The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-19

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between the man who threw it and
these defendants.
WORDS NOT PROOF.
1t is further shown that the mass
OF matter contained IN the record
and quoted at length in the Judges
magazine article, showing the use of
seditious and incepdiary language,
amounts to but little when it's source
is considered; the two papers in
which article appeared at intervals
during years were obscure little
sheets having scarcely any circula-
tion, and the articles themselves
were written at times of great public
excitement when an element in the
community claimed to have been
outraged; and the same is true of the
speeches made by the defendants
and others; the apparently seditious
utterances were such as are always
heard when men imagine that they
have been wrOnged or are excited or
partially intoxicated; and the talk of
a gigantic anarchiStic conspiracy is
not believed by the then Chief of
Police, as will be shown hereafter,
and it is not entitled to serious no
tice, in view of the fact that, while
Chicago had nearly million inhabi-
tantS, the meetings held on the Lake
Front Sundays during the summer
by these agitators rarely had fifty
people present, and most of these
went from mere curiosity, while the
meetings held indoors during the
winter were still smaller. The meet
ings held from time to time by the
masses of the labOring people must
not be confOunded with the meetings
above named, although in time of ex-
citement and trouble much violent
talk was INDUCED in by irresponsible
parties, which was forgotten when
the excitement was over.
THE BREAKING UP OF PEACEFUL
MEETINGS.
And we want the farmers to read
how the peaceable, orderly, legal
meetings of workingmen were broken
up, without provocation by the
police.
Again, it is shown here that the
bomb was in all probability thrown
by some one seeking personal re-
venge; that a course had been pur-
sued by the authorities which would
naturally cause this: that for num-
Der of years prior to the haymarket
affair there had been labor troubles
and in several cases a number of la
boring people guilty of no offense
had been shot down in cold blood by
PinkertOn men and none of the MUIR
derers were brought to justice. The
evidence taken at COroner's inquests
and presented here shows that in at
least two cases men were fired on
and killed when they were running
away and there was consequently no
occasion to shoot, yet nobody was
punished; that in Chicago there had
been a number of strikes in which
some of the police not only took sides
against the men but withot any au-
thority of law invaded and broke up
peaceable meetings., and in scores of
cases brutally dubbed people who
were guilty of no offense whatever.
JUDGE MCALLIsTER's DECISION.
Reference is made to the opinion
of the late Judge McAllister in the
case of the Harmonic Association of
Joiners against Brenan ct al, report
ed in the Chicago Legal News.
Among other things Judge McAllister
says:
The facts established by large
number of witnesses, and without
any opposing evidence, are that this
society, having leased Turner Hall
on West Twelfth street for the pur-
pose, held meeting in the forenoon
of said day in said hall composed of
from 200 to 300 individuals, most of
whom were journeymen cabinet
makers engaged in the several
branches of the manufacture of fur
niture in Chicago; but some Of those
in attendance were the proprietors in
that business or delegates sent by
them. The object of the meeting
was to obtain conference of the
jOurneymen with such proprietors or
their authorized delegates with the
view Of endeavoring to secure an in
crease of the price or dimunition of
the hours of labor. The attendants
were wholly unarmed and the meet
ing was perfectly peaceable and Or
derly, and while the people were sit
ting quietly with their backs toward
the entrance hall, with few persons
on the stage in front of them, and all
engaged merely in the business for
which they had assembled, force of
from fifteen to twenty policemen
came suddenly into the hall, having
policeman's club in one hand and a
revolver in the other, and making
no pause to determine the actual
character of the meeting. thev i'm
mediately shouted: "Get out of here,
began beating the people with their
clubs, some of them actually firing
their revolvers. One young man was
shot through the back of the head
and killed. But to complete the
atrocity of the affair on the part of
the officers engaged in it when the
people fastened to make their escape
from the assembly-room they found
policemen stationed on either side Of
the stairway leading from the hall
down fO t,ha street who 9nn1iad their