Workmen's advocate., 1889-11-16

but to brand murder as it deserves" [Great cheers.
 Amid the most impressive silence, in terrupted from time to time by ominous excamations of disgust when the names of Grinnell, Garry and Bonfield were spoken, Shevitch reviewed the events preceding and following the arrest of the five Chicago Anarchists. He showed how prejudiced the jury was, how the prosecution had forged evidence, how witnesses had perjured themselves, how, in spite of all this, it was impossible to trace the bomb, or the knowledge of it, to any of the accused men, and how they had been sent to the scaffold as a bloody offering to the frightened divin- ity of capital by its cowardly ministers. "These,' said he, "either must have known that they were using the forms of law to commit a crime, or they were unutterable fools and idiots. Great cheering.l But if it was their purpose to strike terror unto the hearts of the working class, what mistake they made, as we see here tonight! Can such movements, can any movement of ideas be stopped by hanging few men? Was the movement for the abolition of chattel slavery stopped by the hanging of John Brown? No; such movements cannot be stopped by million of bayonets. Prolonged applause.
 "Again," continued the speaker, it is customary for those who would arrest progress in this country by persecution, to arouse, or attempt to arouse a false feeling of patriotism by representing that the advocates of modern ideas here are ignorant foreigners, who contem. plate the overthrow of the American Republic. In the first place, they should answer this question Is this country a republic? Can a country claim to be republic, where the office of Presi- dent is bought and sold by plutocracy; where money is the standard of respect ability; where the masses of the people, dependent for the means of life upon gigantic monopolies, must vote accord ing to the dictates of their employers, and where the women of the highest classes prostitute themselves for the lowest coronets of Europe? Kisses. l Are not such women as bad as the un- fortunate on the Bowery who sells her self for fifty cents? Worse, much worse; for the low prostitute is driven
 by starvation to make an infamous trade of her body, whereas the wealthy
 daughters of our monopolists, enriched
 by the labor of American workingmen,
 is driven to the same shameful deed by
 vile anti-republican ambition"
 The speaker here showed what a
 progress the modern ideas had made of
 late years among the native born citi
 zens. They have taken deep roots in
 the American mind and the cry oi
 "Foreigner has lost its power Here
 is," said he, MT. Hugh o. Pentecost
 [Cheers. As long as he was minister
 and drew a salary of $5,0O0 year he
 was respectable, but now he is looked
 down upon. Yet he is not foreigner
 nor is he found discussing anarchistit
 principles in saloons with a glass of beel
 in his hand.
 "As to the charge that we want { } bloody revolution, the answer is, that taught by history, we merely predict it Social revolutions are never peaceful Was the first shot of the American Revo lution from the ballot box? No, gun
 Did Washington free this country witt a ballot-box? No, with sword. Wer' } the slaves liberated by ballots? No, b,
 bullets. Organize unions, political par 5 ties, anything to promote the movement 5 and the caldwell, the ruling class vii , be the first to shed blood
 7 "Two years ago the police of Nev l York dispersed by force in the most un 3 expected and brutal manner, peaceful 3 and lawful meeting of the Progressiv 3 Labor Party in Union Square. It wa ? all mistake, they said. We determine : to vindicate the right of free speech b. holding another meeting at the sam l place few days later. Fearing anothe I Mistake two thousand at least of th 1 fifteen thousand workingmen present a I this great demonstration came arme l. with pistols. I knew it, and had ther