Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-23
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OF what sort of timber is society conf
posed in Chicago? 1t is but few weeks
ago that a bomb thrown in Russia at des-
potism, passed over the seas and continents
and struck liberty in Chicago" Over the
dead and mangled bodies of her police
men, that city rose in her might and
swore in her wrath that such things should
never again take place. The people real
lied at last that the same murderous senti-
ment that would aim bomb at Car,
would cast it at the feet of free institu-
tions with short fuse burning The
bomb in the hand of the Anarchist is
against all order, all regulation, all pos
session, all property, all family relations
all decency, all things except license, law
lessness and misrule. But here in June,
on the 18th day, and while yet the widows
and orphans of the Anarchist bomb sit
with undried eyes, Chicago permits these
cranks, murderers, cuthroats and enemies
of society, to "picnic" within her Dor
ders, and there to preach loudly the same
old doctrine, and advise to the same old
practice, and generally to indulge in all
manner of rant tending to incite men to
violence, murder, robbery and the up
turning Of orderly government. Yet in
this same city, not four weeks ago, a Judge
charged Grand Jury that such proceed
ing as this was in violation of existing
law, and could and should be prevented,
whereat all Chicago applaudod RoeI
The extract from one of the speeches de-
livered at the "pienic." 1t was made by
an enthused cutthroat named Verplanck,
imported for the occasion:
What is law? Law is the code of tyranny.
what are the police? They are the minions of
the law; they are the archtyrants. Gods how
eXult in ChicagO's heroic deeds on the night
of May 1th Would that you had been better
prepared and that your engines of destruction
had been more numerous. But the next time
that next time which is swiftly coming-we
will tear the livery from these dogs OF oppres-
SION and hurl their barred and grated citadels
70 the dust.
And this by an unhanged ruffian named
Murdoch from st. Louis:
| gnash my teeth with unavailing rage when
think OF the brave and noble heroes Denned
IN this prison of Chicago Surrendered to their
enemies, their strait is desperate and their
threatened fate most terrible. that we must
thus sit idly by and contemplate these out
RACES But our day ofreckoning will come,
ana the tyrants one and all must fall That
douole-dyed tiend incarnate Setback merits
inc most hideons and appalling penalty, andhe
viii get it, too, if liberty ever claims her own
Now Carter Harrison is Mayor of Chi
cago. He was very brave with words ON
the occasion of the Haymarket massacre.
1t was really thought this Democratic
warrior had mounted his steed in earnest
and was going forth to do battle for law
and order. He knew this picnic was to
take place. He knew-it was his duty to
have known-iust what the gathering was
for, but he Gid nothing except to with
draw all the police from the vicinity and
to give the bandits free field. This ac-
ton is ineomprehensible until one reflects
that there is to be an election in Chicago
presently, and the Democratic party, of
which Carter Harrison is chief cook in
Cook county, needs votes badly, and every
other Anarchist at least has vote or con-
trols one. 1t is simply amazing that the
people of Chicago win endure this sort of
thing. For six years, under Carter Harri-
son and his stripe of administration, they
were compelled to submit to the undis-
turbed. assemblies of the Anarchist and
hon, HI ,., IL.
never lifted his hand as Mayor or other
wise to check them until the Haymarlet
massacre, and then he dared not to remain
silent-it would have been as much as
his life was worth to have failed of duty at
that time. Is it possible that Lib
erty is TO be spit upon at these Sunday
Chicago cut-throat picnics with IMMUNITY,
that political ours may secure votes?