COMMUNISM IN AMERICA.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2939, 17 July 1878, Page 2

COMMUNISM IN AMERICA.

The New- York-Tribune has an editorial on the recent Communistic outcroppings, closing thus :—" \Ve dp not believe it can ever be 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 some other regions; and whenever the flame of

insurrection breaVs out', we in New York can liardly; escape attack. -It is well (o I6bk at the situation cirelully, aud to consider Jibw we shall meet it; above all, how we shall awake in our children the .cdnservaiive rejigious sentiment which animated our fathers;" , '

A Communistic society hos just been discovered in Purkeiiburg. It has between 500 and 600 members, and is officeied and drilled. The members are reticent.' The meetings are secret. Other societies exist in the Stater

An American journal has the following : —The growth of Communism in this country seems "so rapid, and is really becoming so.alarming that law and order elements would do well to take decided aclion in opposition to its further spread. It was hut theother day that the New York World, the leading Democratic newspaper, in the, tTnUed, States, Rave r graphic and startling description of a Communist setjieuVent in the princioal ■commercial city of the country. The individuals to whoin^thit- Journal >re•frerred were all ;foreign''!reJugees and French professional: •re^u^njsts,; who are working night ;andk*da£\ r ?'U v. the most unremitting zeal -..to". propagate their,'mischievous doctrines,, B and inaugurate bloodshed' in the u,cp.untry of t^ejr adoption. They are reported to be ;,'tH^Fp.jighlyorganisedj atid- IQ« maintain regular corVespOiMence- with; Communists all over the world. They are described a^^thei. reddest of lied ;Re publicans,' pYofess?qnal revblutiDntsisv asvimjriacable enemies to the Government under which they now liva as they were uadeJ?;the Imperial, and, more recently; t©rth«;-itepub: lican GovernmeffHtf Prance;*"- > Not onlyare theyin communicavioiji. with the revo--1 lutionaiy clement in Europeau counties, but claim tp have organisations iii many portions of the United States, and profess to plreadj* possess great power for harm; and are sanguine in the belief that the day is not far distant which will aflFord them the desired opportunity to assert their powern-ri pdWer which'i* riot designed to help mankind, but rather to carry dismay to the hutniau race; Eevolution and" bloodshed are the cardiual principles of the wicked, dangerous, law defjing elenienti' They seek-not to build up, but rather to dp^troy, «tid hop?, by the use ol -the~ faggot anH the .-.sword,;-to. deal deyasialion and v deat^ whenever and whererei they find^lbenaselves strong enough, tc carry out Uieiffiendish designs. A Chi< cago despatch of tihe;-25th instant conveys the information that great interest is manifested in tne 1 movement of Communists in that bity. It is repbrted that ;they are activeiy at work drilling and arming witli breech-loading rifles. *■'■ Upon being questioned, they profess thai they are preparing.for; future emerge jcies, but; say they will act merely in flelfidefence, and'will not foment disorder. They are about 8000 of them in this country, and it is stated that fr<?m ICCO t0.2C00 are armed and drilled weekly." These imaginary emergencies will readily be found to b-5. real "ones"as soon as the eTil-d.esi;^ningj bloodthirsty scouudrelsthink 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 are drilling, their chief and leader, Kearney, endeayottrs,: ia'a small way, peihaps, to place Mmrtelf in- full accord) with Jhev Paris Commune in inlb trouble with the Church authorities. Edward Megy, ■JfotJ French;? Compajinist; and 'jrnurderer; voluntarily assisted in the assassination of Archbishop = l)arb6j, while Kearriey has thus far contented himself with verbal abuse of Archbishop. Alemany*, There is only one attitude N for citizens who prefer law and order to Communism and anarchy ttf assume, and that is to unitedly set their faces against the threatening evil, and effectually prevent it from gaining anything like a strong ibpthold on American BOil. :; '■•■■ ' ' ; l- '; ;' -;:; ;-':" ,'""' "■■•• ::- i