New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-18
DOGGED BY EMISSARIES.
PEOPLE IN AMERICA WHO ARE NOT
SAFE FROM EUROPEAN VENGEANCE.
RUSSIAN AND CHINESE GOVERNMENT AGENTS
AND SECRET SOCIETY CoNsPIRAToRs
ACTIVE IN PURSUIT.

opnized as being extraditable safe in this coun-
try? Can a foreigner fleeing from the police
authorities of his native land in order to escape
punishment but who has been guilty of nothing
recognized as criminal by the laws of the United
States feel that he is secure from all further
persecution when once he sets his foot on the
free soil of America? Nine persons out OF ten
would be disposed to answer in the ALTERNATIVES
and vet this is far from being the case. True
the law here as well the regularly consul
tuted authorities and public opinion, may be re-
lied upon to do everything in their power to
protect those who have sought an asylum oe-
meath the folds of the American flag. But tins
protection IS not always eicaCious. For the
disposition among English speaking nations Is
to take judicial cOgnizance of crime untll
It has actually been committed, and inasmuch
as the vengeance wreaked upon the fugitive is !
generally accomplished by methods that are
criminal it is not until then that the law of the
land interests itself in the behalf of the victim
AMERICA sWARMING WITH EMISSARIEs.
No one knows better than the principal police
authorities, the Secret Service agents of the
limited States and the heads of such detective
bureaus as Pinkerton's that America literally
swarms with emissaries of the Car, whose at
tentiOn is devoted to the Nihilists with agents
of the Picking Government, who endeaVor 10
keep track of the various Chinese societies here.
and with Italian detectives who do their best to !
keep in touch with the large Italian population
In America. In fact, there is no exaggeratlon
in asserting that there is hardly foreign Gov
eminent of any Importance which does not
maintain in the United States number of Sc
cret agents for the purpose of watching. indu-
encing terrOrizing and often Furnishing those of
its subjects who have either sought a refuge
or established a home in the New World.
In addition to these agents of foreign Govern
ments the various political and secret societies
abroad, such the Italian Malta and the ca
NORA the various secret political societies OF
Austria, the Nhsts of Russia: the Anarchists
of Spain and of Germany, the Ethnike Hetaria
of Greece, are each of them represented by nu-
merous agents here. intrusted with the task OF
watching and terrorizng their fellow country
men. Thus it happens that man who has
Joined a political association abroad is likely |
10 suffer here from the vengeance of the au-
thorities of the country from which he has fled.
while on the other hand he is equally subj ected |
to the tyranny Of the societies which he has
joined, and which do not hesitate to punish him.
though he be in this country if he does
not comply with their behests. The police of
New-YOrk, Boston and New Orleans can fur
nish abundant evidence if they choose of the
terrorism and of the blackmail exercised among
the Italians of those three cities by the agents
of the Malta. and likewise as to the many muir
ders and attempted assassinations for which
the latter as well as the CamOrra are response
BILE, crimes which for the most part remain I'M
punished owing to the dread Of Italians even
In this country, of testifyng against either OF
these secret societies, and the fine which |
the latter display in manufacturing alibis The
San Francisco police give startling infOr-
nation of almost identical character con-
corning the Chinese secret societies which have
their headquarters in that city and branches
n almost every other important Monaghan set
tlement in the United States. SO il is with the
Nhsts and the Anarchists.
WAS THIS SUICIDE OR MURDER?
If I call attention to this condition of affairs
1t is because of the story current among Rus
SLAMS in New-York and in other cities the
effect that the alleged suicide the other day Of
Ivan DensZcWicZ, a well known Nihilist, in San
Francisco in reality a murder perpetrated |
by some of the Russian Government agents who |
employed in watching and, if possible. pun
ishing the Nihilists who have sought refuge in |
the United States. Then. too, the dispatches an
nounce that the we'll known Chinese physician
nd reformer Kang Yu Wei has fled from the
British colony Of Hong Kong, 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 go. owing II his !
discovery of the arrival in Hong Kong Of four
Chinese emissaries OF the Empress Mother at /
Picking who commissioned to follow him