The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-04-09
WOULD PROSECUTE EDITOR
OF ANARCHIST SHEET

President Roosevelt has addressed a
letter to the department of justice re-
questing to see if it is not possible
to prosecute c~riminally the publishers
of La Question Sociale, the anarchist
paper at Patterson, n. j., which has
been excluded from the mails. The
paper is printed in Italian. The fol
lowing are translations from some of
the Objectionable articles it contains:
1--WE want everybody to be with us.
We invite everybody to get together
and arm themselves. Seventy five per
cent of us have a knife in the house
that will only cut butter. 1t will be
a good thing if everybody would get
guns.
When we are ready the first thing
TO do is to break into the armory and
seize the rifles and ammunition. Then
all the people will be with us when
they see this. The next thing to do
is to get hold of the police station.
and when the chief of police sees that
they are not strong enough for us they
viii call for soldiers.
Even at that the dynamite is easy
for us to get. twenty-five cents worth
will blow a big iron door down. We
don't want to forget that the dyna-
mite will help us to win. Two or three
Of us can defy a regiment of soldiers
without fear. We will start when no
one is thinking about it. Then we can
beat them man for man At that time
show no sympathy for any soldier even
If they be the on of the people.
AS soon as wet get hold of the
police station it is our victory. TIL
thing is to kill the entire force. IF
not, they will kill us. After we have
done this the next thing is to look
out for ourselves, and then for the
people who help us. We must get into
the armory and in case we cannot.
then we must blow it down with dyna-
mite. Then when we are ready We
must set fire to three or four houses
in different locations on the outskirts
which will bring out the fire depart.
ment and all of the police. Then we
will start a fire in the center of the
city. This will be an easy thing to d.
as the police will be on the outskirts
of the city,
Another article says:
On the 9th of September of the year
1901, when Mr.. Mckinley, the first
citizen Of the United States of Amer
lea, in Sunday attire made a display
of himself, there happened to be a lit
tie accident. One of those little acct
dents which only happen to sovereigns
and was one of those accidents which
always gives us great pleasure. A
beardless youth of gentle regard. of
well bred and at the same time proud
expression, one of those figures which
seem TO be the tender and severe ex-
preston and incarnation Of Justice.
feiled him to the ground with revolver
Shots
The article then commented in an
unprintaDle vulgar way on the svmpa-
thy expressed at Mr.. McKinlev's mn
death.
stu another article said. "This
'trumpet of a republic has a face of
9ronze, and every reproof. every insult.
very lash on her dry cheeks, does not
provoke a blush"
The paper gloried in the recent death
# the King of Portugal and alluded to
he dead king as a ~"hoglike mass of
lesh. The postmaster general has
his intention of proceeding
t once against this and similar ga.
'ers. He said that if they are to be /
through the mails the courts I
not himself must give them sane |
ion. {
Ludovieo Camanita the editor of I
"a Question Sociale, is said to be the 7
aading spirit among the anarchists I
+ the United States. I