The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-15

anarchlsm In the east are Baltimo ore,
Paterson, N. j., Barre, Vt, and Fitch
burg and Lynn, Mass. In Baltimore
the leaders are Italians, in Paterson,
they are Hebrews; in Barre they are
mostly Italians; In Fitchburg. they
are Firms; in Lynn, they are Greeks
and Sicilians, with some Italians and
Jews. In each of these cities an
archism is familiar and has been at
} ore 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, al
though despite their watchfulness
there rave been several bomb out.
RACES in the metropolis in recent
years. In Chicago the flood tide of
anarchy was reached in the Haymar-
ket massacre in 1886.
The story of anarchism is inextric-
ably interviewer with the story Of
socialism. Under the names of so
cialistic or workingmen's societies an
archists almost always. disguise their
clubs, and foreigners who start out
TO study socialist doctrine almost in
variably degenerate to anarchistic be
liefs. The actual anarchist is just
about what the public believes the so
cialist to be; the actual socialist is
mild in comparison; while an anar-
chist who becomes extreme in effect
breaks away from his fellow anarch-
lists and becomes an individual des-
perado or an irresponsible agitator,
There are three kinds Of anar-h-
lists, roughly speaking. First, there
is the philosopher type, harmless
himself, but filled with the idea of
individualism. He becomes dangerous
only when he begins to speak to his
fellows through his papers. or from
the lecture platform or the public
horseback, and then. through his
very intelligence and reasoning pow
er, 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 estima-
ton as men to be feared As a mat
ter 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 clubs are too small TO
assert their independence, they are
too large to work swiftly or secretly
to evily purposes.
But from these groups there fire.
quently springs up the third kind of
anarchist, dangerous and careless Of
consequence. Inspired by the intelli-
gent speaker to a sense of martyr
dom and to a pitch of desperation,
and supported by the feeling that in
the group To which he belongs he
has some support, he goes out TO kin
and to be killed. He is not a delegate
to the convention of murderers, chos-
en- by his fellows. He is ex-officio
representative, needing no warrant
but his own convictions-a free
lancer,
Of this type was Czolgosz. the as
sassin Of President Mckinley. Of this
also was Selig Cohen, who threw
bomb in Union Square, New York,
and Giuseppe Alio, who assassinated
q Catholic priest at the altar in
Denver church
It is easy to see that while inves-
tigation may find seeming quiet
among scattered organizations. there
is a very present danger, looming
larger with every anti-war parade
and socialits speech delivered on
some free American sand lot.