, 1874-05-25
A Socialist Picnic for Their News
paper.
A New Way Of Supporting
an Organ.
Speeches by Messrs. Thorsmark
and Zirnbel.
Killings, the scissor.G Grinder.

the workinguon marched to tho Common Coun-
oil and asked for work or broad. Tho leaders OF
the tl,ree sections Of Iutornationals or Social
sa aou'ea .,' snon sAs n =. t,, s Iss nss
saw 'helr ohanoe III TINT movomene' anu tooKt tho
leadership OF tho then unemployed aud poor
workingmon. Thoy organized thom into tho
Workinpmon'e party of Illinois, and thcy have
.t,o,- ~ 4I,n. ~. ',.,, a.,at a1,.ar 3 ,,a-...
D'oA :" s1.ota t"sa WIN eueH onoie{ s1no poa"o"
seraucS snat Ut tho pfoaent day tnoFa arc no
less than twenty-five scctionB or Lodges OF tho
party in this city. wookly meetings aro hold by
theao rarjoua scot,ona and sooialism il nroacho1
81 thasa ,,,,a - .,a4 ~ - ~ ,.,,1 .s
~ suoso WIZ W not 5o' unao1h'atla ''s u'!t nnu
moahihg' IN fact tho Wofk1ngmen horotofore
but little versed in social political questions arc
vbfob. in the opInion of tha1oadora Of tha orto;-
~, t I..tas.".;a,p,. -. Ga,s..s:e.a 49,. .se. 80
hrasr n,,t ~ . o.u us.
and tho the As ey e ae onn no %
los among tho existing papors. they hayo started
an organ Of thoir own,
IDLE voRBorE,"
Forerunner), which appears onco week and Ia
about .5.0oo, copies. Although the articles
appearing In tho paper nro quito radical.
md sometimes incondtary, still thoy arc writton
with considerable ability; =, 49,.
It's conductors, olatod with tho succeHs thoy
tho organ Of tho Wortiugmen's party daily
pnpor. But thoy had not the money wlerewiti,
to carry out their purpose, aud, all thcir mom-
doris being quito poor, no ono could advance tho
baitled In their attompt to Issue daily, thoy hit
upon tho novel plan Of getting up
GRAND soclA1 PICNIC
for tho benefit of tho paper. Yesterday, boing
Whitsunday or ponteoost which holiday il uBu-
ally celebrated with great ponp by the Germaua,
was choson for tho festival.
THE PROCESSION.
AZ Al early hour in the morning the varioua
other societies that eylnpathizo with thonn, u.s.
aombled at their various headquarters, and with
flying banners and flags marched to tho general
rendezvous on Washington Btroot botwocn Dos
PLANES and Halsted streots, whoro they formed
o'clock =. N. First camo tic Chtof Marshal,
6lr. H. stahl, and assistants on horseback. .Thon
eamo body Of mcn carrying the United statos
fag and tho red flag Of tho C2mmu-
by 8 band In French uniform, which soemod to
know no other melody but tho Marsoillaise as
this time was invariably played. Thon car .
twelve Sections Of tho Workingmens party, all
mian, ono Danish, aud ono Polish Section fol-
lowed next, Thon carno the first Section Of tho
Internationally, with their CORY flags.
They wore followed BY tho Oabinot-Nlakers'
dard and a. United States iiag. Then camo
another band, followed BY the Social Working
mons Society, aud several other organizations.
Mr.. Curl Kings. tho louder Of tho Com
n,unists In this CITY,, brought up the
rear. He was drosaed IN his ordinary
working. suit, and on bis buck carried the en-
blom Of his profossion-A grindatone. He was
surrounded by guard Of honor.
....., LINE OF hARun:,
avenuo, to HaLatea, aud along TINT street to
Chicago avenue; thence cast to sedgwiok: and
On ssdgwiok north to Division; on Division
west to Clybourn avenue, nnd along that ssreet
to no9 t tG North and
thence northwest to ogdons Grove, tho place of
It Is ostmated that about Thousand persons
msrohed u tae procession and but tor tue rain
tho number would have, boon, unch
larger. Several houses along the limo
Of tue procession hung out rcd, American
and German hags. while some ct them eycn
toonod with gar!anls and oTorgreons. DR..
inhn's saloon' on Division street, .uear Olyhourn
avenue. was particularly conspicuous by fts
splendid decorations and Immense communicate
aud American flags flying from the windowa.
, 7noRsnAnk: 49, ~,
Having arrived o. the grove, Mr. Thoremark
took tho stand, md said that ho looked upon this
festival as grand review Of thoir forces. Ho
IN such largo numbers to assist IN tho graat work
they had accomplished. This dny, for the frat
tlmo, tl;cy had shown themselves to the public as
grand upitod body OF mon who wero prepared
TO give their lives for their principles. On this
day they had for tho tirBt time marched under
their own commanders according to tradition, and
tho hereditary tune Of tho Afarsollaiso had guild
ed their stops. In their ranks they hold high
the gory banner reaplendont with the color Of
should have bean, but in tllis they roaombled
nature. Az ono or two warm days could NOT
mako . summer, 30 it could net DO expected
that they should accomplish fn their infancy
the deodR Of maturity. Thoy wore full Of. hopes
TINT the party would continue to increase ia
numbnr3 md grow In strength, because
t1or a8cenaonoY to power wAB An
historical necessity. They should on-
doagor to hayo overy word aud
oyory thought bo for the welfare Of the organi-
zation. And whom their task had boon accom-
p!ished they could proudly oontond that tho
Workiugmon's purity, as we'll ~ al! humanity, had
made atep forward in tho culture Of this ago.
This was Whitsunday, md, according to religious