After the bloody events of May Day in Buenos Aires, the police chief sent a report to his minister, requesting legislative reforms to suppress anarchism, socialism, and other ideologies. Now the executive authority is presenting a bill to Congress against "dangerous" immigration, which prohibits the landing of idiots, lunatics, epileptics, consumptives, polygamists, prostitutes, and anarchists, whether they are immigrants or just passers-by. The urgency is to rid ourselves of the anarchists. Fortunately, Anatole France had come to Argentina before the law came into force, because they would not have let him disembark from the ship.

Rafael Barret