for this reason Paris is the only city
in which the anarchists would find an army
made TO their hands
The red terror has become question oil
practical politics. 1t can no longer be treat
ed with the easy indifference and occasional
spasms of suppression. 1t has grown from
group OF seven in 1851, to an army OF
10000 in 1874. There is immediate peril.
hence in Nine. SeveTine's question, "Wha,
are you going to do about it?'
VANCE THOMPSON
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WEALTH NOT WELL DIVIDED.
Seventy.Oue Per Cent of IL Owned ny
n De- Cent of American Families.

George K. Holmes special census agent
on mortgage statistics, approaches the con-
centration of wealth In the current number
Of the Political Science Quarterly. In
stead of attempting to compute the property
holdings of the rich he strives to ascertain
how much of the national wealth the mass
es of the people possess. The census bu-
reau took from every family in twenty
two states and territories answers to the
questions whether 1t owned or hired the
farm or home occupied, and the extent of
the incumbrance on owned farms and
homes, il any, with the value or the prop
erty The results are believed by the
Springfield Republican to be fairly repre-
sentative OF the whole country. Assuming
this to be so 30 per cent Of the farm
families and 63 per cent Of the home fam
lilies in the country are tenants. Among
farm-owning families 30 per cent carry
mortgage debts averaging H,130 on farms
whose average value is $3.50; among home
owning families % per cent carry incum-
brances averaging SLIGO on homes valued
on the average at 1924. The census will
show the number OF farms to be about
$500 900, leaving s,190,152 families occupy
ing homes that are not farms. Mr.. Holmes
confines his wealth estimates here to prop
critics valued at less than 5000. Such
farms incumbered constitute 80 per cent in
number and So per cent in value Of all in
numbered farms: and such incumbered
homes CONF titute So per cent in number and
46 per cent in value OF all incumbered
homes. The census did not take the values
OF unincumbered farms and homes and the
percentages In the other case are adopted
here as probably the truth.
According to the estimates tabulated by
MFR. Holmes 81 per cent of the families OF
the country own no more than about q
per cent of the wealth, and per cent own
II per cent Of the wealth. And Mr.. Holmes
believes his estimates do not overstate the
case against the poor. These conclusions
ever been reached in the study Of this
question. Proceeding to divide the richer
0 per cent of the families as between the
rich and moderately well of, Mr.. Holmes
takes the New York Tribune's list Of mil
lionaires 4040 ana gives them an average
partly based upon the results of Thomas
@. Shearman's claims in the same line
This gives to the 4,o47 very rich families
or ree-hundredths of I per cent of all
the families, about So 900. 600, 900, or 20 per
cent OF the nations wealth: and leaves the
cent? to 8 per cent of the families. includ-
ing the comparatively few millionaires
The result seems incredible to Mr.. Holmes
That 4,047 families should possess nearly as
least-as IL ,593 Ss7 families is, indeed, rath.
er startling. But IL Is probable, he con-
tends, that the statement is approximately
correct. Excluding the miliionaires, the
wealth of the LOB. DIS families lying be-
tween them and the great mass Of people
holding property valued at less than So oOI
becomes an average of $4,000 a family
which seems large for so many, but which
Mr.. Holmes goes on to demons ira te must be
about the case.
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der begets another. Crimes of violence
spread like infectious diseases. / never
knew an honest anarchist who was not
either semi-insane. a mattoid. or a neuro-
path. Louise Michel Is q grapho-maniac,
grapher-is a neurotic, August Spies was a
paranotac, like Prince Krapotkin. In a
word they are ''cranks." You might say
that anarchy Is the child of socialism and
neurosis and not be far out of the way. Is
II strange, then, that IL has all the vitality
OF a religious mania? 1t Is dangerous chief
iy because II is IRRESPONSIBLE. spasmoSic. and
spreads as fast as the WORKOUT civilization
OF the cities breeds diseased minds.
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stroy IT utterly and--hoch, die Anarchie
The organization of society is a mistake
property Is robbery. all authority Is crime
civilization-that is the enemy! As long as
society guarantees the right Of property
there exists the right of theft to counteraci
It; as long the present constitution makes
possible the rich man, there exists the indi-
vidual right to murder him. And this again
Is anarchy.
/ need hardly say that 1t varies greatly In
It's expression. With Prince Krapotkin o.
Prof. Reclus, it COOS gently; 1t Is specuia-
tive; IL apes constitutionalty. With Citi-
zeness Louise Michel 1t screams Historically
1t is suave. noisy, learned or unlearned. but
1t Is always anarchy. 1t was not until the
theory of Bakunin spread into southern
Europe that anarchy became at once pow
er and a menace. Fourierism, that gentle
Protest against civilization, which ensnared
among others such staunch Americans as
Horace Greeley Hawthorne, George William
Curtis and Charles A. Dana, was as innoc-
uous as the fantasies of Rosseau- Even
In the collectivism OF Karl Marx and the
demo-tyranny of Lasalle there was an ele-
ment Of conservative safety. There is nc
militant destruction in the theory that the
state-the organized people-should own
not anarchy. as 1t has been fashioned by
Bakunin and corrected by Pouget, Michel
Torrida and the inuividualists. No, an
archy recognizes no state. admits the right
Of no majority to rule. demands that polit-
zeal power, even though 1t be revolutionary
be destroyed, gives everyone the ownership
OF the world and undivided authority ovel
himself 1t ia a subtle theory II you think
II over. but 1t appeals frankly. enticingly tc
the undeliberative mind. No law, no prop
erty, no right, no wrong-nothing save the
. individual stalking abroad in an untram
meied world. Society Is not to be tolerated
not even societies of anarchists; organiza
ton even to destroy. Is wrong. 1t spreads
like fire in a mine.
Beginning of the New Anarchy.
This idea had taken root by 1889, wher
the Spanish anarchists insisted on holding
a convention in Paris during the exposition
1t was with difficulty the more radical an
archists were persuaded to acquiesce. 4
convention. they argued. predicated certain
amount Of authority. MOI matter how slight
and was inconsistent with pure anarchy
1t was the beginning Of the new anarchy
Companions from Spain. Italy. France. Ger
many. Russia, Enthusiastically from South
America-debated for days. Was there an
individual right to rob the rich man? An
individual right to murder him? The con-
vention decided in the negative. There was
. similar experience at the socialistic con-
gress at Zurich this year. The most vehe-
met in an impromptu congress. 1t may be
remembered. and gave emphatic utte-ance
to the Bakunin doctrine-the doctrine OF
Aalatesta and Pouget.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-06
Epoch Approaching When They Will
Come Into Active Employment
OR COAST DEFENSE
Aerial Batteries to Protect Our
Shores From Invasion.
PROGRESS OF OTHER NATIONS.


