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
Parsons, Schwab and Fischer--were engaged in the publication of
articles in which they advised the destruction of the police by force,
in which they advised working men to arm themselves with dynamite
and be ready whenever the conflict should come to destroy the police
force. For the publication of any one of these articles the defendants
could have been convicted of a misdemeanor. And when Fielden that
night told the people that war had been declared and that they must
arm themselves to resist what had never taken place, he was guilty of
a misdemeanor, and for that reason, if for no other, the police had a
right to disperse the meeting. The treatment that Herr Most received in
London shows you that the only salvation of a community is to enforce
the letter of the law without sentiment, that bloodshed may be avoided.
Herr Most was convicted for the publication of that article, and no
English policemen have been blown up with dynamite. He came to this
country, and the policemen who have been blown up are the American
officers right here in this city. If we have not enforced the law it is
high time that we enforce it now."
Mr. Ingham then showed that the Haymarket meeting was a trap for the
police designed for the purpose of leading them into a dark, dangerous
place, the speeches being the bait, artfully increased until the police
came to the alley and the bomb could be thrown. "Now who made the bomb?
It is in evidence that Louis Lingg had been making bombs of a certain
construction which Spies had said were superior, being of composite
metal. It is in evidence that Lingg all the morning of May 4 was away
from his house; that he upbraided Seliger for having made but one
bomb. During the afternoon he was busy making bombs, and men came and
went and worked at the bombs in his house. There is a story of a man
who that day received bombs and dynamite from Lingg, showing that he
distributed them." Mr. Ingham read to the jury the chemical analysis
of the bombs furnished by Drs. Haines and Delafontaine. What is the
answer to all this? That the bomb was not thrown from the alley, but
from thirty-eight feet south of the alley. And if they had satisfied
you of that, was it not still thrown by one of the Anarchists--one of
the conspirators? The bomb came from the conspiracy. And the moment it
resulted in the death of Degan the crime of conspiracy was merged into
the crime of murder.
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