Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-25
ANARCHISTS IN NEW YORK
Clubs and Societies Where Lawlessness is
Advocated.
The Members Are Mostly Spanish
Cigar Makers and They Openly
Espouse AssaKsinatfon.
The New York World saws:

The New YORK World says:
All Spanish anarchists do not live I'm
Spain.
About five hundred of them are residents
of Greater New York.
They are not merely socialists or COM
munists or mild theorists. but "'practi-
calos'-men who believe in putting in prac-
tice the teachings of Carl Marx and La
Salle-men whose hope and ideals are
anarchy pure and simple.
The largest and first organized group of
anarchists is known as the ''Circulo de
Estudio Sociales," a club for the study of
social problems. Its headquarters are over
a barber shop at No. 124 Fulton street,
Brooklyn, under the very shadow of Brook
lyn bridge.
Thousands of people on their way to and
from New York pass the little Spanish bar
Der shop every day without ever suspecting
that one flight up the narrow. dark stair
way are men who are in almost daily
communication with the leading anarchists
of Barcelona and Rome.
The founder of the club and of the Span
fSh anarchistic movement in this country
is Jose Pellcer. He came to this country
in 1878 from Barcelona. He found active
ally in ]. c. Campos, a Cuban and a COM
positor by trade. who is a man of fine pres
ence and education. 1t would be difficult to
find a man with more radical ideas
1t is his boast that there are 10000 bay
onetS in Spain ready to support every idea
he advocates.
Ell Despertar Cthe awakening) is the title
of the semi-monthly paper published by
Spanish-American anarchists.
Its editor is Pablo Estave of No. $50 Clay
street, Paterson, n. J.
The columns of Ell Despertar are filled
almost entirely with long extracts from
the French and Italian anarchist organs
In fact. one of the oldest things about
the Fulton street group is its intensely
European tone and methods.
M &c ,i,.vc L.
and they pride themselves on having little
in common with the followers of Most and
Schwah. They insist that theirs is the
only true anarchy-"the anarchy thar
kills, as one of them expressed il.
A World reporter visited the club rooms
of the "Circulo de Estudio Social yester-
day evening.
Seated in arm chairs around the room
and at two long tables in the center were
a score or more of Spaniards. A few were
reading, but more were playing cards or
dominoes.
In one corner was large bookcase al
most entirely filed with red-covered
pamphlets.
True to its anarchistic ideals. the club
has no officers, constitution or bylaws.
Still there are leaders.
One of them is Jose Ouintana He lives
at No los Fulton street. He is a native
of Asturias, in Spain. and is a cigar maker
There are two kinds of socialism" he
said; 1.-The more moderate 'libertino' as
the revolutionary. The second is that in
which most of us believe. Our society is
composed almost entirely of cigar makers
nearly all Spaniards, with only a sprinkling
of Cubans
This country is not much better than
the rotten, disintegrating governments of
Europe.
"Workingmen all over the world are ris-
ing. They will welcome anarchy.
Governments will cease to exist and in
their places will be communities without
money and without law. To gain this end
assassination is useful.
"Canovas' assassination was blessing
He was the greatest of the tyranIs of Eu-
rope. Other tyrants will also fall az he
has fallen"
Who will be the next victim?" was
asked.
Mr.. Quintana hesitated moment, then
he said slowly:
Il do not say that know, but even if 1
did l would not be a true anarchist IL /
told
I'VE all hope that Cuba will win her
independence, because this means revolu-
ton in Spain and a step toward anarchy"
Mr.. Quintana's wife. an exceptionally
pretty woman, was present.
L am an anarchist" she said.