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


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 on
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. Tney We're 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 siren
uously In the drinking shops Of Soho.
And next to London comes New York
You know well enough the strongholds in
this city-Justus Schwabs basement saloon
on the west side, Grobe Michers basement
or 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
There Is notion that Herr Most il a dan.
gerous man. Those who know anything OF
the anarchy Of New York laugh at the idea
tie is on the outside and Is useful to the
police when they want to fiaunt an arrest
or to the newspapers when they want q
kert is the leader of the autonomists. He is
dark, slight, bearded, feline man, an Aus
TRAN 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 fgurehead.
Their Numbers Unknown.
The anarchists themselves say their mos,
efficient members are in Paris. But here it 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 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 reckoned 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 it were develop
ment of the theories of Karl MARI, a de-
velopment that passed through the inter
mediate stage OF Bakuninism, to the advo-
cacy OF piUnder and bOmb-thrOwing. In
| 1891 the Italian federation of the "Anar-
| chist Revolutionary Socialistic Party was
| formed at the Congress Capo Laso. 1t 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 II
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
Easel Iii Lavatori. 1t has adherents in al
most every part of southern Italy.
The college of the Propaganda in Romel
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 little while
Not here in the bouievardS where the eiec-
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. begsars, paupers-alI the
damned. 1t is here that anarchy works
Montmartre. which saw the beginning and
end of the communist war-or was it 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 Itue RAINY
into blind alley. At the further end Is q
low, shamblng 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 it,
In its first better days 1t was
used as cooperative warehouse
This socialistic enterprise failed. Citi-
Zen Lisbonne, noted frebrand, open.
ed a wine shop there. The hottest OF
the revolutionists gathered there. When
the government closed the Bourse de Travail
the expelled workingmen made this theil
headquarters. All save the active anar.
chists have been crowded out, however, and
| the S1aison du Peuple is the House of the