Universal suffrage seems to be no check on Anarchy, either
in France or America. According to a telegram from New York, dated January 11th, a tenement-house in Avenue D—a poor residential quarter—has been blown up with dynamite. On investigation a line of bombs was discovered, placed at regular distances from each other, but connected by a train of gunpowder. The details have not arrived, and it is of course possible that the plot to blow up a street was a consequence of a race-quarrel among workmen, but, if the story is true, they are using Anarchist weapons with the Anarchist recklessness. It must be dangerous work in America, where the great body of citizens hold Anarchism in horror ; and would not, in re- pressing it, wait for the slow, operations of the law. It should be added that, under the McKinley Tariff, the number of the unemployed in the cities greatly exceeds all precedent, and tbat, in at least twenty, the municipalities are considering plans for creating work. -' With a single exception, every great American philanthropist,iamong some twenty whose opinions are given in the " Outlook," protests vehemently against any gifts of money or even of food. The rush to the cities, they say, would be overwhelming.
