The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13


simplest principles of humanitarianism.
If your officers ordered you to fire on a
1st of May riot, should you obey if you
saw your father or brother in the crowd ?
No! the voice of nature forbids it"
at was for disseminating teachings such
as these that Santo was cast into prison !;
l was his lawyer and defended him both
at his first trial and before the Court of
Appeals. He was sentenced to eleven
months in prison, and when they let him
out after seven months, on ticket of leave,
| found out that they intended to force
him to become a soldier, and intended to
put him in regiment where he would be
subjected to military punishment for
having made the anarchist propaganda.
81 advised him to escape abroad and he
crossed the frontier and went to Lugano,
in Switzerland. The first thing he did
there was to organize strike among the
bakers, who were oppressed by their en-
ployers, being forced to work all night.
The strikers triumphed under Santos
leadership, but the employers boycotted
him and he was forced to withdraw to
Geneva.
"Ahm exclaimed Signor Gori, inter
rupting himself to make reflection, "the
word Malta is that OF the employers. We
are cannibals in the present day, whatever
people may say to the contrary. We de-
YOUR one another, with etiquette perhaps
but none the less surely and Governments
the side of the employers who devour and
against the poor, who are devoured.
'It was so with poor Santo; the police
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and the officers said to his employers,
This is dangerous anarchist, do not
keep him. and he was dismissed though
he was faithful workman. He crossed
the frontier into France and found work
at Cette, and the Italian Consul told the
police TO hound him as an anarchist.
"Our Italian Consuls are police agents. L
said so to the face of our Consul in Lon
don.
Denied work at Cette, Santo Caserio
went to Lyons, again found work and had
it taken from him at the instigation of the
police. / tell you he had road of thorns
in trying to keep body and soul together
and keep work in the face of his persecu-
tors, but when his employers heard he was
a dangerous anarchist, they always let
him go.
'Santo returned to Cette to make one
more trial, for l. was work or starvation.
He got place and kept it nearly week,
then his master told him to go. 'Why2'
he asked. The police advise it, replied the
master-baker, and he paid Santo his
wages up TO that day.
People have talked of plot If there
had been any plot he would have had
I, 1
railway ticket to one station short of
Lyons; he had no money left, and walked
the rest of the distance. Maddened, pen
niless and hungry. he struck at what
seemed to hin: the type of the Govern
ment that had been prosecuting him-the
PRESIDENT"
Poor Carnot," suggested listener.
"As well say poor Valliantr' retorted
Pietro Gori. Valiant threw a bomb
shell in the French Senate that could not
have killed any one because they were
going to frame stupid ferocious laws
against French anarchists.
'They killed him for it, but what was
his death but legalized IynchingP The
present state of society is cannibalism,
and the generation that comes after us
will be more surprised at our stupidity
than at our wickedness in submitting to
such state of things"
In speaking of Santos death Pietro Gori
said refectively: ''When a man for no per-
sonal interest plays with the guillotine
one cannot resist feeling that he has the
strength of his principles. The middle and
upper classes judge anarchy by the acts o1
certain individuals, but it is all a matter oI
temperament.
"Santo would strike at the despotism of
governments in one way, in another
At the trial the Advocate Dubreuil said ]
had been the preceptor, he the pupil, and
that being the moral instigator 1 was
morally responsible.
''Santo rose in court and said: Il forbid
you to attack my friend. Corr does not
instigate his followers to kill. OF all the
thousands that hear his lectures who but |
has killed a PRESIDENT
Pietro Gori says his method is not to Kill
rulers, but to convert the working people
to his belief in anarchy. then the revolu
ton will come, revolution which will
bring about union of laborers without
masters or rulers.
sit is opportunity that makes the thief, u
he said. quoting Tuscan peasant. "Some-
times our people have been goaded to mad.
ness and have had the opportunity, but
propaganda is a more effective arm against
capital than bombshells or knives"
The lecture which Signor Gori gave a
few days ago in Apollo Hall charmed
nearly every one who heard it. Contrary
to expectations, the noted anarchist did
not preach red-handed anarchy, but the
broadest kind of humanitarianism. 1t is
stated that in his future lectures in this
City he will confine himself to the same
platform. He is also rehearsing a play
1.-THE First of May" which he has writ.
ten himself as an object lesson in anarch-
ism of the milder type. In fact, Gori
promises only to teach anarchism of the
grateful and comforting" variety in this
City. He has many friends in the colony
who scorn the imputation that his
visits to public places where the Prince is
to be seen spring from any i'll feeling to
royalty. These gentlemen say he is a
great talker, but he has never injured a
creature except with words.
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