The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-23


 now a bill pending in Congress which will extend this period of liability to deportation as to reach any alien.
 no matter how long he may have been in America.
 After an anarchist has become a eiti zen, deportation is out of the question. He is then secure under the constitution,
 in his right to stay in America, and there
 is no legislation now pending which aims
 at a constitutional amendment against
 him. It will take at least three years
 to amend the constitution of the United
 States for any purpose, even after the
 people are willing to amend it. It has
 been proposed to deport Emma Goldman,
 but as she was not of age when her
 father was naturalized, she is, therefore,
 a citizen of the United States and couli
 not be deported, even if the alien de-
 portation bill now pending were to be-
 come effective.
 The most complete collection of anarch-
 istio literature in existence is believed to
 be that in the library of Columbia uni-
 verslty New York This collection WAS
 made by a French anarchist living in
 London It was turned over to London
 firm of book auctioneers when he died,
 and it escaped the observation of book
 hunters and specialists so completely that
 Dr. Garfield, the Columbian librarian was
 
 orly slOO The real value of it is shown
 by the fact that more than that amount
 has been frequently offered since then Tor
 single items in the long list. Such a find
 has rarely been heard Of lately among
 bibliophes. It includes not only about
 ZoU sets of periodicals and newspapers
 relating to anarchism, and 300 books and
 pamphlets, many of which are rare and
 few which are absolutely unique, but also
 hundreds of photographs of anarchists,
 of both high and low degree. There are
 also many manuscripts, lotters and other
 documents. among the latter being an eN-
 tremely curious collection of posters
 broadsdes. and inf1ammatory songs. The
 so-called death warrant predicting the an
 afcnlsts the assassination of President
 Carnot of France, is in this collection,
 and a bundle of scorched papers found on
 the person of an anarchist who was killed by the explosion of q bomb he
 had himself thrown in a crowed square square.
 The four great abiding places of all
 archists in the United States are New York city, Paterson, N. J., Chicago anu
 Spring Valley, III. Paterson is about the worst infected spot in this country. 1t was here that Bresci lived, who was sent on a kng-killing mission that laid low King Humbert of Italy Another Paterson anarchist made an attempt on the life of the Emperor of Germany In the past l\ years there have been no less than 20 men and women in high governmental po- sitions assassinated by anarchists ard there have been as many more unsuc- cessful attempts made. It has been es- timated that there are about 40O0O reds in the world, and the secret services of the civilized nations have been working in harmony in recent years, so that prac- tically all of them are under govern mental espionage. Probably not one fourth of the anarchists of the world are what are known as the reds This name is applied only to those who preach or practice the gospel of violence. Other divisions among anarchists are the in- dividualists and the communists. The first class Is of the "every-fellow-f for him. self" type, while the communists go but a step further than the socialists, who have no dealings with either class-no more than the Samaritans had with the Jews In the London socialist congress, held in 1S96 a congress which represented the socialists of every country, the an- archists were denied seats.
 Robert A. Pinkerton, the great detec- tive, believes that surveillance is the proper solution of anarchy. He points to his experience with the Molly Maguires, and how, by having one of his men join the order, he got such reports from time to time as enabled him to render their efforts harmless. He advocates the trans formation of one of Americans numerous Pacific islands into an anarchists colony, deporting them all to that island, giving them the means to make a livelihood, and then letting them do as they will, only preventing thep from leaving the island He says that here the world would have it's best object lesson in anarchy, and that whenever man began to feel that he was an anarchist he could be af- forded full opportunity to carry out his views to their logical conclusion. This idea has been presented to Congress, bur that body has never taken seriously to the proposition to found a State of Anarchy.