Show SCHWAB THE SOCIALIST A Scene in thc Court en the Occa aion of Hit TriaL At the recent trial of Justus Schwab in New York for inciting a riot among the Socialists Schwab took the stand in his own defense He denied the charges On crossexamination he was asked Are you a Socialist Well that depends upon what you mean by Socialist Prince Bismarck is a Socialist But I dont think just what he does I should call myself a revolutionary revolution-ary Socialist Now tell us what Socialism isIs is-Is Socialism on trial here or is Justus H Schwab on trial The Judge ordered the witness to answer an-swer the question and an extraordinary scene followed The rest of the examination examina-tion was a wild jumble in which the Judge Colonel Fellows Schwabs lawyers law-yers and Schwab himself talked all at once and interrupted each other every minute The following facts were extracted ex-tracted from it Schwab is only educating edu-cating people up to communism just now but as soon as his pupils form a majority in the community he will make them put their theories into practice take away the property of the capitalists and turn things upside down generally and right here in this town too lIe says he believes be-lieves in universal revolution and rebellion rebel-lion and thinks that such a thing as government gov-ernment with its string of policemen judges and so on ought not to exist as it is merely the sign of mans slavery From the moment the talk of taking away property began the jury which I I looked quite prosperous grew more and i more nervous Finally Thomas Os borne the last juror wouldnt stand it any longer He got up and said Your honor Id like to say a word We jurors want to be impartial in this case but how can we tell I want to know if we are to try this man for committing an assault or for being a Socialist I represent repre-sent 500000 in this city and it is cruel I to keep us here listening to this sort of talkWild Wild cheers and yells interrupted the jndge and the courtroom became a bedlam I bed-lam Every Communist howled and laughed and stamped his feet The judge grew red with anger and as soon as he could make himself heard made the officers clear the court When it was done Colonel Fellows made Schwab talk a little more and then introduced one more policeman to swear that the Socialist was really guilty |