Show mm PARSONS THE ANARCHIST he lit 17 I 1 for a reporter and says he lie does not want A OF SENTENCE bat but ire H doc does not want to die for both noth tag Ing Give me xe leitert Lif or olve give me death DOCUMENT FRO rAn PARSONS soNs the Cond condellis emlis I 1 anarchist gives oat out HI ilia views for publication CHICAGO sept 21 A it sons tl the e condemned anarchist sent for a reporter today to day and gave out for publication li a long document addressed to the american people and made mad a special re request que st that it be published w without alteration lie ile quote quotes at length 1 the evidence and rulings of 0 the supreme court and arid says that the speeches po oches credited to him in t the he trial were ere garbled extracts by excl excited td e and I 1 imaginative mazi native newspaper per report reporters era hat that ins ills haymarket speech did not excite excite to io riot and that there was no connection between ili ins speeches and the death of officer degan he lie says the tile evidence did not a show low 11 him I 1 in to bo be at guilty but proved roved it his is innocence innocence t that at lio lie hae has been convicted an a an anarchist and not ae aft a murderer ho ile came and gave him felt up lor for a fai lair r trial and appeals appeal a to the lie american people to avoid the tile awful W trine rime of judicial murder tho the 10 lovers vers of 0 justice are engaged in an to thwart the consummation of judicial I murder by a commutation of sentence to imprisonment for this I 1 hank thank them but t ut t I 1 am an innocent man I 1 am sacrificed to thor those e who mho say ray these men may tie be innocent bu but t they are anarchists I 1 am prepared to t 0 lay I 1 ay do down n my iny lito life for my iny rights all and d the rights of my fellow men but I 1 object to being killed on false and unproven accusations the therefore I 1 connot countenance or a accept ece pt the thom who ho would enu endeavor eavor to 4 procure a commutation of my in een sell tence to imprisonment neither do I 1 approve of any further appeals to courts of luw law As between capital and ita legal rights and labor and anti its ri 91 ts t alio I 1 to courts must murt decide with the tile capitalistic cbs to appeal to ti them aern m be the appeal of the tile wage slave to his ca capitalistic atall abic master for del delivery ivera if ahw I 1 had never been an anarchist before ruy ex experience perien ce 1 with ith ili the courts and am s 4 make an art anarchist of roe me now I 1 appeal not for mercy mercy hut but fog for I 1 justice ju itice t iz ce afar again saying that he Is m will il 1 not accept a commutation of sentence he closed hv by quoting tho the language of patrick give me liberty or give me death |