Show THE ANARCHISTS SENTENCED of Them Sentenced to bi Seven jfttngcd on December 3dNeebe Gets Fifteen Years CHICAGO Oct 9Judge Gary sentenced seen Anarchists Spies Parsons Engel Lmjjff Fisoher Schwab and Fielden to be hanged December 3d and Neebe to fifteen ears imprisonment In sentencing the condemned men Judge Gary said u I am quite well aware that what yon have said although addressed to me was said to the world Yet nothing has been stid which weakens the force of the proof or the conclusions therefrom upon which the verdict is based You are all men of intelligence in-telligence and know that if the verdict stands it must be executed I am sorry beyond be-yond all power of expression for your unhappy un-happy condition and the terrible events which have brought it about I shall address to yor neither reproach nor exhortation What I shall say shall be in faint hope that a few words from the place where the people of the State of Illinois have delegated athor ity to declare the penalty of a violation of their laws and spoken upon an occasion so solemn and awful as this may come to the knowledge and be heeded by the ignorant deluded and misguided men who have listened to your counsel and followed your advice It is not least among the hardships hard-ships of the peaceable frugal and laborious poor to endure the tyranny of mobs who with lawless force dictate to them under the penalties of peril to limb and life where when and upon what terms they may earn a livelihood for themselves or their families Any Government that is worthy of the name will strenuously endeavor to secure to all within its jurisdiction freedom to follow vocations and safety for their property and their persons while obeying the law and the law is common sense It holds each man responsible for the natural and probable proba-ble consequences of his own acts It holds whoever advises murder that is committed pursuant to his advice and if men band together to-gether for forcible resistance to the execution execu-tion of law and advise murder as a means of making such resistance effectual whether such advice be to one man to murder another an-other or to a numerous class to murder the men of another class all who are so banded together are guilty of any murder that is committed in pursuance of such advice The people of this country love their institutions they Jove their homes they love their property prop-erty They will never consent that by violence vio-lence and murder those institutions shall be broken down their homes despoiled and I their property destroyed And the people are strong enough to protect and to sustain I their institutions and to punish all the offenders of-fenders against their laws And those who threaten danger to civil society if the law is enforced are leading to destruction whoever who-ever attempts to execute such threats The existing order of society can be changed only by the will of the majority Each man has the full right to entertain and advocate by speech and print such opinions as suit themselves and the great body of people will usually care little what he says But if he proposes murder as a means of enforcing his opinions he puts his own life at stake and no clamor about free speech or evils to be cured or wrongs to be redressed will shield him from the consequences of his crime His liberty is not license to destroy The toleration that he enjoys he must extend ex-tend to others and he must not arrogantly I assume that the great majority are wrong and may rightfully be coerced by terror or removed by dynamite It only remains that for the crime you have committed and of which you have been convicted after a trial unexampled in patience in which an outraged out-raged people have extended to you every protection pro-tection and privilege of the law which you derided and defied that the sentence of that i law be now given In form and detail that i sentence will appear upon the record of the court In substance and effect it is that the defendant Neebe be imprisoned in the State Penitentiary at Joliet at hard labor for a term of fifteen years and that each of the other defendants between the hours of 10 oclock in the forenoon and 2 oclock in the I afternoon of the 3d day of December next iu the manner provided by the statutes of tVAa State shall be hanged by the neck until he is dead Remove the prisoners |