River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16
ThE DEAD ANARCHISTS.
Their Memory Honored by Followers In
GhIearo

CHICAGO, Nov. I4--The annual an
niversary observance of the exeeu-
ton 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 a driving
rain was falling nearly 1000 people were
on the grounds.
The exercises at the cemetery were
brief, and after they were over there
was a quick scattering for a place Of
shelter from the rain. Those who had
brought flowers deposited them about
the monument 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 il began the
exercises by playing Annie Laurie,
which A. T. Parsons made famous by
singing or the morning of his execu-
ton During its rendition Mrs Par
sons stood silent, and as the last plain
tive notes died away the tears which
trickled down her checks told plainer
than words her deep emotion.
The principal speakers were Michael
Schwab ana Samuel Fielden. who were
convicted ~ 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 tinge of
bitterness or the expression of desire
for revenge.
Schwab reviewed. shortly the situa-
ton of affairs and the causes which
led up to the Haymarlet riot. He de-
fed the police 10 trace the thrOwer of
the bomb to the ranks of the working
men. In conclusion he advised his
hearers &c submit all questions of diff
ference between labor and capital to
arbitration.
Fielden said those present were met
to protest a great wrong, the like of
which had not often been committed in
the history of goverum ents. 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.
I'VE stand in the face Of a 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:
II beseech of you that you go to your
homes and resolve TO do your duty in
righting this wrong"
The exercises concluded with song
by the Mannerchor entitled Awake"
which was led by Oscar Neebe.
The procession of the morning was
slow into getting into line. but when
at 12 o'clock the order to march was
given by Marshal Stamm between 500
and 700 men and women gave heed To
the command. 4 band was at the
head, and along the line of march to
the depot played funeral dirges-
LONDON, Nov. IA meeting of Eng
lish aud foreign anarchists took place
Sunday on Trafalgar square. There
were about 1,200 of these reds" assem-
bled upon the place referred to. the OBJ
ject of the assemblage being to honor
the memory Of ''the Chicago martyrs
and the bloody Sunday of 1881" when
the police violently dispersed the an
archists.
There were large number of police
aud detectives among the crowd listen
ing to the speeches, and in some eases
taking notes of tine most sensational
remarks The speakers however, were
less violent th~r usu and seemed to
be in drea4 { 1eing taken in by the
authorities Il Scotland Yard. This did
rot prevent the anarchist orators from
calling on their hearers to emulate the
example of those who died for the
cause" but the usual bloodthirstv re-
marks were generally avoided.