Workmen's advocate., 1889-11-16
Il.
THE WAVE OF INDIGNATION GROWING IN VOLUME
 AND POWER.

Ten Thousand People at the Doors of
 Cooper Union-A Great Celebra-
 tiOn at Waldheim Cemetery-The
 Day in Boston and Philadelphia.
 Contrary to its well,known habit of minimizing every demonstration of workingmen, the press of New York did not attempt this time to make it ap- pear that the memorial meeting in honor of the Chicago martyrs at Cooper Union last Monday was an insignificant affair. We quote from the Herald:
 "The big hall was filled to overfowing, and standing room, even in the corri- .dors, was impossible to obtain. It was estimated by the police, of whom very few uniformed members were in sight, that over two thousand people were turned away from the doors."
 The Sun says:
 "The law that forblds the crowding of aisles and exits in places of amuse- ment or public gathering, was suspended for the occasion by the police. Not a policemen in uniform was inside the big hall, where thousands were treading Non each others toes. It was impossible for strong man to force his way in after o'clock, and it was impossible for the weaker to get out ** Five police men, under the command of sergeant, were outside the hall. One of them ad- mitted that it was a violation of the Jaw to allow the aisles and exits to be crowded but said that an order had been issued forbidding them to go inside or to interfere with the meeting in any way unless actual violence occurred"
 The Morning Journals estimate of the number of people who surged about the doors of Cooper Institute is "over ten thousand" We quote;
 "The streets for blocks around the entrance were black with men and women, struggling to attend the great demonstration in memorial of the mar tyrs of the working people, murdered at Chicago"
 At S.30 a reporter of the Times, a square-shouldered, powerfully built man, was seen elbowing his way through the crowd in the hall. It had taken him twenty minutes to come down from the street, and it took him twenty minutes more to reach tue reporters inclosure After all these efforts he had the morti- tication of seeing 6is elaborate report thrown by his chief into the waste bas- ket. The editor of the Times, struck dumb with astonishment or fear at the magnitude of the demonstration, con- cluded to say nothing whatever about it.
 The World, who of all the New York papers was the most bloodthirsty advo- cate of the Chicago murder appears to have been as badly thunderstruck as the Times
 It comedies that 5000 people at least were in the hall and the corridors, but its report of the proceedings fills only thirty lines of type, under the deceittuI title, "Insulted the Stars and Stripes
 The stage was draped in mourning and between red flags covered with black crape hung the pictures of Spies Lingg, Parsons, Engel and Fisher. The mottos on the walls were terse quota tions from the utterances of the vic tins during their trial and shortly be fore their execution. The platform wal crowded by musicians and singers re 'spectively furnished by Progressive Musical Union No. and the Socialist, .Sengerbund. Comrade Henry, of Ci .garmakers' Union No. 90, presided.
 After the Dead March had been played by the band, s. E. Shevitch took tn floor. He said in part:
 Fellop Murderers The press of thi so-called free country says that all of u here and about here, ten thousand il number, and all who tonight in ever, great city throughout the civilize' world have assembled for the sam purpose, are murderers, because W sympathize with murderers. Therefor I address you, workingmen of Ney York, with this title, Fellow Murder ers.' Great laughter and loud cheers. One of the papers of this city, edite by the Rev. Colonel Shepard, says
 must remember that to incite to arso and murder is a crime [Laughterl.
 will certainly not incite to arson, be cause I am not member of the Stand ard Oil Trust. I will not incite to mul der, because I am not a Kentucky pol