Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-12-05
CHICAGO'S CURSE.
HrOnek's Conviction May Cause
an Anarchist Outbreak.
CITIZENS OF THE WINDY CITY ARM
ING THEMSELVES

with the Intention of Giving the Law
breakers Warm Reception-NnmerOus
Schools in Nav York and Vicinity Where
Children axe Taught Fun Course of
Socialism.
NEW York, Dec 5.-School where the
doctrines of Socialism and Anarchy are to
be inculcated in the minds of little children
will soon achieve a dangerous foothold in
this city.
This evening the ''Socialistische Schule.
verein," or, as it would be called in Eayl.-l,
''Socialissic School association" is to meet
at its Central school building, No. l43 East
Fourth street, TO discuss ways and means for
encouraging attendance at these Of their
schools already in existence, as well as for
arranging to establish additional "Red" kin
dergartens throughout tenement districts
where poverty and discomfort, with the
present conditions, promise fertile soil
Similar ''Sunday schools during the past
few months have sprung up like mushrooms
in the revolutionary quarters OF Chicago,
and thousands Of young children. who sit
under the instruction of prominent Anarchist
agitators, are taught that the true heroes OF
the nineteenth century are five men who
died upon the Anarchist Calvary" as the
gallows in Cook county Jail Ct November Ii,
1887, have been Genominated. The principal
downtown Socialist school is located in the
building of the ''Freie Deutsche Schulz, at
No l4s East Fourth street. and boasts Of
four male teachers, including Professor
Rosenberg, secretary of the National execu-
tive committee of the Socialist party.
Speaking of the Fourth street school,
Rosenberg said:
"We have an attendance every Saturday
morning and afternoon of upward Of two
hundred children, mostly Germans, though
there are many Bohemian and Russian
Poles All instruction is given in the Ger
man language by myself, William Gunde.
lach aud two other teachers Children are
taught the ordinary courses Of study and
singing"
"But are they not instructed in the
principles of Socialism, asked the re-
porter.
"Well, we call it natural science;' and
then we have exercises in logical thinking.
1 teach the young ones the art of logical
thinking. One must be logical thinker to
become true and mentally well equipped
Socialist
docs this study embrace any comment OH
religious >beliefsg'
"Oh, we don't say anything about God
and the scriptures, one way or another"
be replied. THAT is, we make no direct
statement in the affirmative or in the mega
tive in reference to Christian doctrines, but
we teachers, as well as all members of our
school association, are, of course, thorou III
bred Free Thinkers and Socialists, and when
the young mind is imbued with Lne right
fundamental ideas from the start, there is
little danger that it will stray into the
church crowd later on"
From other sources 1t was learned that in
this and other Socialist schools pupils are
taught to regard the rich as their natural
enemies, who must, as soon as possible, be
overthrown Teachers take pains to impress
upon their pupils that because of these rich
men and corporations tho poor are growing
poorer with the result of soon creating
race of abject slaves. Next the little ones
are told that there is no such a thing as
future life. When man dies he is dead, and
that is the last of him. His memory may
live, but his soul does not In fact, all re
Iigion is sneered at.
Ridicule is heaped upon preachers and
priests, who are denounced as charlatani
and tricksters, whose only aim is to get
money out of their followers. The equality
of mankind is taught and the axiom ham
mered into the heads Of the children that no
man should have an exclusive right to prop
erty or the instruments of production. All
property should be in common, as no man
could produce anything or accumulate any
thing unaided Their object in life, it is
argued, is to prepare for a social revolution,
in which they are to be active participants
Besides the school on Fourth street, the So
cialist party controls a similar institution at
East Seventy eighth street and Second ave-
nue., with Herr Bach as principal, the aver
age attendance there being more than 200
children Another is to be founded on the
West Side, near West Fifty fourth street
and Tenth avenue, whi!e in Brooklyn the
Socialist section has no less than three
schools, and last week an evening school for
the propagation of Socialist ideas among the
young was spened at Zubettis hall on Cen
tral avenue, Jersey City Heights.