Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-29
LABOR AND ANARCHY.
A Workingman's Warning to Those
of His Own Glass.
THE FEDERATION'S RESOLUTIONS
Oissected and Shown to Be From
a False Basis.
THE PARDONED CRIMINALS.

THE PARDONED CRIMINALS.
To the Editor Of The Evening Star.
OF all the forms Of midsummer madness
that have come to plague our Land In this
year of grace. Altgeldism, the twin Of an
archy, is the most direful. The calamity
is not altogether that such a noxtous fun
gus as Altgeld has sprouted on the body
polite In the prairie state or that three
lwild beasts. as 1t were. have been turned
out OF their cages to prey upon society, but
rather because mendacious sentiment OF
sympathy has been evoked for the Hay
market murderers. Time has CLOSED over
their awful crime, and thousands have per-
mitted themselves to be persuaded that
they were not really bad men. but were
more sinned against than SHINING. Their
brother anarchists who are mercifuiiy al
lowed to roam at large have persistently
claimed that those fierce FASHIONED and reck-
less men suffered martyrdom in the holy
cause Of labor. What q travesty on laborl
AS a result scores of labor organizations
have been induced to pass resolutions in
dorsing Altgeld. The Consequence is that
the good name of labor is being brought
under the contempt of the American people
and the workingmen are being unwittingly
paraded before the public as sympathizers
with baneful doctrine that is the most
dangerous foe Of society or government.
Washington. The FEDERATION Of Labor
passed resolutions indorsing Altgeld's ac-
ton. and their secretary In an interview
"a tons in this city had delegates in that
body. and that 1t was. therefore, a tho
roughly representative affair. There is one
bers-the typographical union-that was not
and even if it had BEEN am sH sure as that the
federatio could not have expressed the
printers sentiments nv S9fnR resolutions
which condoned one of the blacklist, most
damnable crimes that was ever committed
the innocence Of Neebe, Schwab and
Fielder, as well as the gentlemen who were
hung. They take a whack at the ''prejus
A reading OF the resolutions will leave one
under the fmpression-if he desires to be
left-that the sapient minds Of the fedora
Judge and jury OF the Cook county court
the seven judges Of the supreme court Of
the state Of Illinois and the Supreme Court
Of the United States.
The Indictment Of the Anarchist.
Now. there are some things in connection
with this matter which the federation evil
IDENTIFY does not know or does not want to
know. In the first place 1t is often as
serted by labor fakirs that the anarchists
Of anarchy. II one does not investigate the
matter he might also be led into denuncia-
ton OF the judicial outrage" But a read
that the law very properly makes no dis
tinction between murder and anarchy when
preaching anarchy incites to murder. The
accessories before the fact" The law Of
the state under which an Indictment
against them was framed is as follows
CHAP. IS, div. 2, secs. and 81:
Sec. 2. An accessory Is he who stands by
and aids. abets or assists. or who, not be-
ing present aiding. abetting or assisting,
the preparation Of the crime. He who
thus aids. aSets. assists advises or en-;
courages shall be considered as principal
Sec. 3. Every such accessory. when q
crime is committed within or without the
state by his aid or procurement in this
state. may be indicted and convicted at the
same time as the principal. or before. or
after his conviction, or whether the prin-
cipal is convicted or anenable to justice or
not. and punished as principal"
II was conceded by the supreme court of
Illinois that no one of the convicted de-
fendants threw the bomb with his hands:
| sixty-nine. Some of the counts charge that
| the defendants. being present. aided,
abetted and assisted in the throwing OF the
| bo~b. Other counts charge that the de-
| PENDANTS advised. encouraged, aided and
abetted one Rudolph Snaubelt in the per-
petration OF the crime. And SO on in every
| manner that II is possible. to frame an in
dctment under those two sections.
1t was proven at the trial that the
anarehists of Chicago We're orsani5ed into
| ionged to the north side group Engel and
| Fischer to the northwest side group, and
Spies Parsons and Ftelden to the American
! group The members of these groups were
| known by numbers and not by names.
Anarchistic Utterances.
They published two papers. the Alarm
| and Arbeiter Zeitung. A few extracts from
/ those papers will serve to show what mild
hammered and inoffensive men Parsons
| Spies and Schwab were. The following ex.
cerpts from the Arbeiter Zeitung were writ
| ten by Schwab and Spies:
Each workingman ought to have beer
cheaply to be produced; explosives, too. car
| be obtained" your passport to Ii Eden'
is that banner which calls to You in flaming
J letters the word anarchy" I'VE wonder
whether the workingrnen will at last sup
ply themselves with weapons, dynamite and
| prussic acid Enough is said about the
| Importance OF being armed. We are to &c
to work to supply ourselves as quickly a.
| possible with those useful things. Dynamite
bears several names here in America
| among others II is known in the trade also
| as Hercules powder and giant powder
| There marched a strong company OF well
armed comrades Of the various groups. Tht
| nitro-glycerine pills were not missing"
The following choice selections from tn.
Alarm were written by that ''workingman.'
who never worked; Parsons:
| dynamite Is the emancipator! In thu
hands of the enslaved It cries aloud. 'justic'
| or annihilation.' But, best of all. the work
tngmen are not only learning us use, they
are going to use II. They will use It, and
effectually. until personal ownership, prop
erty rights are destroyed. etc. Hail to thu
| social revolution! Hail to the deiiverer
dynamite" Nothing but an uprising Of tn,
people and a bursting open of all stores ant
| storehouses to the free access of the pub
lie, and free application Of dynamite T.
every one who opposes, will relieve tn
| world Of this internal nightmare Of prop
erty and wages" "Dynamite! of all tn
good stuff this is the stuff. Stuff severa
pounds of this sublime stuff into an incl
pipe gas or water pipe, plug up both ends
this in the immediate neighborhood of q 10
of rich loafers, who live by the sweat o
other peoples brows and light the fuse. 4
most cheerful and gratifying result will
follow"
Fielden. who was liberated by Altgeld
said in a speech:
when say organize, I mean for you t
use force 1t is no use for the workingmel
to hope to gain anything by means Of tn
ordinary weapons. Every one Of you mus
learn the use of dynamite. for that Is tn
rights"
Just before the bomb was thrown h
made a speech from a wagon at the Hay
market In which he said: There are pre-
monitions of danger. All knew. The pres
say the anarchists Will sneak away. w
are not going to" You have moth
ing more to do with the law except to la
hands on 1t and throttle 1t until 1t make
it's last kick. Keep your eye upon II
YOU can to wound it," That incendiar
speech infiamed the people. There wa
great excitement and noisy demonstra
| tons The police moved In to dispense tn