Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-05
Political Demonstration
In Trafalgar Square

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Special Correspondence
u oNDON, Aug. 27.-As the home OF
anarchists England leads all
4 other countries. And yet there
"A; is never any trouble here with
n these enemies OF all mankind as
President Roosevelt has called them
The secret of this peace and quitness,
the absence of bomb-throwing, riotous
Indictment and red flag rampaging, lies
(; with the method in which the police
of this country handle the anarchists.
In London today there are two con-
fidential agents of the secret service
from Washington, who are engaged. att
Scotland Yard in sarneiins all the facts
and information possible regarding the
| special branch which deals exclusively
with anarchists and the almost allied
movements of the rabid revolutionaries,
foreign and English who make Lon
don their headquarters. When they
report back to Washington in the next
few weeks it is possible that the United
States will adopt the English idea
The secret of the British method is
publicity and free speech 1t was Only
after many, many years Of repression
that Britain discovered this fact The
secret meetings, the midnight plots. the
pamphlets and newspapers surrcp-
htously circulated. bred mystery and |
dark doinss ana anarchism thrives on
sucH things. On such occasions when |
the authorities, with soldiers. policemen
and speciai constab ulary, attempted to
stop professions ana prevent meetings |
there were conflicts and riots. But for
nearly quarter of 4 century London
mas been quite at peace with the turbu-
lent element. If any one, wants to have
a procession in great numbers because
OF some public question the police au-
thorities tell them to so ahead and
'procesh to their hearts content pro-
Vided always that an adequate police
escort accompanies the inarchcrs to see
that traffic is not delayed, and that
there Is no duiTianiSin by hooiganS
along the line OF march. If a few thou
sands or hundred thousand want to
mold a public meeting Hyde Park or
Trafalgar square is open to them. The
police always suggest. however, that!
If the meeting is to be very large
one it be held III Hype Park rather
than in Trafalgar square. For in the
park there is more room.
oLICE TAKE NOTES.
The police certainly heed what the
say. They make a note OF
certain speeches and mark down the
speaker, and he may some day dscoverl ;
mat his name is on the list of the ,
special branch at Scotland Yard. But {
men ana women can wave the red flag {
III they want. They can yell Down 4
With the king and government" till j
hey are black in the face. They can d
'dvise march on Buckingham palace | |,
The lootins of the fashionable West a
md. the retdest kinds of revolution q
md, IN fact, spout and shout until they o
IRE hoarse without Interruption OF, APP 1
parent heed from the police. i
IS A SAFETY VALVE. il
An fficial of Scotland Yards special >
'ranch in Whitehall explained the Sc y
ret to me the other day. It's just Y
his way" he said. we find that
peechInaking in the park is a safety
alive. If you are in a-balIoon ana
vant to let the gas out by degrees Z
ou open the safety valve. II you ! il
old THIS valve open long enough all Ia
he gas comes out and your balloon is u
elated and harmless. So 1t is with t
be turbulent agitator. Let him and Il
is comrades meet in public and lot | a
hem spout for all they are worth J K
ne gas Is escaping fairly gently. BY 81
he time these men are talked dry they
re harmless. They take a few weeks W
generate enough gas to get danger u
US again, but by giving them tue =
snt 10 let II off the gas never ex- -
iodes. II comes out through the safety "a
awe The nilblic meeting is a good IS
ling, TOO, in another way. 1t gives "
le authrities an idea OF the strength ~
! the particular movement In the first 81
lace, and then supplies us also with -
nc identification of the leading spr- Z.
3, ard when we once are on eprn y
rms with the leaders the whole g. g.
Ioyement, whatever it may be, is prac- "
caily under our thumb. If there are =. =,
~ dangerous men. anarchists, if you - -.
Ill. that we have not spotted on their ls.
rival in London, we get to know ~;
lem at these meetings. ~ ~
The United states is a grand coun-
y, but why it should be called the
and of the Free. do not know 1t
ay be bit mere free than Russia co