Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-04
THE wALDHEIM MONUMENT.

Although it will have been completed
before that time, the monument will not
be unveiled until next June. This delay
is made in contemplation of the larger in
terest that will be manifested in the event
during the season OF the exposition. 1t is
believed by the promoters of the monument
enterprise that the unveiling will draw
hither from ali parts ot the world men of the
same faith us those directly concerned in
the anarchistic philosophy. The entire af-
fair is under the direction of the Pioneer
Aid and Support association, which was
organized for the purpose of fostering the
children left by the men who perished for
the Haymarket riot. The monument com
mittee is composed of Louis Vonleroak,
William Urban, DR.. Ernst Schmidt, Herr
Kaune, Matt Schmedinger and Thomas
Greif.
The design is by Albert Weiner, and is
striking and original. Upon a massive
surface supported by firm base rests a
rectangular plinth surmounted by an en-
tablature ornamented at the corners by
plain Ionic volute. Directly in front of the
plinth stands upon the pedestal a heroic
group in bronze. The sentiment embodied
in this group was found by the sculptor in
Freiligrath's poem, "Die Revolutione. /"
The front figure of the group represents a
female in an attitude expressive of con
tempt and fearlessness. Her right arm,
with clinched hand, is crossed on her breast,
while the left is placing laurel wreath on
the brow of her champion, who, dressed az
peasant, lies stricken dead behind her
AT the feet of the dead peasant fronds and
sprays of palms are strewn about.
On the base Of the monument will be in
scribed the last words of August Spies:
Our silence
will be more powerfull than words can be.
In this inscription the old style spelling
of the word ''powerfull' is used. The faces
of the plinth viii be ornamented with
bronze medallion busts of August Spies,
Albert Parsons, Louis Lingg, George En-
gel and Adolph Fischer. The monument
will be seventeen feet high. The figures
will be life size and cast in bronze. The
tablets will also be Of bronze, while the
plinth and entablature will be of gray
granite.
The story of the events of which this
monument is a result is already SO old that
to some readers it will be comparatively
new. No outsider knows exactly what the
anarchists aim at-an obscurity not a lit
tie due to the fact that they are nearly all
foreigners, and their publications are not
only in languages not read by the mass of
Americans, but in style so involved and
with so many vague and double meaning
phrases that even the scholars in these
languages disagree as to what is meant.
This was one of the difficulties in the trial
Of Spies.
Suffice it to say that these anarchists ac-
quired extraordinary strength in Chicago,
and when u strike occurred their organ
and orators urged violence. On the night
of May 4, 1856, the police in body charged
upon an anarchist meeting in the Hay
market square. a bomb was thrown, by
whom was never proved 1t exploded in
the midst of the police, and siXty-seven of
them fell, II few killed. many badly
wounded Under the conspiracy laws of
Illinois the principal anarchists were in
dicted and tried, convicted and several of
them hanged. This monument is to them
the martyrs, as anarchists call them.