Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19
THE GREAT PLOT

TN the interests of justice, decency
and good American citizenship the
people of the United States should
| take every opportunity of expressing
equal detestation of anarchy and of a
public servant like Chief Shippy, head
of the Chicago police force. Extremes
meet and that is why anarchy and
Shippyism unite to the undoing OF
Americanism, and incidentally the de-
struction of innocent human life. 1t has
not yet been proven that Averbuch, the
weakling, whom many Chicago people
believe was destroyed by the burly
chief in a paroxysm of cowardice, was
an anarchist.
What has become of the great an
archist conspiracy" of which Shippy
pretended he was aware-this "vast,
widespread and dangerous plot?" One
man cannot make a plot. One human
being cannot conspire. Where are Av-
erbuch's fellow plotters? Where are the
other conspirators? They are not in
jail Since Shippy is so certain that
there is a conspiracy why does he not
round up all the participants and put
them where they will be powerless?
Men who knew Averbuch have shown
no sympathy with Chief Shippy's ac-
cusation and in their actions they ex-
press nothing but disbelief of the chiefs
allegations. They have given Shippy's
anarchist" an orthodox Jewish burial.
Wealthy Hebrews in Chicago have
raised a large fund to take care of his
bereaved sister and to pay expenses
of a thorough investigation. Many of
his fellow citizens are expressing doubt
of the hysterical story told by Shippy
and are asking him to supplement his
incoherent accusations with coherent
and definite proofs. According to at
torneys retained by Chicago Hebrews
AYerbuch was a consumptive lad who
weighed about 10 pounds. In addition
to physical frailty he suffered from
mental feebleness. His brain had never
recovered from the shock of seeing his
father mother and other relatives mas
sacred at Kishineff.
These defenders of the dead youths
name declare that in accordance with
Russian CUSTOM which the lad believed
held good in the United States. he went
to Shippy's house to get a character" :"
a. written statement something in the
nature of passport. which he believed
he must have if he left one city in or
der to take up his abode in another.
This much is brought out by Shippy's
own statement. Then this big police
man, who weighs 200 pounds and has
had twenty years experience in ham
ding criminals, calls to his assistance
two other full grown, powerful men in
order that he may be protected from
this anemic, consumptive STRIPPING.
Chicago people are asking why when
he had this youth pinioned against the
wall and at his mercy, he had to shoot
him full of bullets in order to over
power him.
THERE is NO PLACE IN THE
UNITED STATES FOR ANARCHY,
and people like Emma Goldman, who
have eagerly sought advertisement and
notoriety by endeavoring to make an
archist capital out of the AVerbuch
tragedy have rendered a great service
to temporarily hysterical Shippy and
always hysterical newspapers by lend
ing versimilitude to the cock-andb
claims that conspiracy is in existence.
Anarchy is indefensible and there is
no place for it in this free but law
abiding and orderly republic. Equally
indefensible are the hysterical howls
published from time to time concern
United States. They are without foun-
dation in fact, and they do untold dam
age to our country, injuring its pres
tige abroad and shaking popular faith
at home in the power of the govern
ment TO preserve peace in our time and
provoking hysterical towards to the
commission of wanton and indefensibe
crimes.
Students of sociological questions are
agreed that it is not true that anarchy
is gaining ground in America.
Whenever and wherever plain Amer
icanism makes it's appeal for studious
consideration by reasonable people an
archy becomes almost impossible. It's
professors are restricted to the meager
ranks of ignorant fanatics, meaning
less madmen and fallacious fools.