The Labor enquirer., 1886-06-12

has brains or learning enough to hold a
ten dollar brief in court of record but
what knows that when the hired band
of assassins charged the Anarchists
meeting at the Haymarket, every uni
formed felon among them deserved
death for his cowardly crime. Every
lawyer knows that the body of citizens
composing the meeting would have keen
legally justifable If they had extermin-
ated the whole gang of Claw and order"
assassins7 And vet when it came to
the test it was found that the Anarchists
had only one roor, pitiful, half-made,
inefficient bomb among them If they
intended to fight at all, what excuse can
be given for the miserable fact? If they
had had only score of men with bomb
or two apiece, properly stationed and
properly trained, not one of the 25O
hired assassins who came there to "dis
perse the mob" contrary to the funda-
mental principle of our government,
could have escaped There is no excuse
for the conduct of these men who began
holy fight with avowed miscreants
with only one bomb in their arsenal.
If they had been led and disciplined as
they ought to have been, the sun that
set on Chicago that evening would have
lighted city at least temporarily free
from the stink and SIN of"special police"
or Especial deputies" sort of criminals
that no American city ever had any use
for except when the usurers and extor-
tioners are seeking protection" for
some infamous scheme Of plunder.
do not believe in force as a remedy
for any wrongs, but if workingmen of
any kind or organization resort to force
at all, they ought to do it IN such a way
as not to render themselves mere bnlls
for police and militia to shoot at, not in
such a way as to render themselves
ridiculous and contemplate, but in such
a way as to make themselves too terrible
for sneers and laug ter of their we'll
dressed enemies, and too active, earnest
and full Of purpose, to admit the
possibility of failure while they them
selves live. If the Anarchists, or any
other people, want TO hold open air
meetings. and talk just as they please,
they have an undoubted legal and moral
right to DO 50 but if they call meetings
and suffer themselves to be dispersed by
some hired ruffians in uniform, they will |
remain objects of pity and contempt.
Of course any Anarchistic meeti ng in
Chicago, held in the open air, will be
dispersed if it has only one little bomb |
to protect itself with
Can't something be said or done to
put stop to the constant recurrence of
this sad, pitiful, terrible spectacle of un-
armed working people, seeking to de-
lend themselves with their naked hands
against armed and drilled assassins
Can't the bombs be made more plentl-
full ? But my object in writing is not to
e courage the rse Of force, as have no
faith IN the efficacy Of force at all. l
only insist that if the people do use guns
or dynamite at all, they shall proceed in
d common sense, courageous waV to use
them effectively. 1t is idiotiC to fight
armed and drilled assassins with the
naked hand, or to fight 250 such ruttans
with only one little bomb. For Gods |
sake, for the sake of common sense, for
the saL of preserving the people from
contempt and laughter, either let US
have no more resistance to police and
militia, or let US have resistanbe that
shall be systematic, efficient and terrible.
But it seems to me that men and
women so brave, intelligent and human
ltarian as many of your correspondents,
ought to see in the recent terrible occur
rences both in this country and in Eu-
rope, new conclusive evidence that there
is no other remedy for the wrong, lnJus-
tice and suffering which grow out OF civ
ilization, except the Divine Political
Economy, the system Of Communism
built on Faith, which our Lord Jesus
Christ ordained for the regeneration OF
the world here in this pl esent life, under
the name Of the Kingdom Of Heaven"
OF course, ecclesiastics who preach Con
stantines gospel, say that the kingdom
of heaven had reference only to some
other life, but that is all stuff; for the
kingdom of heaven from the days OF
Adam to the davs of Constantine have
reference to no life but this. 1t was
temporal Salvation for which Jesus died
N. C. KoUNs.
FREE SPEECH.