Evening star., 1906-06-16
KEEP TAB ON ''REDs"
Recent Attempt Upon the Life
of King Alfonso.
PUBLIC HERE INTERESTED
Think That Congress Should Enact
Proper Legislation.
ATTENTION TO ANARCHISTS
Closing Eyes Against Painful Truth
Society with More Concen-
trated Power.
PUBLIC HERE INTERESTED
ATTENTION TO ANARCHISTS

In the disclosures made at Paterson, N. J.,
soon after the recent attempt was made
upon the life of King Alfonso. The dis
closures. they think. should be the means
OF inducing Congress to pay some attention
to legislation. giving the police OF the
country an opportunity to keep tab on the
reds and to make it next to impossible
for such persons to make headway with
their organizations In the United States.
Major Sylvester. as president of the asso-
citation, has shown much concern In the
several attempts to induce Congress to leg
islate on the subject.
Congress has been asked to make the
bureau OF criminal Identification q govern
ment institution and place 1t under the
supervision Of the Department Of Justice.
BY the provisions of the bill the police de-
partment throughout the United States
were to contribute to the gallery Of photo
graphs OF criminals and suspects" and 1t
was the intention Of the members Of the
association to pay special attention to an
archists and other undesirable classes or
persons. Congress- did not see IT. however,
to enact the bill and the bureau Is still
being conducted by the police departments
of several cities making voluntary contri-
buttons to defray the expenses.
When the association had the proposed
law read at the annual meeting neld In
the more prominent members participated
in the discussion that followed. and 1t was
argued that the establishment OF such
bureau would serve as an entering wedge
to stamp out the growth Of the undesirable
element It was stated:
A Painful Truth.
There are those who are apt to close
their eyes against painful truth. who are
10th to believe that within our gates exist
organisations of secret character. whose
purpose and acts are inimical to the well
fare and existence OF the state. Those
who compose them are not generally to
the manor born, but are the product OF for
eign climes. They teach no doctrine. they
possess no principles, they have no creeo'
but aim to destroy simply to witness oe-
struction. They would pull down the PHI
lars Of the temple In order 70 see n, tneln
fall and crush those who would construct
and systematic. Our liberal laws as 20
publication and speech have been taken aa-
vantage of to encourage them IN theIf
work. 1t has remained for hsto.y W 70
peat itself in cruel assassination to en-
phasize these conditions. Nearly year
ago this association memoriaiized Congress
to define anarchy and to name penaiey
for it.. Action has been had m .hau az u,r re-
posed law and provide, at smau EXPENSE
that those means which would enable us TO
gather concentrate and officially communi-
cate the names. aOuIeSScS 11iiA
of anarchists at home and abroad.
At the Louisville convention FRANCIS
O'Neill, chief of the Chicago ponce ioIces
discussed the question Of anarchy and an
arohists at some length ano ms tslns;ya .s,a
were considered as being highly instructive.
Anarchy, he told his hearers. Is Queslion
that has attracted the attention or the
deepest thinkers during the past century.
It has had able, although hiogieai, aoso-
Gates. whose teachings have led their de-
luded and impulsive disciples to assassi-
nate not a few rulers and other persons IN
high stations. He Thought however. ina. ina !
the world was no nearer an anarcnistic
state than it was in the days of Bakunin.
Prondhon and Marx, who were its greatest
apostles.
Definition Of Anarchy.
Chief oNeill told the members of the as
sociation that Parsons. the American an
archist. who was convicted and hanged for
his connection with the bomb throwing al
the Haymarket massacre In Chicago May
4. 1885, in his speech before Judge Gary In
the criminal court. defined anarchy as fol-
lows:
Anarchy is free society where there Is
no concentrated or centralized power; no
state, no king. no emperor, no ruler, NO
preaident. no magistrate, no potentate Oh
any character whatever. Law Is the en-
| shaving power of man. Anarchy Is the nat
ural law instead of the man-made statute.
and gives men leaders In the place OF
drivers and bosses"
| men of great talent and profound learn
ing espoused the cause Of anarchy. Among
them were Pierre Joseph Proudhon. a
Frenchman; Karl Marx. a German, ana
| Nicholas Bagunin, Russian, who Is rec
| ornized as the father of nihilism In Rus
sia. Had these men devoted their extraor-
binary talents to other lines or literary
| work and effort they would undouDteaIy
have accomplished great gooa ZOE .ae tne
world And yet 1t cannot be denied tnat
there were causes IN some OF the european
| countries that created a feeling or discon-
tent with the then existing conditfons, Ior
which the government was heid 10 De re-
sponslble by the poorer classeas or prole-
tarians, as they were referred to by revo-
Iutionary writer's. The peasantry and Ia
| boring classes had been oppressed TOT CEN
turies and when they began TO learn tneir
power from the reading OF tracts ana DOCKS
written by men of undoubted genius they
became fred with hatred toward the ricn
and the form of government UNDER WnIch
they lived. In Germany. France ana Hus-
sia there were great many leaders VINO
were nroiffc in writing infiammatory arti-
cles for the rabble. and as natural conse-
duence the time came when anarchy under
the name OF communism showed ltseil IN
a most terrible form. 1 refer to the COM
mune OF Paris in 1871. when the streets
ran red with blood.
Responsible for the Seeds.
Chief O'Neul spoke of the international
society that was organized In 1884 by Marx,
which. he said. was responsible to some ex-
tent for the seeds Of anarchy which were
planted In the United States. 1t was the
disciples Of Marx, he said. who caused the
massacre in Chicago and who participated
In the Pittsburg riots in 1877.
He recited the incidents which led up to
the memorable Haymarket massacre. tell
ing his hearers that one policeman was
instantly killed and sixty-seven others were
injured ten Of them dying within the next
succeeding twelve months. Four of the
instigators of the crime. he reconnted. ex-
piated the crime upon the scaffoldb one
committed suicide and three were sem
fenced to the penitentiary.
There are still In Chicago, he said. "a
large number of anarchists. but they are
no longer defiant They have been made
TO feel the effectiveness OF the law when
the community is aroused. and to all out
ward appearances fear the law. II they do
not respect It. They no longer indulge In
lncendiary talk calculated to incite acts of
violence Close surveiliance is kept on the
leaders by the police in Chicago, and they
cannot make a move OF any Importance
xba< nef lrrouyp IN the anfharifiea m a