Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-31
GENERAL TOPICS.
Mrs. Parsons Speaks in Spite
of the Police.
HER TEN MINUTES SPEECH
A Discourse on the Quick and the
Dead-New Years at
Indianapolis.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

CHICAGO, December 30.-Anarchist
Parsons dark-skinned widow to-day
made good her boast that she would
speak in Chicago in spite of the police.
1t was in Waverly Hall, one square from
Mayor Roche's office, and is the same
place which was closed against her week
ago. Four hundred people were crowded
into the poky little auditorium, and
many others choked up the entrance and
stood upon the stairs. The meeting was
one called by the Socialistic labor party
"to transact business and for the promo
tion of Socialistic doctrines.' The pro-
ceedings opened with the introduction of
resolution condemning the police for
their recent "lawless" interference with
public meetings. The resolution was
unanimously adopted.
Tommy" Morgan, Socialist, was the
first speaker. He said the employment
of force by workingmen was futile. 1t
appealed to the lowest instincts OF man
kind and was wrong from moral, in
tellectual and practical standpoint. Its
impracticability had been demonstrated
in this city by the Haymarket affair and
it's results. The hanged Anarchists were
proof enough that force was simpracticable.
The meeting was then opened to any
one who wanted to talk ten minutes.
MRS. PARSONS ROSE.
The crowd cheered when it saw her
familiar face. II should like very much
some of these days to answer the asser-
tions Mr.. Morgan has made against those
who are dead" said she, "but the ukase
has gone forth from Roche and Lord Bon
field that am never to make another
speech in Chicago, and that l am to be
forever deprived OF that liberty
under the Constitution. But / cannot
sit here quietly and hear it
said that those who are dead and silent
in their tombs, had anything to do with
Che throwing of the Haymarket bombs,
though in the war against tyrants ali
things are justifable. Those who say
anything else are cursed. They were
allowed themselves to be driven away
from this hall by the police" Mrs.
Parsons then read what purported to be
an extract from
SPEECH OF THOMAS JEFFERSON,
in which occurred these words: God
forbid that any country should be for
twenty years without rebellion
"Did Parsons or Spies ever utter any
thing more revolutionary than that p"
said Mrs Parsons. at has been said
that dead martyrs are no good, but their
memory is dear to us and perpetual
inspiration, because they died before
they would ask pardon for deeds
they did not do. When Liberty
shall be crowned with Immortality
the brightest names in her crown will
be those of Parsons, Spies, Fischer and
Engel, who died for her. Cheers.] l
am for peace on principle. If you see
two rival armies approaching each other,
and take poll of the men, you will find
that nine-tenths OF them are for peace,
but they are borne on by irresistible
force to the conflict. Before we can
have peace in society like our own,
rivers of blood will have to rum" Ap-
plause.]
the chairman interrupted Mrs. Par
sons and said that her ten minutes had
expired. A number of detectives were
present, but made no attempt to inter.
fere. After a number of other speeches,
some in decidedly fiery vein, the hall
was cleared and private meeting was
held by prominent members Of the
Socialistic Labor party. When the con-
ference ended, it WAS announced that
arrangements had been made to continue
the meetings every Sunday afternoon.