NCLE SAM MAY
soon be forced to
c O n s / der seriously
the establishment OF
a balloon corps as
an adjunct Of the
army. This country
is sadly behind in
the development OF
aeronautics, which
are unquestionably
destined to play an
important part In
the warfare Of the
Eot distant future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-06
WEIGHING THE MAIL
How the Post Office Adjusts Railway
Mail Rates With the Roads.
a SOURCE OF REVIEW U E
Weighing Of Mail and an Average
Compensation Every Four Years,
THE PENNSYLVANIA'S PLUM
@7HE POST OFFICE

HE POST OFFICE
Department is getting
ready to weigh the
railroad mail in the
Pacific division. All
OF the railroad mail
is weighed once in
four years to deter
mine the rate Of COM
pensation to be paid
to the railroads for
the four years to
com lie. Instead OF
Weighing mail on all
of the railroads In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-06
What They Did Not Resemble

What They Did Not Resemble.
From Truth.
Smythe-"That drummer that met last
night told some Of the best stories ever
heard"
Mrs. Smythe-"Well, If they were SO good
what were they like?"
Smythe-"I couldn't say exactly, but they
certainly weren't like tracts"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-06
Rise and Spreadof the Red Terror of
Europe.
After PaIIas, Leauthier; After leau-
thier, Who?
A WAR AG AINST ORDE r


H u + Il e T II K
cards together. cut
and deal again; this
is anarchy.
It's a ramshacEle
house We are living
in, the rain drips
through the rotting
roof. diseases creep
out of the rotting
floor and deform us,
and in this devil of a
house we are all dy-
ing miserably. Tear
IL down burn IL, de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-06

1t Went Against His Stomach.
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Guns Not Needed.

