Workmen's advocate., 1889-11-16

belief, that really good people could only be found among the so.called respectable classes. was brought up to hate the foreigners as people who were always ready to cut our threats, and l was of the opinion that the police forces were instituted by special decree of God Almighty to keep them in their cages"
 The speaker then related how, little by little, he found that he had been mis- taken; but what brought him to think was the trial of the Chicago Anarchists. He followed up the history of their trial and found that he would be proud if he were like one of them.
 ''I uttered this, my opinion, in the church, but had 1 thrown bomb into the midst of my congregation it could not have created greater consternation, he continued. "The consequence is, that l am no more among them. Later the book of the author whose memory we honor to-day, novel, called What is to be done, fell into my hands, and learned from this foreigner more than had learned from all my fellow citizens be- fore. Socialists, Anarchists and Nihilists, though differing somewhat in their philosophy, practically want the same | thing. The Americans of future gener- ations will be glad to trace their descent to men like Albert Parsons. It seems to me as if the day of emancipation were near. It may be that we shall live to see the :4oc.v. day. Let us prepare and let each (. M, ,fs us do his dutyv'
 John As.Most, the next speaker, said: "We today honor the memory of man who, though continually under the threatening cloud of death, can never die; of man who, whenever he used his pen, made the inmates of palaces tremble, and whose name will still be remembered when the ashes of the mummy of the last king are cast to the winds. Not every day brings forth 8 Shakespeare, a Goethe, Darwin, a Spencer, or Tchernyshewsky. It is grand that Russia, the land of bondage, should bring forth the man who first discovered the principles of modern socialism. From Kamtshatka toWarsaw, from Archangel to Odessa, the people may think star has fallen, but the star Tshernyshewsky still beams on the firm ament. A spirit like his cannot die. The powers of Europe have so far looked on the Russian Emp. IS the stronghold of despotism. Now it has been infested with revolutionary ideas and every revolutionary Socialist looks hopefully to the East. It is no boast, it is no threat, flor the iron law of history decrees it. that Czarism will vanish. The third Alexander will follow the second, and then will follow all the emperors, kings, law makers and exploiters. It is not possible that nine-tenths of the people will allow themselves to be exploited by the small tenth much longer. It is not possible, that they will further allow the best of the people to be sent to the scatfold. It is not possible that murders like the crime of Chicago can be repeat ed. The days of coercion and tyranny are numbered. It cannot go on much further. Long live the Social Revol utiOnp
 M. Zametkin, the last speaker, illu strated the noble character of the Rus sian martyr and his high standing 1T social science and political economy And this giant of thought" he said twas buried for nearly human age 1T Siberia, without books or any other spiritual nourishment."
 A collection, which was taken up dur ing the meeting, brought $77.07, more than enough to cover the expenses O. the meeting.