The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-06

ist press reads Traitors. London COM
rades inform their Paris friends that De
tective Y. Y" or spy a." is on the way
10 France. Look out for him." Follows
personal description. or Suspect Coulon"
is about TO start an organ for the sole pur-
pose OF obtaining material for the police.
Again: .Friedrok StacheIberg and Pierre
AlissoG are not spies, as previously report
ed. Kropotkin viii answer for them"
Unsold copies are never sent 10 the mills,
but placed at the disposal o. 'well-inten-
toned comrades" for free distribution in the
factories and IN the homes OF persons who
may be won over 10 the cause. When you
hear OF a family that has been dispossessed,
OF wOrkmen discharged. Of small officials
quarreling with their superiOrs, hand them
a copy Of RevoIte or Libertc. Place a
copy in the market basket of the woman
who is in trouble with her husband or
give a copy 10 school children, nicely done
up. to take to their father"
FIRST ANARCHIST PAPER.
Contrary TO general opinion the first
Anarchist paper was not printed III Paris,
but in Lyons. where a number Of them
nourished from 1850 to 1sS5. Kropotkin's Or
gan. LG Revolte. saw the light In Geneva,
from where 1t deserted TO Paris In 1850,
after the Anarchist attempt On the govern
ment house in BerEe. la RevOlte now holds
the sam position in Anarchist literature
that lie Temps does III the political life Of
the nation. Here is Il news item culled
from a recent issue:
''The Robber Robbed-Madame W., a
rich American woman, was driving through
Boulevard Haussman yesterday afternoon,
when a young man jumped on the carriage
step and took d diamond pin from her hat.
The fellow was caught, and at the police
station made this statement: My name is
Louis Albert Martin. I'm without employ
ment. and think il quite natural to make
a living at the expense Of those burdened
with too great an amount of riches Wen
spoken, Brother Louis. You would be an
ass to die Of hunger as long as any other
person Is bursting with prosperity" d.
Among the subscribers OF this paper are
many scientific men, natural economists,
artists, men OF letters, and even men about
town; also a goOdly sprinkling of mere
curiosity seekers. Your correspondent Wis
tied the den OF La Revolte yesterday and
made the acquaintance of the editor in
charge. Jean Grave. Prince Kropotkin hav-
ing fed to London. La RevOlte is edited in
n tumble-down house on MOuffetard street,
in the mansard of the fifth story. reached
by a ladder. There is only one small ia
BILE. several more being improvised by
boards laid across the backs of chairs.
The sloping walls are covered with shells
of raw wood, loaded down with books.
newspapers and stacks of copy"
Grave was originally a shoemaker, later
he turned printer. Among his present
duties, that OF translating the complicated
theories and dreams of Kropotkin and the
rest Of the frebrands into readable French,
is the most OnerOus. Personally he is a nice
man. soft spoken and well hammered. But
ne became furious when 1 tried to inter
view him and after a TRADE i'm which he
abused the bourgeois and capitalistic press.
he shut up like an oyster, declining to say
a single word about his business or the
aspirations Of his party.
PICTORIAL ANARCHIST SHEET.
Fread Pouget. the editor of Pere Peinard,
the most widely pictorial Anarchist sheet.
ought to be a gentleman of birth and
breeding If birth alone could produce such.
But this educated son Of well-to-do parents
prefers to be known as a foul-mouthed
clown and scamp OF the John Most kind.
His paper. published in Rue d OrseI, on the
heights OF Montmartre. is probably the
dirtiest rag in the world. Witness these
headlines taken from a recent issue: "The
Order OF Pigs, 4" ia the Palace of Injustice, .
Bread or Lead" Property is Thievery,"
Filthy Upstarts," etc. Here Is an interest
ing item: Who wants dynamite? Com
rades may obtain a pound for three francs
by addressing Brother X. and z. Ask the
editor personally"
Pere Peinard claims TO be the "organ of
the weak. the suppressed. the sufferers, the
injustice-ridden." II makes war on bosses.
house owners. bailiffs. monopoly barous.
police. government, magistrates. clergy
men. lackeys Of all kinds, on everybody
that smacks OF authority" Occasionally
this paper prints the formulas for making
dynamite. nitrCglycerin. poisons, etc, and
its reading matter is interspersed with
such choice expressions as hell" "the
devil" be hanged" etc.
This Is from L'Endehnrs." edited by 10
d'Ava. the son Of rich parents and husband
OF a most estimable woman. a noted scient-
lists daughter:
It's IN the nature Of things that those
whom society Iashes return blow for blow
with scorpions. 1 can name a thousand
things In Paris and France that ought to
be demolished. Anarchists, there is work
for you 20 keep you busy z year. Kill and
destroy everybody and everything. opposed
20 your happiness. " . " The newspapers
cau US Anarchists, but that doesn't say
that we form a coalition. a group. bound to
Joined action. On the contrary. every one
of Us works and strives for himself, the
hatred we bear society making US deadly
foes OF all those who are rich and prosper-
Gus. Yet We don't fight for lust OF combat;
we don't want to set up a government of
our own. What have we got to do with
coming centuries; why should we bother
about our descendants? We are living our
life now and our very existence is a pro-
test against all laws, against all regula-
tions. against ali theories, Anarchist the
cries included. We care only for our own
feelings. our own sufferIngs: we are led on
by our rage. our passions
This paper has for motto a stanza of the
coup,et which the thief and murderer Raw
fchol sang on the scaffold:
IF you want TO be happy,
In devils name
XIII rich pigs"
The Anarchist organ Ia Lutte publishes
en- each issue a column headed Anti
bourgeois Products" namely. recipes for
manufacturing explosives. etc. The form
ulas are so worded as TO be understood by
everybody. ~ twelve-year-old child can
make gun cotton or nitroglycerin by fol-
lowing our directions" says the editor
proudly. Moreover, the price Of each arti-