Show ALBERT R PARSONS BOOK THE new york world gives some details concerning the book which albert R parsons Par the anarchist wrote in his last days in the jook cook county jail all it appears to be of a different character from that generally anticipated we quote from the paper named the book Is called the philosophy and scientific basis of anarchism as believed by some of its apostles 1 there will be pages of it one edition wilt will be bound in paper and sold for 50 cents and another in roarda will sell for 1 mrs parsons has supervised the printing her name appears on the title page as publisher she has read the proofs and added a deal of matter of ef her own selection aaro mrs parsons was so fearful that some same one would obtain the work and aad rob her of its profits before one could get it copyrighted that the name ot of the printing firm that did the tha mechanical work upon it was kept secret the foreman of the office kept the manuscript locked locke dup up at nis his house and dealt out afew a few pages at a time totne to tae print ers no advance sheets of the work were printed but each page wan stereotyped its as it has as finished and the whole book will be struck off at once all the tae copy was returned to mrs parsons as fast as it was set up the proofs roofs I 1 were not allowed to go out of el mrs rs parsons possession 1 the woric i is divi divided cled lalo into three parts in the first gives a condensed history of wage vage labor in the th united states and aims abins to prove that since 1776 it has been steadily degraca ed he seq shaws ws an acquaintance with writers and economic authorities of a century ago which he was not generally suspected of having he argues that the war of the rebellion was simply a contest between chattel slave labor and wage slave labor and that since the abolition of chatlen slave labor the depredation degre dation of wage labor has gone oa very fast the rapid growth of monopolies syndicates trusts pools and combinations arbitrarily fixing prices and all grinding the people to build up the fortunes ol of afew a few persons favored by the law brought about an intolerable state of 01 affairs against the strikes of 1877 and 1886 were protests he analyzes the trades assemblies sem blies as metti methods of clef defense enbe against the tyrannizes tyrannies tyr annies of trusts and pools and recounts the history of the at tempts to shorten the workingmen mena daily hours to eight passing over th the haymarket riot in a brief paragraph he comes down to the trial of the eight anarchists for the murder of policeman degan began A chapter is devoted to showing that the accused men were on trial for their anarchistic doctrines and not for murder and excoriates mr grinnell Gr lanell after a lively fashion witha with a chapter giving extracts from the speeches of the pr prisoners boners in courtad court after ter their conviction extracts designed ta t show just what the anarchy meantie me meant antin in which they believed he closes the first part in the second part he gives extracts from the writings of karl marx prince kropotkine elisee reclus C L james aad abad others in answer to the question what is anarchy Anar coyl coy he follows this with his own definition and an argument of considerable length to show that the present state of affairs the existence of monopolies pools trusts and privileged classes will bring falout about a revolution in a few years then he says the people will arise and do a way away with all la law w d divide v d 0 up a all 11 wealth and all the land la d and a d live without government officers domination or mastery he says this revolution may be peaceful but with the capitalist class protecting its ita privileges with bayonets and aad armed me men n t the h e chances are that it will not th the e third part of the book is an appendix containing parsons appeal to the american people written after the illinois supreme court decision his bis letter to gov oglesby demanding release or the execution of the sen sentence tince the defense of parsons by his brother gen parsons of virginia an account of the arrest of mrs parsons on the day of the execution an account of the last hours of parsons in the cook county jail a poem which he wrote to the sung to the air of f the ahe Marsel laise the letter to his friend dyer D lum which he wrote three thred hours before the execution the interview with mrs parsons which appeared in the world and some of parsons Parson sl letters to the alarm and other papers abood A good deal or 01 has never been published before and nearly all of it is of historical interest the book is dated cell le 11 27 cook county jail oct 27 1887 it Is dedicated to all toe the workers in the cause of truth and particularly to tris his wife an ex tract from macaulay macaalay in which he be prophesies a contest between the ri rich eh and the poor in america is a sort of text to the first part an extract from john ruskin buskin denoun denouncing eing the capitalists of europe as thieves and the cause of all ail ware wars begins begin the second part A quotation from frem ralph waldo Emerso favor of the perfect equality of all men mea hegins begins the third part A woodcut of parsons made from a photograph taken two weeks before the hay haymarket market riot forms the frontispiece there are no violent or bloodthirsty expressions in the book woich Js is written in a calm dignified and exceedingly cee interesting way arrangements have been made to republish the book it ia several foreign countries mrs parsons says saya that although very little has been said about it she has received many inquiries about it from all parts of the united states and from europe |