Show I Parade Broke Brol c Up Un the tlc f ii TIE E much heralded parade up Fifth Finh avenue on T THE Ica for fOl amnesty amnesty amnesty am am- Christians Christinas da day of mem members cf the league e nesty fo for political l prisoners was a very verJ decided fi fiasco monster demonstration of at least It was s planned as a n thousand syi sympathizers with federal convicts int imprisoned im imprisoned im- im ironed for conscience sake ond and was as intended ed to crease arouse public opinion in their behalf to tho the end that as asa it Christmas r ra the tao day da a Q s special i 1 serial clemency y because bec was of good will to man the doors of or the prisons might be bo thrown n open This ann army of banner bearers as as to tomake tomako tomako mako make what tile they were pleased to call a pedestrian i before the churches with music musie and 1 pica Ja with song soup endowed ed which the famous avenue n is so 50 plentifully The place of len rendezvous was the Church of the Ascension parish house horse on Eleventh street and several tl hun hundred red reported at it the appointed hour hoar and began beg the march i in Indian file headed by the Rev He Dr C. C V. V liow- liow sai said to be a l Methodist minister who ho carried the tho Stars and Stripes and wits was followed by twelve singers in in carried by the choristers choristers' vestments The placards y marchers bore lOre such legends as On Ou Christmas day we ask amnesty Ten prisoners have died for conscience Sake etc A captain of police almost immediately confronted them Ulem anti and said You cannot do this You have e no permit and you yon have no right to carry cany those signs The police then went amon among them and dispersed them For an hour pr so after that the tile affair took on the semblance of a 1 debating debating de tie- bating society with little b groups gathered about the street some arguing an and others listening Finally a aman aman aman man of soldierly bearing henring who limped pimped and an earned carried a cane who fought and was wounded with the New York infantry stepped forward nn and pleaded that the thc police pollee were simply carrying out orders and when his words scoffed he became more moro earnest and ami shouted were at m. m u H See Sec cc here this here this is not right The TUC men you arc me pleading for gave gac ai aid and n comfort to the enemy They helped unsuccessfully thank God to obstruct the draft and tried trie to keep ammunition away from those of us who were on the thc other side A After t r that the demonstration was all off A few of them zi zigzagged along Sixth Sixth not not Fifth Fifth en avenge e. e for a time and afterwards a small remnant of them still headed headed head head- ed cd by the single track minister repaired to their starting start start- starting ing place pineo and talked it all over Of course there the they all nIl agreed they had bad been outraged c and they denounced the police of New York anti and the government of the United Unite States for not permitting on the public streets of an American city a n free iree e expression of the peoples people's will and all aU that but the bi big thin thing about it was that a wounded oundell soldier of tho the United States Slates army speaking casually in the greatest city dh of America honeycombed honc with ith radicals of the thc re reddest type by a simple r recital cital of or ortho the tho words Thc They gave bra aid and comfort to the enemy broke up the tho procession and save saved a possible riot Bystanders By J. J standers were a all against the after that Th The soldier is entitled to a D. D S. S M. M The country's experience with wood alcohol stimulate the keeping of at least one resolution If the world keeps legislating there twill Vill be nothing for in individuals ivi lo to resolve in a few years ears The Thc divorcee of the present day at least gets more mon |