The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-03-18
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Meeting I'm New Hork-Address 10 Hus
sian Nihiiisis.

New York, March lin Steuben hall
this evening about 200 persons assembled to
express sympathy wit h the Russian nihilis,s,
"Sic Semper Tyrannis" was ono of tho
notices in white let.ers on red ground.
Nest of the audience we're workingmen In
their working gsrb, and all were orderly aud
attentive and strongly in sympathy with
he most radical sentiments of the sneakers.
Justus II. Schwab presided and said in
opening the meeting that they rcioiced in
the death OF the greatest despot, the man
who represented the system that stlaad tho
spirit OF the nineteenth century. Victor
Drury made the English speech. He pic,
tured the brutaltiesto political prisoners in
Russia. If the killing OF the czsr was a cru.
city it was because tho people bad been
taught cruelty by their rulers Ho re;oiced
st the death because he desired to see the
death OF all human butchers. S. Klmanco
made aspeech in Russian, and William Il.
Hasslemann, Of Philsdelphia, in German.
The latter said the czar should have been
Killed like mad dog, for be was more dan
gerous. iieSaid that the whole family must
be rooted out, for it considers iyraeay an
honor, and transmits it from generation 10
generation.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
The meeting Of the socialists tonight was
largely attended. Justus Il. Schwnb. pre.
sided. William Drury. French communist
said: Russia had too long neglected the
warnings of mon of thought and frae !om.
who had linslly broken their ch Ans Of
bondage by removing from the face of Che
earth the greatest tyrsut Russia had ever
Known. The Imperial families in Euroec
must GO The world had bsen cheated by
those people long enough, and the peopie
we're Tired Of them. He liked TO sec all
human butchers die, and while ho regretted
tie shed ing of human blood no reioiced
that the emperor had boen killed because he
had been the death of thousands of people.
Resolutions were adopted congratulatiny
the world upon the overthrow of tho abso.
luteisn of leudsl aristocracy in Russia: the
neopb in Europe upon the removal of tho
grea's.t obstacle to the establishment of a
western republic; fellow socialists tat A
Sreai prop OF monarchicsl institutions
~nieh had supported kingcrsft
throughout the world had been
shaken TO Its very core by the fall of the
flr and that the way is being cleared for
no foundation Of a social republic. and
ydipg upon tho liberty. loving people of The
'pted States to rejoice in the overthrow OF
\ Q car, especially as they reioiced at the
eftnrow OF Macmillan, whose presence
lfidngered republican institutions.
In address TO their tellow-workmon il
hfs'r, 10 their best friends and most active
I"aGfS, .ho .rihilists, will be foewarleo
| .se s(gress6 y -iN"t' Av,l- tn- .fi.i' x
4,yE-S tsst between the eristoc,ac cy
apS "a iariant there can ba no coplprc.
MI ie.Ween parasites and producers there
c~ 90 no psaoe. While lou,s and loaferi
| N IN luxury upon the products Of ou
AZ ~ we must suffer and slave
ko.L2s, your cause is that o
! ~ oppressed sgains. the oppressor
d. cause is q holy cause; hat cause Is no
tVnly for Russia, but fer all oountricG; i. !
Universal. Brothers, we approve you
ic.iou; we approve your methods. Between
you and your oppressors there can be n,
truce. Kill, destroy, assassinstc stnihila.
even TO Its very germ your aristocracy
Lave for them no feeling of love, for the
arc incapable of that noble emotion.
Addresses were also delivered in Russia
AID German of similar import 10 tho rssC
lltion