Anarchy and Anarchists: A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the ConspiratorsSchaack, Michael J.
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Anarchy and Anarchists: A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators
I want you Southwest Side people to be as useful with arms as the
people on the North and Northwest sides. We have everything about as
complete as we wish it to be. On the North Side we have Neff’s or
Thuringia Hall, No. 58 Clybourn Avenue, and you can come and visit us
there and see the boys drill. We have a man named Hermann, and he is
a soldier from the old home and a first-class drillmaster, and always
pleased to see new recruits. Now, workingmen of the Southwest Side, I
beg of you to make use of this opportunity. Do not let this go by like
a dream. Remember, we are all one. It does not matter whether you are
on the South, North or West Side; we must all fight for a purpose. Do
not stay at home and let your brothers be killed when you can help
them and make your cause a victory. Come in large masses, come often,
come promptly. If you do this, everything will be an easy matter for
us to undertake. Our labor will be rewarded.... The first of May is
coming near. We will have to kill the monster. We must be ready to
meet him. This is our only chance now. Probably we will not have this
opportunity to meet the monster so that we can fight him with our
weapons. You must kill the pirates. You must kill the bloodsuckers;
and for the first time in ages the poor workingmen will be made happy.
Our work is short; we do not want a thirty years’ war. Be determined.
Do not let your near relation, if he is an enemy, stand in your way.
Doing all this, then, the victory is ours.
LOUIS LINGG.
In the work of stirring up bad blood, Lingg seems to have neglected
no point likely to count with the dissatisfied laborers. He knew that
among the strikers were a great many German Knights of Labor, and, with
an ingenuity worthy of a better cause, he took occasion particularly
to point out an article published in the _Arbeiter-Zeitung_ of April
22, 1886, giving Governor Oglesby’s views on boycotting. This paper was
afterwards found in his trunk, somewhat soiled from frequent usage,
and the article in question, for convenience of reference, had been
heavily marked with a lead-pencil. Lingg no doubt figured that those
who believed in the boycott would thereafter array themselves solidly
on the side of those who favored force. A translation of the Governor’s
remarks, as given in the _Arbeiter-Zeitung_, is as follows:
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