The Rise and Fall of Anarchy in America: From its Incipient Stage to the First Bomb Thrown in ChicagoMcLean, George N.
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The Rise and Fall of Anarchy in America: From its Incipient Stage to the First Bomb Thrown in Chicago
McLean, George N.
Anarchists -- United States; Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886
sustain their institutions and to punish all offenders against
their laws; and those who threaten danger to civil society,
if the law is enforced, are leading to destruction whoever
may attempt to execute such threats. The existing order of
society can be changed only by the will of the majority. Each
man has the full right to entertain and advocate by speech
and print such opinions as suits himself, and the great body
of the people will usually care little what he says. But if
he proposes murder as a means of enforcing he puts his own
life at stake. And no clamor about free speech or the evils to
be cured or the wrongs to be redressed, will shield him from
the consequences of his crime. His liberty is not a license
to destroy. The toleration that he enjoys he must extend to
others, and not arrogantly assume that the great majority are
wrong and may rightfully be coerced by terror, or removed
by dynamite. It only remains that for the crime you have
committed, and of which you have been convicted after a trial
unexampled in the patience with which an outraged people have
extended to you every protection and privilege of the law
which you derided and defied, that the sentence of that law be
now given. In form and detail that sentence will appear upon
the records of the Court. In substance and effect it is that
the defendant Neebe be imprisoned in the State Penitentiary at
Joliet at hard labor for the term of fifteen years. And that
each of the other defendants, between the hours of ten o'clock
in the forenoon and two o'clock in the afternoon of the third
day of December next, in the manner provided by the statute of
this state, be hung by the neck until he is dead. Remove the
prisoners."
Stay of sentence in the case of Neebe was granted until December 3, the
date set for the execution of the other principles; and the counsel
for the condemned Anarchists announced that they should file a bill
of exceptions before the Illinois Supreme Court, and petition for a
supersedeas.
[Illustration: MRS. PARSONS.]
CHAPTER X.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTER. ARBEITER ZEITUNG. MRS. LUCY PARSONS. HER
ARREST IN OHIO. HER ARREST IN CHICAGO. HERR MOST ENDORSING
THE BOMB-THROWING. THE PANIC HE COULD CREATE IN A BIG CITY
IN THIRTY MINUTES WITH 3000 BOMBS IN THE HANDS OF 500
REVOLUTIONISTS.
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