St. Paul daily globe., 1886-05-16
A DOCTRINE OF DEA tn
Mrs. Parsons Discourses on the Recent
Anarchist Uprising in the
Garden City.
She Complains of Cruelty. and Says There
Are Thousands of Bombs in
Chicago.
Capture of the Mfscreant Who Threw
the Fatal Missilein the Hay
market.
Mrs. Parsons Speaks.

CHICAGO, May 15.-"Captured! Inc
dynamiters capturedw shouted the news
boys. and wakened Mrs. A r. Parsons,
Just as the day was dawning. Hastily
robing and throwing a mantle over her head
she kissed her SiN-year-old son, and calmly
went into neighboring market. She
careleSSly glanced over the headlines of 4
newspaper while her modest order was
being filled. She climbed the two flights OF
stairs leading to her home, and after
fondling her two children for moment,
went to the desk and began to write a
diatribe against the police which she had
headlined "our heroes" Soon her boy
came out and began playing with a lot of
hand bills addressed to the sewing women
of the city. He was in his night robe, and
its whteness made a startling contrast to
the elegant rug which depicted bull fight
in old Spain. Mrs. Parsons eye caught the
situation. u
Right there on that rug" said she, "the
detective grabbed that siN-year-old boy of
mine and twirled him around and asked,
where is your dad? We will find him and
hang him TO the nearest lamp post. Do you
know that?' Then they ransacked the whole
rooms. Il will not be interviewed" she con-
tinued to the GLOBE correspondent. who had
been given an easy chair and asked to take
of his overcOat. II was little nervous, be-
cause, you know, they
MIGHT HAVE CAPTURED PARSONS
This was said with a cynical smile. 'One
editor had me in his room a long time the
other day, and Al reporter from another paper
came up and offered me money to tell my his
tory, and would not do it. / have had Il dra-
matte experience, and l will write it
up in book form for the benefit of
my children. | do not want anything
sensational written am tired of the worry
and the way the detectives and police have
acted with me is simply outrageous. I have
been arrested five times and been bounded
all the time, and from Hanchette to O'Shea the
foreign scoundrelS have iuSulted and mis-
treated me, and you dare not say so in your
paper. got a telegram from George Schill-
ing to call at Capt. w. P. Black's office in re-
gard to some business. and as I was passing
the detectives office 1 took out the note and
telegram in an distracted manner, perhaps to
see the address. a man tried to snatch the
papers from me. Then a heavy hand was
laid upon my shoulder, and l was carried into
the police office. This was without warrant
or any reason. When those cases come to
trial, which / do not believe will ever happen,
it will be shown that all these men are inno-
cent of any conspiracy, and that they did not
have anything to do with the shooting or the
bomb throwing in the hay market. Who
ever threw the bomb did it as an individual,
feeling that he was called to do it at that time
for the good of humanity. was sitting in
Seip'S saloon at q table talking with a young
man
WHEN THE EXPLOSION OCCURRED.
Mrs. Holmes rose up in some excitement, and
tod her to sit down and she did so. knew
nothing of any bomb throwing, and thought
the meeting had closed All the speeches
were very mild and less revolutionary IN their
character than many outdoor meetings which
had preceded them, and there would have
been no trouble if the police had not inter-
tered''
,iS TnI1ic l,oe
been arrested?"
Il do not recollect the name, and / don't
think it appears on the list of the Alarm
which will look over. He is another police
bugbear they have got up. Now, look here.
The papers don't know that there has
which all the mouth men are ex-
empted from any active work. The
speech-makers like myself and Parsons and
1Fielden would never have known anything
about violence if any had been intended last
Tuesday night. Each group has It's duties
and they are not mixed. l know that there
are between 1000 and 5000 bombs in this city
and if the time had come to use them there
would not have been a stop at the throwing
of one of them. That was an individual
matter, and the one who did it probably
thought he was doing right. The press and
pulpit have taken mp the cry, cruelty him!'
hut the law will not justify the cry. The
TINE is coming when men will have machin-
o:- brought to such
STATE OF PERFECTION
tni,t they will work only two or three hours q
day, and then only to promote health The
wealthy man may be called upon to give I'D
his place, but he will take Joint ownership
in the whole world and that will be to his ad-
vantage.
Mrs. Parsons exploited the creed of the
anarchists at length, but finally chrystal-
lized into individual responsibility and de-
clared it to be the intention to do away
with all government and make the earth
one common home, where crime COM
mltted would be against the whole, and
every member of the community would be
Il police officer to punish Oh ayenge the
same.
Il have been on the go night and day. to
try and help the families of these men who
have been arrested, and / expect to keen on
until they are acquitted. have the feelings
and sentiments of woman, and have been
most outrageousy treated, and so have all
reformers.'
AT tunes Mrs. Parsons rose to the heroic,
and delivered earnest words in favor of her
cause, but she did not ask any sympathy.
She showed no symptoms of tender feeling
except toward her children until the devo-
ton of her husband was referred to. This
staggered her for moment. Then she
said:
I'VE have lived together for fifteen years
and have never had a quarrel or a word of
disagreement We love our children and we
love the whole world Interrogated about
the bombs, Mrs. Parsons said: 81 know there
are between two and three thousand in this
city, and If it becomes necessary they could
De used, but do not believe the necessity
will arise, because the public have become
awakened to the fact that the people must
rule and the capitalists will give in without
bloodshed. Individuals, however, must act
on their convictions of duty
Mrs. Parsons declared that the best of
legal aid would be secured to defend the ac-
cused if it became necessary, but she did
not believe that the accused would be
brought to trial.