Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-09
ChIcago's Eight Doomed Anarchists IN
Turn Address the Court Before
Being Sentenced.
Their Speeches Teeming with Social.
istle Views Desperate Utter.
ances Of Desperate Men.
AZ INC hrIueat OF Parsons Court Adiourna
Unul this Morning without
Passing Sentence.
srIEs rINIsnEs nIs rALK.

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anarchist cases, In concluding his address
to the court before sentence was passed.
said The various savage tribes are not
particular as to the responsibility or
identity of persons sacrificed, SO long as
they have life for life. This principle
prevails to great extent among the ma
lives OF the Sandwich islands. ii we are
to be hanged on these principles, then let
II be known, Let the world know what
a civilized and Christian country this "a.
Ia which the Vanderbilts, the jay Goulds.
and the rest pose as rescuers OF law and
liberty. Grinnell has repeatedly said our
country Is an enlightened country. Well
he may put that In his album. II your
honor Thinks that by the execu.
ton OF this verdict you can
stamp out the labor movement,
you do not comprehend the power of that
mighty movement from which the down
trodden and miserable children of toll
hope for relief. You know not where the
blaze will next break out. Il Is subtar.
ranean fire that YOU cannot put out. The
ground Is on fire on which You stand. You
want to stamp out the conspiracy. You
resemble a child that is looking for his
picture beyond mirror. What Won see
and what you try to grasp In your move.
ment Is nothing but the creation OF your
own bad conscience. II you want to
stamp out the conspiracios and the aeita.
tors you must stamp out every factory
lord who has made his wealth ON the nm.
paid labor of his employee, and the land.
lord who has madehis money from groun =
down and oppressed laborers and farmers.
II Is fact that few men control all the
mechanical appliances, out Of which they
make gold by sacrificing the lives OF little
children, while able-bodied men are
starving. But we cannot 20 back, we are
advancing, they cannot be stopped. one
OF my clergymen friends, shortly before
my arrest, said; 'You are organizing
revolution This is my reply: "a
revolution cannot he organized, cannot
be created; 1t Is not any more
the work Of man than earthquakes
or cyclones. We are simply
preparing the conditions OF the revolu.
tom Does that look as II | conLem-
plated that violence be committed on
May ! or May 4, az has been charged?
Capital Is Of that school OF economists
that teaches how one class can live of of
another, while socialism teaches how all
can possess riches, but at the same time
II demands that all men shall work hon.
estly for their living, In socialism Is 20
be found the doctrine OF cooperation, II
teaches that labor-saving machinery Is the
property OF the state, as all mines aud
natural resources Of the country. Society
will eventually discover this and will de.
mand It's rights, though you erect gal
lows on every street corner. Concerning
my associates | will say this, / never
saw Lingg but twice before my arrest.
have not been on speaking terms with
Engel for over a year, and Fisher, my
lieutenant, went out making speeches
against me. II you think you can crush
out these ideas, which are gaining ground
every day, by sending us TO the gallows,
that you can suppress truth, for that is all
we have been preaching, you will fail.
Then fiourishing his arms wildly, Spies
fairly shrleked; al shall die proudly,
deflantly for the cause Of justice. There
Is Socrates, there is Gallus, there is
Giordano Bruno, there is Christ; why the
number cannot be estimated of those who
have trodden IN the paths, and we are
ready to follow themi"
scHwAB ON THE FLOOR.
Michael Schwab then took the door.
In stentorlan voice he began ut is
not much have to say, and would say
nothing at all did not fear silence would
look like ccwardly approval OF what
has been done here. am condemned to
die for writing a newspaper editorial"
The anarchist then went on TO justl ~
these articles by going over In detail the
real OF imaginary evils OF the accumula-
tlon Of capital, and the injustice OF the re-
lations between the employer and en-
ploye. ITle said. lived among the
tailors. | was one OF them. slept In
their garrets and cellars, saw the pros
titution OF female virtue which had no
homes; means Of support, and strong men
starye and die. That was In Europe, but
/ found the same state OF things In eX-
istence on coming to this country.
The speaker referred at some length TO
the condition OF the laborlng classes In
Chicago, Of which he drew dismal pic
ture. He said There are more social
ist natives Of this country than there are
foreigners from three causes, but the
capitalistic press screens the fact very
He then followed the DISGUST
tion Of principles AMI theories Of social
avowing all knowledge Of the man who
threw the bomb, and protested that he
TO do no violence at the Hay
market.
gEgBE ON THE FLOOR,
Oscar Neebe, the next speaker, had no
sooner taken the floor than he burst into
violent abuse, calling State's Attorney
Grinnell S cur, aud his assistants, Messrs.
Walker and Furthman, scoundrels,
saying there WAS only one
gentleman In the crowd and that was Mr..
Ingham. The police were assailed, AMI
In sh ,rt Neebais speech was TRADE Of
abuse, yliiiylng the police aud authori-
ties He sid; hsgc found out during
the last few days what the law Is. know
now have been arrested, charged and
convicted gu account o. having known
Spies and Schwan. Ills true presided
d: meeting ia West Lake street, 70
which your honor, as well as all otber