, 1888-12-09
A Cltncher on Anarchtsm.

CHICAGO, Dec. Sat a meeting of
anarchists last night a cali for a mass
meeting to be held to. morrow at "a West
Lake street was issued. 1t was announced
that in case the police should interfere
with this meeting an adjournment be
taken to the hay market square, the scene
of the historical bomb throwing, and that
an open air meeting be held there.
Trouble being anticipated, Chief of Police
Hubbard to day issued an order holding
nearly the entire city police Of 1900 men
IN reserve at the various stations ready to
be concentrated at any given point on short
notice. When asked what he proposed to
do Chief Hubbard said:
They will not meet either at 81 West
Lake street or in the hay market square,
nor, for that matter, will they meet any
where in Chicago. either in a hall or in
the open air. If they attempt it there
will be a fight. We positively will not
allow any more anarchist meetings. More
than that, | am making a full list of all
the saloons and halls where anarchists
conGregate and will recommend to the
mayor that their licenses be revoked.
There will be no temporizing and no hest
haiSJs lOlh LIE INC OllJ any anarchist
meeting will be broken up or prevented.
| don't think they want to fight very
badly, but if they do they can have all
they want"
In the afternoon Chief Hubbard sum
moned the proprietors of Grief's hall at
"a West Lake street and those at 600
Blue Island avenue and 636 Milwaukee
avenue. The chief told them emphatic
ally that they must allow no further meet.
logs OF anarchists in their halls. The
proprietors commenced to argue that the
meetings were peaceable, but we're inter
rnpted by the chief with the intimation
that he would not argue the question.
Whether the meetings were peaceable or
not made no difference. They were held
for the dissemination of lawless and in
condiary ideas and must be abolished. No
satisfactory settlement was arrived at and
the chief ended the consultation by say
ing:
81 have told you you must net allow
such meetings in your halls in future.
There Is no room for argument. If you
allow any more meetings you do so at your
o yn peril. Good day"
Editor Deuss of the Albeiter Zetiunq was
seen by a reporter this evening. He was
present at Grief hall Friday night at the
meeting when it was claimed by the po-
lice that a threat was made that if the
5 lnday afternoon meeting at the same
place was broken up, another meeting
should be held in the open air on the site
Of the HaYmarket massacre. Deuss said
that what might have been said was this:
That ifthe police insisted on breaking
up peaceable meetings without the order
of the court an open air meeting would
be held out of which a test case might be
made"
Deuss, although claiming to have been
present at themeeting. would not when
pressed say that this had been said, but it
might have been said. The Arbeiter
Bund is well established and is composed
of the most radical anarchists and social
lists to be found anywhere, and though its
meetings are usually open affairs this is
simply for the purpose of making CON
verts to its doctrines.
AT 6:3G Milwaukee venue there was to
have been held to morrow a continuation
of the mass meeting held ut Aurora Tur
ner hall last Sunday for the purpose of
forming an organization to take hold Of
the secular Sunday schools. This meet
ing was to have been held under the
auspices Of the central school board, com
posed OF delegates from the three social
lstlc Sunday schools now in existence.
Jcns Christensen, a Dane, who claims
to be a mild type OF socialist, was asked
to. night what they would do if tie meet
ing was prohibited. He said:
What members of the board will do
l do not know. | can only speak for
myself and | am in favor of holding the
meeting. The police have no right to in
%terfere. If they succeed in intip,idating
the proprietors of the hall and they re-
fuse to let us have the use of it of course
that ends it, brit if the proprietors can
not be inundated | shall be in favor of
having the meeting and | am willing to
conduct it and make the address. If the
police order us to dispense | don't think
| shall pay any attention to them. If
they use violence and club us they may
disperse us. They can do it by violence,
but not by authority of the law. Whether
we will hold a meeting depends upon the
school board, which meets in the morn
ing"
The talk tonight is that the saloon
keepers will take steps to sue the city for
damages under the Cole conspiracy law.
They claim that the reports circulated by
the police and newspapers have injured
their business and that therefore they are
entitled to some sort of reparation.