Show ANARCHISTIC AMERICA 1 Difference SSetivceii Socialism in I the New World and the Old I The socialism of Sew York says the Herald of that city is a merry travesty on a grim gaunt and serious subject Proletarians of all lands unite concludes con-cludes Karl Marxs manifestoand come to Justus Schwabs saloon where socialistic beer is exchangeable for capitalistic cap-italistic nickels the leaders of the eastside east-side have appended destruction DC your end and aim annihilation your prayer taught Bakunin And there being no stray sovereigns in the vicinity of Tompkins square to efface with commendable zeal the annihilators set to work on the destruction of varnished pretzels Only fourteen years ago the Interna I tionale Arbolter association saw the light in the dingy hostelry Zum Rotheu Igel in Geneva and now its ramifications extend I ex-tend all over the civilized and uncivilized I world Indeed during the past year Comrades Oliver Pain and Osman Digna have rendered the most efficient services to the cause A movement is J even now on foot for tho purpose of holding hold-ing a Mahdi apotheosis and tho Soudan has at last obtained its proper recognition as a fruitful field for agitators Indeed it is respected as the banner country of the decade THE COMING OF SCHWAII Some ten or twelve years ago immediately im-mediately after the WoodhullClaflin fiasco it seemed that as far as New York was concerned socialism was dead The dark winter of discontent for the old time socialists however was banished by the landing of Justus Schwab and his leonine beard upon the shores of tho new world His arriyal was a most opportune oppor-tune one coming as he did for a severe thrashing at the hands of the police during dur-ing the Tompkins square riot Uthe 26th of May in the annals of New York anarchism Illustrated by the clubs of the police Schwab made a great impression impres-sion and he found many followers He formed a group and became Comrade No1 and has remained so up to the present time The coming of Jonathan Most some two years ago equipped with the printing paraphernalia of the Freiheit and the reputation of having spent seven years in prison for the cause lent great impetus to local anarchism as was demonstrated last winter in Concordia hall where 1700 comrades showed their disrespect for the free institutions of the country by knocking knock-ing Capt McCullagh down and then sitting ting on him Most is a man of a checkered history and like many he owes his notoriety to accident Playing as a little boy in the streets of his native Prussian city of Dorf he was severely kicked on the temple by i a mule His countenance was disfigured and his brains addled Since that day with wonderful celerity he has by his words and deeds climbed the dizziest heights of idiocy to which it would bo folly for any ordinary mortal to aspire without first having been kicked by a mule Mosts personal courage is not above question even in the minds of tho most ardent believers in his principles or rather want of them After the affray at 1 L11 L u seen u lL1 Concordia hall he was seen issuing forth from a curtainedoff space where it was charged he had taken refuge This incident cident has enriched the Agitator with a satirical title Der Gardinenheld the curtain hero Coward or not how ever Most is verbose and it is chiefly to I the size of his iconoclastic vocabulary that he is indebted for his not unlucrative position as editorinchief of the Frei I heit FAIR COMMUNISTS Of the female part of communistic Gotham not much of praise can be said As far as beauty and intelligence is concerned con-cerned tho city cannot produce a Vera Sassulitch but it has Frauloin Block and Bojarin Radotanski and is thankful for such small favors Fraulein Blocks name is destined to go down to history side by sido with Capt McCullaghs dog by whom she was bitten tho demoniacal Black Jack us he is called Bojarin Radotanski needs no introduction introduc-tion She is known of all Hoboken and the few other outlying districts of the universe She comes of an ancient Ser vian family and twentytwo years ago fell in love with Ferdinand Lasselle whom her husband subsequently killed in a duel Whether with the monotone guile in her native hills or upon the many stringed salterio of sunny Mexico the Bojarin is an exceptionally fine musician In conclusion she is more polyglot than a Bradshaws washing list stands fix feet in her stockings and wears golden lair I Where all are equal it would be an invidious in-vidious task to recount the adventures I and sayings of merely a few of the comrades com-rades to the manifest advantage of their less notorious peers A cursory glance through their haunts and some details as I amiss to their habits would not however prove THE ENGINE WHICH NEVER SLEEPS The mystic attraction which Schwabs i II dynamite den and beer exerts over the j anarchistic mind by night can only be I paralleled by the magnetism of Mosts I printing press by day Located In the I I garret of a small ramshackle house on one of the downtown thoroughfares it forms daily the local point of admiring I throngs who gape and gaze in perfect wonderment at the smithy where as they fondly congratulate themselves tho bolts I are being forged which some day will smite capital to the ground and remove the shackles from labors feet From its very bizarre appearance this dingy print1 mug establishment is not without interest and barring an execrable portrait of i I hun on the i j Louise Michel there aro hung wall some engravings of no little merit Iu the center of the room there stands a large oaken table littered with anarchistic anarch-istic papers from all over the world and written in many tongues They are free to all and furnish probably the sole literary I liter-ary pabulum of their readers In whatever what-ever language they are written these pa I i pers generally consist of wretchedly bad leaders against law and order and con j elude not seldom with some such state I 1 ment as thatmade by Most last winter to I a large assemblage that all Americas I I honest men are hid to view by prison walls Unfortunately many of the agitators he tators followers are mor sincere than I and out of a praiseworthy desire of get societypractice what he ting into good is cautious enough only to preach Among these papers the Rebel published pub-lished in Nowhere and appearing in i German English Spanish Italian anti I French in rotation is the most curious The starting of a Hebrew weekly a few London under the name of in j i days ago 1 the Workers Friend seems c disapprove the oftrepeated statement that beyond 1 furnishing the leaders in Marx and Las of the movement as it i nile the brains the Hebrews have taken no part in were of the emancipation the movement for Liabor r Tile wnlUlirectly confrontingtlie desk 1p heih r blq kbread 1 1ftiClt1fltlPCheb18 1Dread q I j and painfullygrinds out his blackguard isms is covered with the portraits of the j princes of the globe from Kaiser Wilhelm to the Mikado of Japan Of the men composing I com-posing the kingly throng the only Uncrowned I un-crowned heads are those of Prince Bismarck Bis-marck aud texPresident Arthur Sur I I rounding tho pictures is a huge hempen i cable in the shape of a noose Ha II I roars Most The day will come The j day will come reecho his myrmidons I and the portraits tremble in their frames Notwithstanding the fiat which the I honest burghers of the east side pronounced pro-nounced with no little emphasis a short time agonamely that socialism was played oltthe propaganda is still being pushed Somehow it seems to pay for the agitators and does no little good in that it clothes the rapscallions and rogues of 1 large capital in one color making their recognition the more caRY |