These are the most important conclusions
obtained from experiments recently made
by foreign powers for the purpose of find
ing out what elements of danger are in
volved in balloon warfare A missile dis
charged from a frearm in an airship ex-
hibits the remarkable phenomenon of a
ball going continually faster and faster
as it nears its mark, no matter how distant
the latter may be. However, guns would
not be utilized for this purpose. and BON BIS
would be infinitely more effective than
bullets. Simply dropped. they do the rest.
During the siege of Paris. In the Franco
Prussian war, balloons were sent I'D In
great numbers from the city, passing
over the besieging armies. The aeronauts
took with them homing pigeons, which
carried back news to the beleaguered me-
| tropolis. These balloons were constantly
fired at. and Krupp, the gun maker, at
the request Of Won Moltke, designed a bal
loon musket' for the purpose of attacking
them. Nevertheless, this sort of rifle prac-
tice proved wholly ineffective. and only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-06
The MaPten.

Another small and valuable fur-bearing
beast 10 the marten OF Canada and Alaska.
For centuries the trapper has sought to cAp-
ture IL In the forests. its precious skin 60
Ing far to repay him for his long winters
tramp and toll. The peit made UP into
muffs, capes and boas. is commonly but err
roneously known under the name Of sable
The tails are made up separately into gar
ments. which fetch very high prices. They
are also used In the manufacture Of the
finest sable paint brushes No part OF the
creature is lost Even the skins OF the
paws and throst are sold by the pound 10
traders, who make them into coat Innings
and tobacco pouches; The hudson 90 Bsy y
OF the pelts annually. Yet another little
animal, mostly taken In Siberia. furnishes
the ermine fur, which is worn by the Queen
of England, and is also utilized for the state
robes of British peers. Nevertheless. IL ~
no longer so fashionable as IL used to ne.
and hence is much less costly than for
merly.
Badger skins for Brushes.
Badger skins are largely used nowadays
for shaving brushes. For that purpose the
hair is cut of close to the pelt and sorted
into lengths. being then tied up in neat
bundles and sold by weight. The hide itself
is employed for glue. Skunk fur has come
much into favor OF late years. In 1891
nearly 700 900 sLunkskins were sold in Lon
don, though not long ago they were con-
sidered valueless. The highest priced skin
is that OF the sea otter, a single peit some
times fetching sl.ooo. This fur is princi-
pally used I'm Russia, for the collars of
noblemen's coats. Many thousand mole
skins are collected annually and made into
waistcoats. Squirrel skins are taken for
taxes in parts OF Siberia. A fur most ex-
tensiveiy employed is that of the muskrat
from g. 900 600 TO 1000. ono skins being mass
keted In England yearly.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
PoPULIsrs of the Eighteenth Ohio
district nominated Gen Coxey for con-
gress and Endorsed his plans.
THE republican territorial conven-
ton at Oklahoma City renoninated
Dennis Flynn for congress by acelama-
ton.
THE entrance of Chairman Wilson. of
the ways and means committee. into
the house for the first time after
his long illness was the signal for
a spontaneous outburst of applause
Pin an instant the business of the house
was suspended and members focbed
around the West Virginian to welcome
him back to congress and congratulate
him on his recovery.
THE clerks of Senators Kyle and
Hunton, it is alleged, have received in
timation that money consideration
could be secured for the votes OF their
chiefs against the tariff bill. Senator
Kyle was offered SD, 900 and Senator
Hunton SIS, 900.
Gov. FLOWER, of New York, has
vetoed the school teachers pension
bill.
THE United States consul-genera1 at
Berlin, William Hayden Edwards, died
there on the 18th OF brain fever.
The senate committee on territories
has authorized the reporting of the bill
for the admission of Utah, with an
amendment fixing the date for the cleo
ton of delegates to the constitutional
| convention at November 6, the con-
vention to meet the first Monday in
March, 1895.
a BILL to provide for coinage at the
branch mint at Denver, Col, has been
| introduced by Representative Pence.
1t appropriates $500, ZOO for the con-
struction of the necessary plant.
REPORTS from conventions and pri-
maries throughout Alabama settle the
democratic nomination for governor in
| favor of Congressman Oates. Returns
from counties show that enough legis
| latlve nominees are instructed for Sen
ator Morgan to make his reelection an
absolute certainty.
| ID. c. SNODGRAss was renominated
| by the democrats for congress on the
437th ballot at Chattanooga, Tenn.
| A WASHINGTON special says that Sen
atOr Hill has been at work on an en-
tirely new tariff bill to be substituted
for the sO-called senate compromise
tariff bills and he will boldly demand
| its acceptance
THE Tammany society met on thu
18th at the wigwam and made Maj
Gilroy grand sachem for one year.
The petition that was gotten up atLex
ington, Ky, asking Col Breckenridge t.
withdraw from the race for reelection
to congress from the Ashland district
has been forwarded to Washington
1t bore the signatures of a score of olt
friends of Col. Breckenridge who wan
some other man in his stead.
The upper house of the Bavarial
diet, after two secret sittings, ha
agreed to the proposal to place the in
sane king, Otto, of Bavaria, unde
guardianship and to transfer the crow
to the regent and heir presumptive
Prince Luitpold. 1t was believed tina
the deputies would give their assent t.
this proceeding.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-24
Mrs Leases Illness.

