The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-02-24

= shock Of recent tragic happen
ings, is awakening from a long
IL continued lethargy and opening
her eyes to the dangerous de-
,lorable and disgraceful conditions
which she has deliberately invited.
Recent barbarisms have forced upon
Ter unwilling intelligence the fact that
whole districts OF her great capital
nave become alien jungles. peopled by
human tigers. London. the worlds
PREMIER city, is dumping ground for
inarchistic desperadoes.
In that mighty metropolis are the
headquarters for human malcontents,
he rallying place for the haters of the
human race, the strong box from
which Is financed the horrid propa-
sanda Of anarchy. There are Matched
he plots which attain murderous fru-
ton In other countries. and thither
lee for security the instruments of
planned assassination II they succeed
n escaping from the scenes of their
'rimes. In the squalid attics and
he noisome cellars OF London are
lursed the foul brood of alien an
irchists who scheme and plan how
BEST, with gun, knife or bomb. they
,an cut to earth some prominent rep
'esentative of established government
and thereby. as they hope. bring hui
nan order little nearer that hideous
chaos and devils Millennium In which
hey would rejoice.
For years there have been flocking
into London, into that hideously con-
sested East End, thousands on thou
sands of desperadoes. ruffians, revolu-
ionists. nihilists. anarchists, and NAL.
contents. until there has been assem-
bled such an army of criminality as
not all the capitals of the continent
combined could muster. And against
his polyglot horde from Russia, from
Italy, from Spain. from France, from
the four corners of Europe, armed.
skilled In crime and resourceful in dey-
iltry, stands nothing but the sturdy fig.
ure of the English policeman. The
London bobby is brave and efficient.
but he is used to dealing with the ruff.
han depenerates. the half-starved hooli-
hans OF his own race. With his clench.
ed fist and his brawny arm, or. II
pushed to the wall, with his short
billy. he single-handed. is good for a
dozen of them. He knows nothing of
revolvers. The Britisher has never
been a 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 il
Is not lair 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 thu Grim
inal scum Of Europe shall cease The
government is being criticised for its
laxity.
England now knows that the racen,
battles interrupted a wide-awake an.
archist plot Of great gravity-such as
many which have been Matched in the
slums of her great city.
Many, many times within recon,
wars hds TIC "oIiu Ueen shocked nv
the brutal assassination of those
clothed with authority or occupyipp
high 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 for
many Of those Notwithstanding murders
And In its lust for blood ANARCHY
spares none. More often than not II
is the good. those who are doing their
utmost for humanity. who fall Victims
perhaps because they hope their
very benencence will prove an armor
for their protection.
Why. for example. should the GOOD
Elizabeth. empress Of Austria. have
been assassinated ~ an Offering ON
the altar Of hatred! She was a char.
liable woman. q devoted wife ana
mother. and was beloved BY Austrians
and Hnnsarians aliks. But the sttlst.