The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-11-13
ANARCHISTS ANNIVERSARY
Tale of the Haymarket Outrage
Glowingly Retold.
ALTGELD'S PETS WERE THERE.
They Made Fiery Speeches and, OF
Course, EulOgiZed the Man
Who Pardoned Them.

CHICAGO, Nov. 12.-Servces in COM
memoration of the anniversary of the
death of the five aDarchists-August Spies,
Albert Parsons, Louis Lingg, Adolph
Fischer and George Engel-were held to-
day at the monument erected to their
memory in Waldheim Cemetery, where
some $500 people gathered. The occasion
was made notable by the fact that Samuel
Fielden, Michael Schwab and Oscar
Neebe, the comrades Of The executed anar-
chists who were sentenced to Joliet but
pardoned recently by Governor Altgeld,
were present.
Fielden and Schwab were the orators of
the DAY. When the men were parGoned
it was said to be a condition of their re-
lease that they should make no more
anarchist speeches, but they made them
to-day nevertheless. The ceremonies at
the cemetery were preceded by process
sion through the downtown streets. The
services at the cemetery began by the rem
dering of "Annie Laurie" Parsons favor
ite song, and then Schwab delivered an
address. The early portion of the speech
was taken up by an account of ths last
night in Jail prior to the execution of the
anarchists.
He said: sit was the most wretched
night of my life. The clicking of the tele-
graph instruments conveying every act of
the martyrs throughout the world alter
mated with the monoton0us hammering of
the scaffold and the awful Ihumps when
the ropes were tested.
''At last day dawned. Servants of the
law, with distressed faces, were running
back and forth, smelling of 'schnapps,
which they had taken in order to be in
spired with courage for murder, in the ex-
ecution of which they were the instru-
ment. At IL o'clock Sheriff Matson ap-
peared. Spies, Parsons, Fischer and
Engel were handcuffed and the death
cap thrown over them. AS they stood be-
fore the cells they called to us last fare
well, aud the march to the gallows began"
The speaker then reviewed the causes
which led up to the Haymarket massacre.
He continued: The preparatieus of the
capitalistic class caused our leaders to ad-
wise us to arm and defend ourselves. This
advice was perhaps foolish and impru-
dent. 1t cannot be called wise under the
circumstances, for in the sphere of phys
ical power the capitalists were superior to
the workiugmen."
Regarding the throwing of the fatal
bomb he said, 1--WE defy the police to trace
the thrower of the bomb to oar ranks, or
show that the man who threw it was a
workingman." In relation to the pardon
by Governor Altgeld the speaker said
'The action of Governor Altgeld brings to
US hope that there are yet men of stern
honesty Of purpose who have courage to
stand up for truth, and there is a bright
future before US, in which truth and right
shall prevail" He concluded by earnestly
appealing to the audience to submit all
questions of difference between capital and
labor to arbitration.
Fielden next spoke, and said: "To-day
we stand in the face of society, based not
on equal rights but on rights of privilege,
and the only thing that gives US courage is
that here and there a man rises up like
Governor Altgeld who has the courage of
his convictions. The men buried yonder
will receive justice in the future. l be-
Seech that you go to your homes and re-
solve to do YOUR duty in righting the wrong
done them."
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