142 PERILS. — SOCLALISM. 



ment of this purpose/' There has been formed in the 

 United States a society called "The Black Hand," 

 which, in its proclamation, urges " the propaganda of 

 deed in every form," and cries: "War to the knife!" 

 The explosions in the Houses of Parliament and Tower 

 of London called forth the f ollovving declarations at a 

 meeting of socialists in Chicago : ' ' This explosion has 

 demonstrated that socialists can safely go into large 

 congregations in broad daylight and explode their 

 bombs, 



' ' A little hog's grease and a little nitric acid make a 

 terrible explosion. Ten cents' worth would blow a 

 building to citoms. 



"Dynamite can be made out of the dead bodies of 

 capitalists as well as out of hogs. 



' ' All Chicago can be set ablaze in a minute by elec- 

 tricity. 



"Private property must be abolished, if we have to 

 use all the dynamite there is, and blow ninety-nine hun- 

 dredths of the people off the face of the earth." Such 

 teachings bore their legitimate fruits in the massacre 

 of the Chicago Haymarket, May 4, 1886. 



At the time of the railroad riots, in 1877, which cost 

 many lives, and not less than a hundred million dollars 

 of property, and to quell which ten states, reaching 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific, called on the President 

 of the United States for troops, there were but few 

 socialists among us, and they seem to have been taken 

 unawares by the outbreak ; but they will be prepared to 

 make the most of the next. The following are stock 

 phrases, found in all their publications: " Get ready for 

 another 1877; " " Buy a musket for a repetition of 1877; " 

 "Buy dynamite for a second 1877;" " Organize compa- 

 nies and drill to be ready for a recurrence of the riots of 

 1877." 



As to the number of socialists in the United States 

 we have no exact knowledge. Their press is numerous 

 and is increasing. They now have nineteen journals, 

 whose combined circulation is about 80,000. These 



