The evening times., 1898-09-20
EYES ON JOHN MOST'S MEN.
Police of New York Watching the
AnnEchfst Leaders.

say aye. ges or no concerning the state
ment Hlade by a st. Petersburg cores
ponde1t ef the London Telegraph that
the gaIgspf anarchists to which Luc-
chest. ASSASSIN of the Austrian Empress,
belonged, plotted the crime in the United
States. and that its leaders are still in
New York. If 1t is certain that he has
determined not to magnify the anarchist
section by talking to newspapers about
them, it is equally certain from the fash
ion in which he summed the matter up
yesterday that he has administered
stiff dose of preventive to John Most and
other anarchist leaders for the purpose
of forestalling any effort at boastful dem
onstration here growing out of Lucchesfs
success.
Whatever they may do in Europe"
he said, they cut no figure here, but one
thing is certain, Mr.. Most must keep his
mouth shut, so far as infammatory ut
terances 60 and so must the rest of his
class
When asked what truth there was in
the declaration that members of Lucche-
sis company were still in New York, the
chief said, hastily:
That is a matter that | have decided
not To talk about at all.
Despite Chief Deverys silence on the
subject it is a thing of common convic-
tion among people of the Eastside that
in the g,Iise of workingmen there lurk
in the foreign quarters of this city a
strong contingent of the European apos-
| ties of dynamite, and that money Is sup
| piled to them from the organizations
| throughout Europe for the maintenance
and upbuilding of the cult here.
Ii is matter of more than conviction
| that the police have knowledge of the
| identity of many of these, and keep con-
stant watch of them; that they are con-
| stantly exercising their authority to pre-
vent the holding of anarchist gatherings
| in different parts of Greater New York,
| and that for long time there has been
| cooperation between the police of this
| and European cities to follow the move
ments of weil-known and dangerous an
archists between America and the other
| side.
The successive police administrations
| for a dozen years past. however they
| may have differed in the Interpretation
| of the liquor law, have been of the same
mind toward the anarchists.
| This policy grew out of the deadly
| bomb throwing in Chicagos Haymarket
| in 1886 and the swift punishment visited
| on the chiefs of the anarchistic agitation
|
f, gel though Lingg escaped hanging by
| slIicide--ent force 10 the mandates OF the
! police thereafter. and do so to the pres
! ent day.
| Fearful of what they might do unless
| put under firm restraina the police put a
strict upon them, and kept watch OF
| their leaders and their harboring places.
! At last the demonstrations of the anar-
! chists became mere murmur, and then
Ia,l nTfica llN' a altngpIhpF ONLY when
their plottings have borne fruit in for
/ eign cities have the murmurings risen
! again % show that the section here was
still alive and nursing its wrath. Then
the police ssience them promptly, as has
been done by Chief Devery in this in
stance.
But tn, anarchists are here, sown
Throughout the city in the most inno-
cent of gufses. The police never had a
more Astounding reminder of that fact
| than when by reason OF a quarrel with
his wife about their baby, a harmless
looking little druggist in Harlem was ar.
rested about two years ago. In her anger
the woman told that her husband was
an anarchist and had built a bomb tC
blow up the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Yes. said the little duggist wher
driven to the wall. 81 am an anarchist
and I'm proud of il. have enough nitro
glyceine in my store 10 blow up thi
whole block
Mindful of the police energy in the mat
ter and Of American promptitude in deal
ing with the Chicago dynamite plotters
anarchists of this type have withheld from
practice OF their atrocities here but tht
years which have intervened between III
Chicago horror brought repeated an
grewsome proof that even though drive
from pillar 10 post by the police and Sc
cret service men and women in Europe
the anarchists have found safe harborag z
and places TO plot new murders. That
has been done in America. and chiefly /
Chicago and New York. is settled con
viction among European police Germany
Russia. Austria. France and Italy ar
now establishing an international com
pact against anarchists, in the hope c
stopping the bloodshed and efforts will b
made TO enlist assistance in the Unite
, States.
1t is upon the point of extradition tina
the project stumbles. but the shastly lis
of anarchist plots that have succeeded
10 say nothing of those that have failed
gives warrant for the united uprising, an
: stamps as wisdom the energy of the Ne,
I York police in keeping the Reds i
leash. II is an ugly record, though. a,
| cordng to the best estimate, 80 per cent ,
l the attempts have failed.
1 In December, 1870. Gen. Prim. the prt
| decessor of Senor Canovas in the prim
, | ministry of Spain. was shot to piece
while driving through the Gale Secala t
the Cortes. That was the first Spai
knew of the anarchists, at whose hanG
: she has since suffered so bitterly. Durin
$ the past decade Spain, naturally enougl
q has been the cradle of anarchy The re;
son given is that its police are the poo
est in Europe.
: Plot aft nIpt ha heaD
5 Spain. always with bloodshed. MARITIME
s Campos was often plotted against Can,
vas, who was shot and killed by the tia
ian Angioillo a year ago, had been
target for anarchists several times. B,
: the crimes of the Spanish anarchis
d found climax in the bomb throwing
e El Liceo Theatre. in Barcelona in 1Ss
V when twenty-three persons We're killt
n, outright ana many wounded.
Then for years France was the seen
Vaillant's bomb injured eighty persons
the Chamber of Deputies in Decembe
lS93 Rayachol figured in six dynami
outrages. The houses of judges IL
army barracks and all sorts of plac
ut identified with constituted authority we
n blown! uE. \
y. President iCarnot was stabbed to deal
=, by the anarchist Caserio at Lyons.
Of June, 1884, This was the first great su
es cess of the, anarchists since the assas:
Id nation of the Car. London had its tur
r. but the plotters, driven to cover. sougl
I field in Italy. An attempt was made
:. shoot Crispi. The life of Humbert W;
aa twice attempted. The public prosecute
es of Milan and an editor who had col
L demned the anarchists were murdere
ii All over Europe the murderous hand
ly anarchy was felt. AT last 1t went bat
,e to Spain, and on August 8, 1897, in Il
y death of Canovas, took vengeance for Il