TOPEKA, Kan. May 21.-A letter from
DIR. Agnes Haviland says that Mrs.
Leases illness is neither heart disease
nor nervous prostration, as reported,
but infammatory rheumatism. Her
right arm and hand are still badly
swollen and disa bled. but she writes
some every day with her left hand She
hopes to be able to leave Olathc some
time this week Yesterday was the
day set by crank for the removal OF
Mrs. Lease from the terrestrial sphere,
but no intelligence of the demise had
been received in Topeka at 6 P. IA.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-24
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.


T. V. POwDERLY. ex-general master
workman of the Knights of Labor: A.
w. Wright, ex-member of the execu-
tive board, and p. p. Quinn. master
workman of district assembly %. have
been expelled from the Knights of
Labor.
IN Tower Hill, ILL.,, fire destroyed an
entire block of business houses in the
center of the town. Eight buildings
AMI contents were destroyed. with a
total loss of about $4,000 partially in
Sured.
a PARTY left Port Huron, Mich, in a
tug to rescue the crew of the schooner
Shupe, which was on a sand reef six
miles away, and just as they reached
the wreck the tug capsized and four
out of five men were drowned, the
fifth one barely managing to swim
ashore.
New YORK and Pennsylvania were
visited by heavy storms on the Goth
and several cities were flooded. Small
creeks became raging torrents and peo-
pie were in a state of panic, leaving
their homes. Much property was dam
aged in cities and farms ruined. the
buildings, fencing and crops being
washed away.
AT dance in the village of Schutzen.
Austria. a quarrel arose among the
men about some women and a gen
iarme interfered. The officer believed
his life was in danger and drew his re-
volver and fired into the crowd. killing
four men and a girl. The Infatuated
dancers set upon the gendarme and
kicked him till life was extinct.
ONE of the keystone colliery rioters
at Wilkesbarre, Pa. has confessed that
the strikers had secured nine kegs OF
powder, which it was their intention
to put under the houses of the bosses
of the mines and set Off
| LIGHTNING set fire to the wire goods
factory of the National Manufacturing
lCo. in Worcester, Mass, and it was de-
stroyed. Loss, S35, 900. Two hundred
and fifty persons are thrown ont OF
work by the fire.
In Goshen, Ind. fire destroyed the
dve-story brick factory of Stutz &
Walker, carriage manufacturers. The
loss is $685. 900; insurance, S2s. 1000.
AKRON, o.. had fire on the 18th, a
planning mill and two livery stables
being burned and several blocks dam
aged. Loss. 500. 900.
A WEST bound freight co1lided with q
work train in Standing Rock Tunnel
Ky. The conductor, Nick Hill, OF the
work train and seven occupants of q
boarding ear attached to this train
iwere killed and others injured
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-24

