Workmen's advocate., 1889-06-15
CHICAGO,
Public Parades and the Law-Set.
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 The announcement that the subject of the decision of the Appellate Court in regard to street parades and the ne- cessity for sustaining it would be dis. cussed at the Waverly Hall meeting last Sunday, called together large and promlscuous audience.
 | The discussion was called forth by a recent editorial in one of the local pap CTS, in which it was maintained that the decision of the Appellate Court should be reversed, and that no street parades should be held except by permission of the mayor or chief of police. It was in- timated that the decision rendered it possible for all kinds of dangerous or ganizations to parade that there are or ganized conspiracies existing in society which would take undue advantage of the laws leniency, and that if there is no law on the statute books in relation to this matter, that there should be one.
 This editorial was presented for criti- cism, and the discussion was opened by the submitting of a set of resolutions from Comrade Hamilton who, being unayoidably absent from the city, sent the resolutions together with a legal work which contained a marked para graph bearing upon the case.
 The resolutions declared that the statements contained in the editorial in regard to 'organized conspiracies" was pure assumption, that the right of so- cleties to parade peaceably was inher- ent and constitutional, and that any at- tempt to deprive any class of citizens from exercising this right should be re- garded as subversive of the principles upon which our government is founded; is, in short, an anarchistic measure; that all who favored it are the enemies of society and far more dangerous to its peace and well-being than any anarchist who ever fired bomb. The paragraph in relation to the right of citizens to parade was read, after which Comrade Berlyn made an able speech in support of the resolutions. Comrade Morgan and others followed with brief remarks, after which the resolutions were adopted.
 The lecturer of the day, Mir. Bartholo- new, was then introduced and was about to speak when
 WELL-KNOWN ANARCHIST
 insisted on offering objections to some. thing in the resolutions just passed. He was promptly called to order, and after some slight demur, subsided. But be- fore the lecturer could get a chance to take the stand
 ANOTHER ANARCHIST
 arose who, like Banquo's ghost, would not down. He shouted and insisted on making a speech, marching up to the front as he kept up his excited har- angue. He declared he had the floor and intended to keep it in spite of everything. The confusion increased. The chairman then requested a member of the Section to summon an officer to remove the offender. This had the de- sired etfect-the proud anarchist forgot his ''principles' and covered in silence. while the audience resumed their seats. and the chairman quietly motioned the | lecturer to pFOCeeu. MT. bartholomew then entertained the audience with an interesting speech, in the course of which he declared he was something of an anarchist, though he believed in law, order and government. He believed ill the abolition of many laws and the modification of government.
 In the discussion which followed many were disposed to disparage the element known as Christian Socialists, claiming that their activity might be merely an attempt to nullity the whole movement. Comrade Morgan did not think such was the case, and referred to Comrade Harry C. Nrooman who, he believed, was sincere socialist before he entered the church, and was so still. Referring to the lecturers position as to the repeal and modification of laws, he exhibited a socialistic conception of law. He also showed that with the nationaliza- ton of land and the means of production innumerable legal complexities would of necessity be removed, thus simplifying the law.
 MT. Bartholomew, in replying to his critics, showed that far from being an anarchist, he was mot far from the kingdom