The New York herald., 1922-03-05

the populace, wanted to tell to the tyrants
and to the slaves equally that II
violence is benefitting when it reenforces
the dominion of the rich he must protest
on behalf of his class. And that message
he intrusted to the roaring of dynamite"
Later on Galleani told us the men he re-
ferred to had left the country.
Inasmuch as / had nothing to do with
the San Francisco affair / am not in a
position to hold forth thereon. But this
l do know whoever did it was well known
to Galleani, and Galleani knew it was
about to be perpetrated and who was to
do the actual work.
When Galleani fled from Paterson after
the silk mill riots he established himself
in Barre VT, after year or so in Canada
He had succeeded to the crown laid aside
by his mentor, Malatesta, and was under
going the same troubles as had that mas
ter He was an intellectual, and as such
was surrounded by the radical intelligent
sia. He made speeches warranted to
bring about action. Just as long as he had
an excited mob to deal with he remained
the idol Of the Anarchists, but in more
peaceful days he wrote and talked in a
less fiery and more academic manner.
That was pleasing to other intellectuals,
but the rough element failed to appreciate
it. The latter faction was constantly
straying after other leaders. Galleani be-
came involved in a newspaper wrangle
with one Pedro Esteve editor Of La Ques-
tione Sociale, and started his own organ,
the Cronaca SovUersiUd.
/ shall not attempt to follow up this fight
except to say that the battle of phrases
that ensued ruined whatever unity, peace
and concord there may have been among
the thousand and one Anarchist factions
that Galleani was supposed to hold to-
gether. Fearful internal chaos resulted.
Erstwhile popular Anarchists began run
ming Off with the wives of other popular
Anarchists.
Meetings broke up in general fighting.
AS an organized menace the Anarchists be-
came something of ribald joke. The
greatest danger lay in the possibility of
any one or dozen Of them going little
more berserk than their normal state had
been and blowing up a town or ship or
a railroad-anything.
So-called confessions Of certain of them
(who were gathered In on various occa-
sions by the police and confronted with
Jail sentences with hard labor and daily
baths attached thereto) read like the small
scandal of a Gopher Prairie. Sometimes
the transcripts of these confessions read
like rawlings
l have never met an Anarchist yet who
had sense OF humor. I am convinced, as
you would be we're you toftake the time to
lead these blithering statements, that no
person with a sense OF humor could be an
Anarchist at least not the type we had
and have here in America.
For several years before the Wall street
explosion there were two principal groups
OF Anarchists here in New York-the Gal
leani and the Bresci groups. The former
adhered to their creed OF vioience-direct
action. The Bresci group, while by no
means pacifists or reactionary. were less
ready to touch off bombs.
Bresci Followed Writer
Asked to Join Other Groups
During the time we were examining
Andrea Salsedo we corralled members Of
both groups and learned that few months
before the Wall street explosion one of
them, 4 member OF the Bresci group, met
a Galleani In New Haven.
The former had something of a reputa-
tion for manifesto writing--a sharp, pithy
style that was noted for Its ability to stir
up those who believed in that sort of liter
ature The Galleani man asked the Bresci
to abandon his less direct leader and join
the direct action mob. and, in coming. to
fetch his trenchant pen along.