The Manning Times

Alleged Anarchists in Philadelphia.

A special from Philadelphia, Pa., to the Augusta Gazette says the reports of a strong Anarchistic movement in the manufacturing districts of that city are far from being exaggerated. A close and careful investigation has disclosed the startling fact that the Anarchists have formed no less than 40 groups of active members. The entire membership is about 3,000. The male and female Anarchists represent the most wicked and revolutionary class to be found among the foreign element that have sought a stronghold in the Kensington manufacturing district, where there are between 300 and 400 cotton and woolen mills and other establishments, and which give employment to 100,000.

Since the recent visit of Herr Most, the ex-convict and Socialist leader, the revolutionists have been more rabid in their denunciations and threats against the capitalists than ever before. Detectives, who have been present at their recent meetings, state that some of the most bitter speech-makers have advocated the burning down of the prominent factories and mills, while other loud-mouthed fanatics have urged their hearers to break into the houses of the capitalists at midnight, pull the mill owners from their beds and hang them to the nearest lamp posts.

The incendiary harangues of the Anarchists have caused much excitement to prevail, as it is apprehended these teachings may evenuate in a terrible and sanguinary outbreak. The rumor that a number of Anarchists have lately bought rifles and ammunition adds much to the general commotion, as these preparations are believed to indicate the early inauguration of aggressive operations.