Mackey – Encyclopedia Of Freemasonry Vol. 1

INTERNATIONAL, COMMUNE, &c. 127assassins, Julius Lieske, twenty-two years of age, was discoveredand beheaded . Most then founded another moresecret society of propagandists, to which only the leadingmembers of the association were admitted . When theFreiheit applauded the Phoenix Park murders it was suppressed,but reappeared in Switzerland, and lastly in theUnited States, to which Most in 1882 emigrated, and thepropaganda of Anarchism, whose secret chief seat was atChicago, made rapid progress in the States, as well as inEurope, and culmipated in the dynamite outrages at Chicago,assassinations at Strasburg, Stuttgart, Vienna, and Prague .In the latter city, early in 1883, a secret council ofAnarchists condemned the prefect of the police, who hadhad some of the assassins arrested, to death ; lots weredrawn as to who was to do the deed, and it fell on ajourneyman glove-maker, named Dressler, who, however,committed suicide to escape becoming a murderer. Butbefore his death he had written a letter to his parents,revealing the existence of the society ; the information itgave enabled the police . to arrest the most importantmembers . On the 4th July 1883, a shoe manufacturer inone of the most frequented suburban streets of Vienna wasset upon in his house by two individuals, who held asponge saturated with chloroform to his face until hebecame unconscious, when he was robbed of 782 florins.Some weeks after the crime was traced to an Anarchistassociation, and seventeen men and two women were arrested,who, after investigation, were found to be members of asecret association, whose aim, according to pamphlets foundon them, was to do away with the throne, altar, and moneybags,and to establish a Red Republic . Small associations,it appeared, consisting of from five to nine members each,had been formed among the Radical workmen, each memberbeing bound to establish another such small circle . Thetrial appears to have broken up the society, though Anarchistsin most countries of Europe and other parts ofthe world remain very active, openly avowing the resultsthey aim at, results in themselves impracticable, and which,if they could be attained, would render the existence ofsociety and of civilisation impossible . The Anarchists,who wish to reform the world, should begin by reformingthemselves .