New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-08
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ANARCHY SHOUTS MILDLY.
WARM PRAISE FOR ALTGELD
A TAME MEETING OF REDS IN THE
WINDSOR THEATRE.
NEWSpAPERs BITTERLY DENOUNCED.
AMERICA AND THE AMERICANS vIGOROUSkX
AND vCLGARLY ABUSED-THE ANARCHIsTIo
GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS HAILED AS
JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRAT-FEAT.
UREs OF JOHN MosT's GLoRI.
FICATION MEETING.

JEtFERSONIAN DEMOCRAT-FEAT.
UREs OF JOHN MosT's GLoRI.
FICATIoN MEETING.
The anarchy that manifested itself at John Most'a
meeting last night was extremely mild-mannered
anarchy Ii not proposed to kill anybody,
burn anything or commit any act of murder or
raDine. The most that was suggested of this
kind was the remark of Mr. John Edelman that
everybody would have to "exproprlater some
time or another. The fact was that the su-
dience was too largely composed of capitalistio
reporters and menals Of Superintendent Byrnes.
Most made many feeling remarks about the press
and the police Most sad that he should rank
the essentially depraved classes of human society,
those which are utterly and irredecmably bad, In
about this order: First. journalists then priests,
then capitalists, then police and finally politicians
And of such was the kingdom of evil.
II was an odd sort of crowd. Except in tho
rows of seats occupied by the capitalistic re-
porters, there scarcely an American face
there. The prevailing style of hair worn was
like Paderewski's. The prevailing complexion
was swarthy. The prevailing nose was a crook.
The prevailing lips thick and full and the
teeth behind them were painfully suggestive Of
tusls and fangs. Probably half the crowd were
Polish Hebrews. and half the remainder were
BOhemians and Czechs. For an hour before tho
oratory began to flow the audience was on tho
outside of the Windsor Theatre. crowding the
BOwery inspecting the saloons and the stal.
wart figure Of Inspector Williams. The Inspector
stood at the theatre entrance like ticket specu-
ator He said that he there 10 protect the An
archists in the exercise Of the right of peaceablo
assembly. He had about fifty other officers some
in uniforms. and many disguised industrious
%orkingmen, supporting him in his self-imposed
task. The Anarchists were slow in coming to-
gether II was almost o'clock before enough
had taken their seats TO Justify the speakers
in starting in with their discourses. But rs
soon as the eloquence began TO pour forth tho
theatre quickly filled. and soon an audience
had occupied it that left little room TO stand in.
Not few Of them were women. They were not
beautiful. Few were young. Hero and there
a back-eyed maiden peeped out Of the crowd
who might have passed muster in state OF So
cictv where women were occasional and in great
request. But for the most part the Anarchistio
ladies Of deadly type. thin peaked hard
faced and grimy handed STILL they served TO
tighten the scene trine. They wore colors,
mostly rcd, and in such spectacle Of swarthiness.
they were a welcome variation.
The gentleman in charge Of the proceedings
was named Uhlmann. He said he was an Amer1-
can by BIRTH and he profcssed to be much nnrt
because some people had contended that II was un-
American to blow up property and human beings
with dynamite. He denounced the newspapers
with great energy and earnestness. They were
the un-Amercan feature Of our civilization.
Their general wickedncss beyond all bounds
II couldn't be put into words, and he longed TO
see the day when the press as an institution
would cease to exist. when society would he
civilized up to the point where 1t would be
mark of DEGRADATION to be caught with news
paper in ones hands. Governor Altgeld, no
said, was true Democrat, brave, noole-mlnded
Jehersonan Democrat. In liberating the Anar-
chsts he had simply given expression TO truo
Jefersonian sentiments.
Then chorus composed of fourteen men
and two women came ont TO sing. Ii sang some.
thing in German about the breaking of chains.
Zach Of the girls in the chorus wore red rose
and sang an aspiring soprano.
The red fag of Anarchy, meanwhile, was thrust
through the wings in the view of the crowd. ltf3
appearance evoked much applause and numerouSc
cries of lIo"h hoch'
An Anarchist poet appeared when the chorus
withdrew His name was Edclstadt. His poetry
was German and highly intense Ii said that
Altgeld was a noble patriot that Anarchy was .
glorious cause that the Chicago convicts were
martyrs, and that capitalists were fends. Every
ment of the rapturous satisfaction he took in his
production
John Edelman came forward the first set
speaker" He is a long man, with an American
face and Yankee drwl lie brought his straw
hat upon the stage with him and used il TO aid
the procession of his ideas, as an opera singer
uses her bouquet. lie lost time in getting at
the capitalistic press He said that il was tho
most corrupt and purchasable engine of human
prostitution which mans macvoent genius had
ever developed The Chicago Anarchists were
tried for murder and condemned for their opinions
This so-called land o. liberty, this home of free
DOM this refuge for IN" 0Dpressnl of all lanis
was In reality only huge organized swindls
and confidence game. " Tie working classes OF
America" said Edeman. work harder sweat
tercer. have less 10 eat and To wear. obtain
fewer rewards for their toll and sooner
to the end of their prosecuted and wretchei
lives than any other class OF workers on tie
face of the earth. The bright spot in
this hopeless condition Atgeld. He was a
good man, brave. loyal, true 10 his conscience and
his God" Edeman said he had heard Atgeld
say when the Anarchists were arrested that their
conviction would be an outrage This may serve
10 throw light the charge that the Anarchistic
societies of Chicago knew what they would gec
when they gave their votes TO Altgeld last No
yember. deman closed his speech by Offering
his compliments to the police. lie said that they
must understand that there was one right they
could never take away from any man-the right OK
sci lfdefence He did not know who threw tho
bombs at the Haymarket riots. But il was some
one who, in despair exercised this final right.
The police, he had heard, now in this
theatre reidy to stop him if he said things that
did not please them. He had doubt they
would stop him if they liked They We're
criminal class, the hrengs Of criminals wickeder
than they. They existed 10 protect the most
gigantic crime known 10 society-the crime OF
private property But. far he was con-
cernrd though he had no wish 10 he hung they
might do their damndest: and do it soon as
they rot ready" With this lofty and aimablo
Mr.. Edeln.an retired
some kind of "bund" with big Justus