The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-25
! LAST OF MURDER SOCIETIES.

Our anarchists cost us a good round
sum every year, but Fortunately we don t
stand highest in the scale of payment.
We give an easy first place to Russia,
who has to draw on-her funds for e2,e0O,-
600 every year to keep her crop of an
archists in-erder.
The anarchist Isl a costly bird, because
he needs so much watching, and we have
about 1000 well. known examples of him
in Britannica Of them in London. The
secret service and extra police supervi-
sion to keep constant track of the move
ments of. thesesgensry costs the country
little over $1,000 a year, 50 that we
keep our resident anarchist AT an eX-
pense of about ST per anarchist per an
num-
But the supervision Of the constant
stream of passenger anarchists that PASS
es through London, staying a few days
only, is a serious item and is estimated
at about another $4,000 annually. Every
dangerous anarchist is always unde +
watch, our secret police being in constant
touch with that of the continent; and
when a notorius anarchistic leader like
Malatesta comes here 1t costs us about
&c or $40 week to look after him, for
altys life at such times, and the strain
is very great. 1t is never the leader
who does the fell work, but always some
enthusiastic underling. Altogether we 81 {
off for about e13,000 a year.
We may be thankful, we have not such
an annual bill as Russia, however, who
spends 21a0,000 a year on her frontier
anti-anarchist police alone, and another
100000 on her foreign spies. Russia, by
her own methods, knows as much-prob-
ably more-about our own anarchists
movements in London as we do. The St.
Petersburg secret service costs the Rus
sian government $4,000 per annum, be-
sides the servant spy system all over the
country. In every Russian household
there is at least one government spy,
who reports all the sayings and doings
of the family to bureau at headquar-
tiers.
1t will easily be seen what an expensive
business this is, and the cost offit last
year was over e1,5O0,0 Co., 1t is spread
over the whole country like a net work
Russia has some 10000 anarchists to deal
with at home and abroad and they cost
her on an average about 91O0 year
each, which is a pretty big allowance.
But Russia is far and away the most
anarchist-riddeu country in the world,
anu one OIL her Items is tl1U,VJu spent III
fortifying the czar.s residence and spe-
cial trains against the secret enemy.
America spends less than we do and
her entire anti7anarehist L. barely
reaches e10,0O0 a year. She has a spe-
cially devoted secret police service to
keep an eye solely ION anarchistic char
acters, and the Propaganda of the talk
ing section, who are really the most mis-
chievous of all.
This service goes down at $1,000 a
year 1t is small, and rather inefficient
The states shelter a large number of
anarchists There are generally at least
5000 in New York alone, and the whole
country holds about 1900, many of
them refugees from Russia. So the states
spend less than 81 a head on her an
archists.
France keeps a keen eye on her own
crop of anarchists, and it costs her
about $4,000 a year. She has a very
complete service of worlkingmen spies
who serve the government and these
alone represent bill of e15,000 per an
mum. Then the pick of the police are
formed into a special body, costing Els
coo year, and France pays a lot of
money out for information from any
source-private spies, traitors, or any
other. This varies of course but the
average is about &2,0G0 az year. The re-
naming $1,000 goes in foreign service.
/ Germany runs her anarchists. economi-
cally, but looks after them very well for
all that. The special arrangements for
protecting the kaiser mount to S12,000 a
year, and the special anti-anarchist
corps of the police $4,000 more Alto
gether, however,, Germany does not
spend more than e25,000 in keeping her
secret foes under;-Pittsburg Dispatch.