The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-06-03

force to overcome another organized force Is
simply creating one evil to subdue another, so
that in the end nothing is gained. They have
an organization for debating purposes and but
one permanent officer who is the secretary
treasurer He calls each meeting to order, and
the meeting Immediately elects Il temporary
chairman. They say a majority rules because
it can, the minority isn't enough for them,
therefore it is prudent to recognize majority
rule i'll all cases where il division occurs.
| have taken special pains to describe the
Anarchists because they seem to be the least
understood, but that readers may not think |
have tried to describe organizations that know
nothing of, will state that | am personally
acquainted with all the leading Anarchists in
Chicago. and also many of the leading Socialists
and leaders also of the Trades Union and
Knights of Labor of that city. Have attended
many of the public meetings of each of these
organizations, read their platforms and litera-
ture and conversed privately with many cf
them. | am also well acquainted with two
Russians who left Russia to escape punishment
as NihiliStS. What have written is therefore
no guesswork.
Perhaps leaving the subject to say il few
words concerning the difficulty in Chicago on
May 4th will be eXcusable here because the
dispatches sent under excitement as they We're
did not always convey correct ideas. The An
archiSts called that meeting to lenounce some
previous action of the police in disburSing Il
crowd of strikers, also to discuss the anarchistic
view of the labor question and propagate the
doctrine of Anarchy. Free speech regardless
of law, order OF consequences is their usual
style of writing and no doubt this was their
style of speech on that occasion. The crowd
chcercd the most radical utterances in most
noisy manner. The police We're no doubt
aggravated by the unreStraincd criticisms of the
speakers. Up to the time the police appeared
in force and demanded the crowd to diSperSc
no law had been violated by any of the crowd.
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but the crowd had acted upon none of them or
attempted to. They were simply noisy in their
cheering and especially i'll cheering the criti-
cisms upon the police. In the opinion of the
police the crowd ought to be dispersed and
they We're accordingly ordered to di>perSc.
one threw a bomb into the ranks of the police.
More than half the crowd We're curiosity seek
crs and they were >tampcdcd ut once. Some
of the crowd had fire arms and Immediately
opened fire and run. Whether or not all these
fired ut the police is not known. The small
number of police injured by bullets shows
that but few could have fired at them. The
Anarchists charge that the first volley came
from police and detectives in citizens dress in
the crowd and from frightened persons who
did dnot know why they fired, and from persons
whom the police had previously maltreated.
City authorities make it Il practice to put into
all questionable crowaS goodly number of
disguised police and detectives, and it is Il
curious fact that no one has Vet been Identified
who fired on the police or was carrying arms
that night. The persol who threw the bomb
was probably in disguise and threw it on his
own responsibility. Before the police recovered
from the shock firing b' gan from the crowd
and then the police in body numbering about
two hundred began firing into the crowd of
about two thousand. This was bloody work
and police in the rear no doubt wounded police
in the front for their firing was diSordcrly.
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