The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
The Anarchist Apologies for
Those Who Have Thrown
Bombs.
sIs BUT SIMPLE RETALIATION.
In a Letter to "The Call" Gori Excor.
iateS the Governments of
the World.

The story publshed IN 1HE CALL
that Prince Luigi of Savoy had been shad-
owed since his arrival in this City by
Pietro Gori, the most noted of Italian
anarchists, created decided impression
yesterday, both in the colony and among
Americans who have met the pleasant,
unassuming young Prince.
Few of the young mans compatriots
were willing to discuss the matter pub
licly, however, and both the daily Italian
papers kept absolute silence on the SUBJ
ject. On the one hand the Prince has the
good will of his compatriots, both on ac-
count of his own agreeable personality and
also because he is a member of the popu-
lar House of Savoy. On the other hand,
Gori already has a large following here,
and his eloquence is rapidly making him
more friends and admirers in the Italian
colony.
Speaking gusrdedly on the subject yes
terday one Italian resident of this City
said: None of us fear that Gori will
perform any act of violence. He is the
sort of man who influences others with his
words; if he strikes at ali he does it second
hand"
Pietro Gori himself, when asked point
blank whether the advent of the Cristoforo
Colombo had anything to do with his
simultaneous arrival in this City, scorn-
fully laughed and said: II have no ill
will to the Prince. He is harmless boy,
and the highway in America is wide
enough for us both. My propaganda is
not made with bonn bshells."
AS always happens when Pietro Gori
begins 10 talk in the public room of his inn
at North Beach. a crowd of workmen at
- Nd sofa
eagerly to the words of wisdom that fell
from his lips. When asked whether he
had found any anarchists among his fol-
lowers he said, mo, but am sowing the
seeds that will raise them"
Although he glories in the name of
anarchist Gori objects to being considered
the preceptor of Santo Casario. Il want
that statement denied he said, emphati-
cally. at is doing me the wrong that was
done in Europe. In justice to myself !
beg that the letter of contra diction l have
sent may be published"
The following is translation of the
letter which Pietro Gori sent to The
CALL:
SAN FRANCISCO February Ia
To the Editor Of the San Francisco CdII-SIR: In
the interview published in yesterdays CALL
speaking of the relations between me and
Santo CRsario the expression is applied to me
that was adopted by the capitalistic European
press, when, during the trial at Lyons, it be-
came KNOWN JldC CaSarlO 1aQ attended dis
courses at Milan, that he had been defended
by me when the Government tried him, both
before the Milanese Tribunal and before the
Court OF Appeals. | am Il call called '.the preceptor
sharpener of the homocidal dagger?
defy any one to prove that in my public or
private discourses, in my articles or in my
books, have ever advocated bomb throwing or
blows TO solve the social problem.
ltis the example of the various Governments,
of the brigand-like education given by them I;
G fhQ hot fra6Q OF fhQ onTN1o
starving and raise their voices 10 menace the
orgie of the surfeited; it is all the panoply of
brutal force, from money to guns, placed atthe
disposition OF parasite minority, which teach
the people the lesson OF armed violence.
The privatlons, the griefs, the prosecutions,
the bitter derisions, the provocation offered by
the working classes all the social hell caused
by the present organized iniquity-these are
what exasperate and madden SO many hearts,
of learning TO murder.
This inferno of modern conditions makes
from time to time indicators, sometimes le-
giumately SO, OF the hottest and most sacred
lights of humanity.
The dagger thrusts, these throwing of bonn BIS
which blind society and its rulers attribute to
some plot or faction, are only the lightning
flashes of all the concentrated electricity Of
hate and suffering which compose and that
by our own fault, the present social atmos-
phere
To the eyes of the calm sociologist these
symptoms may appear grand and tragic sym-
bols OF social eonvulsion. The Vaillands the
Caserios, the Pallas, the Heneys-read their
own statements-they were anarehistic-social-
lists without doubt
But what forced them to protest with howls
and knives? Perhaps it was a doctrine like
anarchy, which rests on an ins tinctiye love Of
liberty, on desire for the well-being of all
men?
mol their theory was love, but they found
only hatred; the ferocity of the mighty over
shadowed their way. They wanted liberty
and the only liberty given them was that of
dying OF hunger when they protested en-
ergetically, and then the European Govern
mens gagged the mouth of the press
In Sicily and in Lunigiana they shot by
in hundreds the famished peasants. In France
the miners were barbarously ill-treated by the
capitalists while defending their privileges
At the examples OF collective violence their
lmpulsive natures broke all bounds and they
retorted with individual violence. It was sad
perhaps, but natural.
The preceptors of violence were then with
few exceptions the rulers OF the people.
The time will come when humanity win end
TINS terrible tragedy. To-day, amid the con-
nlctlng interests OF different classes il is use-
i@ess @ 10 ainrm and demonstrate that one wants
the good OF all. Contemporaries are never
Judges OF revolution and in the eyes of people
OF the present those advancing to a better CON
or bloodshedders
1t has always been thus from Christ To
spartlco; from Danton to Garibaldi. 1t is so
to-day. - ~
Ihave said that knew Santo Casario IN, a
good and honest boy, loving his mother and
ms work and eager for reform. He killed and
ne has been killed. What more does the ven
detta oil the law want? Impartial people will
say, with the young and illustrious socialist
William Ferrero, "One must pass through the
same sufterings and the same griefs that he
passed through before Judging what he did. /"
As far as had to do with teaching him m "
conscience is tranquil ny
What have written and said for the last
ten years on social questions has been said
openly, and those who know me know my san
timents and actions, both at home and abroad
fight for life, not for death; for living as.