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
Can anything be more diabolical? But Most's paper, from which I have
quoted, is mild compared with the _Rebell_. This sheet is the organ of
Peukert. At present both papers vie with each other in disseminating
anarchism among the farming population. In 1884 Most said: "To find a
way for getting $100,000,000 would do the cause more good than to dash
the brains out of ten kings. Gold--money--is wanted.
"Lay hold where and when you can," he continues. "The less noise you
make in laying and carrying out your plans the less danger and the
better success. The revolver is good in extreme cases, dynamite in
great movements, but, generally speaking, the dagger and poison are the
best means of propagation. Yes, tremble, ye canaille, ye bloodsuckers,
ye ravishers of maidens, murderers, and hangmen, the day of reckoning
and revenge is near. The fight has begun along the picket line. A
girdle of dynamite encircles the world, not only the _old_ but the
_new_. The bloody band of tyrants are dancing on the surface of a
volcano. There is dynamite in England, France, Germany, Russia, Italy,
Spain, New York, and Canada. It will be hot on the day of action, and
yet the brood will shudder in the sight of death and gnash their teeth.
Set fire to the houses, put poison in all kinds of food, put poisoned
nails on the chairs occupied by our enemies, dig mines and fill them
with explosives, whet your daggers, load your revolvers, cap them, fill
bombs and have them ready. Hurl the priest from the altar; shoot him
down! Let each prince find a Brutus by his throne."
The foregoing language is calculated to tend toward subversion of
law and justice, and is revolutionary and treasonable in its nature,
teachings of this nature from Reinsdorf and Most, are the direct cause
of our Haymarket massacre. The authorities are responsible largely for
the commission of crime which they may prevent even by resorting to
extreme measures in enforcing the law. While we desire peace in all our
borders, yet we believe that transgressors of the law should be made to
feel that "God reigns, and the government at Washington still lives."
CHAPTER XVII.
BIOGRAPHIES OF SPIES AND THE OTHER SEVEN CONDEMNED MEN. THEIR
BIRTHPLACE, EDUCATION AND PRIVATE LIFE. PARSONS' LETTER TO
THE "DAILY NEWS" AFTER THE EXPLOSION, WHILE A FUGITIVE FROM
JUSTICE.
AUGUST SPIES.
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