Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-03-15
BY WILLIAM J. FLYNN,
Former Chief of the United States
Secret Service.

CASE VII.
~ NE of the most difficult individuals
" the United States Secret Service
has ever had to deal with, because
he was the brainiest, was Luigi Galleani.
When the rank and file of Americans hear
the word Anarchist or are told of alleged
or proved Anarchist plottings their minds
almost invariably produce the names that
they have learned to consider synonyms
for anarchy-Goldman, Berkman, Giovan.
niti. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Ito whom 1
have not the distinction Of being related),
Carlo Tresca and possibly Enrico Mala-
tesla.
Save for the last named exponent OF
chaos have sufficient reason to believe
that not one of the others have mentioned
possesses the virtue OF deep sincerity.
Comparing them with Maatesta, should
classify them as hippodromers, almost
takers, who made professions of their &C.
credited political beliefs, who converted
their so-called ideals into bread and butter
Jobs. Goldman. Flynn and Tresca we're
bright. but far from intellectual. They
were smart rather than clever. AS leaders,
in so far as an Anarchist can be said to
lead they lacked almost all the essentials
of leadership save glibness.
ask that you do not consider me unfair
to these popular names. merely desire to
indicate as clearly as may their inferior
ity when compared with Malatesta who
Al
AT least he was sincere, possessed of
fine mind, capable of clear thinking along
bis own line of thought and utterly con,
sistent When he left America not to
return his place was filled by Luigi Gal.
leani and entirely filled.
Was MalateSta'S Prize Pupil:
Headed Most Radical Group
Galleani was Malatesta's pupil. his prize
pupil He was deported in 1918. It was
his group Of radicals that distributed the
bombs on the occasion when the attack
was made upon the home of A. Mitchell
Palmer in Washington, killing one of the
bombers. 1t was the Galleani Reds who
conceived and carried out the Wall street
outrage. Both Sacco and Vanzetti, the
New England radicals, studied in the Gal.
leani school. / am not making these state
ments merely for effect The United States
Government has conclusive evidence Of
the truth of what / say. 1t is lamentably
true that we cannot single out the MUIR
derers VINO actually committed the Wall
street crime, which, by the way, is not
solved, despite the recent dispatches from
Warsaw.
But we could get this far: could trace
the name of Galleani through the prelimi.
nary plottings that eliminated in the Wall
street explosion up to a certain point, and
then the inevitable Anarchist twist.
To illustrate, my readers may recall that
Leon Czolgosz, before being executed for
the murder of President Mckinley, an
nounced his belief in the speeches of Emma
Goldman. Czolgosz declared that he had
decided upon the assassination after listen
ing to Goldman talk four or five times. But
was never able to fasten upon Goldman
the direct responsibility. I was never able
to prove that she had said that President
Mckinley should have been assassinated
In brief, we were unable to trace Czolgosz's
crazy deed back to the source defined
But there was no reasonable argument
against the belief that it was Goldman who
planted tho seed in the assassin's mind.
You will recall Andrea Salsedo, the An
archist printer. who committed suicide by
Jumping from one of the windows of the
Department of Justice Offices In Park Row