The Labor enquirer., 1886-07-17
tell us that the committe on order OF
business have entirely ignored the
Tabor" bills. So it goes.
Sensationalism.

H . 2. q T..
For the ENQUIRER.
What the Chicago papers have not
said IN the wav of sensationalism, since
the fourth of NAV, never will be said by
anv paper. Thew have left absolutely
nothing in the English language that
could be concocted into novel or orig
inal sensation, when some new occasion
comes up. The truth bothers them very
little-something startling, abusive or
savagely funny is all they want.
There is q blood-thirstv writer for the
Inter Ocean who is worse than even the
worst descriptions of an Anarchist ever
conjured up bv an ambitious reporter.
1t seems almost impossible that
paper could print such diabolical articles,
and still be classed among respectable
journals it only shows how the moral
perceptions and possibilities of the
bourgeoisle class are blunted and de-
praved.
Does this man-who wants to see men,
not yet proven guilty of any crime,
sliced like dried beef and salted between
slices before each others eyes-claim to
be native-born American citizen2 .
If so, l wish to Heaven l had beon
born in some other age and country, L
do not want to live in the same land and
the same century with a monster who
by some awful mistake got dragged out
of Spain and the sixteen tn century into
America and the nineteenth.
But after all, this person defeats his
own purpose. He is so utterly horrible
that decent people. turn with disgust
from him rather than from the Anarch-
lists he traduces.
Pathetic pictures such as the Daily
News reporter portrays, are the most
misc IevOus. By an ingenious turning
of words he gives the eight prisoners in
the court room an air Of luxurious en-
ioyment-and at the same time, pictures
a hospital scene in a sad and wretched
light. Now it is extremely unfair to put
the two scenes together a5 they do not
know that the prisoners have anv con
nection with the wounded men in the
hospital. Surely the police of Chicago
have made enemies enough, in the last
ten years by thei brutality toward in
noCent citizens, that the few Anarchist
speakers need not necessarily be accused
of the boMb throwing
Thousands of people who know no thing
of Socialism or Anarchy have in their
hearts vowed vengeance against the
minions of the law who have dubbed
and shot people indiscriminately, locked
up innocent girls, and generally abused
men, women and children.
1t would hardly seem necessary to
argue that prisoners in the Cook county
| Jail do not live lives of ease and elegance,
only that the Chicago papers try to make
out their situations are quite enviable.
Think of spending nearly forty-eight
hours at a stretch, these hot, sultrY days,
I in cell five by eight feet in size, with
the limited room and air shared by an
other OF having but an hour and a
half every week day for eXercse-of be-
ing kept away from home, wOrG, fami-
| lies, the bright sunlight and the free air,
for months And if they have anything
to eat besides Oro IN, sour bread and the
thlnnest kid of slOps sometimes called
coffee and sometimes soup, it is because
they have SO many good friends outside.
And vet these men have merely given
voice to truths dwelling in the hearts of
myriadS Of people who could not give
tuem expression, or they would have
been equally guilty.
They Lave done what they considered
their duty, and given the people their
honest thoughts, and for thus tueY suffer
to-day, in America, in the nineteenth
century, as all honest thinkers have sut-
fered in all the past ages.
And SO also all the changes have been
rung on the miserable foreigner" aud
the Ignorant loafer."
Every editor in Chicago knows tn 1t
more intelligent lot of fmeu never sat in
prisoners dock in this country that
they are not idlers nor all foreigners,
and that they all speak read and write
the English language but they will
keep harping on this convenient lie
until the end, because it serves their
purpose. They command the attention
of million of readers, who will believe
them, and yet the truth will prevail if
only proclaimed now and then by an
humble writer in a struggling but noble
labor journal. LIZZIE NJ. SwANK.
Worse Than Anarchlsm.