| Show A NOTE OF WARNING ax AM interesting field for study is afforded by what is known as anarchism the dogged determination of its vot aries is phenomenal A few days since the dispatches conveyed to the public a statement from inspector bonfield of chicago imparting parting in a good adeal deal of important and even startling information on the subject it related to a wile widespread spread organization having its chief centres bentres in the most important cities of the world the bulk of his averments aver ments however related to the status of the movement in chicago A system of anarchist sunday schools had he asserted been established for the purpose of teaching the young idea hom haw to shoot in the direction of lawlessness his statements on that point have since been verified there being six of these schools in operation one of them visited is said to have an attendance of children between the ages of 5 and 14 years this youthful assemblage was found listening with almost breathless attention to the discourse of a teacher who depicted johann johana most the notorious anarchist as a saint and the chicago men who were hanged banged a year ago as martyrs having begun to strike at the very tOOD foundation dation of society the rising generation this dangerous organization purposes to deliver still heavier and more sturdy blows at the base of the social structure they are taking steps towards inaugurating a system of day schools bools sc a mass meeting having been call callju ard for the purpose ot of attaining this object this Is i one of the most threatening features anarchism has yet exhibited it portends trouble on an extended dwle s ll 11 I 1 I 1 it such proceedings edIngs were confined ft we d to the city of chicago the outlook would be less threatening because when an evil is condensed and localized it can be with more or less facility crushed but bat progress of the organization in that city means its commensurate development elsewhere while expressing a beliet belief that the growth of anarchism is an evil that threatens the republic with adf awful ul disaster r we run the risk of being considered r e d pessimistic upon that subject it is a live and current theme however and having given bonfe t thought ought to it we can an entertain no other view in regard W it we are by no means alone in this con lection tion the expressions of chechi the chicago news IL a journal on the spot where recent anarchistic developments have occurred should have some weight anat paper in its issue of the thus sounds a note of alarm anarchy is not dead nor are the anarchists idle as the rb eiter assures us after a season of inaction following the hanging banging of the haymarket conspirators a year bear ago the work was taken up again and pushed forward vigorously the propaganda in which spies and par sous and lings lingg and bagel were engaged is id now in more prudent but tully tally as dangerous hands bands another attack on society is a question of time and opportunity these foolish and misguided men are organizing for trouble and it behooves tile the author ties of chicago to face the issue to meet it squarely and to see to it that such sate safeguards guards for ufa life and property are provI provided tIed as will guarantee the reign of law and order the threatening language of the arbeiter the manifest activity in the anarchist anaro bist haunts toe the ill boding prophecies a of the men who are the leaders ot of these misguided people should not be passed over with contempt it should not need a second lesson to teach us as that anarchy may be dangerous 11 again on the last the same paper says it Is well to bring defore before the people of chicago from time to time such a review of the history of anarchy in this country as the america this week gives it will not do to forget that three years ago there was a conspiracy in progress in this city which culminated in the smoke of dynamite and the groans of dying policemen on oa that fatal night of may 4 1886 there is nothing lost by blaring in mind the ibe fact that there were raun men drilled and organized for an attack upon society and there were other desperadoes busy in the making of bombs and the preparation of weapons tor for an emente then as now the anarchic press was bisti distilling ailing its poison into the ears of the ignorant and reckless and then as now in fancied becart security ty people laughed at the threatened danger but the menace was not an idle one out oat of the anarchist four were singed hanged one committed suicide three are in the penitentiary eight men in all were taken out of the sphere of revolutionary activity and many people believed that the question was then once for all settled that there remained nothing to be done t that anarchy as a system had bad disappeared confronting this comfortable delusion come the facts acts there are thousands lo 10 of anarchists in chicago today amob among afif w whom h om a dozen desperate men may aas easily ay p prove rove themselves dangerous enemies to our civilization liza tion tiou it is a peril which we must look in the face it will not do to let these plotters go on conspiring until they have found the hour and the place where and when we way may be most cruelly stricken they are plotting and preparing waiting for the chapter of accidents to give them their coveted opportunity and it is ia but a question oi of time when they will once more wage their hopeless but murderous war upon society in time of peace prepare tor for war are the chicago police alive to the responsibilities which lie an upon them once before in january 1886 the daily news lifted a cautioning voice to the people of chicago its forebodings were belittled be by some and ridiculed by others and yet the collision b between the assassins and the law oc currod within two days of the date may I 1 or 2 foretold tor for the riot in this paper we trust that we will not have to again point out how closely fulfill fulfil ment hils followed follow td warning I 1 but notes of warning sounded now when the evil presents itself to be immediately medi grappled with are but repetitions of alarms that have come thundering down the ages the writing the closing chapters of the booklet mormon upon giving a history of the ancien traces of this continent was inspired to diverge from his immediate theme the subject he be had bad lir in hand was the destruction that cami came upon an ancient and once ful people because of the existence among them of murderous secret us instituted for the purpose of obtaining power and gain and whose operations tend to the destruct destruction loi of the freedom of all nations in which tuey exist departing from the thread of his narrative moroni addresses himself to the gentiles of the latter times who would people the jund and when the book of mormon would be brought forth he thus warns the now existing generation of similar organ organize izi eions that would arise among them and the destruction and desolation that would ensue it if they were suffered to develop he exclaims in this connection wherefore the lord com mandeth you when ye shall see these things come among you that you shall awake to a sense of your awful situation because of the secret combination which shall be agolig you |
