The San Francisco call., 1896-02-28
WILL BE DONE PUBLICLY
He Was Exiled From Switzer-
land for Making Such
a Society.
HOW GORI sOWED THE SEEDS.
Two Clever Purpose Plays That Will
Be Produced Next Sunday.
Thy Neighbor." )"

The anarchists of this City are about to
organize under the leadership OF Pietro
Gori.
A few weeks ago San Francisco did not
know the meaning of the word anarchist
in any practical way. Reports had come
from Chicago and other centers from time
to time of anarchist doings, but the Far
West knew none of these things except by
hearsay. All that is changed now, how
ever. One of the most brilliant anarchists
of modern times has been in this City
making an active propaganda for several
weeks, and the result of his instructions is
that the local anarchists now feel them
selves strong enough to organize form ally.
If Pietro Gori had spoken in English in
stead of Italian. as he has been doing, the
largest hall in the City would probobly
have been too small to accommodate his
listeners. He is not only a convincing
speaker, this young lawyer who was e1-
lied from home and country On account of
his fanatical devotion TO the principles of
Proudhon, but he Is an orator of the type
that sways the multitude, and lately he
has been exercising his oratorical powers
in q tongue unknown to the City Fathers,
il is true. but a tongue in which he has
found many ready listeners. The result
of his eloquence will be seen in few days
in the formal organization of band of
anarchists in San Francisco.
1--WE do not intend to make any secret of
our organization" said Signor Gori yester-
day. Everything will be open and above
board. We shall organize and then shall
go to carry on the propaganda elsewhere
The date of our formal banding together is
not yet fixed, but it will probably be in q
few davs.''
When Signor Gori attempted to organize
a band OF anarchists in Switzerland he
was promptly expelled frem that land of
liberty. Among all the continental coun-
tries of Europe there is not one that gives
its people more individual liberty than
the little Alpine republic, but the authori-
ties draw the line at inciPient anarchist
organizations. When Mr.. Gori was ex-
PEELED from Switzerland he was associated
with newspaper III Lugano, where his
brilliant pen was beginning to make him a
power in the canton.
The editors of the paper managed to es-
cape being mixed up IN the anarchist
affair, though some suspicion of aiding
the propaganda fell upon them at the
time. II was great grief to Gori TO be
exlled from Lugano, for from the adjoining
mountains he could look down upon the
plain of Lombardy and the city of Milan,
from whence his principles had caused
him TO be e1lled by the Italian Govern
ment
Although an anarchist boasts that he has
no country and no fatherland, Gori must
have felt being banished from the frontiers
of Italy. for when forced to leave Switzer-
land he wrote poem, "Adieu to Lugano, "
which is considered one of the finest con-
tributions TO modern Italian poetry.
Rumor says that Mr.. Gori was also BAN
ished from England for preaching too pro-
nounced type of anarchy, but this has
not been proved. Indeed the anarchist
himself says that the people who share his
belief always advise their followers to GO
to the Continent when they feel the de-
sire to throw bombs grow too strong to be
controlled, for that England has not
shown herself inhos pitable enough to the
brotherhood to deserve being subjected to
such Inconvenience as bomb-throwers.
Whether he was banished fro ~ Englan
or not Corr came TO America resolved to
devote his most remarkable talents to
making propaganda in this country
There Is little doubt but that he is the
agent OF a society that exists in the East
and Is affiliated with similar organization.
IN Europe, only in the older and less free
countries more caution has to be observed
and the propaganda has to be carried or
to great extent in secret. Santo C8sario
was banished from Italy for distributing
anarchist handbills which were very milo
indeed compared to some of the brillian
flights of oratory in which Pietro Gori ha
INDUCED.
With his talents, Pietro Gori could b,
making fortune at the bar. for he is
lawyer by profession, but he has the bee O
anarchy in his bonnet, and has sworn t,
live and die for the cause. Every on
knew, when he arrived in San Francisco
that he was not here for his health. Be
fore he had been a day in the City hi
winning manners and facile tongue wol
HIM followers. During the weeks that h
has talked in public and private, he ha
been, as he himself says, Sowing tn
seeds OF anarchy" The crop is almos
ready for the harvest now, and in tn
course OF few days the result of Gori'
Iabors will be seen in Sle organization
the first band of anarchists west of tn
Rockies.
There is great interest in the Italia
colony IN the performance OF Pietr
Gorl's two plays, which will take plac
next Sunday evening in Apollo Hall.
Both works have been highly spoken G
by the critics in Italy. The drama whicl
Will be performed first is called .'Proximu
Tuus" tThy Neighbor). 1t takes it's nam
from statue by famous Italian sculpto
representing a woman in the depths {
poverty and called Thy Neighbor'' in
spirit of satire at the way in which the e,
listing state of society fails to fulfill th
Scriptural Injunction Of loving its neigh
Dor as itself. The scene of "Proximu
Tuusn is laid in pawnshop.
The other play, al Primo Maggion 9TH
First of May). deals with social Question
and is said to show its writer to be a discipl
of Ihsen in his dramatic methods. 1t
described as a symbolic drama, and has
prologue in verse. A number of Italia