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Show MERLIN0 SEES THE END OP ANARCHISTIC ACTIVITY MILAN, July 13. Tho well-known Italinn anarchist leader, Saverio Mcr-lino, Mcr-lino, who was once imprisoned and went to live abroad, was interviecd on the anarchist convention at Luxembourg, lie said that he believes that anarchism anarch-ism is noaring its end. It has lost all of its importance, having partly blended blend-ed with Socialism, whilo the part of it which represented Utopia was recognized recog-nized as such and consequently forsaken. forsak-en. The anarchistic federations still existing, he declares, live merely because be-cause of tradition. Tho only groups with any vitality, he declares, are thoso in Patcrson. New Jersey, because they are fed bv unstable emigrants, chiefly Germans and Italians. Even thc6e he predicts will disappear in tho near future. fu-ture. Mcrlino said that the Luxembourg conference would leave things absolutely absolute-ly unchanged and that ho withdrew from anarchism because he had been able to foresee its approaching end. |