Arizona republican., 1901-09-18
LODGING THE CENSUS
Anarchists Are Not Willing
 to Be Counted
but They Will Be. and in the Future They'll Be Watched Like Thieves and Other Enemies of Society.

New York. Sept. 1.-The New York Anarchists do not want to stand up and be counted. They are fleeing in all di- rections since they read that Police Commissioner Murphy had issued an order to his precinct commanders to make list of the Anarchists in their respective districts, and the captains are going to have hard time getting accurate and complete lists. which is what Col. Murphy wants.
 It is not with view to throwing any more light on the murder of President Mckinley that Col. Murphy wants a census of Anarchists made. It is more because such assaults on rulers are be- coming more common every day, anI there is a well-grounded suspicion that while foolish. weak-minded young men do the actual deeds, they are stimulated to those deeds by the encouragement of Anarchists equally rabid. but much more careful of their skins Col. Murphy knows that it is q difficult mat ter to get at the culpable Anarchists after crime has been committed, for most of them are sincere in their pro- fessions of belief and they are willing to undergo almost anything before they vii betray their comrades. Be cause of this it is almost impossible to find out where Anarchist plots origin ate.
 The local police do not believe that Czolgosz will tell where he and those i behind him, if there was anybody be- sides his weak-minded self, planned the death of President Mckinley. And so it might have been in this city as well | as anywhere else. Pickpockets and | crooks of every grade and kind are classified in the detective bureau. and are watched constantly. Whenever a | robbery of any importance is committed ! it is not too much to say that the de- | tective bureau is able to narrow it down to one or two men. And if this is so with crooks, Col. Murphy argues
 that it should be so with Anarchists. They, like crooks, have proved them
 selves to be enemies of society, and Col.
 Murphy thinks it is about time the po-
 lice studied them little more closely
 and got to know them better.
 In the future Anarchists will be
 watched in their haunts just crooks
 are watched in theirs. Everything they
 do will be noted and kept against day
 when it may be valuable Two detect
 ives have already been assigned from
 the detective bureau to do nothing but
 get closer to Anarchists. and this
 branch of detective work will be spe
 cialty in the office from now on. It
 never has been before. The Anarchists
 until now have been allowed to do al
 most as they pleased. When they have
 become too violent in their utterances
 the police have been in the habit of
 suppressing them, and occasionally an
 arrest has been made, as in the case of
 Emma Goldman. But as to any close
 acquaintance with Anarchists the police
 have never had any and they are will ling to admit it. They will have iu
 the future, though. and whether the
 Anarchists like it or not, they will be
 watched as closely in quiet times as
 they will be in times of trouble like the
 present.
 It is no exaggeration to say that Col
 Murphy's census order has caused a
 panic among the Anarchists. In their
 own haunts over glass of beer they are fond Of sneering at the police and telling how they have been able to go on with their missions for the Anar- , chistic cause without police interfer-
 ence. But now they have fled like a
 flock of frightened birds before the po- f lice order to count them and it is goina /. to be no easy matter to count them !. |; Almost all of the resorts of >Anar- chists on the lower East side were de = serted Sunday The outpourins ,, from the cellar and baseemnt saloon: :, where they are wont to congregate be n gan on Saturday. Col. Murphy's ordel was published in the evening papers O a Saturday and of course the Anarchist S saw it. Fearing that some over zeal
 ous precinct commanders would star e in counting at once, without waitns d for morning they began to get out c 5 the way and most of the saloons had t. a close up two or three hours earlier thai s usual simply for lack of patronage
 Yesterday conditions were almost tn n same There were very few men in an. e of the Anarchist saloons and it was
 question whether these few were gen n uine Anarchists or not. Johann Mos .- turned up this morning at the saloo ' at 69 Gold street, where he publishe l., his paper and immediately two or thre
 other Anarchists grew bolder and cam ,a around too.
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