The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-13
The Honest Teamster Dissects
the Perjuries Of the
Police X
And Marshall FIELDS Hirehngs.
Fielden Attends the Haymar-
ket by an. Accident.
Because Of Reading a Notice in the
"NeNso-b by Chance He
HAST Hang.

The board oftrade meeting has beer
referred to, and 1t has been claimed D'
that intellectual class of people, the de
tectives. that that night I advised tn
people, to 60 in there and psrtakd o
their $40 supper. johnson, himself
though not the most truthful of persons
says he did not hear anything of thai
kind. I will say here for the edifcatior
of the gentlemen who have produced
this conviction, defy them to find a
single report of the meeting in any O
the morning papers that bears such 6
statement. They come in here and give
evidence worse than their remarkable
reports. Not one reporter in the next
mornings papers reported me as having
said ANYTHING of the kind. \
What did say on that occasion was
that the board Of trade Of this city had
received considerable eulogy from the
press ofthis country for the grand struc-
ture they had erected in which to trade
on the means of existence of the people
of the country. 1t was claimed that
said that that monument of architectural
beauty had cost nearly 100000. 1 re,
peat this now because any of you who
read the papers that morning will re-
member that you have seen this report.
said before it had been in existence
many years as board of trade it would
have cost the people of Chicago and the
northwest s2.OO0,OO0. 1 said nothing
about going IN there. l said that the
eulogy that had been given to these men
should not 90 unrebuked; that the
working classes, on whose substance the
board of trade had been built, had been
called to the meeting to discuss this
question, and to get up demonstration
which would march around the board of
trade and show thea that not all the
community was eulogizing them and
their business; that there was an ele-
ment in it which disapproved Of boards
of trade. That was all there was of that
speech.
Much has been said of the American
group meetings. In the spring of 1885 q
gentleman came on here from Washing
ton and attended our meetings. He had
studied the labor question. He listened
to what we had to say, and disaDproved
our position. l challenged him to
public discussion. He came and STAYED
at the Palmer house, and the next Suh-
day we had debate on the principles of
Socialism, he claiming that these we're
not the means by which the condition
of society would be renovated, and l
claiming that they were. Since this
trial has been in progress that gentle
man has written letter to us informing
Us that be was willing to come upon the
stand Lere and testify that our meetings
we're not for the purpose of melting peo-
pie to riot, but merely for discussion of
economic questions. Aud that was !
the meetings we're for.
l was not indicted for inclting riot
If l had been l could have broug ht q
great deal of this evidence in. Twenty
men were in the witness room ready to
testify to the board of trade meeting and
the language used there and on other oc.
casions where we had spoken; but we
thought we were being tried for murder.
We found out afterward we were being
tried for Anarchy, and that was the rea-
son We did not think it necessary to
bring those men upon the stand. There
was q separate indictment for riot, as
we'll IS murder, and that evidence would
have been proper to combat the charge
Of riot.
After the board of trade demonstra-
ton we came back to No. 107 Fifth ave.
nue., and Mr.. Parsons snd Spies and l
spoke from the window. told the peo-
pie on that occasion that they had shown
that they disapproved of boards of trade =.
that thev had possibly put bee in the
bonnAs of the board Of trade men. l
advised them to 20 home and study po-
itical economy and learn what was
their position in society, but not one
word advising them to 60 to Marshal
FIELDS. But it il very clear whv there
should have been 20 much testimony
brought in here regarding Marshal
Field. He depended upon him for his
daily wages he depended on him for
preferment. A witness was brought In
here who testified to Spies and schwab,
and got them held by the grand jury,
and Marshal Field has given that man q
Job. This is broughtin before the man
on the jury, who is dependent on Mar
shal Field for his living. He has given
a Job to the man who gave such dama9-
ing testimony before tie coroners jury
in order to get our convictien.
Why, was itnot reasonable to anybody
why there should have been so mucn
Marshal Field lugs-d in heref On Nd
occasion, except as illustrating point'
has anybody at any Socialistic meeting
thatI have ever attend ed advised any
body to 20 to Marshal Fields and take
anything. We have pointed, perhaps,
to Marshal Field. /, on the lake front,
have pointed TO Pullman's building