Show WILD TALK OF ANARCHY anarchy was talked at a mass meeting culled called for the unemployed at metropolitan hall jefferson and obrien street yesterday there were 1600 1500 or mure more persons present a majority of whom were jew 3 ewe there were also many germans germane poles and italians italian there and some native americans JL H S oliver presided the meeting was called by we chicago tailors union foremost Porena ost among ane speakers ws wa LUCY PARSONS who drew a terrible picture of misery and want and urged united action against agati pst capitol her bearers were I 1 roused to a high pitch ot of excitement by her speech As mrs parsons appeared her dark face twitched with the me excitement ox 01 the mom tnt the air was filled with waving arms and the windows rattles with tue the storm of applause she held out an arm demanding dern anding silence which was secured alter after some minutes she spoke in substance as follows again the capitalist faction has been tested sud and found wanting un ly have the multitudes bowed to what was regarded as necessity find and submitted to the rule of demagogues dema gogueL bec who promised better times we have labored adlung through the ye years amund aud r protest hoping against hope ju 10 the strength ot of bright promises never fulfilled As an inevitable result L if f tile the machinations or the domi tant power of the bevils of finance the workingman again starts stares a calamity in the face he has as lifted his ap countenance to the power that created his bid pitiable c aud again gruppe j his gaze chilled with th the e steady gaze cast at nim from the nominal master gaunt famine is at the dour door ot of the maosen masses and we are bein turned out like dogs to die in the streets life is a commodity all too cheap I 1 want these acts of your existence to stick like steel barbs into your souls now to is my harvest time I 1 attempt no do concealment of the fact that 1 I with other iota ests will take advantage of your prea i ent condition to teach you the plea of the true faith HUNGRY MEN MEM understand TAND ANAR ANARCHY OJay hungry men anen think men with that gnawing at their vitala vital can be made to understand the tenets uj ui an anarchy aroby I 1 give a hungry man a 6 tract on anarchy and know that tile the truths it contains conla luB will find an eternal lodgment in big bia soul oh it 11 la men luen made desperate by hunger that are our proselytes prose lytes and now to the cause of your trouble it lies with the capi can calist baliet he la Is responsible individually for who or you has gone to bina him in need and been succored no instead ut ot breau bread you receive w withering heing logic aud and if the cries of a starving barail S drive 5 3 ou on to take what belongs t to 0 you yo Y the capitalist calls in the Min minions jons f of the law and hai ba 4 you shot thus thua it iti Is that your children come into the th world beggar beg gare go through life haupers paupers and hounded to 10 the grave by 1001 1 prosecutors prose cutora die criminals Thes Thea lauah lugh ter of the innocents of the great mass cassea 4 of trembling workingmen goes on oil for far ever when will the worm turn I 1 a to bea hel with the gang of thie thieves vess ron roia atre murder murderers ere destroyers of ou homes oh my brothers othere br as long iona our as aa 46 a merciful gud god gives me strength to t work will A 1 stir you on oil to proc ci a I 1 destruction the speaker sneaker trembled violen violently tl y ad n 1 lea leaned D ed on the table for support bior H 4 auditors Hudi tors were again beside them selvo rate hats went I 1 tato to the a air r and t the alc I 1 hect men rose in a body and cheered WHY SUBMIT TO ROBBERY mrs parsons then proceeded you are the sole producers produce rr wh should you not consume why why you submit so tamely to go robbery robbers do when your babes are in ra raa a why win will you see other children draped wl silk wiy should one wibb brat vomit on silk that dozens or of tie chil children dreu should go to bed bea hung ry your we a are re getting tired ot of th this Is game gaine I 1 r g BAY we because now that you are henr hu 1 I suppose you are willing to be late age I 1 tell you we auit rid of these gliese ruthless rulers it is slaver slava when three men seek the y same job inh liberty beat begins us w when ben 0 one do j job 0 b P peeks ew k t breemen tre ree emen men 1 I have a purpose in not showing you how to got gei bread your salvati lies iles in stirring lag you to dempt desperate rate a 06 went want and extreme misery will drive driva you to united acan n I 1 will at give ve you van an absorbing subject oto lor r t thought hough t the present social is rotten from to bottom you must see this and realize that the time has as come to de stroy it wealth is in your reach ob b tools fools I 1 fools I 1 that you do bot grasp it liet let our streets run with go nor rebut ebu what we have justice capitalist lives swept swep away are so ao much guin gain to us that analla is why I 1 urn a revolutionist by force we were robbed by tue the people who coin your sweat into G ahling guns to kill you anu and by force they must be uis possessed you must no DO longer stink die and rot in tenement houses liea you possess the strength to wre wrest palaces from the oppressor oppressors ore you are infamous cure aye infamous curs cure if you continue CD nil QUO to accept charity shoulder dh to shoulder with one accord you should rise and take what to h yours youre RESOLUTION 8 ADOPTED SONS SOME HOT retired exhausted with wih mrs parsons her effort after the applause had died anav the following resolutions reeo lutious were introduced and adopted whereas ov over er people in this country u n try are now idle and making a fruitless so search for employ and causes of this thia great tb the 0 whereas crime against th the e spirit of the declaration or of independence do not depend entirely upon the present legal ined monetary f system but ure tre primarily caused by our iniquitous land laws which enable speculator to grab and ami control for their own ends that which Is necessary to the life liberty of all the people a d ineis ani happing hap happ pine labor produces all wealth W whereas b ands wealth should belong whereas reap all 1 n I and to those who produce whereas the productive capacity to its consumptive of is superior capacity and whereas the parties in iii civilization have reversed our present the natural ord order er thereby diverting the products of labor from their equit able channels I 1 g lying three quarters of all the wealth P produced