Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-09
ANARCHY is NOT DEAD.

The slumber,ng Monster Arouses Long
Enough to Promulgatc an Inceudiary
screed. Hoping, Perchance, to Again
Infiame Its Devotees to Acts Of Law.
lessness.
CHICAGO, May 4.-On the 30th inst the
Haymarket monument is to be unvailed,
and that the Anarchists are already pre-
pairing for the event is evidenced By the
issuance by some secret printing estab-
Iishment of an infammatory circular,
copies of which fell into the hands of the
police yesterday. One of the circulars was
inclosed in an envelope and sent to Chief
Hubbard yesterday morning. Another
was found lying on the base Of the monu-
meut in Haymarket Square. 1t is be-
lieyed that many other copies of the cir
cular have been secretly circulated among
the Anarchists, who are known to be still
loyal to the memory of Spies. Parsons
and the rest. The circular reads as fol-
lows:
May 4, 1886. and November II, 1887.
May 4 1885! A peaceable meeting attacked
by $50 armed policemen acting under orders OF
a well-known bully and ruffian, contrary to the
commands OF the mayor OF the city. An I'M
known hand throws a deadly and death-dealin2
missile and in moment the air is rent by the
shrieks and groans of wounded and dying men.
And this is the result of the disobedience, the
cowardice and hatred of one man.
CITIZENS: You are asked to commemorate
by your attendance at the unvailing of the
statue erected to the memory of the policemen
who fell on that terrible night, the bravery (C,
not of the common people who had no choice
but to obey but of the man Bonfield. whose
murderous act caused untold suffering. Some
of you who read this will listen, it may be, with
approval to the recital OF the awful scenes OF
that memorable night. With vehemence and
great eloquence skillful orators will picture to
you the situation, and strong appeals will be
made to your patriotism and your prejudices.
Passion which time has cooled. will be again
aroused. and the hated Anarchists who, you
will be told, are entirely responsible for this
dreadful affair, will be painted as fends in hui
man form. So have the people ever been
blinded by cunning knaves But stop! Have
you ever given q thought to the patient suffer
ing the cruel persecution, the unjust trial and
conviction and the base murder Of five OF the
real victims of the Haymarket tragedy Or to
the undeserved punishment, compared with
which death would be mercifu to the other
three? Have you forgotten the seif-sacrihce
and grandeur of spirit and bearing of the man
who voluntarily surrendered himself to share
the fate of his comrades? Do guilty men thus
voluntarily return to meet certain death!
All! friends, ask yourselves these questions
IN sober earnestnesS, and then listen without
blush OF shame. if you cam to your orators as
they tell you this is the freest country on the
face OF the earth. This kind of patriotism. like
the song of the siren, puts you to sleep whilst
you drift on to certain slavery. You remember
the trial of our friends? How the public pros
ecutor, States-Attorney Grinnell, pursued our
friends with all the malevolence of fend.
How he adopted every device known to COW.
ards and knaves-intimidation, bribery, jury
packing and force-to carry out the will of the
whose willing tool he was.
There are many incidents connected with the
trial which still remain to be told. The time
will come for the ample justification OF our
comrades; but it is not quite yet and you who
pay your tribute to brave men, and exult IN
the triumph Of law, consider for moment at
what fearful price that triumph was secured.
When you assemble on the thirteenth OF May,
think also of the eleventh of November. See
the four martyrs to free speech and liberty, as
they stand TRANSPORTED on the dreadful scat
fold. See the proud. triumphant look which
lights their faces! Hear the voices of Fischer
and Engle exultingly shout for the cause they
loved dearer than life. Hearken to the
and prophetic voice of Spies as he
foretellS the time when their silence will speak
in thunder tones. Listen again to the last APP
peal OF the noble Parsons-choked in its very
atterance.
While Flaw and ORDER rclgned supreme with
in the Jail on that sad November morning, with
put the walls was beng enacted another scene.
At the very moment when the devoted husband
and father was being prepared for eternity, the
faithful wife with her two children was seeking
admission GRANTED to her the night before) to
obtain one last word and embrace. Made des-
perate by the insults of the uniformed rufians
who surrounded her, she and her children were
hurried away to the police station, and there
D, shame on American manhood-by command
Of Captain Setback, whom politicians have re-
Gently returned to power, the almost heart
broken woman and the two children were
stripped stark naked This at the very moment
The husband and father was giving up his life, q
willing sacrifice to his convictions.
On the fourth of May, 1886, free speech was
1ealt a stunning blow. On the eleventh of No
7ember, 1887, free speech was killed outright
,hoked in the utterance of one of its noblest
every sentiment Of decency
vas outraged in the brutal treatment Of Mrs.
Parsons.
On the monument at the Haymarket should
De inscribed in letters of fire these words:
to commemorate the strangIing of
rec speech and the shame of an enslaved peo-
DE p"
Chief Hubbard was interviewed con-
corning the circular late yesterday after
loon. He said he scarcely thought it
possible that the Anarchists will attempt
IN outbreak on the day the statue is I'M
vailed. He says every preca ution will be
aiken, however, to secure the safety Of
life aud property upon that day.
WENT OVER THE FALLS.