The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-21
TRALED BY AVENGERS
Foreign Political Offenders Not
Safe in America.
KINGS SPIES DOG THEM
Societies Like the Malta
Equally TO be Dreaded,

! country? Can foreigner deelnS iron
| the police authorities of his native land
| in order 10 escape punishment, but VIII
has been guilty of nothing recognized a
| criminal by the laws of the United State
feel that he is secure from all furthe
on the free soil Of America? Nine persons
out of ten would be disposed to answel
in the affirmative and yet this is IA
from being the case.
True, the law here as well as the regu-
lerly constituted authorities ana the pub
lie opinion, may be relied upon to do ev-
erything in its power to protect those
who have sought an asylum beneath the
folds of the American flag. But this pro-
lection is not always efficacious. For the
disposition among English-spealHing ma
tons is to take no judicial cognizance Of
a crime until 1t has actually been commit
ted, and, inasmuch as the vengeance
wreaked upon the fugitive is generally
accomplished by methods that are crimi-
nal. it is not until then that the law Of
the land interests itself in the behalf of
the victim.
The idea that a man who has been gull
t. Of no extraditable offense should be
pursued TO this country, should feel that
his life and liberty are constantly threat
ened, even though he acquire American
citizenship, and should remain subject to
the terrorism of some foreign govern
ment or society, in spite of his comply
ing with the requirements of the laws and
customs of the United States, may seem
al first sight to partake of the nature of
the melodrama-of the imagination of the
sensational story writer-and to be not
only improbable but likewise impossible.
Yet no one knows better than the prin-
cipal authorities, the secret service agents
of the United States, ana the heads of
the great detective bureaus that America
literally swarms with emissaries of the
Gar, whose attention is devoted to the
Nihilists; with agents of the Picking gov
eminent, who endeavor to keep track OF
the various Chinese societies here. and
with Italian detectives, who do their best
to keep in touch with the large Italian
in America.
In fact, there is no eXaggeration in as
sorting that there is hardly a foreign gov
eminent Of any Importance which does
not maintain in the United States num-
Der Of secret agents for the purpose of
influencing, terrorizing. and Of
ten furnishing those of its subjects who
have either sought a refuge or establish
ed home in the new world.
In addition to these agents of foreign
governments. the various 2nliticll and Sc
Cret societies abroad-s Icil as the italian
Nafa and Camorra, the variou: secret
political societies of Austria, the Nihilists
of Russia, the Anarchists of Spain and of
Germany. the Ethnike Hetairia of Greece
are each of them represented by num-
erous agents here, intrusted with the
task of watching and terrorizing their
fellow countrymen
And thus it happens that a man who
has joined a political association ab:nad
is likely to suffer here from the venge-
ance of the authorities of the country
from which he has fed, while, on The
other hand. he is equally subjected to .he
tyranny of the societies which he has
joined and which do not hesitate 10 pun
ish him, even though he be in his coun-
try, if he does not comply with their be-
hests.
The police of New York, Boston, ard
New Orleans can furnish abundaat evil
dence if they choose of the terrorism and
Of the blackman exercised among the
Italians of those three cities by the
agents of the Malta, and likewise as 10
the many murders and attempted assassi-
nations for which the latter. as well IS
the Camorra, are responsible-crimes
which for the most part remain unpun-
ished. owing to the dread of Italians, even
in this country, to testify against either
Of these secret societies, and the fine art
which the latter displays in manufactur-
ing alibis.
The San Francisco police can give
startling information or an almost iden-
teal character concerning the Chinese Sc
cret societies, which have their hea6quar-
tiers in that city, and branches in almost
every other important Monaghan settle
ment in the United States So it is with
the Nihilists and the Anarchists. with
the result that any foreigner who has
to the United States with the
object Of evading political persecution
finds himself, SO to speak, between the
devil aHd the deep sea-between the ter
rorism exercised by the secret agents OF
the government from which he has es-
capped on the one hand and the equally
terrorism Of the societies, po-
lirical and otherwise. with which he has
become affiliated, on the other
II I call attention to this condition of
affairs this week in these letters It IS he
cause of the story current among Rus
slams in New York and other cities TO the
effect that the alleged suicide the other
day Of Ivan Deniszewicz. a well-known
Nihilist. in san Francisco. was in reality
a murder. perpetrated by some Of the
Russian government agents, who are en-
ployed in watching. and. Il possible. pun
ishing, the Nihiiists who have sought re-
fuge in the United States.
Then. too, the dispatches announce that
the weil-known Chinese physician and re-
former. kanE Yu Wei. has fed from the
British colony Of Bongkong. where he
was living. for the sake Of safety. in the
house OF the English Superintendent Of
Police. x was the latter Who advised
him to leave. owing - the discovery OF
ire arrival IN H0ngkoug OF four Chinese
eniSsariss of the Empress mother at Pc
king. who were commissioned 20 follow
him 20 the ends % the world Z necessary.
Finally. the Russian government has
5usy made arrangements for the estab-
lshment OF q number Of corsuIates in
Canada. Russia has no trade whatsoever
with the Dominion, and the chief purpose
Of these consuIates is 10 serve as ceuters
for the network Of police spies which the
Nuseovite authorities propose 10 main
tain in Canada FOR the purpose of watch
Ing The unfortunate inhabitants CT Fin
land, who. owing 10 the arbitrary with
drawal Of Jheir constitutional and nation