Two years Imprisonment and a $50
fine was the punishment given John
Gould, at Peru, Ind, for arson. Gould
is only IS, and is the son of respected
parents. He and William Koob, boy
about the same age, were neighbors
and friends. They spent the greater
part of their time in an improvised ban
dts headquarters in an old store,
where no one could enter unless he
had the password From here they
emerged at nights, and during a period
of six weeks they set fire to over a
dozen buildings valued at about $15,-
900. They were finally captured by
one of forty special police appointed
for that purpose.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-24

PUBLIC PRINTER BENEDICT says he
will discharge not less than 1000 peo-
pie from the government printing Of
flee just as soon as he is able to do SO
intelligently. No one will be APP
pointed to fill these positions, as there
is not enough work for those who re-
main. Later more discharges may be
expected to make room for democratic
applicants, of whom there are about
100 from Missouri and fifty from Kan
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-24

PROF. MORROW, of the University of
Illinois, has called attention to new
field pest, which if permitted to thrive
will be of great annoyance and detri-
ment to farmers, namely. the wild or
priclxIy lettuce. 1t has been estimated
that nearly $4,000 seeds may be pro-
duced to the square foot. The plant is
readily recognized, as the leaves are
much like those of some varieties of
cultivated lettuce. They are 6 or s
inches long, about IL inches wide,
with irregular pricl1ly edges. In some
lawns and in many vacant lots in this
section of the state it is abundant.
Cutting the plant before it blossoms
will prevent its spreading.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-24

PARTICULARS have reached San An
tonic, Tex, of the duel to the death
between Mclean Gonzales and Juan
Anacio, two desperadoes of western
Texas. Each had sworn to kill the
other on sight. They came face to face
and without a word the fight began.
Anacio drew knife and stabbed Con
zales nine times. Gonzales attempted
TO use knife also, but did little harm
owing to his weak condition. Anacio
escaped to Mexico.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-24
Il. of p Officers.

The grand lodge Knights of Pythias,
at its recent meeting in Leavenworth,
elected officers as follows: Grand
chancellor, Pope C. Loomis, Fort
Scott; grand vice chancellor, c. E.
Elliott, Wellington; grand prelate, r.
NJ. McGonigle, Colby; grand keeper of
records and seal, G.. J. Neubert. of
Kansas City: grand master of eXcheq
uer, F. S. Larrabee, Stafford; grand
master-at-arms, j. H. Weigand, Leay-
enworth; grand inner guard. w. A. S.
Bird, Topeka: grand outer guard, w.
II. Swartzel, Parsons. The report of
the master of finance showed the cash
balance on hand May 1. 1898. was ST.
6O6.sO, the receipts. including the bal
ance. amounting to $40. 746.33.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-24

PROF. LARKIN, of Knox college OBJ
servatory at Galesburg, Ill, stated that
the recent solar eycloneexceeded those
of any storm he had seen on the sun
during his career as an astronomer. Its
length was $4,000 miles and its width
varied from % 900 to 43. 900 miles. The
peculiar features were jets and bridges
The whole mass had twisting, rotary
motion. There were two storm centers
and at distance are spots.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-24
Clippings.

Alderman astronomer calculates that
the year 1861 will be marked by the aP-
pearance of no less than seven different
comets.
Since. his retirement Mr.. Gladstone
has received many hundreds OF tributes
from admirers all over the United
Kingdom He has received several
dozen walking canes and umbrellas. a
handsome armchair and many more
pretentious presents
There are SIS. 900. coo in gold lying
idle in the banks of San Francisco be-
cause the bankers can find no way to
invest it safely.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-24
The Latest in Strikes.

In the United States court at Fort
Scott the other day the attorney for
the coal miners of southwest Missouri
and southeast Kansas sought to have
the injunction granted by Judge Fos-
ter last fall to restrain the miners from
forcing other miners to strike and from
damaging the companies property in
any way dissolved, but after long argu-
ment Judge Williams finally overruled
it. In his decision the court remarked
that if the defendants were law abid-
ing citizens the order of the court was
of no consequence, but if they were not
it should stand to protect the coal COM
panies.