Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-06
new YORK SOCIALISTS
Hard to Separate Them From
the Anarchists.
DISCIPLES OF VIOLENCE
National Lawmakers Apparently In
different to the Menace.
CURRENT CUSTOM IN ENGLAND
vociferous Agitators and Assailants
Of the Existing Order Watched,
But Not Molested.
BY WILLIAM z. CURTIS.

lice III CnlcdRO anu tHo shoN >->
ploded here in New York. In Union
Square, a few weeks ago. while the police
were trying to suppress a MOB are al
ready forgotten. Practically nothihs
has been done by the federal or state or
municipal authorities to prevent repetl-
ton of these organized and deliberate
crimes which are directed against society
rather than against individuals. The po-
lice authorities are still watching the
residence of Postmaster General Meyer
in Washington, and secret service men
follow him wherever he goes. because the
anarchists of Paterson. N. j., have sworn
to take his life as a penalty for refusing
their paper the privileges of the mails.
The federal authorities claim they can
not do anything to suppress anarchism;
they declare that there Is. no law under
except to prohibit the anarchists from
using the postal facilities and to deport
recent immigrants who declare them
selves enemies of the United States.
Kaiser's Vain Effort.
After the assassination of President Nc
Kinley the German kaiser attempted to
secure cooperation among the nations
to drive the anarchists of the earth; to
give them no resting place: to keep them
going from one port to another; to expel
them from whatever countries they might
be found in. and to prevent them from
landing on any shore. But nothing came
and the United States did not respond.
and the danger from these lunatics at
large has not lessened In any degree.
Our police cannot arrest Emma Goldman
or drive her out of the country. Ihey
cannot arrest or Danish Alexander Berk-
man. who shot~Mr. H. c. Frick in Pitts
burg and served out his sentence in Jail.
although he admits that he Is treasurer
Of an organization designed to overthrow
all government and disorganize, all so
ciety.
/: Is called 1.-The Anarchist Federation
of America But why should such a
society be allowed to exist? Why should
1t be permitted to publish, newspaper
to it's subscribers by the officials of the
United States Post ONCE Department?
| Alexander Berkman lives at 2lO East
| 18th street. New York city. and his pa
per. called Mother Earth s Is published iha d
| and pays his bills at that place. He
p4ints anarchistic posters and employs
people to paste them on walls and the
billboar6s in New York. Emma Gold
man is the president or head and In
SEPARATION of the organization, whatever
her title may be. and contributes regular.
ly to Mother Earth. Carl (or Walter)
Uppit. another Of the active members of
| that society. admits that he was an Of
In command of a man-of-war when he
vas compelled to fee because his COM
plicity in . revolutionary movement was
discovered. He confesses that he was
tn, Russian government. Why should
he be given an asylum In this country
and be allowed to organize the Ignorant.
hungry. desperate, unemployed masses to
overthrow Official authority and destroy
society here in the United States?
Follower Of A1ladin.
Silverstein, the young man who threw
the bomb in Union Square. is also a
fugitive from Russia and belonged to
the party of which Alexis Alladin. the
| anarchist WHO was SO highly entertained
in this country a few months ago. and
who at:I acted SO much sympathy, is the
leader. Alladin was received and enter
tanned by gentlemen and ladies Of the
highest responsibility while In this coun-
try. Members of the cabinet, senator's
and representatives met him at dinner
while he was raising money to pay for
such bombs as young Silverste.n threw at
the police.
SilvArstein is an ignorant fanatic and
his brain is in a state of fermentation.
caused by the arguments and influences
of Allauin and his associates. He is
type similar to the young Russian who
tried to kill the chief OF police in Chi
Ca8O lucSc young itcH HCo " tIiiS Nouh-
try to escape the penalty of revolutionary
conspiracies in Russia. But they DO not
change their nature. and continue under
the influence Of such men as Aladdin
who use them for their tools.
The people with whom Sllverstefn board
ed in Brooklyn represent him as an earn
est. Industrious student, who has been
trying to learn the English language. and
| has studied half the night In his room
regularly. They tell Of his generosity to
| 0eRRQFS how he aWaV the only
| overcoat he had to compatriot who
| needed 1t more than he did: and other
good qualities were developed during the
time he stayed with them But he was
absolutely ignorant OF conditions in this
country; he knew nothing of our institu-
lions. or laws. or civilization: and was
being consumed with zeal to destroy the
police and other oppressors OF the people.
Yanonsky. a man of insignificant appear
! ance. forty years old or more. editor of
an anarchist paper called Die Aroener
Stimme, with remarkable abilities as
| an orator and hypnotic power over his
followers. He breaches anarchlsm among
the Russians on the East Side of New
York. holding meetings which are at
tended by hundreds Of young illiterate
men and women, between seventeen and
| twenty-five years Of age. who reverence
and even adore him as an ideal of man.
hood and a prOpheth These young people
| work in the sweatshops for wages that
odFcly Keep tucH ITOu Stoi SutOh.
offsky tells them tina. the people who
live on 9Th avenue and the men who do
business on Wall street are to blame for
their poverty and privation; and he adj
vises them to take the law into their
| own hands and kill their oppressors. He
speaks In q low. soft. pleading voice. with
the tears rolling down his cheeks. and
evidently believes what he says; and
that makes MIN all the more dangerous.
There are $50 900 Russians, Poles and
other newcomers from the borders of Rus
| sia; 100000 Italians. and 100000 Ruthe-
mans. Hungariaps. Lithuanians. illiterate
and ignorant recent immigrants. on the
East Side Of New York, who are under
the influence of such men, and include
many jealous fanatics like Silverstein
and other bomb-throwers.
Pamphlets Circulated Broadcast.
BENJAMIN r. Tucker is allowed to pub
iish and circulate anarchist pamphlets
among these and other dangerous classes
which teach the overthrow of authority.
the defiance Of law and the destruction of
society. There are other publishers who
print similar literature. more or less dan
gerous and incendiary. There are nu-
merous socialistic newspapers ana pup
fishing houses, and the lecturers all the
way up the scale until their teachings be.
come political economy and are delivered
in the form of lectures to college students
and people who take baths and wear