Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-01
Woman Arouses Enthusiasn1

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Woman Arouses Enthusiasm
At this there was another loud cheer,
in which about 400 or 500 people seemed
20 join, and the squad of seven police
officers pushed their way through the
crowd to the speaker, ordering every
Cne to move on.
Have you a permit to speak on the
street?" one of the officers asked the
speaker.
Pardon me, if you will answer one
question, ! will answer yours" said
Woodbey.
"Have you a permit from the mayor
to speak on the streets?"
syVhen you took the oath of Office
you solemnly swore to uphold the con-
stitution of the United States and the
constitution of the state of California.
WHY do YOU violate that most sacred
oath by denying me my inherent, IN"
alienable and God-given right?'
II don't know nothing about that,
said the officer, as he wrenched the
~sspeaker violently from the box.
Mrs. Shuck instantly mounted the
box.
'.Friends, comrades: 1t seems we
must carry out the contest for liberty
which was bought by the blood of our
forefathers" Great cheering) we
but invoke our rights before God and
men. We are law-abiding and the bur-
den of this unspeakable infractlon OF
the fundamental and organic law or
our country and our state is on the
heads of the despotic government OF
this city,
Amid the wild cheering of the crowd
the police again forced themselves to
the Woman's side and without a word
a patrolman seized her by the arm and
violently threw her from the box. she
was hurled with such force that had
not a dozen men sprang toward her
she would have fallen to the ground
Cheer for Liberty
The officers endeavored to make Mrs
Shuck leave without arresting her, put
she refused stubbornly to go, and II
she had not been held hack by them
undoubtedly would have attempted to
sneak again at this meeting, although
she had scarcely been pushed away
when J. ], Hicks, a well-known Pasa-
dena man, connected with ieadlng
plumbing firm there, mounted the boX'
which the officers had kicked to the
curb, and began to address the crowd.
The throng, now animated to a high
= pitch, cried loudly: Three cheers for
free speech!" Three cheers for lib
erty!"
Hicks was arrested Immediately and
taken to Jail, where he was released on
the regulation 800 bail. BY using
their clubs and physical strength the
police now managed to shove the crowd
back toward Spring street. where II
was considerably augmented.
II was at this point that the singing
Of the "Marseillaise" began and con-
tinued as the crowd marched on at
first five or six hundred, later over
thousand, strong down Spring street.
through the heart of the business dis
trict toward Fifth and Los Angeles
streets.
No sooner had the crowd, now ag-
gregating between four and Ave thou
sand people, reached the latter thor-
oughfares than Mrs. Shuck, smiling
radiantly and not the least perturped
by her experience with the police at
the previous meeting boppen up IN me
crowd and mounted a big box on the
east side of Los Angeles street south
of Fifth. Her voice was hoarse and
almost inaudible at first, due to over
exertion at the preceding meeting, nut
soon became stronger, when she again
dwelt almost entirely on the rights OF
free speech"
Police Again Appear
II was soon learned that she was on
private property, and so was moved
to the center of the street. she STOOD
looking over the crowd for fully nVe
minutes, unable to speak, partly on ac-
count of the demonstrations and per-
haps partly because she was waiting
for the police to appear.
A ten-1ninute wait, during which the
crowd momentarily grew larger, was
rewarded by the appearance of squad
of police, who marched down Los An
geles street rapidly from Sixth street
and plunged through the crowd, knock
ing men right and left and now
welding their clubs, though not 10
iniure, with unusual determination.
There was a stampede for few mo-
ments, and the police then dragged the
woman from the box and took her 10
jail ,,,,.
The crowd hooted the officers wildly,
amid many cheers for free speech. Of
f1cers and would-be rioters threatened
to clash at several moments. Riots
which no doubt would have resulted
fatally were probably narrowly avert
ed by the action of cooler heads among
certain of the Socialist leaders, who