Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-07
ANARCHIST PARSONS.
From His Cell In The Chicago Bastile
He IudIies a Letter About the N. OF
l.. and the Red Flag,
He says the knights and Anarchist ARE
ono and the Red Flag Is the Only
banner They Can Follow.

CHICAGO, lLI., July 6.--Anarchist Par
sons has addressed letter dated "Cook
County Bastile Cell No. loG," to the edit
or Of the Daily News, In regard TO the
action taken in District Assembly No. "a
Knights Of Labor OF Chicago, denouncing
him and others as advocates Of riot and
murder because they are anarchists and
communists; that Parsons be expelled
from the Knights Of Labor In company
with other workingmen who follow the
red dag and uphold the doctrines OF
socialism. Parsons claims that the OBJ
iects and aims OF the knights of Labor
and anarchists and socialists are pre-
cisely Identical. In support OF this
statement he quotes from the principles
adopted by the recent convention and
says: SIN addition TO the above the or
der also proclaims that among the higher
duties there should be taught In every
local assembly mans iualienable, inher-
liable right to a share In the use OF the
soil, and that the right to
life carries with IL the means
of living, and that all statutes
Oaws) that obstruct or deny these rights
are wrong and unjust and must give way.
After reading the above, submit II to a
candid and intelligent public to decide II
these are not the precise objects and
aims which socialism has proclaimed for
thirty years, and advocated by socialists
and anarchists all over the world.
| Such being the case, Knights of
Labor is simply another name for social
| lists, a fact which all intelligent persons
understand very well. As to the red
flag, the wage-workers who march to the
music of labor's emancipation, whatever
their nationality or creed, are repudiated
and outlawed by every flag save the red
one. AS to riot and murder, what are
the iacts2 Let the record OF the Interna-
| tional union, which is au anarchist
organization, answer for Itself. The
haymarket meeting was a protest against
| the murders which had been committed
at McCormck's the day before. II this
looks like murder and riot then put us
down as such. Through the grated bars
of my prison cell there comes from the
streets the noise and din of
the Fourth Of July, that day
which ITO years ago was made
memorable by the proclamation Of the
declaration OF the inalienable rights of
man. My ancestors helped frame the
declaration and sacrificed and fought to
maintain it, They held resistance to
tyrants was obedience to God, and If they
lived to-day would be on trial for ''riot
and murder,n and the scaffold would be
! thrust in their faces for disloyalty towards
establishing wrongs. The district assembly
Imputes to the anarchists the RESPONSE
bility for the hay market tragedy Of May
4. They don't seem to comprehend that
that affair, like those of East st. Louis,
McCormick's factory, Bayvew, Milwau
kee and elsewhere, were the natural out
growth OF class struggle and the wage
system, so likewise the spread Of anarch
ism and the growth of the knights o
Labor result from an inevitable collision
between the privileged class and the op
pressed. PRoLETARiAT.