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SHOOT THEN LIKE DOGS.
SO SAYS MRS. LESLIE OF THE
ANARCHISTS.
And Th6reupon the Chicago Socialists
Take Her In Hand and Eenounce Her
Language as Barbarous-The Fair New
York Publisher Severely Criticised.

Il auBuuSo hS BnfDafOuh-Ano FAlr NOW
| York Publisher Severely Criticised.
| Chicago dispatch.
1t having been freely advertised that
the socialists w6uld discuss Mrs. Frank
Leslie, Waveriy Hall was crowded on
Sunday afternoon. BY way OF prelim-
mary, few minor resolutions were Of
| fered and discussed and several articles
were read on socialistic subjects, and
| there was the usual row over Prof. Or
chardsoh. and his resolutions.
| The subject OF the day was introduced
by Mrs. S. Woodman, who read an inter
view with Mrs. Leslie which appeared
In a recent interview OF local sheet,
In which she is accredited with saying
many harsh things about the socialists.
Mrs. WOOdman offered long resolution,
OF which the following Is sample:
ResOlred That the gentle tender hearted
representative OF Americas uppertendom
who has done Chicago during the last week.
the honor 20 vlsit II, ana has kindly con-
sented 10 ehllghten the genefal public as to
| her views oh tho industrial sltuatioh and
| recommend d course of treatment warfanted
| ID cure IN all cases for discontented workers
| OF all nationalities, is hereby entitled to tho
| thanks OF this meeting, for voicing In so ua-
mistakable a manner the secret sentiment
| of the self-styled elite of our great cities I'm
| regard to the working classes and the
| grievances of which they complain.
Mrs. Woodman then made a long ad-
| dress, in the course of which she said:
"'Shoot them like dogs This Is how
Mrs. leslie w6uld have the anarchists
treated. 1t seems strange, does it not,
that a woman's lips should utter such
words as these? Stranger still, that a
woman's heart could beget the thought.
Even the coarsest and mCst cruel men
shrink little from the woman who adj
vocates coarseness and cruelty, and they
are right. From woman-the wife,
motheb sister, daughter-6ne naturally
expects gentle thoughts and human6
sentiments, and 50 to hear an expression
which would do credit Is the most Hit
crate and brutalized officer On Chicago's
police force from the lips of one whose
beauty and grace have become house
hold word in the United States cannot
fail to have called forth faint shudder
even from so callous an individual as q
Chicago newspaper man.
Shoot them down like dogs! Tfcat
them like mad dogsn How redolcnt
with refinement, how suggestive of femi-
nine delicacy, purity, and womanly
sweetness in this language! Has this
woman no children? No; she is child
less. She tells you SO. Il have no
child's stocking to fill with candy and
dolls Christmas morning. There Is
world of rHthos in this thought. After
all, with all her wealth of diamonds she
berehanec Is eh hh R se wdha a hA hAa16b b66 fef ~ ef5
little children left fatherless, of the
wives and mothers bereft OF their only
support and left TO strhggle single
handed III consequence of that shame
less and infamous execution Nov. II,
which Mrs. Leslie characteriZcs as "a
brave and wise thing AS a matter of
fact, there are few of Chicago's citizens
who are not more worthy candidates for
hanging than were those.
alt Is great nation, this, sighed
Mr.. Leslie, 'and will be greater when
these social questions arc settlel'
They will be settled according to Mrs.
Leslie, and that by force There is
Just one point which the lady has APP
parently overlooked. 1t Is that In pco-
pie themselves will be apt to take n
hand in the settling. YES, Strikes
must be suppressed by law and tho
strikers be suppressed by force she
says. Herr Most could scarcely have
delivered himself of more inCendiary
language than that employed by this
cultivated beauty and pet of fashion
Mrs. EranlS Loslio. Ir,essino itT-Tso
Judge, no jury, no ooIrt, but let every
nan, woman, and child rush through
TIC streets armed with a revolver, ready
to shoot at any suspected anarchists or
other disconnected person. III this he
ros anarchy, what is it? But only the
better classes as Mrs. Leslie calls
tLom, may indulge in the luxury of rec
ommending This particular kind of an
archy.
"The better classes'-New York's 5
better classesl Well, you heard some
account Of their performances at GER
tain big ball held in that city little
while ago. It is pity that these refined,
cultured, high-bred, blue-booded, alto
gcther superior beings, only little lower
than the angels, should have been com
PEELED to endure any discomforts when
they wished to travel, merely that few
thousand commonplace, Insignificant,
everyday plebeian creaturus like our
selves should have a few more OF the
nccessarics and comforts of life.
"Mrs. Leslie at least runs things this
way, If her statements are to be taken
at their par value DO yOu know your
own typesettersp' asked the reporter.
Every one of them; they all touch theil
hats TO me- Think OF this Isn't it re-
| markable? Every man who knows enough
| to go in the house when IL rains will touch
| his hat to n woman, be she washerwom-
an or duchess. The homage is to the sex,
not to the individual, but Mrs. Leslie does
not seem to be aware of this. And
believe they would all die for me, says
she. Well, either Mrs. Lcslie's organ ot
credulity is abnormally developed OF
there must be 400 people in that city
| who have very little interest i'm living
| Possibly Mrs. leslie makes life such Q
'demnitioa grind to them, that it's tho
| toss of penny to most of them whether
| they live or die, with the odds, If any,
decidedly in favor Of the latter alterna
| tive.
ain conclusion, we would like to give
| the Mrs. Leslies one little word o.
| friendly warning and admonition. IL l.
| contained In the old proverb, Better le
sleeping dogs lie,' more especially wheI
they are suspected of being mad anC
there are coed many of them. Fur
| thermore, Il Is unwise, to say the least
| TO invite the attack of an enemy whose
real strength you are not in position tC
| ascertain"
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