Show THE anarchists PARDONED governor altgeld of illinois did a wise just and humane thing when he pard pardoned boned from the penitentiary the men confined there bee because use of their assumed connection with the haymarket riot at chicag a few years ago fielden and schwabe may not be the ideal of good citizenship may in fact in some respects be sub subjects ejects for surveillance by the authorities but that does not matter the goger governor nor decided the case came upon the proper ground that they did not have a fair trial and were thus improperly convicted which is a fact it comes toolate too late to be of service to spies anti and parsons who were hanged banged although not participating in the riot at all I 1 there is no question that the atmosphere mo sphere of chicago at the time of I 1 the be trial of the anarchists was charged with dangerous resentment and very few if any were tree free from its influence at a distance those who watched closely and were impartial could see that the defendants were actually being hounded to conviction and that impelling reason was not that they were murderers but that they were anarchists som elbing which the law does not forbid but is justified in watching and even circumscribing but nothing more the feeling ran high and the condition of society was such that it was not dot safe to try a at such time on any kind of charge man to is only one remove from froma a wild beast and an when inflamed and his bis restraint la Is wholly thrown off a tiger in the jungle is less to be dreaded the rhe NEWS believed at the time and said so that with the possible exception of two of the eight men prosecuted lingg and engel and the former or of these committed suicide in his hie cell imprisonment ment for various terms should be the limit of the punishment imposed but the reign of terror which reached even to the court and held the jury firmly went out coutaa as far as aalthe the executive office so BO that governor OA kleeby Ole lesby eby who admitted that all not dot be pun lobed capitally and commuted the pen dences of two to life imprisonment w ula go no further in the direction ot mercy a mercy which the sequel shown would only have been justice it is not the time to adjudicate or determine as to rint right or wrong when the people are all hot blooded |