Workmen's advocate., 1889-11-16
THE MEMORIAL CElEBRA-
 TON IN CHICAGO.

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 TON IN CHICAGO. Although the sky was very cloudy and ram was threatening all day, the two long trains charte red for Waldheim were full of passengers and at half past two o'clock about four thousand persons were assembled in the cemetery to honor the five men who, two years ago, died for the emancipation of mankind. The ad- ministration of the cemetery, although they had threatened to have the demon stration prevented, had not dared to do anything in this direction. Neither had the talk of the police that they were going to break up the gathering, nor the shameful articles of the capitalistic press deterred the people from coming. The demonstration was equal in numbers to that held on the same spot last year. The celebration began at half past two with "Trauermarch" by the Central Music band; this was followed by the United singers, who, two hundred strong, sang "Ueber allen Wipfeln ist Ruh'." Then c. c. Clemens, alawyer of Topeka, Kansas, was introduced as the English speaker of the day. He said that he took the same view of present social conditions as Bellamy did in Looking Backward" He was not here, however, as a Nationalist, Socialist, or an Anarchist, but as a citizen of the United States. He was not advocating force or dynamite, but freedom of thought and | freedom of speech. Spies and his friends had been hanged, not because they were Anarchists, but because they advocated freedom. MT. Clemens then drew very able parallel between the present times and the times immediately preceding the abolition of chattel slavery, and he showed, by reading some sections of old Southern statutes, that the same laws had been enacted against the Abolution- ists and their so-called conspiracies as are now in force against the wol king class and its defenders. He reviewed the Anarchist trial from legal point of view and concluded with warm appeal to the people, entreating them to educate themselves by reading Looking Back ward"
 As MT. Clemens spoke for nearly an hour and only those could hear him, who stood very near the speaker, the audience grew somewhat restless during the later part of this oration. At it's close song was rendered. Then Paul Grottkau came forward and delivered in German the most eloquent speech that he ever made. In his opening remarks he commented severely upon the admin istration of the cemetery, who had done everything they could to prevent his great memorial demonstration. "Never- theless we had all come, and we would continue to come and our children after us, and the workingmen of Chicago would celebrate the Eleventh of Novem- Der long after the names of the present administrators of theWaldheim cemetery were forgotten" He then asked the question, "What had those five men done? By what means had they be- come immortal and dear to the hearts of all the oppressed?"
 Many people, to be sure, have done and are still doing as much as they ever did for the cause of mankind, yet were and would remain unknown. These five men were dear to every heart, they were immortal because they were the first victims in the war for the emancipation of the white slaves, and because the day of their murdering marked the beginning of new epoch in the worlds struggle for freedom And although they had committed no crime they did not regret flies, they did not give way to feeling of awe in the presence of death, but they met their doom without tremOr They showed by their behavior that oul cause was so noble, so grand, that il could fill its apostles with the greates
 courage and sustain them, unfinching upon the gallows. And for this, saiC Grottkau, we must be grateful to them. Grottkau then made a striking com parison between the murderers of Cronir II Continued on fourth page.)