Workmen's advocate., 1890-11-15

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 the indictment for one otiense might
 hold good for lesser one implied in it
 but could not be extended tD a graver one. The martyrs of Chicago were sen tenced for murder; the private manu- facturlng of dynamite was not murder by the laws of Illinois. What then was proven against them to justify their suf- terngF
 The speaker then reviewed the we'll l known circumstances under which a bomb, thrown by an unknown person, exploded in the midst of body of pO- lice who, contrary to all law, were breaking up d peaceful meeting and marching with pointed pistols upon the dlspersimg crowd.
 The man who threw the bomb was never caught: his connection with the Chicago martyrs was never shown, and It was furthermore concluslveiy proved that none of them did throw the bomb l Upon the law and the facts the only criminals were the police; the Chicago l martyrs were as innocent as the speaker 1 himself. No truthful man could Ques. l ton this statement of facts; no self respecting lawyer could dispute the con Clusion of law.
 " If, then, the Chicago martyrs were innocent, why were they executed? There was the rub, They were executed | by murderous plutocracy be ,ause they were felt to be the champions of the out ragged proletariat, because by their words they threatened to prevent the | capitalist conspiracy from cowing the working people and keeping them in tame subiection grinding out profits and vODing like cattle for the Democratic and Republican parties--the parties of their eXpIoiters.
 1t was for that reason that the thankful proletariat now commence rated the death of their champions; and for the further reason that, owing to the manhood, the abnegation, the fortitude of those champions in their great trial the great labor movement, so far from having been nipped in the bud in ac | coidance with the plan of capitalism, had received a tremendous impetus, to the extent that to-day we find the rock bed of the two Capltallstlc parties rent beyond recovery, and here, in the State | of New York more than 10000 vots S had been cast a few days ago for the Social ist Labor party. Great applause. "llOnOr to such men as were .ludCal.y murdered at Chicago was but just and natural. Though l am not prophet, or the son of a prophet, yet, my reading l of history shows tO me that the day must surely come when the monument raised in Chicago to the law breaking police men four years ago will be torn down, just as the statue of George III, on Bowling Green was torn down by the yeOmanry of America, q hundred years ago. And in it's stead colossal mon. ument will be raised by the genius of the Cooperative Commonwealth, to commemorate the names of those who did not faIter in their duty, even Tn the darkest hour of their holy cause,' Pro- longed applause.
 L. Sanial then read the following res0- utions, which were unanimously adopt cd by rising vote:
 RESOLUTIONS;
 WHEREAS, On the 11th day of Noyem- Der. 1887. in the prostituted name of justice, upon the testimony of suborned l perjurers, and for the avOwed purpose of terrifying the wage-workers of l America into abject submission to all oppressive and criminal plutocracy, five . innocent men were hanged in Chicago and three cast into jail virtually for 1. life; and
 WHEREAS, This appalling crime in stead of etfeCting the object of the con 1. 5piratOrs who carried it out has only . served to spread and intensity, not in ! this country alone, but throughout the . civilized world. the class struggle be . tween the despolled and the despoilers; and
 WHEREAS. In their madness at the . growing and irrepressjbe indignation . of the lovers of freedom. the atipen- diaries of the pIutoCraCy have lately, in various cities of this sD called free Re . public trampied upon the constitutional right of free speech. prevented or dis persed lawful meetings, arrested peace ful citizens. and have even. in the dis graced city of Newark. incarcerattd . Lucy Parsons. for the only reason that. . as the faithful and courageous widow . of one of the Chicago martyrs, she stands living reproaCh to the guilty conscience of the plutocratic class; Therefore be 1t
 Rca0Ired, That we, free men and women Ol Ne" 1ofk 1lly, Tn mass meeting assembled, protest against these stupendou~ outrages, reterate our un- dying remembrance of the crime com mitted in Chicago, and declare our un- alterable purpose of ayenging it by aoolishing Wage-slayery and substl tuting the Cooperative Commonwealth for the economic and political despoti,m of the plutocracy,
 The next speaker was our veteran comrade Alexander Jonas. whose ap- pearance WAS greeted with the greatest enthusiasm. He referred Iii pathetic lan- guage to the imposing demonstration of