The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-24
HANG THE ANARCHISTS.

The pubic should not lose sight of the i'm
cago. These men have sought by every
means to spread their Infamous doctrines, and
have educated others peaceably disposed to re-
gard all government as not to be tolerated In
the pursuance Of this conspiracy they have
gone so far as to prepare for rioting and blood
she'd by manufacturing dynamite bombs and
shells, for the purpose of using them in the
manner they were used at the Haymarket
riot, when so many guardians of the peace
were massacred by the hurting of one of these
bombs and the use of firearms by men like
Spies and Fielden and their dupes. 1t has
been shown in evidence that thousands of
these explosive bombs have been prepared.
Of the number made not one in a thousand
has been used. The others are still in exist
ence, for the reason that they are not easily
got rid of without imminent risk of life and
limb. They are in Chicago yet, and in the
possession cf men who had contemplated using
them to murder the police and all persons
brought to oppose their murderous methods
The scoundrels who prepared them, or who
accepted them with the understanding that
they were to be used to overthrow law and or
der, are waiting to see what the outcome OF
the present trials is to be. If the men who
have already been proven guilty are properly
punished, and are hanged, those who have
these bombs will seek to get rid Of them in
some other manner than by hurting them at
the police They will doubtless find their way
into the lake at the earliest possible moment
consistent with safety from detection. If, on
the contrary, the miscreants now on trial
should escape with only nominal punishment
by Imprisonment, their followers will be en-
boldered to make murderous use of them and
the trouble will be only aggravated. 1t is to
the interest of every law-abiding citizen of
Chicago that justice be done in this instance
in manner that will strike terror into the
ranks of the scoundrels who have sought an
asylum in this country only to abuse the lib
erty they here find There should be no non
sense allowed in the prosecution of the cases
against them. There should not be allowed
repetition of the impudent and silly demon
stration made yesterday, when some gaudily-
dressed woman of the town presented the
prisoners with bouquets. 1t is not in accord
ance with the public idea that there should be
allowed anything done that will place these
monsters in the light of martyrs, or as any
thing else than assassins and conspirators,
which they are. 1t should be kept steadily in
view at every step of the proceedings that
justice must be done, not only as measure
of punishment for offense against the peace
and quiet of society, but as a warning to
others that such things cannot be attempted
in this country except at the peril of the life
of the offender Every one of these men
found guilty as charged should be hanged
without delay. They are the enemies Of the
mon they pretend to champion. For the good
of the workingmen of Chicago and of the
country at large the court should deal with
these fellows in a manner that will show that
they are not to be tolerated, and that their
doctrines find no favor in this land of personal
freedom. The spread of the infamous doc
trines of Anarchists and Socialists is more to
be dreaded by honest men than would be the
introduction of a plague of smallpox okchol
era. The pioneers in organized scoundrelism
should be hanged.