Bisbee daily review., 1919-07-01
BY RICHARD sPIrLANE

Noted Economist, Who Writes on
 on Business, Financial and Kindred
 Topics for The Daily Review.
 The apparent ease with which ter rorists ship internal machines about the country or plant them at the homes of persons they wish to destroy has been a shock to the country. Within the last four years there have been more crimes which, for want of a more specific term may be termsd dynamite outrages, than Tn the previous 400 years in America.
 In the period preceding our entrance into the war they were confined chiefly to blowing up intuition plants, de- stroying ships by explosions and wrecking piers, wharves and termi- nals. These were ascribed to agents of the German government. Since the armistice there has been a centering of these attacks on prominent per sons active in some phases Of gov ernment.
 Considering the large number of crimes of this character there have been few arrests. The authorities
 
 zens have been unable apparently to combat the criminals.
 How long is this to last?
 There was a time when the secret service of the United States had a high reception for efficiency. The record of the last few years would seem to indicate that there has been a complete breaking down in this high ly important branch of the govern ment service.
 Very few of the German agents of destruction operating in this country were apprehended. None of the ter rorists busy since the armistice was signed has been caught.
 In England and France there has been no such epidemic of this charac- ter as has been witnessed in the United States. In those countries there is a highly organized force of detectives and a close watch is kept on all persons suspected of nihilistic tendencies. Here the detective is not so highly trained and the whole police system. municipal, state and national, is much less efficient.
 1t would not be difficult to round up the agents of destruction and terror If a competent body of secret service men was organized. This was demon strated by the independent work done by a newspaper and a commercial or ganization in one of the pricipal cities of America.
 There had been attempts to blow up the homes of distinguished citizens of that city and the newspaper and the commercial organization, without knowledge of the intention of each other. began investigations. The news paper assigned reporters to the task, and the commercial body employed private detectives. Within a month or so the agents of the two concerns held membership in the so-called SO yiet. They had full lists of the mem bers, reports of all the speeches made at the secret meetings, copies Of all the literature circulated through de vious channels by the leaders and statement of receipts and disburse- ments of the soviet. The names and addresses of most of the members were in their possession and practl- cally every bit of evidence necessary to prove the character of the leaders and their aims toward destroying the government had been gathered.
 These agents stin remain unsus' pected members of the terrorist or ganization All the literature they ob tained, all the reports they made, all the transcripts of discriminating speeches and conversations they ob tained have been turned over to the government, but so far as is known have not been used.
 If independent workers can accom- plish this much it is strange the gov ernments' supposedly. skilful detec