Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-12
WARNING TO ANARCHISTS.
Remarks of Judge Garry in Sentencing
the Chicago Anarchists.

OF Judge carry IN sentencing
Ii Chicago Anarchists.
Following are the remarks of Judge
Garry, of Chicago, before whom certain
Anarchists of that city were tried and con-
victed of murder:
l am quite well aware that what YOU
have said, although addressed to me. has
been said to the world. Yet nothing has
been said which weakens the force OF the
proofs or The conclusions therefrom upon
which the verdict is based. You are all
men of intelligence, and know that if the
verdict stands it must be executed. | am
sorry beyond any power of expression for
your unhappy condition and the terrible
events which have brought it about. l
shall address to you neither reproach nor
exhortation. What l shall say shall be in
the faint hope that a few words from a
place where the people of the State of
Illinois have the authority to declare a
penalty for the violation of the laws, and
spoken upon on occasions so solemn and
awful as this, may come to the knowledge
and be needed by the ignorant. deluded
and misguided men who have listened to
your counsel and followed your advice.
1t is not the least among the hardships of
the peaceable, frugal and laborious poor to
endure the tyranny of mobs who, with
lawless force, dictate to them under
penalties of peril to limb and life where,
when and upon what terms they may
earn a livelihood Tor themselves or
their families. Any Government that is
worthy the name will st~renuously endeavor
to secure to all within its jurisdiction
freedom to follow lawful a~yocations and
safety for their property and persons while
obeying the law, and law is common sense.
1t holds each man responsible for the natu-
raj and probable consequence of his own
acts. 1t holds that whoever advises murder
is himself guilty of the murder that is CON-
mitted pursuant to his advice; and if men
band together, for forcible resistance to the
execution of the law, and advise murder as
a means of making such resistance effect
ual, whether such advice be to one man to
murder another, or to a numerous class to
murder men of another class, all who are
so banded together are guilty of any muir
der that is committed in pursuance of such
advice. The people of this country love
their institutions, they love their homes,
they love their property, and they will
never consent that by violence and murder
| those institutions shall be broken down.
their homes devastated, and their property
| destroyed. And the people are strong
enough to protect and to sustain their ipsti-
t%utions, and to punish all offenders against
their laws, and those who threaten danger
to civil society. If the law is enforced, YOU
are leading to destruction whoever at
tempted to execute such threats. The ex-
listing order of society can be changed
only by the will of the majority,
Each man has full right to enter
tain and advocate by speech, and print
such opinions as suit them, and the great
body of the people will usually care little
what he says. But if he proposes murder
as a means of enforcing his opinions, he
puts his own life at stake, and no clamor
about free speech or evils to be cured or
wrongs to be redressed will shield him
from the consequences of his crime. His
liberty is not licensed to destroy. The toll
Grafton that he enjoys he must extend to
others, and rot arrogantly assume that the
great majority are wrong and may right
fully be coerced by terror and removed by
dynamite. 1t only remains that for the
crime you have committed and Of which
| you have been convicted-unexampled in
the patience with which an outraged peo-
pie have extended to you every protection
| and privilege of that law which YOU de.
rided and defied-that the sentence of that
law will be now given in form and detail.
That sentence, which will appear upon the
the record of the Court, in substance and
effect is: That the defendant, Neebe, be
imprisoned in the State P~enitentiary at
Joliet, at hard labor for a term of fifteen
years. And that each of the defendants,
between the hours of 10 o'clock in the fore
loon and 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the
third day of December next, in the man.
ner provided by the Statute of this State,
shall be hung by the neck until he is dead.
Remove the prisoners.