Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-29


tered the bombs were to be thrown at the
policemen: they had for months previous.
and up to the very moment Of the riot,
preached the overthrow Of government and
the destruction Of human life. There L.
not the least doubt that they were guilty
OF ne crime Of murder; "a snff ts war,
Of the supreme court OF Illinois. covering
1ss printed pages. As an American pre-
Of the anarchists or the unreliable utter
ances of their friends and sympathizers.
The seven judges of that court-four demo-
be patriotic Americans and honorable, hu-
name gentlemen. Their opinion should GER
tainly have more weight with the Arneri-
and their friends. No true American will
believe that those Judges would wantonly
suffer those men to be hanged or inpris-
And now a word as to anarchy. Preach
ing. teaching or practising IT is treason
against the state. which It would subvert.
would wipe out all law, all government.
al rights SIN. IN property; giving free reign
ing that society and government are as
tad as the most gloomy pessimist paints
them, in the name Of heaven what would
be the condition OF our race in a reign Of
anarchy? There is some truth. some
virtue, some honesty in the world, but
with no restraints of society or govern
there is, 1t would offer but a feeble resist
ancs to the unrestrained avalanche of vice.
In short. anarchy would obliterate civili-
zation, and bring in its stead a reign of
black chaos. study. of the definitions Of
the word and the declarations of those
who preach the doctrine will lead one to
no other conclusion
Warning to Working Men.
The workingmen Of the republic cannot
afford to aid and abet a reign OF lawless-
ness and confusion. Their interest not to
t. Ia Z
for woe 1t is theirs. The workingmen,
organized and unorganized, constitute the
vast majority of the people. and the re-
to be made. They can make it more
simple. more democratic than any Of the
republics Of ancient Greece, or more
son with the rest tH Of tSe world than was
Rome in the zenith OF her glory. But IL
will be neither II they do not rise in their
stitutions Of this land. its laws and the
'minions of the law"-to quote from the
vulgar vernacular OF thediscontented rogues
who would have no law to restrain them
all belong to the workingmen, and II they
are not all that the workingmen would
have them to be. they have a peaceable
and sovereign remedy in their own hands
the ballot. With that weapon they can
win grander victories for humanity and
civilization than were ever won by force of
arms on field OF battle or by fire and blood
The workingmen. therefore, should not
countenance anarchy in any way, not even
by applauding q governor who consum
mates political deal with anarchists. One
cannot handle pitch without becoming de-
filed. More than so per cent OF the voters OF
America are outside the ranks of organized
makes public opinion in this country. We
know that they have made a sentiment
that viii blast Altgeld and his friends for
ever.
Some workingmen believe sincerely that
no one should fly in the face of the ex-
pressed sentiment Of the Federation of
Of the American people Is vsster and OF far
greater importance on question OF this
nature. Compared with the sentiment of
the American people on this question Of
our institutions the sentiment of the Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor 10 just about as important
as the famous declarations OF the Three
TaflorS OF Tooley street.
The anarchists were not workingmen.
They were as radically opposed to legtti-
mate work as soap and water are opposed
to filth. They were labor fakirs-just as
irresponsible as scores of others who toll
not but who exc out living by trafick,
ing in the name of labor. The principal
are the more daring. All OF them were
aliens to our institutions. Seven by birth
were alien to our soil, and two-Spies and
were distinctly of the Johann Most type.
and they were cheek by 1owl with that
eminent workingm as letters OF his read
ing in common between them and Ameri-
can workingmen, and the American who
permits himself. through any labor organi-
saton to be placed In an attitude IN OF sym nr
on his Intelligence, on his citizenship. on
his love Of country and devotion to our In
situations.
/ believe that the workingmen will choose
the better part, and that they will array
themselves on the side of law and order,
peace and progress. J. L. KENNEDY.