New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-11
ANARCHISTS OUT IN FORCE.
THEY PARADE AND MAKE A NOISE.


THEIR FAvoRITE CoLoRs RED AND BLACK
sUPPLANT THE STARS AND STRIPES
The Anarchists who came together last evening 10
commemorate the hanging Of their five brothers al
Chicago year ago paraded through First-aye..
Fourth-st and the Bowery Cooper Union. The pro-
cession was headed by band which played funeral
drges as they passed along the streets. They did
not attract much attention. save fer the usual
number Of small boys who take interest IN any
that marches and anything that gives out music, no
one stopped to notice them They marched quietly to
Cooper Union ard there gave vent TO their Anarchs
Isc sentiments in shouting and stamping and cheering.
When the paraders reached Cooper Union It was
filled with motley crowd number Of detectives and
a small army Of policemen from whose breasts vera
missing the usual shining buttons. Anarchists, II one
may judge by the crowd which poured into the hall
and packed 10 from platform 10 corridor and from wall
to wall, not fierce they are painted Indeed
these Anarchists anything but ferce. Many Of
them were wildIoohing many Of them were dirty.
they all shouted with tireess lungs and the speakers
howled themselves into wild state OF excitement
and exhaustion. But they were not fierce. Plaster
casts of Lingg and Spies, adorned with red sashes.
stood upon the platform. There were red banners,
red streamers red drapery on all sides. mass Of
rcd bordcred with gloomy black covered the wall
behind the speakers.
There tho gilded eagles of Roman iegions,
glittering the tips OF SLENDER polished poles black
and red adorning these. There was red In every
buttonhoe, red womens hats red and black eyery-
where But there Stars and stripes. There
were gutteral "ughs" and loud brayos,' hlsses,
groans and frenzed shouts. good singing, good music
by the band a commonplace practical collection but
ferceness. Anarchy is tame in these modern days
OF police, prisons" and hangmen.
William Mertens presided, and after a few words
in praise Of the hanged Anarchists and many words
in condemnation of policemen, judges and good gov
ernment in general, introduced s. +. schevitch, who
declared that tho Anarchists had been murdered by
a rabblc. His allusion to the Statute OF Liberty az
a prostituted figure for liberty received with
the oudest applause. Whom he spoke OF the bomb
which had been thrown among the policemen IN
Chicago, the crowd went Wild with delight He
characterized the press as vie and miserable, anf
reporters wretched creatures who for 81 worth Of
space, had slandercd and blackguarded the hva
Anarchists. The crowd yelled Down with the press
Put them out Kick them OUT He thought that
there might be Ia ssr and prominent; graves
than the five near Chicago before this question ot
Anarchy settled.
John Most, who followed him. greeted with
warm Anarchistc demonstration lie gave an adj
mrable illustration of excited gestures lie said THAI
the Anarchists Of to-day ready to 60 with tho
good work begun Chicago. II they met their fate
there would be Others to take their places.
Anarchists he said, believed neither in
God nor the devil. Great applauseJ They would
wage war against the Church and State II they cons
tnued to strange them. He drew CHASTITY pic
lures of those who had been hanged, and worked hn-
self up into the widest state over policemen. Most.
in fact, not overcompmentary to any one except
Anarchists.
Many people who had squeezed into the han to sea
live Anarchist talk anarchy, after listening to
loud shouting in German and looking at Mosts ex-
cited gestures went out sorely disappointed For
excitement and interest, genuine emotion and good,
common talk, ordinary political meeting IS
not to be spoken Of in the same day with an An1
archsts' meeting