Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-07


between, are no slower than their Western
brethren of bloody language. They have
just issued an incendiary circular. Its
points and purposes are fully set forth.
In connection with the item published in
THE DISPATCH a few days ago to the effect
that the Anarchists of Western Pennsyl-
vania we're being aroused by Herr Fricke,
of Allegheny, and they would hold demon
stration in this city on Saturday next, cir
cular was issued to the followers of Fricke
yesterday. 1t is a pamphlet of II pages,
Printed in German, and the outside front
page is decked with heavy black border.
A copy of it fell into the hands of DIS
PATCH reporter, who had it translated by a
well-known German scholar. The latter
stated that many OF the phrases used had a
hidden meaning. 1t was difficult to express
in English some sentences the circular con-
tanned, but the following is an almost per-
feet translation:
TO THE WORKING PEOPLE.
A man or beast? That Is the question which
will have to be decided on 1lth of November.
Two years ago a crime was committed the like
of which is not contained in the annals of the
world. On the 1Ith of November, 1857, five
men were slaughtered in cold blood without
there being the least evidence that thev
had transgressed any one Of those bloOd-thirsty
laws with which the society of to-day justlties
its judicial crimes.
On the 4th of March, 1856 an unknown man
attacked, in defense of himself and many
others, by throwing a bomb, as the 200 muir
derers (police) were in the act of massacreing
hundreds of peaceable citizens-among whom
there were numerous women and children
with tiger-like blood-thirstiness, and in pay of
the Unsuitable capitalistic robbers of Chicago.
This deed, which even IN the eyes OF the law Is
unimpeachable, was not to be avenged on him
who threw the bomb, because. as we said he
fore, he was unknown. He was and remained
unknown. No! This deed was intended to be
a preteXt to annihIlate the best most intelli-
gent courageous counsellors OF the working
people of Chicago. The attempts to convict
our brothers, Lingg, Fischer, Engel,
of cOnspiring to murder policemen
were not at all successful. All the lies and
menaces of the capitalistic press, the false
o2ths of hirellngs, all the Vaccinations origin
ated by the shameless vermin of bribed officials
TO place the pioneers OF liberty in the light of
murderers was in vain.
In spite of all this. sand Grinnell. You must
die. Not because you are murderers, but be-
cause you preached anarchism."
SOME RABID UTTERANCEs.
'You must die!" said Geary, while the croco-
die tears ran down his cheeks, for you have
sinDed against our highest God against Jeho-
vah Mammon." You must dler' exclaimed
the u jury brigands as in their hands
they felt thu gold Of the plutocracy,
because II have outraged the sacredness
Of property. You must die!' thundered the
preachers from their pulpits, because you have
transgressed the commandment which says:
You shall not eat of the tree of knowledge" "
You must der exclaimed the priests of the
golden calf, of the money exchanges because
II is your work tnat the people cries for bread
and liberty" You must die!" howled the pub
ic after it had been stripped of the power of
healthy thought by corrupt demagogues like
Powderly and George. The rage and fury was
general. The class tyranny united with the
ignorance of the masses to let the barbaric
deeds fallow the foul design.
The gallows were erected. and on No
vemher II, 1857, four friends of the
peOple-Spies, Parsons, Fischer and Engel
were strangled in the name and the Indifferent
presence Of the people. The fifth, the young
and highly heroic Curuus of modern times
Louis Llngg. whose memory shall ever live was
already driven into death on the proceeding
day. This Quintuple murder was not only in
tended TO exterminate the exponents of An
archism and social revolution, but at the same
time give warning to Others who thought and
felt similar TO them.
APPEALING TO woRKMEN.
But, above all, it was intended to terr1ty
labor Now we ask what have the worl1ingmen
done to save their counselors, their leaders
and their best friends? As good as moth
they collected a fund. A courageous
deed could have prevented the November
crime, the wOrkingmen offered resolutions
On! if only those who thus demonstrated had
appeared in numbers on the scene, as the |
seriousness of the situation required Unhap-
PLY, those who did move in the matter were |
only their most intimate friends. The Anarch-
lists and other Socialists as IL was known later |
On those who sympathized were men without |
Serious intentions. who were satisfied to shed |
tear or utter curse The rest were and re- |
mained listless, or even Joined in the wild cry |
of the law and order beasts. Cruelty them" |
The species of man has suffered an irreparable |
injury: the beast has gained victory which |
would make Moloch jealous
Two years have now passed since that horri- |
bic deed of the hangman of Chicago. The in |
sane madness of the bloody monsters has more |
and more abated. Considerable literature, for |
the most part from the pens of our strangled /
heroes has found its way through the land: |
yes, through all lands, and made clear the |
principles Of the martyrs of the workingman, /
and why they were murdered. In hundreds of !
thousands OF different places-aU over where /
man meets man-has tins tragedy been talked |
about a hundred times. Moo can assert that /
he has not had occasion to find out how the |
situation stands. The official murder of Chi |
cagO is generally known as such. Whoever |
now sanctions it has no right TO the title of |
man; he numbers among the beasts.
CALL TO ARMS
Now then, every one will soon have occasion |
to show what he is and what he intends to be- /
On the llth of November, this year, the revo- |
Of all lands Of all countries will con-
vene to do honor to the memory of the butch |
cred heroes and to impeach the murderers and /
their followers, take anew the oath to
fulfill the legacy of the fallen heroes-that is to
do battle increasingly until the robber system /
of to-day which is held up by foul murder and |
outrageous acts. of all kinds. is eXterminated
and the liberty and equality of the |
people on earth is established. Who /
ever feels and thinks like human being fol-
H.
those who were hanged. Whoever suffers un
der the present robber system, whoever has
come to the conclusion that an injustice is
done him, whoever wishes that this world
should be made better must also know now
that the men who suffered death in Chicago
have died because they thought and felt like
you think; that IS, that they have given their
lives for you. Will you honor them, and with
il yourself Then you must be there in great
numbers when it is time to show the enemy of
mankind that their crimes are not forgotten
and that their murders have not had the effect
Of exterminating the craving of the trodden
people for liberty. In the position which the
must take in this respect he
must lay aside all personal considerations
no matter whether his thoughts have scared
10 the height these fallen heroes attained
to work like them with hot, fervent enthus-
lsm for communism and anarchism; whether
1r not be knows that the emancipation of work
ing men through the ballot box is possible;
whether or not he is of the opinion, as a Knight
Of Labor, be can reach the goal, or he yet
moves in the narrow circles of trades unions, |
he must know above all that he is part of the
lighting corps which is in the field against cap
tal; part of that corps with which the fallen
heroes who we're murdered in Chicago were
closely united.
MAN or beast?" that is theHuestion.
A HOWL FOR BLOOD.
Let every man and every woman show to
which species he belongs. The countersign is
given, the call has been made. Working men,
act as it behooves you. Revolutionists, let
call 60 to all working men who are not at pres
ent in the tow of corrupt demRgogues, and