Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1908-03-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE SECOND TERROR.  "The Terror" is the name given to a certain period of that great revolutionary movement which took place in France during the last decade of the eighteenth century. The "Second Terror" is a term which may be applied not inaptly to the eon dition of affairs that has existed throuhout Europe since the early eighties. Since the forces of Anarchy were first organised, the authorities of every Continental State have lived in a condition which can only be described as one of desperate preparation. It is usually given out that the crimes of Anarchists are simply the acts of irresponsible individuals, and that there is no such thing as an Anarchist organisation. The authorities, however, must know that these official statements, which are issued with the object of quietening the public alarm, are without any foundation in fact. The varioue sources of information which I have been able to tap have revealed to me that the Anarchist campaign is conducted with an elaborate care and an almost impenetrable secrecy that make it all the more effective and terrifying. Take, for example, those terrible months from December, 1893, to August, 1894. At no other period in their history have the Anarchist societies been so active and so relentless. This period. which culminated in the daring murder of President Carnot in broad daylight in the public street, demonstrated the inability of the various States to deal effectively with the subterranean forces of Anarchy. All over Europe the police forces were increased. Special legislation was passed to enable the Criminal Courts to deal more effectively with this lime of assassin, and other repressive measures were adopted; but in the long-fought duel between the forces of order and the forces of Anarchy the latter won all along the line. It began with the terrible atrocity attempted by the Anarchist Valliant. He had received instruc eons, so I have been told, to blow up the Chamber of Deputies in Paris and to destroy all the membens there assembled.  He set about his task with fanatical simplicity. taldng a bomb with him he gained admittance to the Strangers' Gallery in the House. While the Chamber was busy discussing toe election .of a Socialist member, M. Mirman, he threw the bomb. Fortunately, it struck a pillar, and exploded in the air instead of on the floor of the House. Thirty or forty persons in the galleries were wounded, but the vast majority of the Deputies themselves, whose lives Vaillant had really sought, escaped without a scratch. Valliant himself was wounded, and was promptly arrested. The result of this attempt was inevitable. The members of any Legislative Assembly may be forgiven if, in the press of public affairs, they are unable to realise to the full the importance of some event which has taken place in a distant corner of their country. Had an Anarchist blown irp a public building at Calais they might have deplored the event, though it is exceedingly doubtful whether Ilhey would have considered the inc4dent of sufficient importance to call for special legislation. But when the atrocity was attempted in the very building in which they were assembled, and when they, moreover, were the very persons aimed at, they promptly took mpthods to defend their lives. Eight thousand pounds were voted to increase the pollee force is Paris. The manufacturer of explosives was placed under great restristions, and, with the object of striking at the heart of Anarehisin, a erpecial law wee peesed imposing preventive imprisonment for the propagandism of Autarchy in the PlielS or elsewhere. To the Anarchist societies this was a declaration of wax. All over Europe outrages followed one another in rapid succession. But it was in Paris that the main drama was enacted. A man called Emile Henry seems to have xecetved instructions