Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-11-18
The DEAD ANARCHISTS.
Their Memory Honorod by Followers IL
Chicago.

Chicago.
CHICAGO, Nov. 14.--The annual an
niversary observance of the execu-
tion Of Parsons, Spies, Engel and
Fischer took place Sunday afternoon
at Waldheim cemetery. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that the exercises were
held in the open air and that n driving
rain was falling nearly 1,OOO people were
on the grounds
The exercises at the cemetery were
brief, and after they were over there
was a quick scattering for e place of
shelter from the rain. Those who had
brought flowers deposited them about
the monGment and on the graves
of the dead and then joined
in the general throng about the
speakers stand. To the left the
band was stationed, and it began the
exercises by playing Annie Laurie"
which A. r. Parsons made famous by
singing on the morning of his execu-
tion. During it's rendition Mrs. Par
sons stood silent, and as the last plain
tive notes died away the tears which
trickled down her cheeks told palmer
than words her deep emotion.
The principal speakers were Michael
Schwab and Samuel Fielden, who were
convicted of completely in the Hay
market riot and after serving several
years of life sentence in Joliet were
! pardoned several months ago by Gov.
| Altgeld. Whatever their feelings or
emotions were they kept them to them
selves, and while they spoke in all
earnestness it was without a tinge of
bitterness or the expression of a desire
for revenge.
Schwab reviewed shortly the situa-
ton of affairs and the causes which
led up to the Haymarket riot. He de-
fed the police to trace the thrower of
the bomb to the ranks Of the working
men. In conclusion he advised his
hearers tC submit all questions of diff
| ference between labor and capital to
arbitration.
Fielden said those present were met
to protest great wrong, the like of
which had not often been committed in
the history of governments. The exc
cuted men, he said, had been in life the
friends of their enemies as well as
friends of their friends, and had always
stood for peace and order They
had possessed no feeling of self
interest, but were working fully as
| much for the cause of all humanity as
for themselves. "To-day," said he,
1--WE stand in the face of society
based not on equal rights of the peo-
pie but on the rights of privilege, and
the only thing that gives us courage is
that here and there man rises up like
Gov. Altgeld who has the courage of his
convictions" In conclusion he said
81 beseech of you that you go to your
homes and resolve to do your duty in
righting this wrong"
The exercises concluded with a song
by the Mannerchor entitled Awake >
which was led by Oscar Neebe.
The procession of the morning was
slow into getting into line, but wher
at II o'clock the order to march was
given by Marshal Stamm between 5Ot
and 700 men and women gave heed tt
the command A band was at the
head, and along the line of march t.
the depot played funeral dirges.
LONDON, Nov. 14.-A meeting of Eng
lish and foreign anarchists took place
Sunday on Trafalgar square. Their,
were about l, 200 of these reds" assem-
bled upon the place referred to- the OBJ
ject of the assem- mblage being to homo,
the memory of "the Chicago martyrs
and the bloody Sunday of 1887" wher
the police violently dispersed the an
archists.
There were a large number of police
and detectives among the crowd listen
ing to the speeches, and in some case
taking notes of the most sensational
remarks. The speakers, however, wer
less violent than usual, and seemed t,
be in dread of being taken in by th
authorities of Scotland Yard. This di,
not prevent the anarchist orators iron
calling on their hearers to emulate tn
example of those "who died for th
cause" but the usual bloodthirsty re
marks We're generally avoided