The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-10

and foes to society, who constitute the
chief danger to the rulers of the world
and who furnish nearly all the sue
cessful or unsuccessful assassins
Of the latter. an entirely different spe-
cies of police force to that now in ex-
istence is needed. The anarchists and
nihilists are in many instances COM
posed of men of altogether superior In
struction and intellect, whose minds
have become more or less unbalanced
by the inability to turn their accom-
plishments to profitable account, and
who have been soured as well as en-
FILTERED, by the spectacle Of men less
Intelligent, less learned and less gifted
than themselves enjoying rank, office
and aff1uence from which they them
selves are debarred 1t is from the
graduates of the universities of the
Old World, graduates who have been
unable to obtain employment in keep
ing with what they believe to be their
attachments, that are recruited the
leaders of the nihilist movement in
Russia, of the anarchist agitation in
Central and Western Europe, of the
Black Hand Society in Spain. and Por-
tugal, and OF the Malta, the Camorra
and of the socialist propaganda in
Italy.
THE MEN IN ANARCHISM.
Moreover, few people on this side of
the Atlantic have any idea of the ex-
tent to which men of birth and Of
breeding are comprised in the ranks Of
these dangerous foes of the social sys-
TEN. Russian Princes and Princesses,
70 and
Marquises, German Barons and mobiles
abound. Some Of them have been
driven into the camp of anarchy and
nihilism-which are one and the same
thing-by injustice and tyranny to
which they have been subjected by
either sovereign or governmental Off
Gals. Others, again, have ranged
themselves under the red flag because
they have committed some offense or
other entailing their ostracism and ex-
pulsion from society, while yet others
are anarchists solely because they are
without means to live in accordance
with their birth and rank. But be the
reason of their presence among the
cohorts of anarchy and nihilism what
it may, there is no doubt whatsoever
that their superiority of education, as
well as the breeding and delicacy of
intellect which is theirs by birth and by
bringing up, render them more terribly
dangerous foes to society, all the moro
as they themselves, as rule, remain
in the background and content them
selves with the instigation and organi-
cation of crimes such as the assassin
alton of Empress Elizabeth of the
Spanish Premier Canovas, of President
Carnot and of Car Alexander H., leav-
ing the preparation thereof to men of
the stamp of Cesario, Lucchesi, etc.
1t must be remembered that the
founder and father of anarchy and of
nihilism YVES nobleman of ancient
lineage, namely, Baron Bakounine, and
among the leaders of his school now
living, and who have handles to their
names. are Prince Krapotkine, Prince
Victor Nackachidze, Baroness Won
Roedel, who passes as his wife; Prince
Tasca of Sicily, Count Casa Gonzalez
and the Marquis Valera of Spain and
the two Dukes Notarbartolo- Villarosa
of Italy. I could mention scores more
of Princes, Counts and Barons thus ar
rayed in warfare against the social
system Of the present day. But those
enumerated above may suffice to show
that anarchy is directed and led in its
campaign against law and order by
men of birth, education and intellect
GROWTH OF THE ANARCHISTS.
1t is to this fact, coupled with the
circumstance that the police upon
which the Governments in the Old
World, as we'll as in the New. rely
to combat and suppress anarchy
are RECRUITED exclusively from the low
er classes of society, whose intelligence
and education are of an infinitely low
er order. that must be ascribed the
lamentable failure of either State or
society to cope with these, their bitter
and most dangerous foes For there
is no doubt that the anarchist move
ment throughout the civilized world is
to-day immeasurably stronger more
widespread and above all more dread
ed than either ten or twenty years ago.
Yet the origin of the movement dates
only from 1868. when it was first
brought into existence by Baron
Bakounine, at Geneva and Basic. in
Switzerland. Every imaginable device
in the shape of special laws and police
legislation has been resorted to by the
Governments of the Old World in or
DER TO COMBAT anarchy. But 1t has
all been in vain. The fight has never
been an equal one, mainly owing to
the failure of the authorities to intrust
the protection of society to men as
we'll equipped by intelligence, breeding
and education as the leaders of the an.
archist movement In fact, the con-
fiict all along has been one which can
only be compared to a duel between
an ordinary trooper, armed with n
common cavalry saber and bound down
by the rules of the very Indifferent
workmanship which has been taught
in the regiment, against most ac-
complished fencer, armed with a per-
fectly tempered rapier. up to every
trick and artifice of the science of
''tierce ct quartz" and bound by no
rules Of workmanship, or even Of
honor. Of course, the police have no
show, even though they have the
moral support of the knowledge that
their cause is the cause of law and
order That support is more than
counterbalanced by the indifference to
death of their opponents and by the