St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-05-06

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a. shock Of recent tragic happen
ings. is awakening from long
- continued lethargy and opening
her eyes to the dangerous de-
plorable and disgraceful conditions
which she has deliberately invited.
Recent barbarisms have forced upon
her unwilling intelligence the fact that
whole districts of her great capital
have become alien jungles, peopled by
human tigers. London, the worlds
premier city, is a dumping ground for
anarchistic desperadoes.
In that mighty metropolis are the
headquarters for human malcontents,
the rallying place for the haters of the
human race, the strong box from
which Is financed the horrid propa-
ganda Of anarchy. There are Matched
the plots which attain murderous frl-
ition in other countries, and thither
flee for security the instruments of
planned assassination if they succeed
in escaping from the scenes of their
crimes. In the squalid attics and
the noisome cellars of London are
nursed the foul brood of alien an
archists who scheme and plan how
best, with gun, knife or bomb, they
can cut to earth some prominent rep
iresentative of established government
and thereby as they hope, bring hui
man order little nearer that hideous
chaos and devils Millennium in which
they would rejoice.
+, For years there have been flocking
into London, into that hideously con-.
gested East End, thousands on thou
sands of desperadoes, ruffians, revolu-
tionists, nihilists, anarchists, and mall
contents, until there has been assem-
ibled such an army of criminality as
not all the capitals of the continent
combined could muster. And against
this polyglot horde from Russia, from
Italy, from Spain, from France, from
the four corners of Europe, armed,
skilled In crime and resourceful in dew
iltry, stands nothing but the sturdy fig
ture of the English policeman. The
London bobby Is brave and efficient,
but he is used to dealing with the ruff
fan depenerates, the half-staryed hooli-
.hans of his own race. With his ciench
ed fist and his braWny arm, or, if
pushed to the wall, with his short
billy. he single-handed, is good for a
dozen of them. He knows nothing of
revolyers. The Britisher has never
been knifer or a shooter. He has
relied on his fist. And in all London
there is not a policeman with a gun
nor a dozen who would know how to
handle one.
But the cry is going up that the Lon
don bobby must have a gun-that it
is not fair to pit him unarmed
against the alien tigers which can be
treated only as tigers. England is
waking up. Her papers are demand
ing that the importation of the Grim
inal scum of Europe shall cease. The
government is being criticised for its
!laxity.
England now knows that the recent
battles interrupted wfde-awake an,
archist plot of great gravity-such as
many which have been Matched in the
slums of her great city.
Maug- many times within recent
wears has the world been shocked by
the brutal assassination of those
clothed with authority or occupying
bixh places Not all of these. by any
means, can be charged to anarchists
Some were political and were the
work of revolutionists. But the BLIND
hatred of anarchy for all existing gov
eminent has been responsible fol
MANY of those Notwithstanding murders
And in its lust for blood anarchy
snares none. More often than not i
Is the good, those who are doing theil
utmost for humanity, who fall victim!
-perhaps because they hope theil
very beneficence will prove an armol
for their protection.
WHY. for example, should the goot
E,izabeth, empress of Austria, have
,aar assassinated as an Offering OF
tho altar of hatred? She was char
table woman, devoted wife ant
mother. and was beloved by Austrian
a,d Hungarians alike. But the stilet
70 Of the diabolical French-Italian an
archist found her heart on the 10tl
of september, 1898, while she was Wis
ting in Geneva
Iuan Prim, Masquis de los Castillo
;oe marshal of Spain, may have bee
dictator1al, but he had fought mar
and done much for the people II
was shot by unknown anarchists o.
D.cenher .2s, 1870, while drlVin
through the streets of Madrid,
Russia for ages has been accurse
NV her system of government and ma
hasn dominated by tyrants aimoa
rom the time of Peter the Great Bu
/. GEAR Alexander II. hoped ana prase.
and worked for . better oroer