St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-12
The FESTIVAL OF SORROW.
The So-Callei anarchists Meeting at
Window Hall a Decidedly Tame
Affair.
The Only Blood Thirsty Talk Directed
at the Newspapers, and They
Can Stand II.
SoCialis.ic Theories and Spiritnalism
the Principal Themes---Reso-
luti0ns Passed.


The anarchist meeting at Window
hall last evening was not such terrible
| affair as one would have imagined from
reading the announcements OF the
| meeting made by the anarchists and
| the comments of certain papers. AS
matter of precaution, however, it was
| deemed advisable to have number of
| solid patrolmen within reaching dis
| lance, in case that the meeting grew
turbulent. But things passed off quietly
| enough, and outside of damning the
paid murdererS of the capitalists-the
| police" and the ''base hirellngS OF the
| capitalistic presS--the reporters" and
| States, there was nothing OF Importance
| done.
The meeting was called to order by
| T. Brayton. who announced that all true
| anarchists desire only the annullment
! of all the bad laws and the enforcement
| of the good ones. He next turned his
attention to the various papers in the
city, and gave them hot roast for
| speaking of the meeting in an uncom-
| plimentarv way. "To-night meetings
are being held all over Europe" said
| he, ''to commemorate the good those
| men did who were executed in Chicago
one year ago. Anarchy has been dis
| cussed at some length in Minneapolis
| during the last three years, and we have
| here speakers who will tell you what
anarchy really is.
PROF. MoREY WAS THE FIRST SPEAKER.
! He opened his address by stating that
| he saw TO reason why the act Of an in
| dividual, state or government was not a
| proper subject to discuss. The constl-
t tuition. said he, gives us the right to
| hold public meetings and to talk as we
| want to. But | want to state that the
principles set forth by the stars and
| Stripes l want to subscribe to. Our sys-
| TENS, political, social and the rest, 1
have right to deny if l please, or de-
nounce if choose. And | have right
| to ask that any system which
degrades mankind be abolished.
Here the speaker read an arti-
Gle from the Tribune. in
| reference to the meeting, in which the
meeting was characterized as an insult
| to the people of the city. | desire, he
continued, to thank the police for being
present here this evening. I am not
afraid to say what have to say in their
presence. They are not here to disturb
| us, but are here to see that this peace
| full meeting is not disturbed. ! have no
| ill-feeling toward the newspaper men
of this city, but | believe they should
| be absolutely truthful in whatever they
write. We have places in this CONT
nent which are almost without govern
/ ment, and, to illustrate my point, l
would have you look to that dark con-
| Uncut across the water. That is con-
! dltion cannot subscribe to. Here the
| speaker drifted into q long harangue
| upon the subject of spiritualiSm. in
| which he talked good deal but said
nothing. He gradually approached his
subject proper again, and gravely an
| nOunced he was not an anarchist. but
was fast becoming one, and when l do
become one, said he, every form of vio-
lence, by word or deed, disappears from
my soul. Would there were more men
| think as l do. There is only one man
| we can pattern AFTER and that is God.
l have no sympathy with any belief
| which makes him anything more than
a man. The time will come when
every soul must incorporate the princi-
pies which He taught. / have been
charged with being Spiritualist. l
am, and am proud of it, and it affords
| me great pleasure to bring you a mes
sage-not from a dead anarchist, but
from live one. l say to you that our
| brothers meaning the executed an
archiSts are not dead nor sleeping.
They are here with us, and their power
for good OF evil is greater than ever.
Now, the medium through which
| this message came is all right SO tar as
| the message is concerned, although she
is fraud in other things. This mes
sage is from Mr.. Spies to one of his
brother anarchists, who went to a me-
dunn in Chicago. The slate on which
| the message was received was sealed
and hung on chandelier, so it is GER
| tain that the writing was not done by
any human being. By this message
you can see that our system of killing
/ is wrong, and the removing of man
/ from the world does not often
remove ALL No man can show that the
killing of any man is justifia6le,
whether it is done by the individual or
/ the state. This applies not only to legal
executions, but to wars between people
| and nations. But there is no such thing
| as peace yet. owing to the uncompleted
| state of mans development. Here the
| professor esSayed to read the message,
but was finally obliged to give it up.
! owing to his not being able to see the
letters. The audience had not come to
listen to ''spiritualism; that much was
evident from the guying the speaker
received.
THOMAS II. LUCAS
| followed. He said he would have to de-
| fine his position, in order to stop the
papers from telling malicious lies about
him." He was neither an ''agitator''
nor socialist" he said. for he did not
know what those terms meant. He
next denounced the papers which had
| go oh
be suppressed. The people present
argued, and were not creating any dis
| turbance. I'VE came here tonight"
he said, ''to express our sorrow
over the event which took place
in Chicago one year ago to-day. We Go
not feel sorry so much over the fact
that five men were hung, as we do over
the disgrace which was brought upon
our country by the hanging. The men
who were hung in Chicago had been
going from one part of the country, IA
miliariZing themselves with the condi-
ton of the Workingmen and women.
They had seen the so-cailed owners of
all the natural advantages reduce the
Workingmen to the condition of slaves,
and the executed men had dared to talk
about it.and advocate the peoples rights.
These rich men saw that they we're in
danger of losing their slaves and SO en-
tered into conspiracy to take human
life. 1t was shown on the trial that
there were no infiammatory speeches
made. Yet the employees of a subsidized
press made it appear that there were.
There were no police present until a
few moments before the bomb was
thrown. The meeting was just ad-
iourning when Inspector Bontield ap-