The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-08

comply with their behests. The police
Of New York, Boston and New Orleans
can furnish abundant evidence If they
choose of the terrorism and of the
blaekmail exercised among the Italians
Of the Malta, and likewise as to the
many murders and attempted assassina-
tons for which the latter, as we'll as
the Camorra are responsible, crimes
which for the most part remain I'M
punished, owing to the dread of Ital-
anS even in his country, to testify
against either of these secret societies
and the fine art which the latter dis
play in manufacturing aIibis. The San
Francisco police can give startling in
formation of an almost identical char
aeter concerning the Chinese secret So
cietieS, which have their headquarters
in that city, and branches in almost
every other important Monaghan set
Element in the United States. So it is
with the nihilists and anarchists, with
the result that any foreigner Who has
emigrated to the United States with the
object of evading political persecution,
1nds himself, so to speak, between the
devil and the deep sea, between the
terrorism exercised by the secret agents
Of the government from which he has
escaped on the n hand, and the equal
ly oppressive terrorism Of the societies,
political and otherwise, with which he
has become affiliated on the other.
If / call attention TO this condition of
affairs this week in these letters is is
because Of the story current among
Russians in New York and in other
cities 10 the effect that the alleged sui
eide the other day OF Ivan neniszewicz,
a well know nihilist in San Francisco,
was in reality a murder perpetrated by
some of the Russian government agents
who are employed in watching and if
possible punishment the nihilists who
nave sought refuge in the United
States. Then, too, the dispatches an
nOunce that the well-knOwn Chinese
physician and reformer, Kang Yu Wei,
has fed from the British colony of
HOngkong, where he was living for the
sake of safety in the very house of the
English superintendent of police. 1t
was the latter who advised him to leave
owing to his discovery of the arrival
in HongkOng of four Chinese emissar-
les of the empress mother at Pekin,
who were commissioned to follow him
to the very ends Of the world if neces-
sary. Finally the Russian government
has just made arrangements for the
establishment of a number of consul
lates in Canada. Russia has no trade
whatsoever with the Dominion, and the
chief purpose Of these c~onsulates is to
serve as centers for the network Of
police spies which the MuScovlte au-
thOrities propose 20 maintain in Can
ada for the purpose Of watching the I'M
fortunate inhabitants of Finland, who,
owing to the arbitrary withdrawal Of
their constitutional rights, are emigrat-
ing from the grand duchy in thousands,
choosing Canada IN preference to the
United States as their home, owing to
Che similarity Of climatic and other
conditions in the Dominion with those
Of their native land. and likewise to the
circumstance that the country is more
sparcely peopled han 10 the south of
the American frontier. That the Rus
sian government should consider 1t
prudent to keep a very strict watch on
these expatriated Firms is not surpris-
ing. For of Gil the races born as sub
jects of the car they are the most in
telligent, the most w~ell-to-do, and,
above all, the most passionately at
tached TO their native soil, and to their
inherited prerogatiyes and liberties. 1t