Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-21
SOClALlSTIC.

SOCiALISTIC.
Sociallstic Doctrine tho Present Status Of
| Anhirs VIII Change About May 1st--Chi-
| cago . Magazine of Dynamite Bombs
| with an Army of Bomb -Throwers--Tho
City Distracted for Offensive Operation
| --wfnchesters for Workingmen.
CHICAGO, ILL, January l5.-It will be
| remembered that at the time an internal
| machine was found on Judge Trees
premises in this city a few weeks ago,
there was an immediate suggestion that
| it had been placed there by Socialists,
| and might be the opening move OF des-
| ultory dynamite warfare on wealthy
| property owners, and when publicity was.
! given to the fact that q some what SINH
lar explosive had been left in the build
| ing occupied by the Chicago, Burlington
| & Quincy Railroad Company's general
| Offices, unthinking alarmists jumped to-
the conclusion that this was intended to
be the second gun of the dynamite attack
Much concern was manifested by many
citizens, notwithstanding the matter was
made little of by well-informed
people, and with q view to ascertaining
how much truth there was in the rumors,
q local paper instituted an Investigation
into the character of the two suspicious
machines, and as to the present doings
of the little band of Chicago Socialists.
So far, this inquiry has been productive
of most alarming givings out in the way
of revolutionary talk, and a most reassur-
ing paucity of facts to justify fear that
the community is any more in danger
now from Socialists than it has been
in the last dozen years. At the
outset, it. was claimed that the
Socialists and trades unions had joine d
hands to carry by force the strike for the
eght-hour law on May LIST. There Is no
evidence of any such union, beyond the
fact that, week before last, the metal
workers voted funds to arm themselves,
and q week ago Tuesday the cabinet
makers set aside One-half OF their entire
surplus for the purchase of Winchester
rifles The Socialists boast that they have
over 1000 bombs loaded and distributed
in the hands of trusty persons. The So
cialistic Brotherhood has the advantage
of possessing an organ printed in the Ger
man language, which, week after week,
disseminates inccndiary ideas, while from
it's job press go circulars, maps, ETC., de-
scribing the streets, sewers and tunnels OF
the city, and giving instructions in street
warfare and in the practical use OF ex-
plosives Socialist leaders claim that
they have established depots for the fos-
tering of various bombs, but none were
found, and that they have lists OF promi-
nent persons to be disposed of by dyna-
mite, but none were shown. They claim
that every Sunday morning for year
bands of Socialists have been going to
the country to practice the throwing OF
bombs, and that tests of their effective
ness and the manner of explosions have
been frequently made, but nobody has
seen OF heard these experiments. One
thing the investigation did go far to prove
the improbability that the Socialists
had anything to do with placing the in
formal machines at Judge Trees house
or in the offices of the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy Railroad Company. The
dissmilarity of these from each other, as
well as from the dynamite bomb manu-
featured for the Socialists, is very
marked. Besides the bombs men,
teriously to the possession of internal
machines which explode by clock-work
or electricity. They are intended for
guarding approaches, mining the streets
or for the destruction of property. When
properly placed two or three OF them
would demolish building or 50 tear up
q street as to render it impossible Un-
Outstanding the effect of vagueness on
the public mind as well as on the faith of
their followers, the Socialistic leaders
are very chary of facts in their replies to
pointed inquiries. They delight in little
hints of sanguinary preparations and
claim that since they were forbidden by
Governor Oglesby to arm with rifles ard
PUBLICLY drill, they have resorted to
dynamite, and say that from being agita-
tors they have become Nihilists. AS to
the qualifications of their organization it
is said to be divided into clubs of two.
Beyond this they are not supposed 10 be
known to each other, thus insuring them.
selves against betrayal.
The leaders profess to be in possession
of perfect plans of the underground sys-
tenn of Chicago and careful reports OF the
ways by which the house-tops at the vari-
Gus street corners can be readily reached.
From these reports, locations have been
selected for congregation and defense.
The principal ones are the Lake Front,
Market square and West Randolph street
between Desplaines and Halstead streets.
The plans are accompanied by suxges-
tons as to the principal street coeners
which should be fortified and the way to
go about it. About the only man who
thinks that the Socialists may find 81 OPP
portunity for incendiary work through an
with trades unions ON May
1st, is Mr.. Joseph Greenhut, who Is the
author of the eight-hour agitation. He
processes to think that the Socialists and
the labor organizations are unit on the
question, and that the movement will
dwarf all previous ones in the labor sys.
TEN. He says that little dependence is to
be placed in the social orders, that the
men talk dynamite, treason and blood
shed.
"But there are men," says he, "cool,
collected, thoughtful, laboring men, in
the ranks OF the Socialists, who viii do
the work. They are secretly banded to-
gether, and not by open organization.
Bombs are being made in considerable
numbers and distributed. The labor or
CARNATIONS are arming with rifles, and,
while they are not permitted by law to
drill on the street, they drill in their lodge
rooms. think the great crisis will come
on the LIST of May, or soon after. think"
he continued, s9that the movement, il
opened here, viii extend all over
the country, and of its success have no
doubt. The Socialists are heartily in the
and they have been talking
dynamite so long that the trade will be
lost if not productive of something in this
ISSUE"
Billed for Cheyenne.
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