The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-11
The AnarchIsts-The Verdict.

The corporate monopoly press, with a
unanimlty which proves that their edi-
tors each draw inspiration from the
same fount, assert with triumphant
headlines: The end of Anarchy in the
country"-"A righteous judgment"
1t Is well known thai the Anarchists
and their methods have received in the
columns of the View unwavering con-
emnation, and to such an extent that
Anarchist papers refuse to exchange
with US. Yet Justice demands that we
caution these organs of d more danger
Gus class to republican government,
than the Anarchists can ever become,
that they are treadlng upon dangerous
ground. A few short years ago a few
men under the lead of John Brown,
made insane bv their wild zeal IN the
cause of freedom, seized building be-
longing to the governmen and declared
war. In the attempt to disperse them
lives were sacrificed John Brown was
tried aud executed amid din of rejoic-
ing on the. part of the monopolists of
that day Remember the events which
followed.
Let not your ioY at the condemnation
of the Anarchists blind your eyes to the
facts in this case. The people will not
be blinded, you may rest assured.
The Anarchists had held very tame
meetlng-tame in comparison to others
previously held by them. The crowd
had largely dispersed. The meeting
was being brought to close. The
mayor, who had been on duty where he
could watch over the meeting, had notl-
fed the police officer that there was no
danger of any disturbance, and or 1ered
him to send the police about their
regular duties, and had then retired.
This police officer, instead of obeying
orders, waited until tue mayor was
gone, then rushed up his squads, and
hurled them at the meeting, and brutally
ordered the crowd to disperse. Tuen
bomb was thrown into the midst Of the
police, killing many and wounding
more.
Who threw the bomb there was no
evidence on the trial to show-for the
testimony of the Plnkerton detective
was not evidence. Now IN view Of the
many cowardly, brutal acts committed by
the Pinkerton detectives within the past
year notably, the car-irlvers' strike IN
St Louis-it is just as cogent to conclude
that the raid upon the meeting and the
throwing Of the bomb was the work of
the detectives as to believe it the work
of the Anarchists. The Plnkerton force
is more dangerous to American freedom
than all the Anarchists Europe can spew
upon the shores of this country.
If Gilman names the right man,
Schnaubelt, why not conclude that he
also is in the employ of the Pinkertons
as we'll as Gilman? And that they have
concealed him until he can safely turn
up under some other name. Perhaps
his true name2
1t is asking a great deal of the people,
to ask them to believe that tine detec-
lives could not have found him; or to
swallow the story of his dead body
found floating in Lake Erie, this smacks
too much of the methods of clumsy
crooks.
tany rate, let us make sure that pas
sion does not take the place of evidence:
In aiding us to condemn the Anarchists
accused of throwing the bomb.
Whenever you have convinced this
people that our courts of Justice have be-
come the tools of the corporate monopo-
lies, under the management of "Pinker-
TONS" you will make more Anarchists In
a month than all the murders, brutall-