St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-08

in his possession. This, your honor, is another
reason why sentence of death should not be
pronounced. l have been resident of
this city for as long time as Grinnell. and
as good a one. l know should not like to be
compared TO him. He has appealed to the
patriotism of the jury, but in answer to that
| shall quote from an English statesman
Patriotism is the last resort of a scoundrel.
The system OF wages Is the root OF the pres
ent social iniquities, so monstrous as TO Cry
to heaven. Grinnell has Informed us that
anarchy was on trial. Anarchy belongs to
speculative philosophy, and not word was
said about anarchism at the Haymarket.
But If anarchism is on trial / am proud to
say am an anarchist. You may pronounce
your sentence on me, honorable Judge, but
let it be known that in the year 1885, in the
state of Illinois, eight men have not lost their
faith in human progress. 1t is the old ques-
ton Look over the pages of Greece and
Rome. There you will see the records of the
self-same struggle-the ruling class dominate
ing the poorer one. Honorable judge, the
demons of hell would join in the
laughter that follows your sentence.
If the opinion of the court is tc
become law then there is nc
person in this country who could not lawfully
be hanged. ] say that upon that law every
person in this country could be convicted of
conspiracy, or as the case might be, for muir
der. Every member of the trades unions
knights of Labor, or any such organization,
can be convicted of conspiracy. Ii you carry
that ruling into effect, you will be
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BLOOD
that will be She'd and the blood of the limo
cent will come upon you. Seven policemen
have died, said Grinuell. You want life fol-
life, and have convicted an equal number OF
men of whom it cannot be truthfully said
that theyshad anything to do whatever with
the killing or Bontield's victims. The very
same system of jurisprudence can be found
among various savage people and tribes. In
juries are equalized, so to speak, by the infiic-
ton of similar wrong to that received al
their enemies hands. They are not particu
lar as to the responsibility or the identity of
tue persons sacrificed SO long as they have
life for life. This principle prevails tC
considerable extent among the ma
tives of the Sandwich Islands. Ii
we are to be hanged upon the
principles then let it be known, let the world
see what civilized and Christian country is;
this in which the Vanderbiits. the Jay Goulds
and the rest pose as the rescuers of law and
liberty. Grinnell has repeatedly said our
country is an enlightened country. Well, he
may put that in his album. If your honor
thinks that by the execution of the verdict
you can stamp out the labor movement you
do not comprehend the power Of that mighty
movement from which the down-trodden and
miserable children of toll hope for relief
You know not where the blaze Will next break
out. 1t is subterranean fire that you can.
not put out. The ground is on fire upon
which you stand. You want to stamp out
the conspiracy.
YOU RESEMBLE A CHILD
that is looking for his picture behind a mir
ror. What you see snd what you try to grasp
in your movement is nothing but the creation
of your own bad consciences. If you want
anin md fI,n ,.r-,-
tators you must stamp out every factory lord
who has made his wealth upon the
unpaid labor of his employees, and the land
lord who has made his money from ground.
down and oppressed laborers and farm
ers. 1t is fact that a few men
control all mechanical appliances out
Of which they make gold by sacrificing the
lives of little children, while able bodied men
are starving. But we cannot go back. We
are advancing. The tide cannot be stopped.
CONCERNING MY ASSOCIATES
I will say this: l never saw Lingg but twice
before my arrest. / have not been on speak
ing terms with Engel for over year, and
Fischer, my lieutenant, went about making
speeches against me. If you think you can
crush out these ideas which are gaining
ground every day, by sending US to the gal
lows, that you can suppress truth-for thai
is all we have been preaehing-you will fail. u
Then hourishing his arms wildly Spies fairly
shrieked: II shall die proudly, defiantly fol
the cause of justice There is Socrates
there is Calico, there u GiordaDo Bruno
there is Christ-why tae number cannot be
estimated of those who have trodden in these
paths and we are ready to follow them"
MICHAEL sCHWAB
then took the floor. In a stentOrian voice
he began:
ut is not much have to say and l would
say nothing at all did not fear silence would
look like cowardly approval of what has
been done here. l am condemned to die for
writing a newspaper editorial
The anarchist then went on to justify
these articles by going over in detail all the
real or imaginary evils of the accumula-
lions of capital, and the injustice of the
relations between employer and employed.
He said:
lived among the toilers; I was one of
them. l slept in their garrets and cellars,
saw the prostitution of female virtue
which had no honest means of support and
strong men starve and die. But that was in
Europe. But 1 found the same state of
things in existence on coming to this country.
The speaker refer ed at some length to
the condition of the laboring classes in
Chicago, of which he drew a dismal pic
ture. He said:
There are more socialist natives of this
country than there are foreigners from these
causes, but the capitalistic press screens the
fact very carefully.
Then followed disquisition on the prin-
ciples and theories of socialism and an
archy. He concluded by disavowing all
knowledge of the man who threw the bomb.
and protested he intended to do no violence
at the Haymarket. Schwab is short
sighted, and he read his speech from notes,
which he held close up to his eyes and de-
livered in monOtonouS voice. His En-
gliSh was peculiar.
Who is the man who has the cheek to tell us
our doctrines will not prevail?
The question OccasiOned the first smile
that was seen in the court room all day.
OSCAR NEEBE,
the next speaker, had no sooner taken the
floor than he burst into violent abuse, call
ing States Attorney Grinnell cur, his as
sistants, Messrs. Walker and Furthmann,
scOundrels. saying there was only one gen.
tleman in the crowd, and that was MI.
Ingham. The police were assailed, and in
short Neebes speech was TRADE of abuse,
villifying the police and authorities. Then
Neebe abandoned himself to a wild appeal
for the Judge to hang him with the Others
He said:
1t would be more honorable to be strangled
by the neck than to die by inches. My wife
and children will be then at ease some time,
but they can never get over it, if their hus-
and band father is sent to Joliet. Hang me,
your honor, with my comrades.
ADoLPH FISCHER'S TURN
came next, and he was on the point of adj
hitting his connection with the revenge
circular, when Solomon, mindful of the
bearing it might have before the supreme
court. tried to check him. 1t was useless.
Fischer said:
Your honor, you ask me to say why SEN
tence of death should not be passed upon
me. will not talk much. / protest against
being sentenced to DEATH because / have
committed no crime. l was tried in this jury
room for murder, and l was convicted for
anarchy don't deny that was one of the
parties who summoned this meeting in the
haymarket, but know no more about the
throwing of the bomb than Mr.. Grinnell
does, perhaps. 1t is fact, and do not deny
it, Here MI. Solomon rose and, going over
to Fischer, whispered something in his ear)
Fischer, turning around, said sharply:
Don't interrupt me. 1 know what l am
talking about" Solomon retired and Fischer
continued: II do not deny that got up the
circular and had a line put in calling on the
workingmen to come armed. 1 had my rea-
sons 7 am not convicted becausa 7 nm q