Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-12
SENTENCING The ANARCHISTS
The last Act in Judge Gary's Court
Against the HaymerISet jTurdcrers.

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The Last Act IN Judge Gary's Court
Against the Haymarset iTurdcrers.
Chicago, Oct. Sat the conclusion of
Parsons speech the sentence of the court
was imposed upon the condemned an
archists. Judge Gary's words in impos-
ing the sentence will not be soon for
gotten. They were as follows:
am quite we'll aware that what you
have said, although addressed to me, yet
nothing has been said winch weakens
the force of the proof OR conclusions
therefrom upon which the verdict is
based. You are all men of Intelligence
and know that it the verdict stands 1T
must be executed. / am sorry beyond
any power OF expression for your un-l
happy condition and the terrible events
which have brought it about. / shall
address to You neither reproseh or
exhortation. What | shall say shall be
in the faint hope that a few words from
the place where the people OF the state !
of Illinois have delegated the authority
to declare the penalty of the violation of
their laws and should on AN occasion so
solemn and awful as this, may come to the
knowledge of 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 aud upon what
terms they may earn a livelihood for
themselves or their families. Any gov
eminent that ID worthy che name will
s%trenuously endeavor to secure to all
within its jurisdiction freedom to fol-
low lawful v%ocations, and safety for their
property and persons, while cbeying the
law and the law in common sense. 1t
holds each man responsible for the
natural end probable consequences OF
his W acts. 1t holds that whoever
advises murder is himself guilty OF
murder that is committed pursuant to
his advice, and if men band together
for forcible resistance to the execution
OF The law, advise murder as the means
OF making such resistance effectuaI,
whether such advice be to one man to
murder another, or to a numerous class
to murder men of another class, all who
ore SO banded together are guilty of any
murder committed in pursuance of such
advice. The people of this country love
their ,nBtitut;ons; they love their
homes; they love their property. They
will never consent that by violence and
murder those institutions shall be
broken down, their homes despoiled and
their property destroyed, and the peo-
pie are strong enough to protest and to
sustain their institutions, and to punish
oil their offenders against their laws;
and those who threaten danger to civil
society, if the law is enforced, are lead
ing to destruction whoever may attempt
to execute such threats. The ex-
listing order of society can be changed
only by the will OF the majority Each
man has the full right to entertain and
advocate by speech and print such
opinions as suit themselves and the
great body of the people will usually
care little what he says, but if he pur-
poses murder as a means of enforcing
3 he puts his own life at stake and no
clamor about fres speech on evils
to be cured or wrongs to be
redressed will shield him from the
consequences of his grim His liberty
is not license to destroy. The federation
that he enjoys he must extend to others
+ and not arrogantly assume that the
RTeht majority are wrong ana may flghS.
fully be coeroed by terror or removed by
} dynamite. 1t only remains that fol-
the crime you have committed
and of which you have
= been convicted after trial, unexampled
in patience with which an outraged
: people have extended to you every
r protection and privilege OF the Law
which you derided and detied, that the
:, sentence of that law be now given. II
' form and detail that sentence viii
appear upon the record OF the court
X In substance and effect it is that thu
defendant Neebe be imprisoned in the
state penltentlary at Joliet at hare
labor for o term OF fifteen years, ant
that each of the other defendants
. between the hours Of 10 o'clock in tn,
forenoon and 2 O'Clock in the a~fternoo,
OF the 3rd day of December next, in tn,
manner provided by the statute of thi
state, shall be hung by the neck unit
a he is dead.
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