Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-12-15
CHICAGO'S CURSE.
Hronek's Conviction Nay Cause
an Anarchist Outbreak.
CITIZENS OF THE WINDY CITY ARM
ING THEMSELVES

with the Intention of Giving tho Law
Breakers a Warm Reception -Nnmerous
Schools in New York and Vicinity Where
children ere Taught a Fun Course OF
Socialism.
New YORK, Dec. A--School where the
doctrines of Socialism and Anarchy are to
be inculcatcd in the minds of little children
will soon achieve dangerous foothold In
this city
This evening tho ''Socialistiso p r Schultz
yerein,n or, as it would be called in English,
.Socalistic School association is TO meet
Mt its Central school building, No. i43 East
Fourth street. to discuss ways and means for
encouraging attendance at those 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
i gallows in Cook county Jail OF November II,
| 1881, have been denominated. The principal
| down town Socialist school Is located in the
building Of the ''F'reie Deutsche Schulz, at
| No. la2 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:
| 1--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-
ZACH and two other teachers. Children are
| taught the ordinary courses OF study and
| singing
| sBut are they not instructed in the
principles of Socialism, asked the re-
| porter.
swell, we call it natural science;' and
| then we have exercises in logical thinking
| teach the young ones the art of logical
| thinking. One must be a logical thinker to
| become a true and mentally well equipped
| Socialist
"Does this study embrace any comment on
| religious beliefsf
| ssOh, 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, thorough
bred Free Thinkers and Socialists, and when
the young mind is imbued with the right
fundamental ideas from the start, there is
| little danger that it will stray into the
! church crowd later on"
| From other sources it 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
overthrow. Teachers take pains to impress
upon their pupils that because of these rich
men and corporations the 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 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-
lgion is sneered at.
Ridicule is heaped upon preachers and
priests, who are denounced as charlatans
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 tho 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 social revolution,
In which they are to be active participants.
Besides the school on Fourth street, the So
cialist party controls 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, while 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 opened at Zubettis hall on Gen.
tral avenue Jersey City Heights.