The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-09-09
NO ANARCHISTS
Governor Voorhees, Will
Drive Them Out Of New
Jersey.

| Governor Voorhees,. in an interview CIV
! en- out yesterday, says:
| Certainly the time has come for US TO
! call a halt to anarchy and all anarchists
| in this country We have imagined TOO
| long that we were hampered by the Con-
| stitution 1t is quite true that we, as
| Americans, are jealous of our funda-
mental rights of free speech and perfect
civil and personal liberty in every sense
ana this has been the cause of our tard1-
ness in enacting laws that would result
in the suppression of anarchy here.
Bur this incubation of red handed as
sassins and king killers on American soil
has gone too far. 1t will be stopped IN
New Jersey. 1 can give that assurance
here and now.
A law is being prepared, and will be
enacted by the next Legislature beyond
the remotest shadow of a doubt, that will
fill the bill completely. 1t will allow US
to prosecute participants in any conspir-
acy in New Jersey that results directly or
indirectly in the assassination of any ru-
Ter the world over or the murder of any
person in or out of New Jersey. The con-
spirators will be treated as accessories be-
fore the fact, and the charge will be
murder. If convicted they will suffer just
| the same punishment as if they were con-
victed of aiding and abetting in any or
| binary case of murder.
| was amazed recently to find that we
had absolutely no law in New Jersey that
would enable US to capture conspirators
who had planned a murder committed out
| of the State. 1 was at the time making
an investigation for the Italian govern
ment, trying to ascertain whether Bresci,
| the assassin of King Humbert, really
| drew a lot in Paterson or West Hoboken
| to go to italy and kill the King. I had
| been called on by the representative of
| the italian government in this country to
make this investigation. I went about the
| task personally.
| If there is now one thing uppermost in
my mind it is the determination to crush
anarchy in New Jersey. know the mind
of the people of my State, and I know
| that they will not further tolerate the
| goings on we have recently experienced
| in Paterson. I am as much believer In
| free speech as any American citizen, but
! the anarchistic band at Paterson has be-
| come menace to the peace, law and or
| der of the community and ought to be
suppressed
! I am now in correspondence with the
state authorities of three European coun-
| tries who have written to me saying their
secret service men have found that plans
| to assassinate conspicuous political fig
ures in their respective countries nave
recently been Matched in Paterson. will
not give the names of the heads that are
| supposed to be threatened for that would
| defeat my scheme to ascertain whether
| the murderous plots were really origin
| ated in New Jersey. But am determined
| that the name of New Jersey shall no
| longer be associated abroad or at home
with such dastardly plots.
I cannot praise the local police authori-
| ties of Paterson for their conduct and at
titude towards these anarchists there.
Chief of Police Graul, of Paterson, is to
be censured for his inactivity. He seems
| to be content to regard the band of an
(. archists in his town as beyond his reach,
or at best as a harmless pack of bar
room towards He should never have al
lowed that rally to celebrate the killing
of King Humbert That meetlng OF IN, tne
broken up If any of the anarchists had
proved stubborn they should have been
arrested for resisting the onicers and
=
That celebration reflected upon New Jer-
sew 1t was defiance to all government
| to this government under which we i've
When 1 started out to investigate the
| anarchistic bands of Paterson went per
| sonally to Chief of Police Graul, OF thai
CITY. and asked for his cooperation. He
/ obstinately refused to take any hand In
the work I had no authority to force
him to do it, but ! did have authority te
order an investigation through the secret
] service men of the office of Prosecutor ol
pleas, and that is what did. l secured
two or three detectives and pursued the
work for weeks. 1t was then that
found how the lack Of a State law to fl
the case prevented me as Governor from
capturing conspirators who may have
niotted in New Jersey the assassination
of a foreign ruler.
| let other States take the same course
illinois has already passed such law
In that State an anarchist stands bu
4 little show of protection by the theory q
free speech and personal liberty. # N
4 has had anything to DO with plotting
4 the assassination of ruler OF any for
! eien country he can be captured and ar
raigned on the charge e being "a an e ac s:
4 cessory before the fact. That is the only
way the States can meet the problem