The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-29
ANARCHISTS HELD FOR TRIAL.
HALF DENIALS THAT THEY
GLORIFIED ACT or CZOLGOSZ.
One Of the Speakers ~ Memorial Meeting
Answers the Court Win Smart QuIbbles
More Dangerous because Clever,
Says Magistrate -MaXIms ON Stickers.

Answers the Court Win Smart bubbles
More Dangerous Because Clever.
Says Magistrate -MaXIms on Stickers.
The three young men who were arrested
Saturday night for preaching anarchy at a
meeting Of the Progressive Lyceum at l00
Forsyth street were held for the Grand
Jury in bonds OF 81 100 each by Magistrate
Steinert in the Tombs police court yesterday
morning. The prisoners are Abraham j.
Edelson, 20 years old, OF 81 Stanton street.
Max Moscow, 70 years old of l-i5 Bathgate
avenue, The Bronx, and Max Rubenstein.
% years old, Of 225 Monroe street.
The affidavit charged them with violating
section 46sB of the Penal Code, and it was
sworn to by Central Office deceive Morris
Schwartz. Half a dozen men from that
Office and several precinct detectives were
at the meeting and had stenograpners TO
take down the speeches, both English and
German. The affidavit charged the three
with Openly, wilfully and deliberately
j~ustisying the assassination OF William
Mckinley. who was at the time Of his as
sassination President of the United States.
EdelsOn was quoted as saying: E
Did Czolgosz have any personal enmity
against Mckinley? I say mol After he had
killed Mckinley he shed tears In his cell for
Mckinley the man. but was we'll satisfied for
killing Mckinley the tyrant, who repre-
sented a class of people who ought TO be done
away with. The capitalists say that Czol-
gosz was Insane, yet their own doctors ex-
smined him and pronounced him sane. The
capitalists fear the people would rise in a
revolution If they believed Czolgosz sane.
C~zolgosz saw that conditions here were no
better than in Russia. and that's why he did u.
Moscow was alleged to have said
Mckinley was a pious man and n Christian.
and believed in God and always wanted TO
go to heaven, and he should have been glad
when Czolgoss sent him there on an express
t the ballo, " boxss. yI Hut t" wEBssgS the The S opporT%nit +
presents itself strike, and strike hard.
Rubenstein was charged with saying
that he was sorry there were not more men
like Czolgosz to strike for the people and he
considered Mckinley's assassin a hero and
a martyr"
Magistrate Steinert gave the young men
every opportunity to explain their speeches.
They selected Edelson to make the defence.
and everybody who heard him declared
he was by far the most intelligent prisoner
arraigned in that court in months. The
Magistrate acknowledged his cleverness,
hut said it made him all the more danger
Gus.
"Ihaye not been correctly quoted at all y
said Edelson. The meeting was not held
to glorify CZolEoS2 or his act. l am very
mech opposed TO such acts myself. We
met merely to have n debate on the uues-
ton whether or not the deed could he iusti-
fled in the light of what has tTanSpired
since. We considered the case from a
purely scientific point of view. II il true
] denounced the Cowardice Of certain So
called anarchists and socialists who glorify
every act Of terrorism in Russia and other
places vet are too timid to place CzolgosZ
on the same footing. He struck against
what he believed to be a t%yrannical system
and gave his life for his belief.
"Doyoub believe in American Institutions
asked the Magistrate.
he replied.
Are you an anarchist"
That depends on what you mean by an
anarchist
well, define it in your own way"
A anarchist in my Interpretation ls an
idealist who believes in a state where every
body will respect the rights Of everybody
else and where no force shall be necessary"
Edelson said if that definition was accept
abb he would plead to the charge Of being
an anarchist.
-Do YOU believe in this Government"
sit has some very good features and
some very bad ones" replied the witness
evasively.
Il know, but do you accept it as founded
by the fathers Of the r%epublic?" asked the
Magistrate.
Decidedly, /" said the youthful anarchist.
Frightening up with enthusiasm. Il GER
tainly do. bat the government they founded
with great care for human rights is a very
different thing from the government We
have to-day in this country. We have
drifted far, very far, your Honor, from
the paths blazed by the fathers"
THE policeman swore that You said the
audience might not applaud because police
were present, but that they could think
their sentiments regardless Of the police.
Is that true?"
Partly true. l said we had gathered
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Czolgolz but to consider the act az an his
torical incident and TO try by analysis II
possible to discover the causes that i'm
PEELED the assassination, and then to see
If we could not find a remedy less violent
than assassination. Understand, Judge,
that | do not believe in murder Of rulers
any more than you. But | contend that If
one takes place we ought to have the right
to meet and discuss it and try to deter
mine what caused it,"
A great many sympathizers with the
prisoners were in court and they spent the
time while waiting for the case to BE called
in carrying on a little prop ganda and
handing around leaflets 10 the court police
men. lawyers and others present.
Maybe in the ideal anarchistic state il
any policemen are needed the standard
won't be what il Is now, great big feet and
an empty head " said one Of the agitators.
win you give bail?" Edelson was asked.
NO, we prefer to remain in prison. We
could get bail, but that would be recognizing
a very vicious system" no said. @If we
are guilty we should be imprisoned. Why
should some men e allowed out on bail
while poor friendless prisoners are COM
PEELED to lie in their cells2 Is that Justice?
Is that equal rights? No. il is not"
After the case was disposed of and the
anarc lists had left court the policemen
found that they had pasted little "stickers"
wit brief quotations from wri ers on
anarchy on ONE of the benches. These
are a f,w samples:
What l must not do. the Government must
not.
Anarchism is the denial Of force against
any peaoeable individual.
Government cnforoes laws Of privilege
and monopoly. and thus creates va grants.
Then Government. by force, SENDS va grants
10 Jail at the nod Of a Magistrate. Then
Government. by force. collects Ia xcs TO sup
port Ma gistrates and Migrants.
Government keeps doing what il would
jail me for doing.
The population Of the world Is gradually
dividing into two classes. anarchists and
criminals.
Liberty means responsibility. That is
why most men dread il. "-Berndrd Shan.
Democracy substitutes election by the
incompetent many for appointment by the
corrupt few .-Berndrd ShnT.
The only protection which honest people