Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07

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nose is Of the fat or negro type. Her whoie
face has a strong suggestion OF Aztec Olood.
With her heavy ear rings, topaz buttons
ana shining silk gown she has an air OF od
q Egypt about her.
Her wavy hair is brushed back ana khOtUeu
in becoming style on the top OF her head one
wears black silk and velvet on the platform,
and speaks with a grace and force that heiu
her auditors closest attention TO the end Sne
has been Quite as active a labor reformer as
her husband, speaking again and again IN
Chicago and other points in the west, 70
crowded halls She Is an exceedingly good
even a wonderfully impressive speaker. her
audience follows her 10 the climax without an
instant's wearfneS. The subject of her lee
4 tnre in Clarendon hall was The Nineteenth
Century, aud what it has done for the
masses She said, among other things:
II has done very Ettc, i1deed. Nine-tenths Of
the persons on this globe ere condemned 20 tOn
for the other tenth. These latter are the railway
kings. factory ears anil iron Lords who crush OUT
the life blood Of the weak women and stall weaker
Il children They call Us crazy Anarchists because
wa endeayor 10 bring about a change. They say
we are irving 10 Su6yert civilization We are not,
81 say. We arr rot ene-uias Of the existing order
OF things. We are See1ing 10 remedy the evils IN
our civilization. They SAY We are home lies
troyers. Suppose We were trying TO turn every
thing into chaos, % upset the undetermined ciNE
6zation which enables thess railway kings, fac
tory ears and iron lords to crush the life blood
III out Of the people, could they blame US: We do
not destroy. We only desire to demand our
rights
On the night Of the meeting at the Haymarket
/ was at another meeting with my husband. He
and were at a meeting in another part OF the
city. IspOke at this meeting and had carried my
children with me. In a little while the meeting
was adjourned. Ny husband suggested that We
go 10 the Newmarket. Heavens, what p~erdlioUs
wretches we are! Our husbands carry the wives
and children they love right amidst destruction
and slaughter. Did any one ever hear SuchheS'
II was proved that one little man had lighted
the bomb He vas not an Anarchist. Police
CAPTAIN BonGeh had determined upOndcStrOying
the Anarchists. II il had not been for him and
others Of the policemen there would have been no
riot. The pOilC SwOre that a black and a u"t flag
were waved in the IiuyInarket. IL was rank,
downright perjury. | beEcye that q black flag
was waved twice, WAVED one at q meeting and
some one else at another meeting, 10 indicate that
distress and went and suffering were abroad in
the land. The red nag is Indicative Of the brother
hood OF man.
More is involved in this sacrifice than you real.
iy can believe. Can you not see that it is q move
ment Of the capitalstic class against the laborlnS
class throughout the worlds l tell you, il this
damnable verdict is carried cut the capitalists
will label everything anarchy, AMI they will have
it put out Of sight
Her husband. Albert r. Parsons, is anative
of Massachusetts,, aud is about - years old.
He was. il . said, for some time a scout in
Texas and was considered a dead shot
If ANYBODY SuppOSeS that it was an easy
thing to find Mrs Lucy Parsons in New York
sity, and talk with her, even when she was
most prominently before the public, he sup
poses what was not the case. y reporter
went from one great labor rrformer to an
other. and then from one violent revolution
ist b another, to find out where she was
stopping. An were faithful agnustics, for
they know nothing about anything. Yet
Mrs. Parsons was addressing large audiences,
and had a train Of followers whose names
made quite a showing in the daily prints.
But none could be found who knew where
she was stopping, or who could secure private
audience with her. At last a vigilant re-
porter-who ever heard Of one that wasn't
yigilant and kept his S~ituatiOn-found her by
accident, and they sat down together ans
talked a vast half hour. She dreams Of
the dawning of q day when power will DO de
centralized; when the supply will be only
enough TO meet the demand; when the farmer
will supply only so much of the products Of
the land; the shoemaker 50 many shoes; the
hattor so many hats, and so on; when land
will. be in common, when there will be no
rent, no interest and no profit, therefore no
Jaw Goulds, no Va~nderbiltS, no corporations
and no moneyed power. This she regards as
only the evolutionary stage of anarchiSm-the
revolutionary to be reached when the great
middle classes are practically extinct.
Mrs. Parsons showed what she could do I'M
der opposition at Central hall, in Orange, y.
j., on Sunday, the 2ith, The hall was en-
gagged for a meeting, and it wasn't understood
that the woman Anarchist was to be tho at
traction until two days before the time APP
pointed. When it was understood the owners
Of the hall became very much excited, and re-
solved TO keep Mrs Parsons and her adherentS
out at all hazards. So they locked the door.
A not particularly large group gathered at
the entrance at the hour named for the lee
ture and awaited results. Orange is a Staid
and law abiding town, not supposed to sym
pathize with revolutioniStS or new-fangled
doings Of any kind. Considerable interest
was manifested, and there was much Craning
Of peaceable New jersey neckS when a short,
SLIGHT little woman, with a complexion like a
new penny, pushed through the crowd and
mounted the stairs and triedt to open the door.
The crowd was confirmed in its belief when il
heard the little woman remark that she had
hired the hall and would get in somehow.
Even the most pacific people grow a little bit
excited when they see a fuss imminent, es-
pecia1ly If there is a woman in it. The honest
citizens Of Jersey confessed by their looks
that they were interested Five or six young
men followed Mrs Parsons to the head OF the
stairs with a ruSh-nOt to help her open the
door, but to see what she would do. There is
great comfort TO the mass Of humanity in
seeing individuals under a stress like that-a
sort Of strange delight in human passions"
The owner Of the hall about that time put
In an appearance, and while he was wonder
ing what he had better do about it the little
woman with the coppery complexion gave
me light folding doors a vigorous shake and
they flew open. Then there was hurrying in
hot haste, and a call for "a guard, no! a
guardp by the owner Of the hall A live
petkcoated Anarchist had really entered the
hall A pale but spirited young man seized
4 musket, fixed a bayonet and took position at
the head Of the stairs.
Mrs Parsons walked quietly to o window,
threw it up and said to the crowd, Come up.
i am here and Pm going to speak, The
audience accepted the Invitation and started
ND. but the young man with the bayonet dis
c0nraged them, whereupon the plucky Mrs
Parsons walked up TO him and talked to him
in q way that so diSintegrated bis self-reSpect
that he retired into an anterOOm and put
down his weapon OF carnage in selfloathing,
Meantime the owner Of the hall urged the
uec9le to step down and out, but instead they
steoSed up and in. Then the city mar
fhal and his able force were sent for.
They arrived, and began to drive the audi
ence out. first rounding them into the center
ct the hall, and then attempting % drive
them to the door, cowboy style Mrs Sar-
soma again came to the rescue, and energe(e-
eIif put backbone into her listeners SheeS
sared them that she had q contract for I'M
hal, and when The naarshalreaised the LT9tn