Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-29
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Incendiarism.

Incendiarism in act and in speech
marked the first of the scheduled
Sacco-Vanzett posthumous demon
STATIONS yesterday in Boston. At the
crematory. where the bodies of the
executed men were reduced to ashes.
Mary Donovan of the defense commit
tee read a statement in which she eX-
coriated the social order under which
they were condemned TO death. Stimuli
taneously several fires were started
by sympathizers. two of them being
at the station houses of engine COM
panies which had been called to serv-
Ice by blaze started as a lure. While
there is nothing to prove that these
fires were the direct inspiration of
the organization that is seeking to
make a revolutionary class issue out
of the trial and execution of the MUIR
derers, it is a reasonable conclusion
that they were at least melted by the
agitation accompanying the last rites
over the victims of the law.
In her speech at the crematory
Mary Donovan INDUCED in the usual
extravaganza of language that marks
the deliverances of the radicals. Sac
CO and Vanzetti were murdered" be-
cause they were anarchists. Those
who did this thing allowed the bitter
prejudice of class, position and self
interest to close their eyes" Sacco
and Vanzetti were "the victims Of
the craziest plutocracy the world has
known since ancient Rome" 1t is
zone of the blacklist crimes in the
history of mankind" The blatant
exultation" with which those respon-
sible sent these men to death lis the
final sign that the act of killing them
was the act of vengeance of one class,
the class dominated by the worship of
money and position, against them as
symbols of another class, workers and
all others aspiring 20 realize the true
meaning of life"
Thus are Sacco and VanZetti to be
martyrized, to be made the symbols
OF persecution by the plutocracy of
America. They are to be exalted as
the victims of tyranny. Such
language is calculated to arouse the
intense feelings of prejudice upon
which the Communists are constantly
playing for the purpose of arousing
the spirit of revolt. Sacco and Van
zetti are depicted as noble characters,
who lived pure and upright lives and
were animated by the highest ideals.
The law is pictured as a cruel,
selfish monster, directed by tyrannous
masters. All these things appeal to
the ignorant, especially to those of
foreign birth, who do not understand
American institutions and who have
been, perhaps, disappointed in not
finding immediate fortune in this
"land Of opportunity" 1t is special
pleading Of a most venomous charac-
ter. No wonder that the incendiaries
set forth to burn, throw bombs and
start. disorders. The inspiration Of
such addresses is far-reaching.
Today the ashes Of Sacco and
Vanzetti are to be taken to New York
and there made the center of a dem
onstration. A permit for procession
has been denied, but meeting will
be held at which probably speeches
similar to that which was delivered
at the Boston crematory will be ut
tered. The rule of free speech" will
be invoked to the point of incendi.
Rrism. The law will be defied. A few
arrests may be made for "disorderly
conduct" and the episode will end.