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Show IRiBUTEOFAIiABCHlSTS TO LEADER Newspaper Reporters Arc De-. De-. Jiounced as Hirelings of the Capitalistic Element.- NEW YORK, April 2.-Thc Grand Central palace was cTowded yesterday with anarchists and sympathizers gathered to commemorate the life of the late Johann Most. Lucy Parsons, widow of Albert Parsons, Par-sons, one of the executed Chicago anarchists, an-archists, was present and spoke. The speakers were many and of many languages. lan-guages. Red banners, red feathers in red hats of many women, red neckties and red badges for the men and the vblue coats of more than a hundred policemen po-licemen cave color to the assemblage. The reporters were denounced as the hirelings of the capitalistic element. Abraham Isaacs presided, and in his opening address declared: Hounded and Persecuted. "Most loved Justice and truth, and for no, other reason he was hounded and persecuted. Had he lived 2000 years ago he -would have been crucified. As it was he only got ten years in prison." Emma Goldman, wearing a black gown, bareheaded, and barethroated, denounced the press. Lucy Parsons referred to the bomb-throwing bomb-throwing in Chicago as "an explosion which rent this capitalistic country." "They hated Most," sho said, "be-causehe "be-causehe tore the veil of hypocrisy from 'society with ruthless hand and said to the proletariat. "Look behind the veil and see the devils bred In hell with hearts of stone." Despises Civilization. "We have burned our bridges behind be-hind us. I despise the civilization which , sends 1,700,000 children to work in the factories. But the spirit of liberty Is abroad. There never lias been a time when there was so much unrest in the world, and from this unrest will be borne the sturdy child of liberty." A collection was taken for the fund to educate Most's children. |