The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-08-24
,oRrLAND, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST "a, 1886.
WILD ANARCHlSM.
MiIwaukee's Arbeiter Zeitung Fore
tells Sea of Blood.
The Milk of Human Kindness to be
Changed to viruIent Poison.

CHICAGO, Aug pa special despatch
from Milwaukee, Wis, says: Paul Grottkau,
formerly connected with Spies in the Chica..
go Arbeiter Zeitung, in Sundays issue. OF
lowing starting headlines over a column and
half of comment on the conviction OF the
Chicago anarchists.
"An unheard of verdict; seven of the ae-
cused found guilty of murder; a jury bought
by the railway kings and merchant princes !;
all the monopolists become impudent, the
police has the right to murder citizens; pro-
paganda for anarchiSm."
In opening his remarks Editor Grottkau
says: mo mightier agitation from the wild
than the blood verdict of the Chicago jury
Now there will begin at that city and else
where general persecution of WOrkingmen.
Each boss and each police officer will now
become very impudent, for now the whole
gang that lives from the fruits of the labor
Of others will believe themselves justified in
doing almost anything. Fallacious theory!
How little do the rulers of today and their
tools know human nature! Acquitted, the
accused would have been harmless indivIdu-
ais, whose halo would have some faded.
The alleged American liberty and justice
would have been received as genuine Soin by
the people for a few years yet. The police
would have behaved better than heretofore,
and the advancing organization OF the work.
ingmenn would have created and preserved
order"
After declaring that the culprits were not
convicted on account of the bomb explosion,
but because they had organized the working
men and advised them to arm, the article
sspeculates on the manner in which the yer,
dict was obtained: ssThe jury was composed
of clerks employed by railroad and whole
sale dealers. The police, in league with the
monopolists, undoubtedly found good oppor
tunlties to approach the jury, for the purpose
of seeing them and strengthening their way
nth nc fA ftln rrtYilf nf 10 l1rIc
oners, with other arguments than those used
by the States attorney in open court. Pro-
lection and fulSome praise, perhaps substan-
tial rewards, awaited them if they put the
agitators out of the way. They decided for
the latter. There are today in Chicago a
larger number and more dangerous agitators
against the continuation of this murderous
society of monopOliSts than there were day
before yesterday. The trial has opened the
eyes of thousands as to the real nature of the
speech and public assemblage. The mono
polists create martyrs and martyrs are more
dangerous than speaking and writing agita-
tors. A new era in the agitation of the
robbed against the robbers begins"
In conclusion, Grottkau dWells on what he
affects to see in store for the country as re-
suit Of the verdict ''The robbers have ap-
piled the theory of terrorization. and terroriza-
tion will come. 1t will not, SO far as we
know, fail to make its appearance. Who
SOWS Tile Wlhu snail reap Gn6 WnlrlWlnQ.
The cause will live without the convicted
eight men. They will be missed only by
their relatives, but not in the the movement
in which they now take greater part than
before. Their places can be more than filled.
manner, by impudent and plainly unjust
blood verdicts. Least of all can it be eXter-
minated. The milk of human kindness will
be changed into virulent poison in thousands.
The peace which will be established in Chi
will not please the gang which yearned for
the blood of the Haymarket prisoners. Bru-
tality has revolutionized Ireland, and the
social laws of Germany have intensified the
movement there The Chicago verdict will,
sooner or later, bring Most's idea into fash
ion. 1t will then be question of who has
the most persons that 90 not fear to die ON
their side. Let us wait"