The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-17
ONE HAYMARKET IS ENOUGH.
Chicago People Denonncs the UnlAwfnl
Pr~ocosdimra or Their Police, AZ

Chicago People tha Uniawfn
Proceedings Of Their pollce. n
CHIcAao, Nov. 16.-There 10 ! great dt
vision Of public sentiment here u IL
whether the police wers justiAed In sup.
pressing Thursday nights anarchist msot
inn and ordering the American flag TO i,
unfurleds at the meeting Of the prsvions
night. Judge Tuley's famous decision wa
be obtained and direct charges. made before
tho polics were j~ustiasd in making arrests
OF course this was not done Thursday even,
ing, and it 10 not even charged that any 81
the speakers melted to riot or did anything
moro than give u%tterancea TO the Oft re-
peated anarchiatic extrayagances.
Ex,Mayor Harrison, in an editorial in
the Times. dsnounces the raid, and says;
"Ths law guarantees to American citizens
the right of free speech. Any violation OF
| this sacred right, except on extraordinary
occasions, brings sympathy to men who
Chief MoCaughry should remember that
| this is Chicago, and that it ia not confined
BY the walls OF a state's prison Notes.-The
chief ia ex-warden OF the Joliet penlten-
tiaryl, and Mayor Washburn, II he be in
town, should advise his police force to ex-
.The people wish order maintained AMI
tho law preserved, but they are not willing
to seo violated the very charter OF our rights
| to enable ambitious blue coats to Showtheir
prowess. Chief MeCanghry 10 9uoted as
saying that New York has sent Weissman
here to hurt the reputation Of Chicago. II
90. New York has found in the chief OF po-
lice Z willing tool to help the anarchists"
The Herald, referring to Inspector Hub
bard's order compelling the anarchists to
hoist the American flag, says; "The duty
to be performed Was to arrest any. speaker
who promulgated treason against the COM
monwealth Of Illinois, to have com petent
and truthful witnesses to testify to his
illegal words, to take him to the station and
hand him over to the courts. This is the
mandate OF the constitution OF Illinois; this
ia the meaning of the stasute covering the
violation OF its provision for liberty of
speech. Instead of doing this simple duty,
Mr.. Hubbard ordered the president of the
meeting to put an American flag on the
platform. He had exactly rs much legal
right to order him to read the constitution
OF the United States to the meeting or the
constitution of Illinois or the statutes on
any subject, or the laws and ordinances of
the city of Chicago or the Bible or the
spelling book. Not having made an ar
rest, any act on his part disturbing the
meeting was illegal. He was himself en-
gagged in the anarchy business of violating
the law. Whatever we may think Of an
archy, we must not become anarchs our
selves. The law is sufficient, az has been
shown, to put dow treason. Had
the chairman elected Hubbard, had a riot or
nsued, Hubbard would nave been
responsible. One Haymarket is enough"
Ex-Chief of Police Bontield, who led the
in the Haymarket riot in 1886, said
in an interview this evening: ''The police
have now given the anarchists a grievance
and they are likely to be helped by many
sympathizers who possess the American
idea Of Justice. There is where our trouble
lies. Previous to the raids, the reds had
only themselves to hobnob with and to
eoho zach others woes. Now they have u
great following of people who. while they
may detest an anarchist and may abhor the
very ideas he expresses, will stand
forth and argue that the police were
wrong; that the mon in meeting were
20 mmitting no overt acts; that the officers
exceeded their authority in forcing ar en-
and even advocating the arrest of
The bluecoats who executed the raid. A
bitter experience with these people has
me to respect human rights. Tn
police are in the wrong. The Haymarket
riots and the incidents preceding are no
We marched up, and in the name
Of the law asked that the people dispense.
Until then no actual overt act had been
committed by the people; but we we're an
swered by a bomb before the police had
lrawn a club or gun. That explosion was
The overt act and thence came the right of
The police to act" &.ut