Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31
PARSONS WOMAN.
In Spite OF the Police She Speaks
in Chicago.
In the War Against Tyranny All Things
Are Justihable, She Intimates.
A Fiery Speech.
She Complains of the Action OF Roche and
Bontield in Depriying Her of the
Privilege Of Speaking.

CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 3O.-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 scores of
Others ehoked up the entrance and stood
on the stairs. The meeting was one
called by the socialistic labor party "to
transact business and for the promotion
of sOcialistic doctrines. - The first pre-
ceeding was the introduction of resolu>
ton condemning the police for their
recent "lawless' interference with
public meetings, which was unanimously
adopted
Tommy Morgan, a socialist, was the
first speaker. He said the employment
of force by the workingmen was futile.
1t appealed to the lowest instincts of
mankind, and was wrong from
moral, intellectual and practical
standpoint. Its impracticability had been
demonstrated in this city by the Hay
market and its results. The hanged an
archists were proof enough that force was
impractlcable.
The meeting was to be open to anyone
10 talk ten minutes
MRS. PARSONS ROSE.
The crowd cheered when it saw her
familiar face. 81 should like very much
some of these days to answer the asser-
lions Mr.. Morgan has made about those
who are dead - said she, ''but the ukase
T
Bonfield that l am never to make
another speech i'll Chicago, and 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 i'll their tombS
had anything to do with the throw
ing of the Haymarket bombs,
though in the war against tyranny
all things are juStifiable. Those who say
anything else are ours. They are miser-
able ours who on last Sunday night al
lowed themselves to be driven away from
this hall by the police Mrs.
Parsons then read what purported
to be an extract from the speech of
Thomas Jefferson, in which occurred
these words: ''GOd forbid that any
country should be for twenty years with
out a rebellion - ssDid Parsons or Spies
ever utter anything more revolutionary
than that?'' said Mrs. Parsons. cit
has been said that
THE DEAD MARTYRS
are no good, but their memory is left to
us and is Il perpetual inspiration because
they died before they would ask pardon
for the deeGs 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 1 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 forces irresistible to 4
conflict. Before we can have peace in 4
society like ours rivers of blood Will have
to rum Applause.
The chairman interrupted Mrs. Par
sons and said her ten minutes had eX-
PRED A number of detectives were
present, but made no attempt to inter-
fere. After Il number of other
speeches, some in decidedly
fiery vein, the hall was cleared
and private meeting was
held of prominent members of the So
cialistic labor party When the confer
ence was ended it was announced ar
rangements had beeh; made to continue
the meetings every Sunday afternoon.