The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-10-14
THE ANARCHISTS
Sentenced to be Hanged ON the Third Day OF De.
cember.


The Chicago Anarchists, found guilty OF
murder, were brought into Chicago for SEN
tence. They were allowed to speak for them
speaking five hours, when he sank into his
seat exhausted. Judge Geary then spoke
as follows to the convicted men:
| am quite well aware that what you
have said, although addressed to me, has
been said to the world; yet nothing has
been said which weakens the force OF the
proof, or the conclusions therefrom, upon
which the verdict is based. You are all
men OF intelligence, and know that il the
verdict stands it must be executed. The
reason why it shall stand have already
sufficiently stated in deciding the motion
for II new trial. | am sorry beyond any
power OF expression for your unhappy con-
dition and for the terrible events that have
brought it about. | shall address to you
neither reproaches nor exhortations. What
| shall say shall be in the faint hope that
a few words from the place where the peo-
pie OF the state OF Illinois have delegated
the authority to declare the penalty OF
violation OF their laws, and spoken
upon an occasion SO solemn and
awful as this may come to the
knowledge of and be needed by the ignor-
ant, deluded and misguided men who have
listened to your counsels and followed
your advice. 1t is not the least among
the hardships OF the peaceful, frugal and la.
borious poor to endure the tyranny OF
mobs who with lawless force dictate to
them under penalty of peril to limb
and lie where, when and upon what
terms they may earn a livelihood for
themselves or for their families Any
government that is worthy OF the name
will strenuously endeavor to secure to all
within its jurisdiction freedom to follow
the lawful vocations, and safety for their
property and their persons while obeying
the law, and the law is common sense. 1t
holds each man responsible for the natur-
al and probable consequences OF his own
acts. 1t holds whoever advises murder is
himself guilty of murder that is committed
pursuant to his advice; and il men band
together for forcible resistance to the
execution of the law and
ADVISE MURDER
as means OF making such resistance ef-
fectual, whether such advice be to one man
to murder another or to a numerous class
to murder men OF another class, all who
are SO banded together are guilty OF any
murder that is committed in pursuance OF
such advice. The people of this country
love their institutions. They love their
homes they love their property. They
will never consent that by violence and
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broken down, their homes despoiled
and their property destroyed and the
people are strong enough to protect and
sustain their institutions and punish all
offenders against their laws and those who
threaten danger to civil society, ii the law
is enforced, are leading to destruction who
ever may attempt to execute such threats.
The existing order ofsociety can be changed
only by the will OF the majority. Each
man has the right to entertain and advo-
cate by speech and print such opinions as
Of the people will usually care lit
tie what he says. But if he
proposes murder as means of enforcing
he puts his own life at stake, and no clam
or about free speech or the evils to be cur
ed, or the wrongs to be redressed will
shield him from the consequences Of his
crime. His liberty is net a license to de-
stroy. The liberation that he enjoys he
must extend to Others and not arrogantly
assume that the great ma iority are wrong,
and may rightfully be coerced by terror or
removed by dynamite. 1t only remains
that for the crime you have committed and
OF which you have been convicted,
after a trial unexampled in the pa
thence with which an outraged people have
extended to you every protection and
privilege OF the law which you derided and
defiled, the sentence OF that Jaw be now
given. In form and detail that sentence
will appear upon the records of the court
In substance and effect it is that the de
PENDANT Neebe be imprisoned in the state
penitentiary at Joliet at hard labor for
the term Of fifteen years; and that each of
the other defendants, between the hours
OF 10 o'clock in the forenoon and o'clock
in the afternoon OF the Sd day of December
next, in the manner provided by the stat
ute OF this state, shall be hung by the neck
until he is dead. Remove the prisoners.