Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-03


= shock Of recent tragic happen
ings, is awakening from long
continued lethargy and opening
= 3 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 allen jungles, peopled by
human tigers. London. the worlds
premier city. is = 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. tho strong box from
which is financed the horrid propa-
ganda Of anarchy. There are Matched
the plots which attain murderous fru-
ition in other countries, and thither
fee 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
archists who scheme and plan how
best, with gun, knife or bomb, they
can cut to earth some prominent rep
resentative 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, rufflans, revolu-
tionists, 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
this polyglot horde from Russia, from
Italy, from Spain, from France, from
the four corners Of Europe. armed.
skilled in crime and resourceful in dev.
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
nan depenerates, the half-starved hooli-
hans Of his own race. With his clench.
led 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
revolvers. The Britisher has never
been knifer or a shooter. He has
relied on his fist. And in all London
there is not 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
IL 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 Il being criticised for its
laxity.
England now knows that the recent
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 recent
years has the world been shocked by
the brutal assassination of those
clothed with authority or occupying
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 world-shaking murders
And in it's lust for blood anarchy
spares none. More often than not It
is the good, those who are doing their
utmost for humanity, who fall victims
perhaps because they hope their
very benef1cence will prove an armor
for their protection.
Why, for example. should the good
Elizabeth, empress of Austria, have
been assassinated as an offering on
the altar of hatred? She was a char
liable woman, a devoted wife and
mother, and was beloved by Austrians
and Hungarians alike. But the stilet-