New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-18
nur OCTRAGES OF ANARCHY.
,ccop DRAGOMANOFFS BELIEF IN
rvRROR- STRIKING DESTRUCTION
THE BLACK BOOKS OF
THE ANARCHISTS.

watched by praying nuns ana priests
.,,,,g its transfer to Vienna spent an Ell
.,aht closeted with ex-Professor Draeo-
y" who was then and still remains the
D'1 '.d,c shirt Of the Nihst party. ana me man
nv" .aso house Vera Sassoulitch was then living
o.. having effected her escape from Russia I'D
-, ,be effort to arrest her on her acqulttai
~ ,orqe If shooting at and woundlng ten
', 1,ronor the chief of the police at 81. feterS-
Tho professor was then mlld-looKins
nth q red beard and hair. and kindly
-".s nesring forth through spectacles. No one
" ..a. At him would have dreamed for one mo-
,,., be was the originator and autnor vi
n ~. most notable outrages II the anarch'ai
-.,,v If Russia. Yet throughout that entire
p1.,, no argued with me and eXpounded MS
st. and doctrines on the subject of reSicide
-, ~ the assassinatio. Of people hlSh IN ONCE
and rank.
,us, before we parted-it was long after DAY
1T, moved perhaps by the bottles of Kline
= ,b.t we had drunk through that warm
,,n night ne inemated that before long
-ou, have an opportunity of learning that he
-, given A practical demonstration OF his
doctrine. IL
tow weeks later the entire floor Of the dih-
room Of the Winter Palace at st. petersburg
- ho,vn IN pieces a score of servants ana
soors being killed and wounded The car
,,,,ss,f ,yould have been among their number
nod be not been delayed in his apartments Tor
ton minutes beyond the appointed time by
v;s;t from Prince Alexander of Bulgaria. TO
,;.h alone his escape was due And in the FOL
having March the Car was blown TO pieces by
,,,,o gIvc4rina bombs subsequently proved TO
have been manufactured in Geneva, in all
,,ohahliy under the supervision Of my learned
"a mild hammered friend. Professor hrago-
manOf
|. rIracau Tonight this interview with Drago-
roros II is because the theories whch he eX-
n,essed and in fact his whole utierances on
,hat occasion were So very similar 10 those
vhch according to the dispatches from Europe
,ublsbed to-day have been professed by the
assassin Of Empress Elizabeth They were 10
the effect that the assassination Of the great
and especially Of royal personages is not 'he
offspring Of any sentiments Of personal hatred
or vengeance Nihilists and Anarchists-they
are one and the same thing-know full we'll that
one monarch killed will be merely succeeded by
another that twenty officials can be found with
out delay TO take the place of murdered digni-
tary and that there is no direct and immediate
Advantage to be obtained by the assassination
Of young girl. such as the Queen OF holland
or OF an Empress so entirely aloOf from all po-
Hical and even social life and influence as
Elizabeth Of Austria.
HOW THEY JUSTIFY THEIR DEEDS
Such deeds" according 70 Dragomanof.
who before being sentenced to death and then
s1ed to Siberia whence he escaped. vas one OF
The leading professors Of the great University OF
Uor. nod nv H.. necessity OF root
ing out from mems minds the habitua respect
for the powers that be. The more attacks on
people of rank and power increase the more will
the people get to understand the absurdity OF
| the respect and generation with which espe-
cialy. crowned heads have been regarded for
1 centuries our mission" he declared is one OF
| universal relentless and terror-strikng destruc-
don, and in the selection Of our victims we are
guided by he relative use which the cause OF
Il the Anarchists would derive from the death OF
/ my particular person. In the foremost rank OF
those cases stand the people whose sudden and
Violent death will have the effect Of terrifying
10Th government and classes. our battaions
Ne numerically weak and our enemies. on
DE other hand. are mighty that we are
morally justified in making Of all attainable
l Methods Of striking terror into the hearts or our
l fnea"
These principles in which must be sought
| NE cause for the otherwise altogether unac-
nuntable assassination Of Empress Elizabeth,
DO not however owe their origin TO Professor
DragomanOn. but 10 his friend and mentor.
Bakounine who may justly be described as the
@under Of Nihilism and Of Anarchy Born a
noble with the title Of baron. in his youth a
mSe Of Gar Nicholas this extraordinary man.