Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-10

throwing
Anarchists. The man who threw the bomb Is
to this day unknown, although eight friends of
labor were picked out and murdered for the
crime. Judge Gerry, before whom they were
charged, and who sentenced them afterward,
admitted that they were not convicted. but
sentenced because they wrote newspaper artl-
cles and made speeches to the workingmen and
in favor of the labOring classes. 1t is easy un-
der the present disposition of things to hang a
man for speaking to the working classes If the
speeches do not accord with the wishes OF
the rulers and capitalists.
We meet here tonight to denounce the brutal
outrage and murder committed on five work.
ingmen November II, 1857. This outrage was
committed because they Taught their rights to
the workingmen anddared to encourage their
enforcement [Applause.) 1t makes no differ
ence to the powers that be whether the work
ingman's children have shoes, so long as the
capitalists can luxuriate in palaces. But the
strongest power with which the work
for rights is the daily Doodle press.
All through the trial of our martyrs
the daily press condemned them, and howled for
their blood under instructions from the mas
ters who control it. But for the cry for popu-
lar condemnation from the press those five
men would not have been murdered, that
aIrociOus decd never have been committed
but their souls, ike that OF the great John
Brown, are still marching along. We took up
their life work and we mean to perfect It.
IWild applause and enthusiasm
The President has appointed day of general
thanksgiving in which all are commended to
participate. We have appointed a day of
hatred against our oppressorS tCheersl Let
US honor the memory Of these heroes on this
and all similar occasions by perpetuating the
principles of Spies, Engel, Lingg Parsons and
FISCHER. This shall be our endeavor, and this
shall finally be our triumph. This meeting is
held under the auspices of the International
WOrklngmens Association, which to-day
numbers hundreds of thousands all
over the world, which to-day meets in
every couPtry and every city TO perpetuate our
condemnation of the injustice done the work.
ingman. That the societary conditions now
existing require the heroic remedy of revolu-
tion you all know, We have tried the strike,
the boycott, arbitration, balloting, and where
have they left us? The power of the ballot IN
free America is a perfect mockery, as 1t is con-
trolled by the powers of the capitalist We
have tried it. and where has it left US today
A Voice-In the soup.
DENoUNCING THE BALLOT.
We hold, as Anarchists, that if the ballot
were worth the room it takes up as a weapon,
Bismarck or Napoleon would never have per-
mitted its use 1t is nothing but an instrument
through which the slavery of the workingman
is made possible and kept permanent Those
work. the food of labor's children, control the
vote. The ballot falls powerless from the hand
that holds no bread
If this infamous system must be changed,
and that it must, we insist let US commence
at the economic basis and the political will
follow. As the martyred Fischer said, this
change cannot be made by saving the air with
pieces of paper. Strikes are practically use
partial failures. What is arbitration The
boss puts up notice in his factory
that a 20 per cent reduction in wages must be
made. The men and the bosses meet that is if
the bosses will condescend to do SO, which they
seldom will, and compromise is effected on
10 per cent basis, the men losing and the bosses
making 10 per cent. That's now arbitration
works. These facts alone should be enough to
convert workers into Anarchists.
He then revie we'd the advent of machinery
into the labor maket, displacing skilled work.
men and making the workman the slave of
machines. The owner OF the new and improved
machinery says it helps the workman to ease,
but instead of ease it produces moth
ing but misery, poverty and hell for
the people. With what shall Ne replace
arbitration? A German General whose troops
were being moved down by the French guns
daring the Franco-Prussian war, rallied his
men by shouting: Those guns can do us no
harm once we get them into our possession.
Press on" That is what repeat to the An
archists of to-day-press onI wild cheering.l
Machinery can do US no harm when it is our
own. Press Oh! increased excltement.l
Female cheap labor child labor and cohvict
labor will last as long as the cause producing
them exist: The international cry is thar eapi-
tai has no rights which labor is bound to re-
spect while capital occupies its palaces and the
International would establish condition of
society where all shall be on an equality, no
rights without duties and no duties without
rights. Is this not worth fighting for, worth
dying for, as did our martyred heroes at Chi
cago?
Voices-'It is-Iti is"
HE ADVOCATES FORCE.
A forcible social revolution is the only
remedy. Force is used upon the worker when
he defends his rights, the brute force of police,
of the soldiery and the hired assassins of Pin
kerton. We asked for bread and they fed US
with lead. wild excitementl
Give them rifle diet" Sad Tom Scott to
his hired cuthroats in 1877. As the ripples on
the water precede flood SO the ripples on the
social stream to-day predict an outbreak.
Here an enthusiast in the gallery
broke Sor, OUT Pm Who an noa Anarehist and and
wildly waved his arms. He stood up as several
persons approached him, and announced his
willingness to retire, at which Mr.. Brown re-
marked: HE may be an Anarchist, but at all
events he is gentleman and knows when he is
not wanted"
He continued his address in the same
strain for fully half-hour to a wildly-ex-
cited audience, which cheered and howled
at every revolutionary remark.
The second part opened with an instru-
mental rendition of the Dead March in
Saul, which, with the blood-colored and
black flags, had a depressing effect on all
of the audience except the most pronounced
and professional Anarchists, who apparently
reveled in the lugubrioIs sounds Beyond a
disposition on the part of a few boys in the
gallery to encore the performance, which
distinction they would have con-
ferred on anything from ''Old Hundred" to
Dixie" with the impartiality which
marks the average small boy at an enter
tainment. Mrs. Noll then gave q piano
solo with much taste and ability. and was
applauded to the echo, showing that the
present present were possessed of consider
able musical taste.
A GERMAN SELECTION.
A very pleasing, harmonized vocal selec-
tion was given next by the Vorwaerts
Gesangverein. A recitation, Remember
Our Dead of Chicago" was delivered in
German by Herr Brinkhoff with consider
able emphasis as we'll as pathos, and was
received with loud demonstrations OF ap-
proval. The leading point in the address
was a comparison of the fates of the exc
cuted Anarchists with that of John Brown.
A lively and entertaining overture by
the orchestra preceded the tablesux,
which were certainly the principal objects
of interest to the younger portion OF the
audience. The first tableau rep
resented the past through the me-
dium of a ghastly green glare cast on
the stage by calcium light in the gallery.
The costuming was very fair and explained
by notes in the official programme.
The tableaux were called The Past, Pres
ent, Social Revolution and The Future, and
were received with enthusiastic applause,
the Social Revolution scene,
which represented workmen as resisting
Cfota troonc uirb a varipd asSorfmnnt of
weapons while two young ladies, attired in
white, held aloft blood-red streamer, with
the inscription both in German and
English Victory is ours" illuminated
in the most lurid manner with red fire.
Even In this scene the troons were not naid