New-York tribune., 1906-03-18

vraned The police and the Secret Service con
ten1ptuously ignored him and his followers dropped
on re" persons read his paper, Die FTeiheit,''
and for the last year or so II was published
wherever desk room could be obtained
IN appearance Most was the decentralization Of dis
content He Was gross in appearance with d NAL
Formed head. and heavy unsyrnrnetrlcal Jaws that
heavy bushy beard and mustache could not cen
ceaL Nearly twelve years % HIS turbulent life was
Fpert u tie jslls and prisons Of Europe before he
came 10 this country.
ne was born in Augsburg. a small provincial town
ot Germany siKty-one years ago. His boyhood life
vas AaTo and unprornising. His father was gov
frrnent clerk a small salary. When Johann was
seven years old ne was attacked by the ailr7ent
which caused the Disagreement which ALWAYS made
AlIh noticeable One New Years Eve he caught cold
ana his cheek sweIled 70 an enormous size. Gan
Erene set In. and FOR FIVE years he suffered under
the minlstratons of various quacs Finally r.ec.
% the lower Jaw was removed
Mosts mother died when he was ten wears did
had she lived, Most has often said that he nigh
never have turned 90 anarchIsn A year later ba
"au a slepmotheT. who he says In HIS autob.og-
Taphy was Without single redea-aiug feature lie
was living az that time ln Bavaria whero The
law made IL obligatory for every one lnde~ tho
eee or eighteen 70 attend Christian Lessons"
+l7IF sunday afternoon. After these lessons
Most and his friends were foggea Most ar9fI,-
tired Of these lessons and refused 70 attend any
more Re was dragged before the local ma zisrr, 70
ano hoEged- As result he made up hts mind
never 10 enter Z church again. a resolution which
he kept
In ls8i lie travelled through several countries 10.
Europe. but his disAgurernent was against bi-,
" neneFer he sought employment he was told thar
as face would cause customers TO stay .v-av
inally ne was arrested in Germany As 2 tram
and spent twsnty-four hours in jail
The following year. 1867. he went 10 Z-r5,, nh,
he FOUND work There he became the frie,5 y,
Hermann Sreulich. afterward Editor ~ the .,r,g
~acft' HIS dishgurernent stood him in good &C.,
while there for through II ne escaped military se-
vice
fhe labor movement fourished in Zurich a. IT,.
time ano liberalism was the watcnvvord Of tt, a.
ln lsss Most addressed q dig mass rneetfr., -.
vienna, The gist OF his speech being that TiheoIi
was rank fraud, the clergy were loecbes ,l,
bourgeois cruel and cOwardly and that the ,olic,
and military protected them -Four r7o,+5e l.,,
he U'@s arrested and sentenced 70 q month f- a.,
Tor having committed a public dfet,l-I,arcs., 81
the meeting. He was no sooner out OF IAN tts,, b.
began 10 make speeches again. II was NOT lov, 81,
1ore he was arrested and sentenced 20 FIVE ,-e,r =,
3si az hsrc labor, including one fast dav in escl
month He was confined iu the fortress al Il,be1,
Following his release he travelled through A,.s+i
Is missionary Of the Socialist movement and ,s
result was banished H Isl. a vast tLranr az 1ato,
men and women accompanying him 70 the frontier
In Germany he found that the Franco PRUSSIA
War had set back the organization and progress o
the German Social Democracy lie began bt
propaganda afresh in Sa10ny. where The polio
broke up his meetings He founded the Cherlnft
-Freie Presse.' which had precarious cxistenc