A RABID ANARCHIST PUNISHED.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 October 1901, Page 4

A RABID ANARCHIST PUNISHED.

Sentence on Johann Moat.

Washington, October 15.

The Court sentenced Johann Alas io twelve months’ imprisonment for publishing a seditious article in his Socialistic paper.

[Johann Most was arrested soon after tho assassination of Mr McKinley, and was discharged, only lo bo re arrested. He has for years past been one of the most prominent figures in Anarchist circles, both in America and in the Old World. As far back as 1878 Most was expelled from a dangerous demagogue. Ho shifted bis scene of operations to London, formed an Anarchist Association there, and started a paper which advocated tiro whoiesole murder of princes, statesmen, bishops, military officers, and lawyers. Yet Migland was content calmly to ignore the mail until forced to take action, through his outrageous conduct on the occasion of tho murder of the late Czar of Russia. Most issued his paper with a rod border that day, and commenced his article on tho Czar’s death with the words, “At last! Triumph 1” He was tried for libelling tho dead Czar and for inciting to murder and received a sentence of sixteen months’ hard labour. After serving this term of imprisonment, Most fled to America, and re-established his paper in Now York, whence for many years be bas carried on a campaign against all forms of law and order. He professes in its most extreme form the Anarchist doctrine that all restraint is an evil, and that the only law for a man is his own will; and he has imbued hundreds of other desperate men and women with these ideas. The Anarchist group in New York, led by Most, lost vitality a year or so ago under tne continued attacks of the police. Two terms of imprisonment seemed to discourage Most, for ho became much less active as an agitator, but he came into prominence again recently.]