The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-16

genuine spirit of anarchy dwelt in it's midst.
 From students and enthusiasts Fat erson anarchists became aggressive workers in the cause of detructlon. Tn little upstairs back room on Market street was founded La Questione So- ciale" For while Malatesta was it's only editor, and then, as the scope or his labors and plottings increased ne brought over a Spanish anarchlst named Pedro Esteve to assist hlrn as sub-editor There is no denying thal in It's way La Questione Sociale' IS well written paper It is much treer from personalities and denunciations or individuals than one would expect from an anarchist organ. Its articles are nearly all long editorials that are ln- tense but not rabid. In none of them does the writer seem to have lost ms self-control. Many of them are cynl- cal and sarcastic rather than violent. Malatesta's stay in Paterson was long enough to learn the personnel or ms admirers very thoroughly. He knew the capacities of each-how far each mans brain and nerve could be trusted
 
 which the master mind was planning. Then Malatesta disappeared again. An archists say that he went to South America to look after building colony of his followers in Buenos Ayres. But it is largely a matter of conjecture. It is quite as likely that he was living under an assumed name in Italy and that he was openly organizing anarchy in Argentina.
 One day in the fall of 1899 man walked into a little cafe in Macdougal street in New York and shook hands with the proprietor. The visitor was Malatesta come back again to Amer ica
 For several months following, his re- fined face, partly hidden by his careless slouch hat, was a familiar figure on Bleecker and Houston streets. He lived in lodging houses and fifteen cent ho- tels with the poorest of laborers. Dur ing the winter, at hall on Bleecker street, not far from Mills Hotel No. l, he delivered a series of lectures on al- archy to Italian workingmen. The lec- lures constituted a regular course, to which the auditors subscribed by tick ct. Malatesta conducted them with all the decorum and dignity of college professor before his class. Thoughtful questions he answered, and he en- deavored to make plain the hard points of anarchy. But there were no violent discussions, none of the ebullitions of ignorance which have always in the past marked anarchists gatherings. I'M, NTn1a oct around him a small coterie of men whom he understood better than they understood themselves, and whom he inspired with a burning desire to do something for anarchy. One of these was Gaetano Bresci.
 Enrico Malatesta when last heard from was living quietly over an Italian bakery in an obscure corner of London. The Italian foreign office is said to be making appeals to England to have him extradited and sent back to Italy by international courtesy.
 Malatesta's most able lieutenant now in this country is Pedro Esteve, the present editor of La Questione So- ciale" in Paterson. A more amiable, cultivated, and really scholarly man
  Is about forty-flve years old. If you knew nothing of his antecedents you would take him at once for a profess sor in some university of the continent. With his wife and 6-year-old son he lives in a comfortable little flat on Clay street, in the Italian quarter of Pat erson. His lodgings are plainly and simply furnished, but are in excellent taste and exceedingly comfortable. On the walls of the parlor are bronze medallions of Bakunin, Prince Kropot- kin, Valiant, who threw a bomb into the French chamber of deputies, and several other of the exemplars of mod ern anarchy On his bookshelves, along with French pamphlets by Jean Grave, are Emerson's Essays. For Emerson, MT Esteve maintains, WIS simon-pure anarchist without knowing it.
 While almost totally ignorant of the English language, MT. Esteve speaks French, Spanish and Italian with equal fuency.
 "Gaetano Bresci' he said, was my friend I regard his acquaintance as perhaps the greatest honor in my life. In killing the king of Italy he realized the futility of attempting to overthrow the system of Italian despotism He was not insane enough to expect that a change of government would follow his act But how else could he let the people of Italy know that there was any such force in the world as an archy? Anarchists there are hunted like wild beasts. We cannot meet; we cannot even whisper to each other. We cannot publish papers or write books. The government had come to the con- clusion that it had stamped out an- archy, but when Bresci struck 1t realized that it had fallen. ."-The Out look.