Workmen's advocate., 1890-11-15
NOV EMBER Il.
NEW YORK SOCIALISTS HON. ORlNG THE CHICAGO
 MARTYRS.
The GrandcSt Demonstration Ever Held in the Metropolis speeches by lingo Eogt, Daniel DeLcOn, Alexander Jonas and A. Cahan- The Resolutions.


 Alexander Jonas and A. Cahan-
 The Resolutions.
 Thirty minutes before the time ap. pointed for the memorial meeting held by the Socialist Labor party ltot Mon- day evening the large hall of Cooper Union was filled to overHOwiug, every seat being occupied, the ai,es invaded, the lobbies, corridors and staWcascs crowded to sutlUCatioI, while hundreds ot beIated people who could not gain admittance within the walls of the build, ing were standing outside or reluctantly turning away.
 The platform was impressvely deco rated with twenty yfour banners of trade unions. in the middle of which the red flag of the Socialist Labor party occu- pied a conspicuous position, Across it's entire width stretched a red strip bear ing the motto of the International, "Workmen of all countries, unite .' Ine speakers table was dtcked with red and black intertWiued, and below it was d frame containing the pictures of the Chicago martyrs In order to make room for the twelve singing societies, whose united voices diSCOursed between the speeches magnificent choral music under the leadership of Herr Scha. del, all the seats had been removed from the platform, with the exception of the Charmans and of those which were occupied by select orchestra of the "at Sahm Club-the finest, perhaps, that ever performed at the Cooper Union.
 Promptly at p, m. Comrade Benj, J. )rclsch called the vast assembly Ioorder and in a few appropriate words stated the object of the meeting H. then in, 4roduced Comrade Hugo Nogt as Chair man,
 On taking the chair, Comrale Vogt said:
 HI.adies and Gentlemen Comrades and Friends We have come here to. might to discharge solemn duty, duty that we owe alike to humanity, to this country and to the memory of the martyrs whose draped portraits look down from these walls. On the 1lth day of November 1887 the capitalist cltss infuriated by an expression of discomfort among it's slaves, took the blood of five men who were looked upon as the mouthpieces of the dissatisfied masses, To find a pretext for thp murder of these men, capitalism did not hesitate to murder law and jus, tlCr; to trample upon every feeling that Is held sacred by civilized man. Amer. can citizens were imprisoned on mere suspici0n, their houses ransaCked, their private papers searched and used as evidence against themselves. The jury lists were fixed, witnesses were COcrCed, false testimony was manufactured Friends were bought to hetray their 'rirnds, wives to violate the privacy of famly life, Until the cOnsummation of all these infamies could be reached, un- tll these men ended their lives on the ga!lows, eighteen months elapsed Ii was not d deed committed in the heat of pas sion, in the excitement of battle. It was d culd-blOoded murder done by the ruling class with fuH consciousness of it9 atruC.ty,
 That these men did not personally commit the crime of which they were accused, has been admitted, But it is claimed that they were answerable for tt, because they melted to sur crimes by their Anarchi5tic speeches and writ ing- What an atrOCiOus principle of law. Under 1t who that ever denounced the crying and innumerabe abuses of society might not be held answerahle for every outbreak of dlsCOntent! But II is false pretense; these men were not prose cuted because they were Anarchists, The activity for which they brought upon their heads the hatred of the capita list class was not their Anarchist aglta- ton. but it was their activity in the great eight hour movement, which aimed at a slight, but immediate and practical betterment of the wOrhmens cunditlon; it was an activity by which these sO-called Anarchists radically de- parted from the Anarchist position and placed themselves in line, yea, at the head of a perfectly legal and peaceful movement Not when they preached anarchy. but when they took quite anti anarchist stand, was ii that they became dangerous to the capitalist class. In the eyes of the capitalists every trade unionist. every socialist, every labor man who sincerely and effectively aids