The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-10-20
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TUESDAY, OCT. 20, 1885.
The SYSTEMATiSTS.

of the socialists of this city has
finally eliminated in open rebellion,
and tonight, at q convention to be
held at Seaman's Hall, an independ-
ent socialistic organization, which is
intended to embrace the disaffected
element in the old world as well as
in the new, will be brought into
existence under the name of the
Systematists.
The socialist party proper in this
city is branch of the international,
which, years ago, under the leader
ship of such men as Karl Blind,
Karl Marx, Rochefort, and Louis
Blanc, was feared and hated power
in Europe. In Chicago the strength
of the organization is an unknown
quantity. 1t has anumber of secret
groups" not few armed and
well drilled companies, one daily
paper printed in German, two
weeklies in German and one weekly
in English. All of those publica-
lions have q good circulation, and to
all outward appearances are fairly
prosperous. August Spies, publisher
and editor of the Daily ArJeiter
Zcitung, who is the recognized lead
er of the element, has at various
times statedthe aggregate strength
of the local groups at from twenty
to thirty thousand, but inasmuch as
the largest strength ever developed
in a procession or demonstration has
been under 5000, his estimates must
be taken with n grain of salt.
The meetings of the groups are
held in secret, but public meetings
take place every Sunday afternoon
in the Lake front park, and picnics
and mass meetings on week days
are of such frequent occurrence that
the citizens of Chicago have become
as much accustomed to the sight of
the "red flag" as were the inhabit-
ants of Paris during the reign of the
commune. 1t has been the violence of
these demonstrations and the intlam-
matory character of the harangues
delivered which have given Chicago,
in many quarters, the reputation of
being hot bed of revolutionists,
and which has led to the present
split.
AS an example, at the recent
opening of the board of trade, about
1000 members of the order, with
bands, flags and notices, and headed
by sanguinary-looking female with
dishevelled hair, bearing aloft red
flag, marched to the building and
would inevitably have attacked and
perhaps dispersed the audience had
it not been that in consequence of
the previous warning, six detach-
ments of police had taken posses
sion of the streets leading to the
structure. AS it was the would-be
pillagers were forced to content
themselves with hooting, yelling,
and stoning the carriages which were
conveying guests of the occasion.
The last straw, however, which
broke the back of the more moderate
element, was the fact that, in the
long procession which preceded the
Anniversary of the Commune" de-
monstration at Ogden's grove q
few Sundays ago, when every house
was draped in mourning for the
dead hero of Appomattox, there
were carried number of such mot
toes as the following: 1--WE mourn
not so much the death of Genera
Grant as the little child that dice
yesterday of starvation" AS ;
matter of fact, no death from sucl
cause has taken place, while thu
money expended in drink at tina
demonstration somewhere in thu
neighborhood of $4,000 would, a
one of the "moderates' remarked
at the next meeting of the group
have furnished bread for thousand
of starving mouths.
After this demonstration, how
ever, the secession and formation O
new party was decided upon. 1t
promoters will seek to secure tn
social amelioration of the peopl
contemplated by the socialists, bu
by constitutional means. The Sys
tematists propose new system o
local, State and national govern
ment. They affirm that the modi
fication of existing laws, so fatal t
the interests of labor and the labor
ing classes, is too tentative an
futile process. They intend t
establish a new code of local, Stat
and national laws TO come into in
mediate operation after concerto
action is organized by local, stat
and national clubs in harmony wit
the movement throughout the world
and without waiting for the abrog'
ton or change of old laws. 'Ihel
is bitter feeling amongst the ''r'
volutionary party" over the ne
departure, and it is probable that i
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