Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-10-11
SENTENCED TO DEATH.
THEtlAST ACT IN THE CELEBRATED
ANARCHIST TRIAL.

Ensel and Siseher to Lie ON the Gal
lows-Necbe Gets Fifteen Years in the
Penitentiary -.preches Of Fielden and
Parsons-A Sensation.
CHICAGO, Oct n-Fiellen's speech Fri
| lay before the criminal court was not fin
ished until $50 ?. m He closed as fol
| lows:
| To-day as the beautiful autumn sun kisses
with balmy breeze the check of every free
man | stand here never 20 hGthe my head in
! its rays again have loved my fellow men
as | have loveed myself have hated trick
FRY, dishonesty, anl injustice The nine
teenth century commits the crime Of killing
its best friend 1t will live to repent Of it.
| But as have said before if il will do any
| good. | freely give myself up. | trust the
time will come when there will be a better
understanding, more intelligence, and above
the mountains of lniqulty, wrong and cor
ruption. hope the sun of righteousness and
truth and justice will come to battle in its
| balmy light an emanCipated world thank
| Your honor for your attention
Albert R. Parsons was the last to speak
which arrangement was made at his own re-
quest He began, as Fielden had, with a
roetical quotation, entitled Bread is Free
dom, the last verse of which was:
Break this two-fold yoke in twain,
Break thy want enslaving chain.
Break thy slavCry's want in dread.
Bread is freedom freedoms bread.
He said the poem epitomizas the hope aud
need Of the working clas,e; of the whole
world, and then said the distinguishing char
acteristic of the trial hal been lis heat and
passion: You ask ma why sentence of death
should not I've pronounced upon me, or, what
is tantamount to the same thing, Won ask ME
why YOU should give me a new trial in order
that might establish INV Innocence and the
ends Of justice be subservcd. ! answer To
your hon or and say that this verdict is the
verdict of passion, born i'll passion. nurtured
in passion and is the sum tutalitv OF the or
gained passion of the city of Chicago. For
this reason ! ask your suspension of the
sentence and fiew trial He then declared
that he had some knowledge of the
labor movement IN the country, obtained
from experience and study. and that in what
he should say regarding the subject he
would speak the truth, though his tongue he
torn from his mouth, so help me God" He
Then gave definition of a wage worker, and
said there were l6,%11.Ul of them in this
country, and he had undertaken to advocate
their cause. The Chicago Citizens associa
ton was Clamoring for his blood and the
blood of his fellow prisoners, and the Judge
stood between with the poised scales of JUS
tice i'll his bands, and he warned the Judge of
the danger in this case Of committing iu-
dicial murder. as had been done many times
"eloie' ne eAeCuliuh Oh the prisoners asthe
1 stood WpplI lA ~ III h,
tilai was conducted by a niob-a mob
that was bowling for victims. The
persecution had baau A canif,list,r r,ars4cu
lion He tbap went inro 8, ,,.,-,,.,,, of III, Ia
- =, " az
"n question: ana Iae oppression oil lhonop-
DIV, declared himself Socialist and elahoT-
ated the SoCialisuc view of the cause Of the
want and misery and care among poor pso-
pie. He denied that Socialism advocated
and said thai !, was a., ,,,,+I,,,1 - $50,
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Parsons continued hi Srn,cb saturday
morning ,na craatsI ..,-,,,,,, -, ~.
by SAVING.
Who first counsellai vio;encel Was IL not
Tom Scott who first sand; tive them the
rifle logic Was it not The Tribune which
r'St Siii; Tive them S.lce OF bread with
81, ac'. mn ON II. ANA my nave done 1T.