Workmen's advocate., 1890-11-15

1 lions portion of the capitalist, is an l Anarchist, is criminal. Spies and
 Parsons and Field and Neebe were not singled out because they were more radical than the rest, but because they were considered the most effective work CTS in the movement, and also because they were looked upon as it's most | courageous advocates. The police
 was sent to break up the llaymarket
 meeting and the subsequent prosecution of Spies and his comrades was not di- rected against Anarchiam. but against the eight-hOur movement in particular and against the organized labor move ment of every phasla ln general It was planned and carried out Wlth this end in
 view, by a reign of terror and deed of horror, tu brutaIize and intimidate the rtbelllUnS wage workers into subml5
 sion, to demuraIiZe organized labor
 through fear. The capitalists bad begun
 to he alarmed for the permanence of
 their power; to rid themselves of the labor movement, was for them ques. tlOE of t0 be or not to he. And 1t was
 because they thought so desperate was their condition that all must be gained or all be lost, that they did not stop at any 0u,r rage, but with fierce determine ton carried out their desperate plan unto the end.
 "We have assembled year after year and are here tonight to tell them that their plan has failed, that they have sOiled their conscience with this iunO- cent blood, without accomplishing their infamous purpose They may kill some of it's leaders, but this movement will go on and grow until it sweeps away all oppression and injustice,
 I've are not here to threaten revenge. This movement is above revenge. But we are here to remember that we have engaged m serious struggle and that we have to contend against a heartless and brutal enemy, who stops not at taking our bread, our liberty and our lives; an enemy against whom no ap. peal to sentiment or reason and nothing will avail but rower. And the only power that is within LabOrs reach is the power of organization. And we are here to VOW that We will spare no effort to build up that power and or ganize our class for it's final emanClpa- tion. Prolonged applause.
 "I will now give way to the speakers and trust that you will follow their ad- dresses and the proceedings of this even ing with the dignity which becomes the occasion
 Daniel DeLeon was then introduced and on coming forward to the speakers desk was received with enthusiastic ap- plause. tie said that he regretted the invitation to speak on that evening had come to him only in the afternoon. The time was thereby made too short for him to put d DWn iu writing what he had to say, and bring notary public and wifi ness to guard against his life being sworn away, on some future occasion. by some detective whose business it was to put into the mouths of speakers words which they had never used. He. had no apology to offer for being there; he did not even feel called upon to ap- peal from the laws of the land to that higher law to which John Brown felt forced to appeal On the contrary he was wrapping himself in the constitu ton and laws of the land and, thus ar mored, joined the immense audience in protesting against the judicial murder of Chicago.
 "So broadcast had the plutocratic press spread its interpretations of the case that statement of the Socialist position was requisite With men who talk dy- namite. bombs. blood and thunder, So- ciaIists had no sympathy, No good man would dwell with caImnes, upon blood shed, and many of those wno did so, when the occasion came, would surely be the first to show a clean par of heels.
 "On the other hand, as LassaIIe had said d generation aga, Socialism entered the field equipped with all the science of its time; hence Socialists knew that force. at Its time and place, was an es- sential and-maid to justice. Bluntschii, one of the most distinguished jurists of the day. whose expressions are we'll nigh automatic, put it that Force, through its exercise of Might, aided the advent of Right, This principle the speaker had learned in Universities as a student, and in his turn taught 1t to his pupils when he became an instructor in the most reactionary CoIlegein this city. The history of the country itself showed its recognition of the principle and its esteem for the men who led at such crises. Washington, Andrew Jackson, Zacharia Taylor, U $. Grant were each in turn raised to the highest office in the gift of the people. While rejecting the Use of force out of season, Socialists therefore recognized its necessity in season.
 "With the economic and social tenets of the Chicago martyrs the speaker had no concern; it was of no more impor- tance to the issue whether they believed it T. cesoary to manufacture bombs, and hold themselves ready for the conflict which they saw capitalism was speedily to provoke, than to consider whether they were Calvinists, Anabaptists or what not; the reason thereof being that IL ]