The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
MOST, THE ANARCHIST, DEAD.
PASSES AWAY AT A FRIENDS
HOME IN CINCINNATI.
spent Half His Life Preaching Socialism
aud Serving Prison Terms on the Con.
tinent- British and American Jalls
Also Knew HIm-Less Radical OF Late.

tfnent- British ana American Jaiib
Also knew Hlm-Less Radical OF Late.
CINCINNATI; March l7.-Johann Mosti the
Anarchist died at noon to-day at the home
OF Adolph Knaus; 1929 Gutter s~treetI in this
city. He had been Ill since last Monday.
The family with whom Most had been
staying since his arrival here is poor but
attended to all Of Most's wants gladly with
holding no expense; as knaus and Most
were old friends. Most came to fill q leo
ture engagement but was III when he ar
rived and was not able to appear on the
platform. The body will undoubtedly be
taken to New York for burial.
To-day sew eral kilograms arrived for
Most from friends In Chicago and Phila-
delphiaJ presumably fellow members Of
anarohistic organizations; inquiring as to
his cond ition and IL he needed assistance.
Most did not know Of these Messages as
he had been delirious, all day. Pr. Joseph
Meituss who attended MostS said he died
without a struggle.
Johann Most was born at Augsburg,
Bavaria, on February s, 1s4e. His father
was a court officer and gave the. boy a good
education. His mother died when he was
10 years old, and the introduction of a step
mother, whom he hated, made the rest OF
his boyhood unpleasant. He was appren-
ticed to q ~bookbinder and after learning
the trade went wandering through Italy,
difficult to get work, because, as he says In
his autobiography, his facial distigure-
ment kept customer away" Many Amer
leans supposed that this Disagreement,
which gave Most q savage aspect. was
caused By the kick OF a mule. 1t was really
luz to a surgical operation for the removal
of a part Of the lower left jaw.
Most went to Zurich in 1857 and got work,
escaping military service because OF his
deformity. He imbibed socialistic ideas and
started a crusade against all organized
government. In May, 1889, he made a
violent speech denouncing the clergy, the
military, the police and the middle class,
He spent a month in Jail for this outbreak.
After passing other lime in Jail for similar
offences Most was selected by the Socialists
as a missionary in Austria. The authorities
banished him on May 2, 1871. and he was
escorted to the frontier by a large procession
of workingmen.
publicly, but he carried on the propaganda"
In the homes of wageworkers. He was
made editor of the Chemnitz Freie Pres8e
by his party, and served a month in jail
for making an ~incendiary speech. He
was summoned to appear in court forty
three times and was convicted OF twenty
three violations Of law. He married while
in Chemnitz, and, as he says, he and his
wife lived a cat and dog existence up to
the year 1880, when they separated. He
had then become an anarchist Of the most
radical type, advocating the use OF force,
even assassination by poison and bomb.
He was elected to the Reichstag twice.
After passing many months In prison he
was ordered from Germany.
He went to London in 1870 and he began
the publication Of Freihet: When Alex
ander II. Of Russia was killed by nihilists
Most published Freiheit with a red border
and an editorial expressing, a wish that
all tyrants might be served like the Car.
The Russian and German governments
called the British Governments attention
to the article, and Most was arrested, tried,
found guilty and sentenced to sixteen
months hard labor at Clerkenwell Prison
On his release he sailed for New York |,
arriving in December, 1882. He spent
three terms on Baokwells Island for in
oendiary utterances. His last imprison-
ment was for publishing in Frsihei on the
day President Mckinley was shot an article
entitled, Murder VS.. Murder which the
justices OF the Special Sessions declared
endangered the public peace because 1t
was Indictment to murder rulers. Most
aid that he did not write the article, and
that it was only q reprint, but the justices
said that made NJ d~iference-he pub
lished II.
of his brethren here. He was a theatrical
and earnest talker and had q fine flow
of adiectives, chiefly denunciatory. He
achieved some success as an actor In 1894
by appearing at the Thalia as Uld Bdumert
In the @Weaves,1 q historical drama by
Gerhart Hauptmann. He had not been con-
spicuous as an advocate OF force In recent
years and the radical anarchists of the
Emma Goldman stripe were at odds with