Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-18
BAcILL1 INSTEAD OF DYNAMITE.

How Wholesale Murder May BE Done
by Scientific Anarchists.
From the New York Herald
DR.. Paul Gibier's address before the med
| ico-legal congress has attracted public at
tention to the science of bacteriology with
more than a perfunctory interest He di-
viced the province of bacteriology into two
parts-the civil and the criminal Concern
ing the criminal phase, he said that he was
asked by certain man as to the resultant
traces If bacteria were injected into a per-
son. The person was told that certain eff
fects might result from such an injection
which could lead to the discovery of the
cause.
But the doctor afterward found that his
questioner was man of doubtful reputa-
ton, and his suspicious were at once direct
ed toward the possibility that would-be
murderers might resort to bacteriology with
deadly effect. In many instances death
could be caused by such injection, and the
evidence would be hardly discoverable.
Already desperate men have shown that
they are willing to devote infinite labors to
the accomplishment of their purposes. An
archists had pursued elaborate chemical
studies. There was no reason for believing
that they would not. if they thought 1t
worth their while, devote themselves with
all zeal to study Of bacteriology, whereby
their designs could be accomplished.
DR. Gibier. taking this line of thought
which he will publish some time during the
winter. When 1 saw him in relation to the
subject he was not anxious to talk.
Il am not an alarmist." said he, land the
remarks made before the medico-legal con-
gress were just enough to direct some at
tention toward the possibilities of which /
spoke. This is a scientific age, and some
men even pursue scientific research as a
81 ir1ln for fhn ,f
and humanity, and others with more sin
lister purposes.
Two anarchists were talking together one
evening. Both were educated men. and
perfectly sound and brilliant on any other
subject except the 'selfishness and degener-
acy of the world
Why use dynamite?' asked one. when
a bacillus or two well placed would serve
the purpose just as well?'
"'Ah, but you must first secure your ba-
Gill; said the other How are you going
to do that?
"'Study bacteriology.' was the answer.
'Bacill placed in the water supply of a
great city would put dynamite to shame
Yes asserted the other and the doc
tor will tell You that thousands Of poor
persons must die
II admitted that in such a case the NOR
tally among those whom the anarchists
declare they desire to aid most would be
something appalling; that the rich whom
they sought to reach were better safe
guarded, better prepared to fight and check
disease than the abject poor.
WELL said the most determined of the
anarchists, let the poor die-let them all
die. 1t is better to be dead than in suffer-
ing. 1t will at least cause the onward,
needless world to think, to become serious
for moment. and to know of the misery
and anguish it makes while 1t laughs and
assures itself that it is the best place in the
universe
Granted that all of the anarchists were
made up of such men," said Dr. Gibier.
1.-The possibility of danger in this new field
is not at all overdrawn. 1t was this Incl
dent first and then others that set me to
thinking. I do not consider my conclusions
overflra wnn