The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-09
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Herr NIost,s speech.

The following is Herr Most's recent speech
to the jury just before they found him
guilty:
GENTLEMEN oF THE JURY-First make that am
not very well able 10 speak English. IL is ne first
Tune tnat give public speech in English. Sn /,
il you don't understand any sentence that have
TO give, please ask me, and perhaps can make
myself understood by other words.
Now, then, you heard GOOD deal about me- in
this conrt room. You heard a good zeal o. the
District Attorney yesterday. and supIo-e you
are OF the opinion that he blackened the devil
much as possible. lam of the opinion that YOU
expected good deal of witnt SECS Tor the prosecu
tGn ano that you expected good deal OF otner
bat kenlng OF The devil What came OF II, gen
tlemen? l should say less than nothing came %
it. What remains now of the whole pr0sec .tionc
At last they arrested me, and the police said
that they arrested beneath the bed. II i lie.
tell the police where live. / lived in that very
room for four months before
They arrested me ana they showed a good
many things that they took away from me. But
they didn't show my pocketbOok. gentlemen, or
The $50 that they took away from ne.
The attorney said yesterday He is man that
never works. l say that l work like every body
else in these walls work twelve hours and
sometimes sixteen hours day, and should he
sorry if there are many wOrkmen who earn loss
than /. don't earn more than So or Sl0a week.
No sir. No, gentlemens.
That meeting on the night of April p. was au
Orderly me eting of orderly woTkingmens. What
did / say: l said in short words. simply this:
The Constitution OF the Uni:ed States OF North
arm himself Workers, why do you not arm YOUR
selves? And why don't they, Perhaps because
they don't understand the mt aiming OF the Con
stitntion. The capitaistc classes are well armed.
The police, their servants. are well armed. only
the wOTkingmens have empty hands. There have
been done terrible things lately against working
mems. women aud children. not only by the
special police, but by the private police OF the
linkertOn institution, bought. piece by piece, for
So like in East St. Louis, to Kill peaceful men aud
women. To peaceful assembly there come the
80 day hirelngs OF Jay Gould, hired for the very
purpose to Kill anybody with repeating rifles,
and perhaps, gentlemens, they didn't cost SD, but
Tntn ! ri planned what kind Of arms were to be
had. Hid: "In the Constitution OF the United
States North America there is no specification
as To a. no exclusion. You can have a cannon
il you . ease and. of course, bomb if you please.
You can have rifle. They have made a law
against concealed weapons. Therefore don't con
ccal them show them, tree and open"
RevClveTS rifles and bombs, on, yes; there was
q witness here that had invented a new weapon.
Perhaps ii was invented in that Martins saloon.
ILsughter.l He said advised the people to take
sticks, bind around some cotton. put 1t in the
beDZine. and fire it into the houses. 1t was only
an invention of the witness. ! never said that.
Another witness came in aud said that advised
the people to throw vitriol ont OF the windows.
lie was called 10 repeat this charge in the German
language. Some of you gentlemen are Germans.
Did be not repeat ''NitriOl. vitriol:' 1t should
be scLweielseur. if it was correct Another wit
ness was quite higher still in his inventions. He
like should be done in New York. Yet II was the
sd OF April, and the riot on the Sd or 18th OF
May Bah, You can see what kind OF witnesses
they were.
/ remember that Henry Ward Bee her-yOU re-
member him-aiso the people did invite 10 arm
themselves. He said even in the church, they
ought To buy rifles, Sunday after sunday He
said You are entitled u have rifles III your
houses aud use them for Self-1efense.
Here ! stand, and have said what | did say
anU what / didn't say II you t1ink am gull
ii you think Il an should be put IN prison Tor
having expressed his opinion, for haYin advise d.
the people TO defend themselves against unlawful
acts. then expect and accept your verdict o.
guilty But If you an understand that | didn' Z
do anything of the kind, that simply made r
speech as Others did besides me. day by day and
week by week. without being interfered with.
then expect verdict OF not guilty. expect an
aCQuittal. expect that you will hold that free
speech in America should be as il until the
END.