The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-10-04

The days the news was received OF /
the attempt upon the life of Maria !
Pia, of Portugal I found Pedro Esteye |
in his office on the top floor back. type |
cases to the right Of him, portraits of
Herr Most to the left Of him, anarch
ist typesetters and printers before and |
behind him. Indignation gave a par
boiled expression to all Of his face
not covered by his black beard fan
aticism cloudad his very evident in
telligonoe.
you say we, Of Paterson, sent over
man to remove that queen. You say
that at the time Bresci sailed to re.
move the king OF italy, thirty-nine
others sailed with him, all with or
dora to do or die Now these things
are not So" He banged the table
with his knuckles. 1T is the news
papers that make all the trouble. We
did not draw lots to kill Humbert
We work each man for himself and
none knows what plans his neighbors
may be making Rresci did not kill
the man Humbert, he removed king,
tyrant He rendered a service to
thirty million Italians. But another
/ king has killed Bresci-a life for q
/ Hfe-it is what We expect We strike,
but do we ever run away? Yes, it is
/ true that anarchy is firmly establish.
ed in Paterson; but the police do not
interfere with us. Why should they?
Is it crime to say one is an an
archist?" and Esteve threw out his
chest. as one who would say; Il am
an enemy Of everything and every
body, and am PROUD of It,"
Some of Their bluff" Meetings.
In the editorial office in which
Esteye thus freely declared himself a
champion of a great wrong cause, the
ringleaders of the Reds" hold their
secret meetings. No parliamentary
red tape governs their sessions. They
have no organization, no rules, no
dues, no officers. Simply. on Satur-
day nights, they drift into Esteve's
lair, discuss articles in the current
issue of La QUESTION: Sociale and
suggest ways and means of helping
the cause" At the same time the
rank and file of anarchism are in ses-
sion in he dingy back rooms of vari-
Gus saloons, where drunkenness is al
most unknown, but where men fire.
quently succumb to the intoxication
of scarlet ideas.
Whenever the newspapers print
naring headlines by which special at
tention is directed upon Paterson
then the REDS" call mass meeting
The town is flooded with posters an
nouncing that an open meeting Of
Italians-the word anarchist is not
used-will be held in Bartholdi hall
The public, the police and the press
are invited. Esteve addresses the
meeting on some such subject as
Prosperity in Italy" making no al
msion to anarchism. The object OF
all this is to convince whom it may
concern that the meetings of Italians
are quite as harmless as other politi-
cal meetings. The bluff" is so ap
parent that even the secret service
men have long ceased to attend these
mass meetings" 1t was one Of these
meetings, a triae bolder than usual
that the chief of police permitted the
anarchists Of Paterson to hold on the
night the president was shot
Give the Police but Little Trouble.
"They are quiet, peaceable home
bodies says the chief of police. LOT
all the classes in Paterson they give
us the least trouble" This IS true
so far as the local police are concern
ed. 1t is not to be expected that the
anarchists will remove the mayor
, and other officials of Paterson, just
, to keep in practice for those that wear
crown.
/ So while the local police give nC
+ more thought to the Reds" than they
4 would to a colony of Quakers, the po
5 lice departments Of nations have sur
p rounded the group with detectives
: whose system of espionage IS as com
p plete as that exercised over any banC
< OF nihilists in Russia. Every coun
S try has at least two secret service
+ agents in Paterson; Austria has four