Morris tribune., 1886-08-11
EXPLAINING MATTERS.
A CHICAGO ANARCHIST LISTENS To
HIS OWN uTTERANCES

A CHICAGO ANARCHIST LIS TENS To
HIS OWN uTTER,sNCES
And Makes Some Explanations to Show
How Harmless They Were - What
Fielden Meant by ''Throttlins the Law"
as He Advised at the Haymarket
Meeting.
CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-Dr Fleming's testi.
mony in the Anarchist case Friday was to
the effect that he extracted bullets from q
policeman and from one or two of the citi-
Zens wounded at the riot May u Upon
comparing the bullets he found them to be
Of exactly the same size and pattern, and a
regulation police revolver bullet being
handed to him, he said the bullets were
exactly similar as near as he could remsm-
Der, to this latter one Three witnesses said
they would not believe Gilmer (ths man who
said he saw Spies light a match and touch
off the bomb on oath. Several witnesses
corroborated the testimony heretofore given
that Schwab, Fischer and Parsons were not
present when the bomb was thrown Fiel-
den was put on the stand and told his story
of the affair He said that when Capt.
Ward commanded the meeting to disperse he
captain, we are peaceable," and at that
time Spies was standing close to him on the
wagon He (Fisldenl did not NOR never
did have q pistol, ana to the best of his
belief all the shooting was done by the
police. He had never advocated the use of
dynamite He gave a synopsis of his
speech that pretty well agreed with that
given by other witnesses. His examination
was not completed when the court ad-
journed
The fact that Fielden was going on the
stand again and that others Of the defend
ants were expected to follow him had the
effect of crowding the criminal court room
to suffocation Saturday. Fielden's exam
ination was resumed and his first statement
was in contradiction of the assertion of
Capt Bonfield that he told Bonfield he es-
capped through Cranes alley. The cross.
examination was then begun and witness
said he had been a member of the Socialist
organization in 1888. He rapidly developed
into an Anarchist and from that became q
Revoln:ionist I'm the sense Of evolutionary
revolution" He denied that he
had ever believed or advo-
Gated the doctrine that the existing order
of things should be overthrown by force.
After some testimony concerning anarchist
associations Mr.. Ingham of the prosecution
began reading a report of the speech
Fielden made at the Haymarket and read
the following:
"If we continue to be robbed, it will not
be long before We will be murdered. There
is no security for the working classes under
the present social system A few individ-
uals control the means OF living, and hold
the workingman in defiance Everybody
does not know that; those who do
know it are tired Of it, and the others
will get tired of it, too. They are deter
mined to end it, and will end it, and there
is no power IN the land that can prevent it.
Congressman Foran said that he could get
nothing from legislation. He also said that
the laborers could get relief from their
present situation when they realized that
they were living in a community where
there were dissatisfied workingmen, and
that that would solve the labor problem"
= 1.-THE law makes no distinction A
million men own all the property
in this country. The law is of no
use to the other 5t0UO,0 900. You have
nothing to do with the law except to lay
hand upon it. and throttle it, until it makes
its last kick Z = The Socialists are
not going to declare war. tell you war
has been declared upon us, and ask you to
get hold of nything that will help resist
the onslaught of the enemy and the usur-
perP" The skirmish lines have
met; people have been shot; men, women
and children have not been spared by the
ruthless minions Of private capital =
"You are called upon to defend yourselves,
your lives and your future What matters it
whether you kill yourselves with work to
get little relief, or die on the battle field
resisting the enemyE Did you make use OF
that language"
h Fielden-That report has been garbled.
There are some expressions there, and it
has not any connection 1 can make a
very infammatory speech out Of a lawyers
speech before any judge, by garbling his
expressions and taking a word here and
there.
Mr.. mgham-This has been testified to
here, as a report of what you sa i'd.
The witness-He said he only got the in
hammatory words.
Capt Black-Mr English distinctly said
he did not get the whole of the speech He
was directed to take only the infiammatory
portions
Fielden said much Of the language quoted
he had used, but it was quoted out Of con-
nection and misrepresented his meaning.
He did not consider his speech
infammatory; one person could
frequently see in a speech what an
other would not When asked why he
avoided arrest, he said it was not pleasant
to be arrested and no more so because
man was innocent Asked the question:
"The police did not indict you, did they!"
he answered: "Wel, I don't know about
that"
"In reference to that portion of your
speech where you said that Hoppins, Jeffer-
a~1 ho6 kho 10 l.
your enemy, you may explain"