reduced to a small class w while bile the workers are in constant the real producers danger of starving and whereas this small nall minority of producers dictate all legislation legisla tien non influence influent 0 the pulpit and control the metropolitan pr press ess in its own interests therefore PULPIT AND DENOUNCED resolved I 1 that eternal vigilance la the price of ot liberty ja and we call upon the people doodle to go carefully watch the poll cleanne the pulpit and lepidi ate the subsidized preas pan and in order objects and restore to the to further farther our people their heritage it la Is lurther further resolved that we call upon the workers of the field and farm io to repudiate all 01 aima 0 of f the usurious money I 1 landing alrig clau class au aud d be it further holved that we call upon the wage workers of the whole country to refuse refuge to pay tribute in the shape of rent to the landlords landlord and be it further 9 k alved leaf we the 09 people of chicago in mases meeting assembled hereby authorize and direct the Chair chairman MaD or of this meet ing to appoint a committee of five whose duty it shall be to confer with the tae industrial organizations of the country with a view to creating a healthy public opinion on the fundamental causes a now operating to the disadvantage of the producers and a ad barmon harmonizing moniz mon izing and solidifying the wealth prody tre so ao as aa to bring about an of affairs based on the right of mun man to the product ot of big and be it further resolved said aadil committee be authorized and requested reque eted to 0 o add to its ita number from the various states anu and territories of these theae united states the committee ILIP appointed POInted wom waa composed ot obrien van coroum atia schweitzer they to choose the member OLIVER OPENS THE MER MEETING TINt when chairman oliver called the meeting to order everyone of the 1200 seats was waa occupied the aisles were filled the doorway crowded and the I 1 overflow beginning to take up places in the wings or of the stage it took repeated raps rapa of the gm ga el to qu quiet let the crowd then the chairman au an bounced the object of the meeting he said we are assembled to consider one ol of the moat important facts of modern civilization I 1 refer to the wrongs perpetrated on the workingmen under the wings of national cuon the evils without number b h are daily perpetrated agai against nit society in the name of law aud and which are the cause today ut of the he of a vast army of hungry men in we city ot of ch cago ahe the criminal of the various bodies to the distracting condition of labor is so appu that thai it no comment cum munt T tle ae picture of of tho watius of homeless hom elees fm frilles illes in the cou coultry itry yet with more than enough food aud and clothing iu in stort to supply au aply all shows that something is wrong we are told by our wise legislators and others who ride the juggernaut to which the bacou of labor is sacrificed that these questions of social and national interest are all too deep for our finite minds to attempt to solve we are told the workingman cannot understand you are simply the people they are the little gods goda of wisdom who sap your lite life blood the money power ab ad ever stands before you today in haughty arrogance ruthlessly stamping out public expression we are here to discuss menus meaos to better our condition I 1 leave ou suggestions gest ions to those who follow f WILLIAM VAN SPEAKS william van ornum was introduced and spoke in part as an follows lol lows I tue itne question is ie just now as it was of ef old wherewithal shall the multitude us ue fed that is the quest question iun to be answered and that right speedily those who by their toll have brought into being the wealth of our country art are in poverty those who have built palaces are without shatter those who made raiment without clothes those who have grown the country s lood food products on the verge of starvation what iu is to be done unless a antia factory answer w is soon given the ht hoot of the unemployed will answer the question tor for themselves in their own W way ay J contina continuing ing the speaker delivered an anathema against those who re presen the government saying that the legislators bad delivered the reins or the government into the hands of the bankers the rae latter he charged with lucking looking up the money ul of tile the country and ana brin bringing glug about the present orli stalk the laws were entirely for the rich and as is 18 usual in the presence ut cal ami amit tiep lep tine ibe poor suffered he continued the poor will always be poor so long us ims they submit to the laws now my friou frien B s I 1 am aiu not going to give you any advice as to how to obtain bread I 1 should be assuming a terrible responsibility that you must de cide lor for vours yourself eit which are the most numerous the rich or the poor I 1 am not of those who hold law jaw in such superstitious reverence that I 1 am afraid at raid to act T its is remark awoke wild applause and it was some moments before the speaker could proceed then be closed cloned with an attack on the press of the country countr yi and prognosticated the early dominance of anarchy and the sweeping away of individual property rights DONT PAY RENT OR OB MOVE robert sterner steiner spoke in germans germane Be Re fering to those in the audience who had been served by their landlord with notices to vacate because rent was in arrears he be advised those who had no money to refuse refuge either to pay rent or move the army ol of the hungry numbered now he said lully strong enough to exterminate all all the constabulary that could be brought orward to evict tenants if the unemployed would but work together the haymarket trouble had cost anarchy ys 99 racks but five lives he be said now they were invincible with a following ot of the cheering at this point was increasing the audience seeming beside itself at the suggestion made As the speaker continued his bis voice was raised to a strident high pitch and he be swung his arms about wildly he declared himself the lifelong enemy of government or any other form of monopoly the capitalist now asked the piteous mendicant why he did not work the speaker said when the cap italien well weil knew that he himself made it impossible for him to make a living he H urged thew them to try their strength and take what rightfully belonged to them and not go crying to the lake front nor complaining to the city hall M max ax closed the meeting with a speech in hebrew cacao Cc ao timed august 21 |