A RABID ANARCHIST PUNISHED.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11098, 17 October 1901, Page 5

A RABID ANARCHIST PUNISHED.

SENTENCE OK JOHANN MOST. U»it«a Pt«» Ae*eciatio»«-By Bleptoie T«l«gt*pJi-CopjrxighU (Received October 16th, 9.11 aim.) ' WASHINOTON, October 15. The Court sentenced Johami Mott to twlve months impriwrnnient for ptAlieblng a seditiou* articl* iff hie Socialist paper. . Johann Ifeefe ww aweted eooe after the aesnseinatJori of Ut McKifiley, aid «*« diecharged, only to be Hβ has for "yeare poet been one of the wort prominent figures in Anarchist eird«, Wtk m Anteric* and in the Old World. As fax back an 1878 Most was expelled from Berlin as.a dangerous demagogue. Hβ shifted- his scene of operations to London, formed an Anarchist Association, there, and started a paper which advocated the wfcofejsale- murder of princes, statesmen, bjahdjw, military officers, and lawyers. Yef Englarid was content cattnly to ignore the man until torced 1o t«ke action, ihsroxtgU his outrageous con*, duct on the occasion of the murder of hie latA.Cxar of Russia. Most issued hie pappr with a red border that day, and commenced hi» artacV* orltbe Ctajr , * death with the words, "At iMtf Trtumph!" fle was tried for libelling the dend CSear and for incit- i ing to murder, a»d reCeiTed a sentence of , sixteen monHirf hard irioourj. After serving this term of imprisonment. Most fled to America, and re-«*tablished his paper in New York, whence for many Wars be has carried | ori a campaign, against all forms of law ana order. Hβ prcleiwes in its most extreme form the Anarchist doctrine that all restraint is an evil, and that the only law for a. man i» his own will; and be baa imbued hun- : dred* of other deep***** n>*o md women with these ideas. The Anarchist group in New York, led by Most, lost -ritality a year or so ago under the continued attacks of th<» police. Two t«m» of impriioniMai Hemid to discourage Most, for he became mtfch less active as an agitator, but ho came into prominence again recently^