COMMUNISM IN AMERICA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 172, 18 July 1878, Page 4

COMMUNISM IN AMERICA.

The "New York Tribune" has an ■editorial on the recent Communistic outcroppings, cloeing thus : — '*- Wo do not believe it can ever he the ruling power in the United States, but it can easily become the tyrant in certain localities — the mining districts of Pennsylvania, the turbulent city of San Francisco, and other regions ; and whenever the flame of insurrection brooks out, we in New York can hardly escape attack. It is well to look at the situation carefully, aud consider how we shall meet it ; above all, how we shall awaken in our children tha conservative .religious sentiment which animated our fathers."

A Communistic Society has jußfc been discovered in Pa-kf-rshurg. It has between 500 and 600 members, and is officered and drilled. The members are reticent. The meetings are secret. Other societies exist in the State.

An American journal has the following : — The growth of Communism iv this country seems to he rapid and is really becoming so -alarming, tliat law and order elements would do well to take decided action in opposition to ita farther spread. It wag but the other day that the " New York World," the leading deinocraatic newspaper in tlie United States, gavo a graphic ami startling descriptiou of a Communist settlement in the principal commercial city of the country. The individuals to whom that journal referred were ;ili foreign refugees nnd French professional revolutionists, who we:ro working night and day with the most unremitting zeal to propagate their mischievous doctrines, and inaugurate bloodshed in the country of their adoption. They are reported to be thoroughly organised, and to maintain regular correspondence with Communists all over the world. They are described as " the reddest of red Republicans, professional revolutionists, as implacable enemies to the Government under which they now live as they were under the Imperial, and more recently to the Republican Government in France." Not only are they in communication with ihe revolutionary element in European countries, but claim to bave organizations in many portions of the United States, and profess to already possess great power for harm, and are sanguine in the belief tbat the day is not far distant which will afford tbem the desired opportunity to aßsert their power — a power which ie not designed to help mankind, bat

ramer t0 cm .y d* smay to tne human *cc. Revolution and bloodshed are the cardinal principals of this wicked-, dangeroug, jaw-defying clement. They seek uot to build up, hut rather to destroy., •-.•nd hope, by the use of the faggot Ktid the sword (0 deal devastation and death whenever end wherever they find the-iisf-dres strong enough to carry out their fiendish designs. A Chicago despatch of the 25th instant conveys the information that great interest is manifested iv Lhe movement of Communists iv that city. It is reported that they are actively at work drilling and arraiuowith breech-loading rifles. "Upon being questioned, they profess that they are preparing for future emergencies, bnt say they will act merely in selfdefence, and will not foment disorder. There ara about SOOO of them in this country, and it is stated that from 1000 to 2000 are armed aud drilled weekly;" These imaginary emergencies will realiy be found to be real ones as soon as the evil-designing, bloodthirsty scoundrels think they are ready to meet them. Under Kearney's directions military organisations have been formed in San Francisco, and while members of these (political) companies nre drilling, their chief and leader, Kearney, endeavors, in a small way, perhaps, to place himself m full accord with the Paris Commune in getting into trouble with fche Church authorities. Edward Megv, the French Communist and murderer' voluntarily assisted in the assassinatio 1 of Archbishop Darpoy, while Kearney has thus iar contented himself with verbal abuse of Archbishop Alemany. There is ouly oue attitude for citizens who prefer law and order to Communism and anarchy to assume, and that is to unitedly set their faces against the threatening evil, and effectually prevent it gaining anything like a strong foothold on American soil.