Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-09
Chicago TO THE FRONT.
Anarchists Speakers, and Packers
Strike-P. E. Church Con.
vention, Etc.
HOWL OF THE ANARCHIsrs. ]
OF tho Speeches of tho Con
demned Mon.

Continuation OF the Speeches of the Con-
demned Men.
CHICAGO, October S.-Oscar Nebee then
spoke. He had no sooner taken the fl3or
than he burst into violent abuse, calling
the Senate's attorney a liar and his assiet-
ants scoundrels, saying there was only one
gentleman in the crowd and that was Ing
ham. The police were then assailed in pc
culiar phraseology, and, in short, Nebee's
speech was TRADE of abuse, villifying the
police and authorities.
He cried ut would be more honorable
to be strangled by the neck than die by
inches. My wife and children will thentbe
at ease some time, but they never can set
over it If their husband and father is sent
to Joliet. Hang me, your Honor, with my
comrades"
Adolph Fisher came next and COM
menced: "Your Honor, you ask me to say
why sentence OF death should not be
passed upon me. l protest against heing
sentenced to death because have commit
ted no crime. was tried in this room for
murder and convicted OF anarchy. don't
deny that was one of the parties who
summoned this meeting in Haymarket, but
know no more about the throwing Of q
bomb than Grinnell does perhaps. / dD
not deny that I got up circular and had
line put in calling upon workingmen to
come armed. l had my reasons. I am
not convicted because am a murderer. l
am convicted because
lam AN ANARCHIST.
1 have never been a murderer, but I know
murderer and that is the States Attorney
General, becau he has placed men on the
stand whom he knew would swear falsely
in q case where eight lives were at stake
An anarchist loves his principles better
than his life and l am prepared to die for
the principles on account OF holding which
I feel am to be sentenced to death. That
is all have to say"
L1NGG, THE BOMB MAKER,
wish to have his say in Ger
man. An interpreter was placed in his ser
vice and in deep tones Lingg said: Court
of Justice: With the same contempt with
which I have tried to live humanity on this
soil am now granted the privilege to
speak. II do speak it is because ofthe
indi2nities which have been heaped upon
me in this court. He declared it had not
been pro, en- that any bombs made by him
had been taken to Haymarket. He &C.
cused the police of stealing his books and
III Cu0 6GaUlOu AuU UucQ peTIuEluk
themselves against him.
"Grinnell," shouted Lining, "has connived
With these miserable people to get evidence
70 kill me- when he knows was driven to |
The course pursued to gain an education |
youthful anarchist progressed with his |
'peech his form seemed to swell and diiate |
With the intensity OF his feelings. His |
rame
SHOOK WITH PASSION, |
ent OF emphatic utterances in his natural |
apguage. He strobe impatientlv b1ek and |
orth while the interpreter translated each |
entence, and occasionally emph sized his
rords by violent blow on III Ee table in
ront Of HIM. At last, tuzniuS the states
Lining roared: II will
NEVER USE BOMBS AGAIN. |
die willingly, with the same contempt for
eath that l have for your laws"
Captain Black here asked the court to
.djourn, as the time for 80 doing had ar
ived and Engle and some of the others
'ished to speak. The court adjourned till
0 a. m. tomorrow.
Engle became very bitter in bis remarks
bout American courts and law before he
oncluded. He spoke until L o'clock.
FIELDEN SPEAKS.
Fielden then spoke. He related in sub
tance what he had said on the witness
tand and declared he never had been
uilty OF any violence. He declared that
he newspapers had either misrepresented
n misunderstood him, and that they were
esponsible for bis death. He declared he
lad ne:er urged the sacking Of wholesale
torres. Before he had concluded speaking
he court adjourned until o'clock.
In the anarchists trial to-day Fielden in
lis speech turned his attention TO what ne
laimed to be discrepancies between the
estimony between those who had sworn to
lis having said, "there comes the blood
lounds now," as the police came up and
made an able and argumentative compari-
on of the testimony given by these wit.
.esses. He referred to Bonfield's evidence
Iames Bonfield." He went on as fol.
ows: to speak OF his acts on the fatal
right. 1.-THE worst newspaper in Chicago
.dmitted that it was extremely doubtful
whether Fielden shouted or said, "ytu do
,our duty and l will do mine, or "here
omes the blood.hounds." There is moth
ng in the proof that I did not walk away
I went away peacefully. Lieu
enants Ward and Steele ssid SO on the
tan0. F1clOeu COuCluucu HuCH !
anne strain. He said. ''If am to be con-
'icted
1 AM TO BE HANGED
or telling the truth. After / had escaped
rom the Haymarket meeting went home.
The explosion OF the bomb was as much
urprise to me as to any of the policemen.
resolved, like any honest man, to tell the
ruth. 1 thought when they found out the
acts 1 would be released. | said, LET
hem confess all they like, so that they tell
he truth" The great Socialist who lived
n this world over 1900 years ago-Jesus
,hrist-left these words on record, and the
principles OF justice never have been ex-
pressed in language better than this, "Bet.
er that ninety and nine guilty men should
% unpunished than that one innocent
nan should suffer-" He concluded: 1--WE
lain we are convicted not because we
committed murder. but because We were
,ery energetic in the rights of labor"
TuE pACKERS, STRIKE