The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-01
CHICAGO ANARCHIsTs.
Lucy Parsons Holds Forth in y Fiery
Speech.

CHICAGO, December 30. -Anarchlst
Parsons, dark skinned widow. to-day
made good her boast that she would
speak In Chicago in spite of the police.
1t was at Waverly Hall, one square
from Mayor Roche's Office. and is the
same place which was closed against
her week ago. Four hundred people
crowded into the little auditorium, and
many others cheked up the entrance
and stood upon the stairs. The meeting
was one called by the socialistic labor
party ito transact business. and for the
promotion of socialistic doctrines"
The proceedings opened with reso-
LUTON
CoNDEMNIN THE POLICE
for their recent lawless interference
with public meetings. The resolution
was unanimously adopted. Tommy
Morgan, socialist, was the first
speaker He said the employment of
force by workingmen was futile. 1t
appealed to the lowest instincts of man
klnd and was wrong from moral, in
tellectaal and practical standpoint.
Its impractioability had been demon
strsted in this city by the Haymarket
results. The hanging OF the anarchists
was proof enough that force vas i'm
practicable. -
The meeting was open to anyone
wanting to talk, each speaker being al
lowed ten minutes. Mrs. Parsons rose
and the crowd cheered Justify. II
should like very much" she said ''some
of these days, to answer the assertion
that Mr.. Morgan has made against
those who are dead; but the ukase has
gone forth from Roche and Lord Bon
field that l am never to make another
speech in Chicago, and that I am to be
forever deprived of that liberty under
the constitution; but l cannot sit here
quietly and hear it said that those who
are dead and silent in the tombs had
anything to do with the throwing OF
the Haymarket bombs, though in the
WAR AGAINST TYRANTs
everything is justified and anyone that
says anything else is cursed. They were
miserable ours who on last Sunday
night allowed themselves to be driven
from this hall by the police"
| Mrs. Parsons then read what pur :
| ported to be an extract from a speech of
| Thomas Jefferson, in which occurred
these words: God forbid that any
country should be for twenty years
without a rebellion ?" "Did Patterson
! or Spies utter anything more revolu-
ii onary than that" said Mrs. Parsons
1t has been declared that martyrs are
no good, but their memory is dear and
a perpetual inspiration, because they
died before they asked pardon for tho t
which they did not do. When liberty
shall be crowned with Immortality
the brightest names in her crown will
be those of Parsons, Spies, Fischer and
Engel, who died for her, (Cheers) ]
am for
PEACE ON PRINCIPLE.
If you see two rival armies approach
ing each other, and take q poll of the
men you will find nine .tenths of them
are for peace. but they are borne on by
irresistible force to the conflict. Before
We can have peace in society like our
own, rivers of blood will have to run.
| (Applause).
the chairman interrupted Mrs. Par
sons, and said the ten minutes allowed
had expired.
A number oil detectives were present
but there was no attempt to interfere
After many other speeches., some OF
them decidedly fiery, the hall was
cleared and a private meeting held by
prominent members of the socialistic
party. When the conference ended il
was announced that arrangements had
been made to continue these proceed
ings every Sunday afternoon.