New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

in such state of fear for the safety of the mills
and for his own life that when he found 1t
necessary to proceed to the United States in
the interest of the movement, it was Martinell
himself who paid for the mans passage to
America and furnished him with money. Called
to account the banker explained that he had
been terrorzed into furnishing Bresci with the
means of departure and he cited the old proverb
according to which it is prudent to provide
golden bridges for the enemy who is in flight.
Now, if Martinel, banker and manufact-
urer so rich and influential as to be able to
secure the removal of all the judicial and police
obstacles in the way Of the departure of such
well known Anarchist and ex-convict Bresci
who had spent from 1894 to 1896 in a Sicilan
peutentiary, could be forced to do So it stands
to reason that other manufacturers bankers and
mOneyed men Of kind and another. less
prominent and unable to command the influence
and good will Of the police and of the magistera
authorities to the same extent as Sgnor Mar
tinelli. can be terrorized and blackmailed to a
still greater extent than himself.
The entire northern part of Italy differing
from the southern portion of the kingdom, con-
trary to the general impression, enjoys wide
spread prosperity. Trade and industry are
Furnishing there. Every factory is at work. 1t
them are compelled by fear to contribute to the
funds of the Anarchist party
RECRUITED IN NORTHERN ITALY.
Curiously enough. it is from these prosperous
northern provinces of Italy, and not from the
poverty stricken south, that the known perpe
traitors of Anarchist outrages have been re-
cruited. Cesario, the assassin of President Car
not, was a Milanese a skilled workman com
dino CO no
of the Spanish Premier Canovas. Lucchen
who killed the Empress of Austria, well
paid as an officers servant Brescis father,
North Italian like the others, left several thou
sand dollars besides some land to his children
when he died In the crime of any
of these men provoked by the desperation of
want or starvation, a point which it is we'll to
bear in mind. The motive in each instance ap-
pears to have been insane vanity and a craze
for notOrety
Without funds the Anarchist movement would
be powerless. and inasmuch as the money by
means of which the Anarchists alone able
to carry on their struggle, not merely against
the monarchs of Europe but likewise against
capitalists property owners and every defender
Of the present order of things throughout all
parts of the civilized world is obtained eX-
clusively by crime, it is ridiculous to describe
the Anarchist movement as political orSanlza-
ton CT to insist upon the necessity of adopting
exceptional and extraordinary legislation for It's
suDDression Since the Anarchist movement
cannot exist without the assistance of crime, all
that is necessary to keep the movement WITHIN
bounds is to apply the existing laws with sum
Gent energy to enable them to serve their pur-
nose of preventing rather than of Furnishing
crime
Neglect on the part of the authorities to en-
rorce the laws and the corruption of the judi
ciary and of the police contribute more thah
anything else to the development Of such move
ments as anarchy, fact which it would be well
for people rot alone in the Old World, but like
wise on this side of he Atlantic to bear in mlno.
II is true that Clause No. 3 of the eXtradl-
ton treaty between Italy and the United states
nrovides that there shall be no eXtradltioh Ior
noIitfcal offences. 1t is also true that reglclde
is almost universally construed as a political
misdeed But, maintained exclusively by money
obtained through crime. like the Mana' the
Anarchist movements foreign growth abusing