St. Paul daily globe., 1890-11-10
THEIR FIVE HEROES.
Chicago Anarchists Throw
Flowers Upon the Graves Of
Haym arket Mupdereps, Z.
And Speak Of Their Execu-
TONERS as Hell-Born Mon
sters Of Des potism.
Celebrants of the Fourth Of
July Placed in the Cate
cory Of Anarchists.
The Quintette Of Red-Handed
Assassins EulogiZed as
New John Browns.

CHICAGO, Nov. 9.-Armfuls of flow
ers, sy mpathetlc speeches and parade
of 2.0OO sorrowing friends marked the
celebration tO-da y Of the fourth ami
uersary Of the execution of the anarch-
lists, Spies, Parsons, Engel and Fischer.
Decorum characte riZed all the exercises.
The speeches, In compar ison with the
old-time fiery utterances, were mild al
most to tameness. The leaGen Novem-
Der sky and the cold wind that came
sweeping across the prairie seemed TO
decrease the ardor of the agitatois. At
II o'clock the various enthusiastic Or
ganiZations began to gather at the cor
ner of Market and Washington streets,
and at 12 the procession took up its line
of march for the Wisconsin Central
depot. Right through the heart of the
city it passed. up Market to Lake,
thence to State, thence to Van Buren,
thence to Fifth ave nue. and the depot,
with banners furled and draped. and
with bands playing dirges. The fol low
ing organizations participated: The
Woman's La Sale association, headed
by the West Chicago Union No. band;
the Arbeiter bund, the Workingmen's
Educational society, the Hod Carriers
Protective Aid association, the Metal
Workers union, the Cornlcemakers'
union, the Typographical Union No. 9.
Furniture Workers Union No. l, Turn
verein, Balm -Frei," Carpenters Union
No. /, headed by the Northwestern
band; the Stairbuilders' union, the
Social union, the Aurora turner's, the
Free Thinkers society and the A. r.
Parsons assembly. All in the process
sion boarded special train, W it'll some
hundreds of others, and after
Tedious Hours Ride
were ut the cemetery. As soon as VALID
helm was reached theproceSSiOn formed
again and marched to the graves. Each
society as IL passed deposited upon the
mounds its floral offering, until the last
resting place of the five anarchists was
piled high with floral designs ofali
sorts, and was one mass of red and
white flowers. Conspicuous among the
designs was floral gibbet from the
Woman's La Sale society. This cere-
mOny completed, and draped and fur!ed
banners having been planted about the
graves, the crowd gathered in front of
small incIOsure to the left, in the center
Of which had been placed Il small table,
TO serve as platform for the speakers.
George Schmeidinger lnaugurated the
flow of Oratory with a short address in
German. He said the purpose of
the assemblage was to commemorate
the ''murder" of their comrades ''by the
machinery of capital" This sentiment
was received with demonstrations of
approval. MIR. Schmeidinger intro
duced the Union Singing society. and
after siege of doleful vocalizati0n, b.
S. Oliver, of Chicago, in the absence of
a New Yorker advertised to appear, was
pressed into service as the chief Eng
lish speaker of the occasion. Mr.. Oil
yer, though evidently chilled through
and through by the raw gale that
whistled among the gravestoneS. began
with the exclamation: This the hap
piest moment of my life" 1t was the
remark made by Fischer. one of the eX-
ecuted anarchists, on the scafiold, and
its appropriation by Mr.. Oliver elected
cheer. The speaker went on to ex-
pl ain that his happiness was in doing
honor to the brave boys buried yonder."
The inhuman act, he went on. that
brings this crowd to Waldheim to do
reverence to their memory will never
be forgotten. From the ashes of that
tomb will ever ring the
Cries of Despair
that will be heard across the briny
deep, and will shake the globe from
pole to pole. The memory of those
noble dead will stir the laboring man to
do and dare, and when that time comes
let somebody beware. Though scat
folds and glbbets were built at every
crossroad," said the speaker, ''let us
have courage, comrades-onward Are
ND fn ,iS,
against these hell-boIn monsters of
despotism?' Mr.. Oliver then recited
an original poem. Again there was
singing by the chorus and music from
one of the three brass bands in attend
ance. MOritZ SchuItZe, of New York,
followed in German address, and was
frequently interrupted by applause.
He, like the preceding speaker, re-
minded the audience what was the oc-
casion of the gathering, declaring that
they had come to honor men who
false laws. The five illustrious
dead had struggled for principle, and
their memory would be heritage when
their murderers had been forgotten.
II. e. Bartholomew succeeded Mr..
SchultZe. Our five heroes" said he,
"were sacrificed on the altar of neces-
Sity. Yes, believe that the execution
OF the apostles of higher civilization
was necessary Truth comes through
pain, and the blood of martyrs is its
seal. Who can measure the influence of
this event? The excitement over the
assassination of Lincoln was as nothing
in comparison with it," Mr. Bartholo-
new took the ground that every man or
woman who celebrates the Fourth of
July is an anarchist. because the con-
stitntion admits the right of the indi-
vidual. The speaker concluded by
eulogiZing the dead anarchists as new
John Browns. Jacob Mikandder at
tempted to address the crowd i'll Danish,
but his audience rapidly left him, and
the celebration was at an end.
Mrs. Parsons home, a cottage on
Hammond avenue, was decorated be-
fore daylight this morning with large
red flag attached to staff on the roof.
A man named Lacher. who boards in
the house, had placed the flag in posi-
tion. He declined to comply with the
request to remove it by a policeman,
who jumped upon Mrs. Parsons house,
pulling down the red flag, and took the
fiery emblem to the police station.