The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-22
WHERE ANARCHY BREEDS.
THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE REDS
IN PATTERSON.

The "CrimsOn Colony" and Its Lead
err, Pedro Esteve, Editor of La
QUESTION: SOciale-IntOxicntion of
Rabid Ideas Which Are Preached
in Its Columns-Thc Reds" Hold
Secret Meetings in the Editors Of
fee and Large Mass Meetings in n
Public HaII-FOur Hundred Strong
They Met Thus Just After Presi-
dent Mckinley Was Shot, and Ex-
uIted in the Activity of the Order.
Every European Nation Maintains
Mt Least Two secret Service Agents
in Paterson.
New York, Sept. 20.-No sooner had
the anarchist, Czolgosz. sent two bull
let's tearing through the body of the
President of the United States than the
anarchists of Paterson, N. J., called a
mass meeting. Assembling, 400 strong,
in the dance hall back of a saloon kept
by one of the fraternity" they con-
graduated one another upon the activ-
| ity of the order at Buffalo, and upon
the Statutory effects upon the country
exercised by brothers brave enough to
live up to the orders great doctrine
referring, presumably, to the doctrine
pertaining to removal of rulers. No
attempt was made to keep the meeting
secret. 1t was an open session, and
the police of Paterson permitted it.
There are more confessed anarchists
in Paterson, so far as known, than in
any other city in the United States.
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Grant Of the reds" as there. While the
authorities of New York Chicago, Bos-
ton, st. Louis, Cleveland and Detroit
are rounding up all known anarchists,
making them give accounts of them
selves and placing them under surveil-
lance, the police of Paterson are allow
ing several thousand persons in their
city to wave the red flag unmolested
and unchallenged.
Il acted alone" says the assassin.
There was no plot. 1 have no accom-
plice." But then all anarchist murder
ers, under REORGANIZATION swear to
acting alone. A score of the staff Of
ficers" in Paterson have said to me:
we act individually" Past killings
of rulers show that the killers do act
naJCneQ
and lots have been drawn. Then it is
that the one who drew the fatal lot dis
appears to act henceforth individually.
Every group or branch of organized
anarchy in this country is directd by
those occupying the seats of the mighty
in Paterson. The assassin declares
himeslf member of the Chicago group,
which is part of the Right to Exist
Society of America" having it's head
IL a 1~fn IN Do
further admits that he was inspired by
the writings of that high priestess of
anarchy, Emma Goldman. The Goldman
woman is a frequent visitor in Pater-
son, and the writings" which inspired
the assassin were contributed over her
name, which appeared in the principal
organ of anarchy in this country, La
QUESTION: Sociale, published in Pater-
son.,
Paterson, indeed, is to the anarchists
of this country what New Orleans is to
the Society of the Malta, what Havana
is to the Naningoes, what Paris is 20
the Comprachicos The silk city of
New Jersey is the capital of all the
Reds" in the United States 1t is the
seat of a kind If university fcr the
training of regicides. Here Bresti.
killer of Humbert, was Trained. When
the assassin's knife sank into the
vi east VI E1llZdD6In austria, In &C.
neva, the secret service bureaus of the
world sent extra men to Paterson. Re-
Gently, the life of Maria Pia, Queen of
Portugal, was threatened. 1t was a
sign from Paterson. At the funeral of
the Empress Frederick, at Cronberg, a
stronger guard than usual surrounded
the Kaiser. The German police were
thinking of city in New Jer-
sey. That uneasy lie the heads of to-
days monarchs, is indeed in no small
degree due to the activity of the Pat
erson group of the Right to Existence
Society of America.
But because of all this, think not that
when you step from the train at Pat
erson you are Immediately confronted
by men waving red flags and holding
knives between their teeth. For this
town is like an apple, and anarchism is
its core. Expect to stand on the curb
and see anarchy go by, and you will
be disappointed. You wish to meet the
'Reds?" You must hunt for them.
Procure a guide and proceed as for
bear in the forest. In the back rooms
of saloons, in Market street tenements,
here you will find more than one lair.
At No. 1886 Market street, on the top
floor, back, you will run down the king
creature, the leader of the $500 Ital-
ians conspiring the society called Dirt
TO All ESlSlenSa NTlSnL 10 eAlSIenceD.
This chief of Italians is a Spaniard
named Pedro EsteVe. In his room on
the top floor, back, is published La
QUESTION: Sociale. Editing this weekly
paper is Esteve's oStensible occupation.
His real life work is sharpening the
knives of regicides and fattening the
purses of royal undertakers. Here are
some of the tools of his trade: killing
a king makes people think. We want
to eXterminate evils by force. We never
consider consequences. We are opposed
to government, which means political
tyranny. We do not believe in religion,
laws, or individual ownership of prop
erty" EsteVe exhibits these tools in
the columns of La QUESTION: Sociale,
and gives lessons in their use.
The brightest among the Paterson
Reds" are sent to other places, Chi
cago, New York, st. Louis Cleveland,
Detroit, Denver, wherever there are
Right to Existence groups. even to
small place like Barre, Vermont, where
the anarchists number 200, there to
preach the doctrines formulated in Pat
erson. These disciples of Esteve may
be called professors of anarchism. They
are travelling libraries of universal
knowledge as applied to the removal
of Excellencies, Imperial Majesties,
and Royal Highnesses. By scattering
their theories thus, the anarchists
dream of uniting the peoples of the