The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-10
kEonarchs and Their Murderers
AVA THE SECOND TERROR"

| certain period of that great revolu-
1 tiOndry movement which took place in
| France during the last decade of the
eighteenth century The Second Ter
| ror'' is a term which may be applied
| not inaptly to the condition of affairs
that has existed throughout Europe
| since the early sos.
! Since the forces of anarchy were first
| organized the authorities of every con-
| tfnental state have lived in condition
| which can only be described as one of
| desperate preparation.
| 1t is usually given out that the
| crimes of anarchists are simply the
acts of irresponsible individuals, and
that there is no such thing as an an
archist Organization. The authorities,
| however must know that these official
| statements, which are issued with the
| object of quieting the public alarm,
| are without any foundation in fact.
| The various sources of information
| which | have been able to tap have re-
| vealed to me that the anarchist cam
paign is conducted with an elaborate
care and an almost impenetrable Sc
/ crecy that make it all the more effect
i've and terrifying.
| Take, for example those terrible
months from December, 1898, TO August,
| 1894. At no other period in their his
tory have the anarchist societies been
| so active and so relentless. This Pc
| riod, which eliminated in the daring
murder of President CarnOt in broad
daylight in the public street, demon
strated the inability of the various
states to deal effectively with the SUD-
terranean forces of anarchy.
All over Europe the police forces
were increased Special legislation was
| passed to enable the criminal courts
/ to deal more effectively with this type
| of assassin, and other repressive meas
| ures were adopted; but in the long
| fought duel between the forces of or
| der and the forces of anarchy the lat
| ter won all along the line.
| 1t began with the terrible atrOCity at
| tempted by the anarchist Valiant. He
/ had received instructions, so l have
| been told, to blow UP the chamber of
deputies in Paris and to destroy all the
| members there assembled.
| He set about his task with fanatiCai
| simplicity Taking a bomb with him
| he gained admittance to the strangers
| gallery in the house. While the cham
| Der was busy discussing the election OF
a Socialist member, NJ Mirman, he
| threw the bomb. Fortunately, it struck
a pillar. and exploded in the air in
/ stead of on the floor of the house.
| Thirty or forty persons in the galleries
J
| of the deputies themselves. whose lives
valiant had really sought, escaped
| without a scratch. Valiant himself
was wounded and was promptly ar
| rested.
! The result of this attempt was in
evitable The members of any legis-
| lative assembly may be forgiven if, in
| the press of public affairs, they are I'M
! able to realize to the full the import
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| place i'm a distant corner of their coun-
| try, Had an anarchist blown up a
public building at Calais they might
! have deplored the event, though it is
/ exceedingly doubtful whether they
would have considered the incident of
| sufficient Importance to call for special
| legislation. But when the atrocity was
attempted in the very building in which
| they were assembled. and when they.
moreover. were the very persons
aimed at, they promptly took methods
| to defend their lives.
Eight thousand pounds were voted to
| increase the police force in Paris. The
manufacturer of explosives was placed
| under great restrictions, and, with the
! object of striking at the heart of an
| archism, a special law was passed inn
posing preventive Imprisonment for the
propagandism of anarchy in the press
| or elsewhere.
| To the anarchist societies this was d
declaration of war. All over Europe
! Outrages followed one another in rapid
! succession. But ii was in Paris that
| the main drama was enacted. A man
| called Emile Henry seems to have re-
ceiVed instructions TO start the dread
game of retaliation. directed. in this
case not only against the state, but
against those middle classes who were
all-pOwerful in France at the time. He
| exploded bombs outside the offices of
the CarmauX company and the Cafe
Terminus. 1t was the retOrt effective
to the execution of valiant, which had
just taken place.
Henry himself was arrested, found
guilty and sentenced to death. Usually,
the anarchist societies do not concern
themselves with the safety of those of
their members who become enmeshed
in the net of the law. But for reasons
of their own they made stupendous eff
forts to save Henry from the suillotine,
and they laid their plans with their
usual skill and perspicacity-
There we're three plots to effect
Henry's rescue, each of which was to
be tried in turn. In the first place,
they bribed the assassin's goaler. who
in consideration of goo, agreed to al
low his prisoner to escape while he was
beeing conveyed from one prison to
another. Fortunately, the authorities
were warned that some such plot was
simmering They changed Henry's
goaler. and effected the prisoners re-
moval four days before the time pre-
ViOusly arranged.
Baked at their first attempt they
fell back upon their second plan. 1t
was "A curious one. considering the per-
sons interested. Nine. Henry, the wife
of the assassin, was to be sent to st.
Petersburg to appeal to no less a per
son than the cZarina. 1T was believed
with what justification | do not know
that she might easily be persuaded TO
use her influence to secure Henrys
pardon. The idea of appealing to the
wife of that man who represented
more anybody else i'm Europe. every
thing that the anarchists held in abOm-
nation, though saVoring of melodrama,
was certainly ingenious.
When Nine. Henry was privately and
secretly approached to carry out this
plan, she mistoOk the emissaries of the
anarchist society for police spies; and
Imagining it was a plot on the part
of the authorities to get her out of
Paris, stubbornly refused to go.
The third plan. which they We're