The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-10
ALIEN ANARCHISTS FOUND IN ENGLAND Native Party Is Small and Not
 Very Active ENGLAND IS AN ASYLUM Anarchists Flock to the Country From All Part. of the World to Prop
 agate Their Violent
 Beliefs.
ENGLAND IS AN ASYLUM
BY JOHN SWEENEY.

England is the home and asylum of anarchists, the place where the most ne- farious plots are matched against the heads of states in all parts of the world Yet our purely English anarchists can be counted on the fingers. The anarchist ranks in this country would be reduced to zero without the constant innux of penniless foreigners whose only means of living is the receipt of remittanees from wealthy and often highly placed villains abroad, whose own support depends en- tirely on the constant reports they re- ceive of anarchist work accomplished here. The dozen or so of English anarch- ists are frequently hattered and encour- aged by the interested plaudits of for- eign visiting anarchists who sponge on their English comrades until they have learnt how to raise the wind on their own. It Is. above all amongst the young , at their most impressionable period that these foreign anarchists are most infiu- entlal for evil.
 wehn Voltarine de Cleyre, the Ameri- can female anarchist, was In London in 1s9s she influenced a number of young lads and young girls Her orations (and do not deny her gifts of eloquence) i were potent factors in the formation of incendiary opinions. In every speech she advocated force and violence. She would have been denied admission to any other country than England as an undesirable alien. Hers was a curious case of the engineer hoist with her own petard. A young man fell in love with her-she led 1 him a captive to her pet theories of Vio- lence and anarchy, but she drew the line when he wished her to submit to his af- fections. The result was a signal illustra- tion of her own doctrines He bought a revolver and murdered his anarchist teacher
 Another woman anarchist, Emma Gold man. was to my mind directly responsi- ble for inspiring the anarchist hend, Czolgosz, who killed President Mckinley. And yet that woman was permitted to make England her honte at time when she would have been iynched in America I can recall numerous instances of arm- | chair anarchists, comfortably and costly ensconced in the study, or speaking from a safe platform, inspiring more Ignorant and less cowardly tools to commit deeds of violence. These men should think, receive exemplary punishment. But this only touches on the fringe of the qnes- | ton. The treatment of anarchists re- | quires international agreement anarch- | ism should be rooted out by striking it whenever 1t shows It's hideous head.
 Anarchists Are Aliens.
 It Is only fair to Englishmen to bear in mind that, speaking from close study ! of anarohism in this country, I can un- hesltatingly vouch for the fact that an- archist are 90 per cent aliens And in nearly every case these alien anarchists are criminals from foreign prisons. Louise Michel whose last years were spent on English soil, had had fourteen years im- prisonment Kropotkin, five years; Gum plowicz, eighteen months; Grunar, eight cen months; Merlino. Malato, Faure, 1 Grave, Pouget, Reclus, all of them have the same history. A mere glance at the names of the known anarchists in Eng 1 land gives the lie to any pretence at there being domestic" group.
 The homegrown anarchists are mostly 1 those extreme communists whose "an- archism" lacks the pseudo-scientihc base of their continental friends, and whose methods of propaganda have developed | under freer conditions. They lack the inclination towards violence indulged in by the anarchists of other nationalities l This is especially the case amongst the older men and women to be found in the English groups.
 ''The Anarchist was a journal which years ago distinguished itself for its en- ergetic propaganda. Its editor is still | living, but would repudlate the bare sug- gestion of countenancing any form of violence. There are two present-day English anarchist journals One. a mis- erable single sheet of badly printed Hit eracy appears at irregular intervals. and Is sold at dusk by It's decrepit editor proprietor-printer. at occasional open-air meetings The other existing English anarchist paper is we'll printed and we'll edited. It's sale is small: it's editor Is one or the most moderate of communist an- archists. He was recently permitted to | enter the United States but was put in prison immediately when he began pub- lie speaking. Another of the older Eng fish Anarchists is now respectable coun- | ty councillor, The fact is Englishmen are not "loglcal enough to make ex- treme anarchists. They may call them selves anarchists under stress of emo tional indignation, but the practical An glo-Saxon mind refuses to follow to con clusion what MT. Bernard Shaw calls the Responsibilities of Anarchism."
 Effects Seldom Last.
 Amongst the younger and more impress | sionable listeners, the foreign anarchists visiting England produce some powerful, | although seldom lasting, effects, In the | years 1890 and 1898 there might have been | seen at anarchist meetings in London and Manchester not few attractive and l thoughtful young lads and girls ready | to throw bombs or to die for their newly- l learnt gospel of anarchism. It would be | cruel to give the names of those young people today. l know the history of each | of them. and In not single case can you find these youthful enthusiasts in the an archist groups of today. Some of the girls | are married to respectable merchants. One of the promising lads is a well-known | EOr Mncn..sfo Rskac