Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-02
Of Her Lover, and Defies Arrest as
One of His Accomplices.
HIGH TINE TO CALL A DEAD HALT
On Such Awful, Inflammatory Utterances
as Are Allowed From
THE WORKINGMANS WORST ENEMIES
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. ]

the Homestead troubles Although the cir
cular did not say so, the meeting was merely
to glorify Berkman and anarchy.
Nearly all of the 300 persons who had
crowded into the long narrow room by
o'clock were heartily in sympathy with
Berkman and eager to applaud the inaam-
matory speeches prepared for them. A
half-dozen policeman from the Eldridge
street station stood at the back of the hall,
trying to get breath of fresh air now and
then. Before the first speaker had ap-
peared on the platform the room was
crowded. The speeches were in English
and German and Hebrew-German jargon.
There was long table for the reporters be-
low the platform, and every speaker made a
point of calling the reporters names
Berkman's Awful Deed AppIauded
The first speaker was Dyer D. Lum, who
succeeded Parsons, the Chicago Anarchist
as the editor of the Alarm. He looked
seedy. He spoke in English approving of
Berkman's act When an Anarchist like
Berkman decided to leave this world, Lum
said, he considered it his duty to take a
good Christian like Frick along as his COM
panion.
Joseph Peukert, the leader of the Auton-
omists, was greeted with applause as he
walked up to the platform. He is a tall
| man with a very black beard. He ad-
dressed his fellow Anarchists in German
''This meeting" he said, sis an expression
of approval on the part OF the work.
ing class of the deed of Berk-
man. When the workingmep at Home
stead were ground down by the capitalists
one man elected himself the champion of
the oppressed classes and tried. to liberate
them from slavery, not by shooting Frick,
but by showing them where the source of
their misery lay.
A Hearty Approval of Murder.
"We approve of the act most heartily
You paid vassals of the press cannot stop
the wheels of history. The people are
awakening, and they will crush you with
those who pay you, these murderers, these
robbers, the capitalists. So long as there
are people who are starving there will
be Berkman, and these Berkmans
will shoot, without any conspiracy. We
associates with him, and we don't deny it.
The workingmen must fight, and that soon.
Hundreds of Berkmans will rise to do their
duty. These reporters before me are the
people who declare that we are
unwashed and unkempt. We do not
wash ourselves because we have to work.
When we are through work we are tired,
and we cannot afford to change our shirts
twice day. Now the question is, whether
we are dirty or you. You have been trained
like parrots, and are the parasites of capi-
tai"
Dr. Merlino, the Italian Anarchist, fol-
lowed Peukert, and worked himself into a
terrible frenzy in the course of his speech,
waving his arms, shaking his head, and
swaying his body at a great rate.
The Baser Passions Appealed To.
Comrades and friends" he said in very
broken English, eve stand for anarchy
Has this man Berkman committed crime?
Yes, legally a crime but in the
present society it is necessary to
commit crime to prevent greater crimes
Frick has shown himself criminal and we
demand the right to fight crimes in any way
we can. Our crimes are necessary, while
theirs are actuated by greed
''This is the first attempt made to hit at
the real enemy of the workingmen, and it
has awakened workingmen to realize
that revolution is inevitable. Frick
was robbing the poor working
lection from the courts in vsin-they
tried political alliance to save them in
vain-labor organization was defeated, and
they lay struggling in the fear of death at
the hands of the tyrant robber There was
only one course left for the workingmen to
rid himself of the monster, and that was to
use the weapons which common sense
directed"
Berkman's Sweetheart Rants and Raves.
There was momentary disturbance as
drunken listener called for three cheers for
the speakers, but quiet was restored, and
Emma Goldman, Berkman's sweetheart,
who had been sitting near the report
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ously She gesticulated all through
her speech, which was delivered rapidly ir
German. Carnegie, she said, paid the press
to speak in his favor. Berkman did a
great and manly act when he shot Frick
His pistol was pointed at the source
of the workingman's misery, in the
hope that others might do likewise.
''The press says that Frick is recovering"
she said. "the capitalistic press, but I don't
DelleVe III. TICKS Will arise In the future
but Berkmans will arise to shoot everyone
of them. We have unnatural causes before
us, and we must confront them with un-
natural means. All is not vet over with
Frick. There are 1000 bullets waiting for
him yet" She spoke of Berkman as st hat
hero at Pittsburg," and dared anyone to ar
rest her.
Comrade Zimmerman, who lives in Fifth
street with the Goldman and the others of
her group, said that all the Anarchists hated |
the law. He praised Ravachol and Berkman
in the same breath.
Not Considered Stain on His Race.
The last speaker spoke in Hebrew, Polish |
and German mixed. He said that many |
Hebrews thought it was stain on their |
race that one of them had tried to as
sassinate Frick. It was as an Anarchist.
and not as Hebrew, that he committed |
the deed, and he should be honored for it.
As the speaker closed man jumped to
the platform and said: ''The meetings. ad-
iourned." The crowd got out of the hall in
q hurry, and Emma Goldman and her
"group" made for "Tough Mikes" in
Fifth street.
District Attorney Nicoll said yesterday
that he should not ask the grand Jury to in
diet Herr Most, the editor of Die Freihe1,
and Carl Mansur, the editor of Der Asarch-
ia. If they had made their anarchistic
utterances at mass meeting in
stead of in print, said Mr.. Nicoll,
they might have been indicted