The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-10-29
SHOOT THEM LIKE DOGS.
SO SAYS MRS. LESLIE OF THE
ANARCHISTS.
And Thereupon the Chicago Socialists
Take Her I'm Hand and Denounos Hei
Language as Barbarous-The Fair New
York Publisher Severely Criticised.

York Publisher Severely Criticised.
lChicago dispatch.
IL having been freely advertised that
The socialists would discuss Mrs. Frank
Leslie, Waverly 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
chardson and his resolutions.
The subject Of the day was introduced
by Mrs. ;. Woodman, who read an inter.
view with Mrs. Leslie which appeared
In 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 a sample:
Resolved. That the gentle, tender hearted
representative OF Americas uppertendOm
who has done Chicago, during the last week.
the honor To visit IL, and has kindly con-
sented TO enlighten the general public as 10
her views on the industrial situation and
recommend course OF treatment warranted
TO cure In all cases for discontented workers
OF all nationalities. is hereby entitled TO the
thanks OF this meeting, for voicing I'm so un-
mistakaSle "A manner the secret sentiment
Of the self-styled elite of our great cities in
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 would have the anarchists
treated. 1t seems strange, does it not,
that woman's lips should utter such
words as these? Stranger still, that
woman's heart could beget the thought.
Even the coarsest and NEST cruel men
shrink q little from the woman who ad-
vocates coarseness and cruelty, and they
are right. From woman-the wife,
mother, sister, daughter-one naturally
expects gentle thoughts and humane
sentiments, and so 10 hear an expression
which would do credit TO the most Hit
crate and brutalized officer on Chicago's
police force from the lips of one whose
beauty and grace have become a house.
hold word in the United States cannot
fail TO have called forth faint shudder
even from SD callous an individual as
Chicago newspaper man.
Shoot them down like dogs! Treat
them like mad dogsn How redoent
with refinement, how suggestive Of fcmi-
nine delicacy, purity, and womanly
sweetness in this language! Has this
woman no chile IN? 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 q
world of pathos in this thought. After
all, with all her wealth Of diamonds, she
is to be pitied. Had she been mother
perchance she would have thought of the
little children left fatherless, Of tho
wives and mothers bereft of their only
support and left to struggle single
handed in consequence Of that shame
less and Infamous execution Nov. II,
which Mrs. Leslie ch.racterizes as "a
brave and wise thing As matter Of
Esct, there are few OF ChicagO's citizens
who are not more worthy candidates for
hanging than We're those.
alt is great nation, this sighed
Mrs. Leslie, 'aRd will be greater when
these social questions are settled.
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 thu peo-
pie themselves will be apt To take a
hand in the settling. Yes, strikes
must be suppressed by law and the
strikers be suppressed by force she
says. Herr Most could scarcely have
language than that employed by this
cultivated beauty and pet of fashion,
Mrs. Frank Leslie. Imagine it; no
Judge, no jury, no court, but let every
nan, woman, and child rush through
The streets armed with a revolver, ready
to shoot at any suspected anarchists or
other discontented person. If this be
not anarchy, what is it? But only the
better classes, as Mrs. Leslie calls
them, may indulge in the luxury of rec
ommending this particular kind of an
archy.
"The better classes New York's
better classes Well, you heard some
account Of their performances at GER
tain big ball held in that city little
wEile ago. 1t is pity that these refined,
cultured, high-bred, blue-blooded, alto
eethcr 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 few more OF the
neceSsaries 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 typesetters'' asked the reporter.
Every one of them; they all touch their
hats To me- Think of this Isn't IL re-
markable? Every man who knows enough
TO go in the house when IL rains will touch
his hat to woman, be she washerwom-
an or duchess. The homage is to the sex,
not to the individual, bus Mrs. Leslie does
not seem to be aware of this. And l
believe they would all die for me, says
she. Well, either Mrs. Leslie's organ OF
creduity is abnormally developed or
there must be 400 people in that city
who have very little interest tn living.
Possibly Mrs. Leslie makes life such q
'demnition grind to them, that ISIS the
toss Of a penny TO most of them NDcthe,
they live or die, with the odds, II dny,
decidedly In favor Of the latter alteSna
tive.
ain conclusion, we would like to give
the Mrs. Leslies one little word Of
friendly warning and admonition. TIA
contained in the old proverb, Better lc\
sleeping dogs lie,' moro especially when
they are suspected of being mad and
there are good many OF them. FOsr
thermore, 1t Is unwise, to say the least
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