Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-07-13
SECRET SERVICE
 MAINTAINS WATCH
 UPON ANARCHISTS
Task Is Difficult Because Organization Is Incom-
 plete in United States.

1 Washington, July 12.-Government
 secret service agents are keeping a
 close tab these days on the where
 abouts of known and suspected an
 archists in the United States. Re-
 cent happenings, both in the East and
 the West, have indicated spirit of
 unusual activity on the part of various
 anarchists groups who are taking ad- vantage of conditions arising from the war to spread their propaganda.
 While there are known to be an archists of one variety or another in
 virtually every city of the United States, articularly those having a
 large foreign population, there are
 certain cities which for years have
 served as the chief American centers for the "reds," and it is in these cit ies that the agents of the government are keeping keen lookout for the violent stripe of murder advocates. Keeping track of the anarchists has always been a difficult task, chiefly because of their lack of organization. Investigation has rpoven that there IS no such thing as organized anarchlsm.
 The members work either as individu- als or in small groups and seldom has it been found that any real connec- tion exists between these groups. A canvas of the cities where anarchism is known to have a foothold shows that there are no evidences of otfier than temporary or racial organlza- tions. Among the well known centers of
 anarchism in the East are Baltimore,
 Paterson. N. J.; Barre, Vt.; Fitchburg
 and Lynn, Mass. In Baltimore the the leaders are Italians; in Paterson they are Hebrews; in Barre they are mostly Italians; in Fitchburg they are
 Films; in Lynn they are Greeks and Sicilians, with some Italians and Jews. In each of these cities anarch- ism is familiar and has been at one time or another dangerous.
 New York and Chicago, of course, include large groups of anarchists in their population. The New York po- lice have always managed to keep the anarchists pretty we'll in check, though despite their watchfulness there have
 been several bomb outrages in the metropolis in recent years. In Chi |cago the flood tide of anarchy was reached in the Haymarket massacre in 1886.
 The story of anarchism is inextric ably interwoven with the story of so- |sialism. Under the names of social istic or workingmen's societies an- archists almost always disguise their clubs, and foreigners who start out to study socialist doctrine almost invari- ably degenerate to anarchistic beliefs. The actual anarchist is just about what the public believes the socialist to be; the actual socialist is mild in
 comparison; while an anarchist who becomes extreme in effect breaks away from his fellow anarchists and be-
 comes an individual desperate or an irresponsible agitator.
 There are three kinds of anarchists,
 roughly speaking. First. there is the
 philosopher type, harmless himself,
 but filled with the idea of individual ism. He becomes dangerous only
 when he begins to speak to his fellows
 thru his papers, or from the lecture
 platform Or the public horseblock, and
 then, thru his very intelligence and
 reasoning power, wrongfully applied,
 he incites other men to anarchy.
 Those whom he thus incites make up the second class, who might we'll
 be called "mob anarchists" They are the ones that organize, and the ones that stand out in the public estimation
 as men to be feared. As matter of fact, they are least dangerous. There
 are as many towards among them as
 among the average groups of citizens; they are powerless because, while their r1uhS orn fOO cD,a11 to occart thair i'm
 dependence, they are too large to work
 swiftly or secretly to evil purposes. But from these groups there ire
 quently springs up the third kind of anarchist, dangerous and careless of
 consequences. Inspired by the intelli-