The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-10-14

country in the world there are existing proleta-
rians WHO are cast out from every order OF so
ciety saw human beings who fshed out their
food ON the slop-bnrrels on the streets in or
der 10 exist from day 20 day. read Of exam
pies in the daily papers. which prove to me tnat
In tai glorious country hero are people con-
dCmned 20 die from hunger. became sorry for
having left my own land, and asked myself
what arc the r,asons that could bring about
such a state OF things.
Il have lost my respect for American laws. L
am convinced, aud this conviction one can
tear out Of my heart, that the proletariat, by
means OF machinery, will gain power tn educate
themselves. Not even those can hinder il who
to-day arrogate TO themselves the government
Of the Workingmen
Engel lifted his voice and fourshed his right
hand over his head as he cried
I'm spite OF all, anarchy will exist If not in
public, IL will exist i'm private. II the States
Attorney thinks by sending seven men to the
galloWs and another ono TO the penitentiary no
can break up anarchy, he is mistaken. lie can
only change the tactics, he cannot stop the
movement. Nothing can stop the workingmen
from making bombs, and they will be used. /
am convinced anprchism cannot be rooted out"
Engol wound up with n TRADE against the
capitalists and coal barons. He was followed
by Sam Fieldon, who prefaced what he had 20
say by reciting poem from the German of
Ferdinand Freilierdth, entitled, Revolution"
The first stanza was as follows:
And tho We caught your noble prey within your
hangmans sOrdd thrall,
And tho your captive was led forth beneath
your city's rampant wall,
And tho the grass lies DER her green, where, Mt
the mornings early red,
The peasant girl brings funeral wreaths, I tell
you still-she is not dead
After oulogizing the poet, Fiolden declared he
himself revolutionist that IL was only
crime to be n revolutionist when the man enter
tanning such ideas WIS n poor man; among in
tellectual people it was no crime. He declared
he had been arrested and indicted for murder
but had been tried for anarchy.
Fielden took up the Hayma -ket meeting and
discussed his speech at great length, claiming
tl,at frrA Ifot- f,, "A
that there was no excuse for the interference Of
the police. IN closing he said
Your Honor, with due respect TO your years.
wish to say this, that it is quite possible that
you can not understand, having lived in n diff
ferent atmosphere from what we have lived in
how men can hold such ridiculous ideas.
have no doubt that you have felt that way. Yet
it is we'll known that persons who live 70 n very
ripe old age very seldom change their opinions
But impute no wrong motye in that 1t IL
natural result But we do claim that our prn-
ciples2will bear discussion, investigation, and
criticism.
If can say anything in the interests Of hu-
manity in the interests OF liberty, equality, and
fraternity. would say it now. Take heed take
heedl The time, my friends, is not far off. The
swift process of reduction Of the masses into a
condition OF depravity and degradation as is
evinced by the numbers of men out Of employ
ment shows US clearly where We are going. We
cannot deny IL. No thinking man. no reason
ing man, no friend Of his kind can ignore the
fact that we are going rapidly onto precipce.
Your Honor, have worked ut hard labor
since / was eight years OF age. went into a
cotton factory when l was eight years DID, and
have worked continually since, and there has
never been time In my history that / could
have been bought or could have been paid to
say single thing by any man or for any pur-
pose which 1 did not believe to be true. To
contradict the lie that was published in con-
nection with the bill by the grand jury charg
ing us with murder, wish to say that have
never received one cent for agitating.
To-day, as the beautiful autumn sun kisses
with balmy breeze the check Of every free man,
stand here never TO battle my head In its rays
again. l have loved my fellow men as have
loved myself. Ihave hated trickery, dishonesty,
and injustice. The nineteenth century com
mits the crime of killing its best friend. It
will live to repent Of il. But. as have said
before, il it will do any good freely give my
self up. trust the time will come when there
will be better understanding more iptelli-
gence, and, above the mountains of iniquity,
wrong and corruption, I hope the sun Of right
eousness, and truth. and justice will come to
battle in its balmy light an emancipated world.
l thank your Honor for your attention"
Albert r. Parsons followed Fielden. With a
flower in his button-hole, water, lemon red
handkerchief, and a bundle of manuscript on
he is vain and affected. He rolled his "r's" and
his eyes, said me" for N.Y. was gentle as a
lamb one second and frothed at the
mouth the next. He paced up and
down. stood on his toes, and crouched
70 the floor He aimed TO be dramatic, and sue
ceeded only in being sensational and vehement.
Of hts address, with dramatic gesture and
intense tones he Numbered forth: Il will tell
tho truth though my tongue be torn from my
mouth, and my throat cut from ear to ear, SO
help me Godi" Continuing, he said Your Honor,
/ stand here as one of the people, common
man. workingman, one OF the millions, and
/ ask you to give ear TO what 1 have to say.
You stand as a bulwark you stand as brake
between them and US. You stand here the
representative Of justice, holding the poised
scales in your hands. You are expected to
look neither to the right nor TO the left but 10
do that by which justice and justice alone shall
be subserved. Now, the conviction of e man,
your Honor, does not necessarily prove that he
is guilty. Your law books are filled with in
stances where men have been carried to the
scaffold and after their death il has been proven
that the murder was judicial; that il was q
judicial murder. Now what END can be SUBJ
served in hurrying this matter through in the
] manner in which it has been done? Where are
the ends Of justice subserved, and where is
| truth found in sending seven human beings AT
the rate of express speed upon IA fast train to
the scaffold and an ignominious death2 Why
| If your Honor please, the very method Of ouI
determination, the deep damnation of our tax
ing off, appeals to your Honor's sense of justice
| OF rectitude, and OF honor, judge may also
| be unjust man. Such things have been
known.
snow, hold that our execution, as the matter
! stands Just now, would be judicial murder and
judicial murder is far worse than lynch law
| far worse. But, your Honor, bear in mind
please, this trial was conducted by mob
! prosecuted by mob, by the shrieks and the
| hOwls OF q mob, an organized powerful mob
| That trial Is over. Now, your Honor, YOU SIT
here judicially, calmly and quietly, and il is foi
you now TO look at this thing from the standpoint
Of reason and Of common sense There is one pc
| culiarity about the case, your Honor that want
TO coll your attention to. It was tho manner and
the method Of its prosecution. On the one
side tue attorneys for the prosecution con
Quoted this case from the standpoint Of capt
| talists against labor. On the other side the
attorneys for the defense conducted this case
as a defense for murderers, not for laborers
and not against capitalists. The prosecution il
this case throughout has been n capitalistiC
| prosecution inspired by the instinct of capital
! ism, and mean by that by class feelings, by
! dictatorial right to rule and n denial To com
mon PEOPLE the right to say anything or have
| ANYTHING TO say TO these men. They conducted
this trial from that standpoint throughout.
"The capitalistic press has taken great paini
20 say that socialists fight machinery that W,
fight property. Why sir, IL is an absurdity, i
| Is ridiculous, IL is preposterous. No man evel
| heard one of us speak who ever heard an utter
ance from the mouth Of n socialist advising any
thing Of the kind They know to the contrary
We don't fight machinery; we don't oppos,
these things. 1t is only the manner and tn,
| methods Of il, your Honor, that object TO
| That is ALL 1t is the manipulation of thes,
things When we see little children budding
around the factory gates, the poor little things
whose bones not yet hard, whom we Sc,
| them clutched from the hearthstone, taker
away from the family altar. and carried to tn,
bastiles Of labor and their little bones ground
up into gold dust TO bedeck the form Of som,
aristocratic Jezebel, then IL stirs the manhood
in me, and speak out. We plead for the little
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