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
The authorities in America have hitherto refused to prosecute
Anarchists as the European powers do, not because of hatred to
despotism, but from fear that the American people might be driven
into Anarchism. As Anarchists increase, however, it is intended to
do away with them by slow degrees. To this end a bill was introduced
in Congress refusing to and revoking citizenship of such. Yet
the Anarchist declines citizenship because he regards himself as
cosmopolitan. We hope for more foolish things to open the eyes of
American workingmen....
_Reflections of an Anarchist at the Grave of Leiske._—After the
workingman becomes a journeyman he feels free, casts a glance into the
world—it is glorious, beautiful. He thinks there is happiness for him
somewhere. He proposes to go abroad, but a terrible cry falls upon his
ears—the outcry of a tormented people. He inquires, have the pariahs
of to-day a right to live? and answers yes. Why otherwise born, if
suffered to die with hunger? And hunger and poverty are the results of
the stealings of the rich. Having thus concluded, he swears to help in
the work of liberation, “in the great struggle of mankind for a better
condition;” to take vengeance upon those responsible for this misery.
In his investigations he learns the utter vileness of the police
power, and a policeman is killed. Whereupon the workman is arrested,
charged with the murder of Rumpf, and killed after nearly a year of
most devilish torture. With what contempt Leiske met his executioners,
and with what heroism he went unto his death, is known to our fellows,
and he shall be avenged.
The _Alarm_, January 13, 1885:
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