Opis: Gov; Altgeld's Pardon and the Modern Tragedy - Author Unknown

Excerpt from Gov; Altgeld's Pardon and the Modern Tragedy: Downfall of the Small Producer and the Crisis, Its Cause and Cure as Explained and Proposed by Socialism

Thus this black and damnable conspiracy of the capitalist class to cow the Labor Movement has proved a boomerang. The guns loaded for us have kicked backward. The capitalist class and its machinations mount the pillory; the victims emerge with all the glory that at all times has been the meed of martyrdom.

The aiders and abettors in this crime, the accessories before and after its commission, was the capitalist press of the country. After having vainly striven to poison the public mind with calumnies and fabrications against the men whose death they had demanded like blood-hounds, they now seek to smother by a conspiracy of silence the indictment of their conduct which they read between the lines of the Statement of Governor Altgelt.

In view of this fact, The People yields to this historic document the right of way in to-days issue, and publishes it here in full, literally as it appears in the original, italics and all.

Governor John P. Altgelt's Statement.

On the night of May 4, 1886, a public meeting was held on Haymarket square in Chicago. There were from 800 to 1,400 people present, nearly all being laboring men. There had been trouble, growing out of an effort to introduce the eight-hour day, resulting in some collisions with the police, in one of which several laboring people were killed, and this meeting was called as a protest against alleged police brutality.

The meeting was orderly and was attended by the mayor, who remained until the crowd began to disperse and then went away. As soon as Captain John Bonfield, of the police department, learned that the mayor had gone, he took a detachment of police and hurried to the meeting for the purpose of dispersing the few that remained, and as the police approached the place of the meeting a bomb was thrown by some unknown person, which exploded and wounded many and killed several policemen, among the latter being one Mathias Degan. A number of people were arrested, and after a time August Spies, Albert E. Parsons, Louis Linge, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, George Engle Adolph Fischer and Oscar Neebe were indicted for the murder of Degan. The prosecution could not discover who had thrown the bomb, and could not bring the really guilty man to justice, and, as some of the men indicted were not at the Haymarket meeting and had nothing to do with it, the prosecution was forced to proceed on the theory that the men indicted were guilty of murder because it was claimed they had at various times in the past uttered and printed incendiary and seditious language, practically advising the killing of policemen, of Pinkerton men and others acting in that capacity, and that they were therefore responsible for the murder of Mathias Degan. The public was greatly excited, and after a prolonged trial all of the defendants were found guilty. Oscar Neebe was sentenced for fifteen years imprisonment, and all of the other defendants were sentenoed to be hanged. The case was carried to the supreme court and was there affirmed in the fall of 1887. Soon thereafter Lingg committed suicide. The sentence of Fielden and Schwab was commuted to imprisonment for life, and Parsons, Fischer, Engle and Spies were hanged, and the petitioners now ask to have Neebe, Fielden and Schwab set at liberty.

Basis for Appeal of Pardon.

The several thousand merchants, bankers, judges, lawyers and other prominent citizens of Chicago who have by petition, by letter and in other ways urged executive clemency, mostly base their appeal on the ground that, assuming the prisoners to be guilty, they have been punished enough, but a number of them who have examined the case more carefully and are more familiar with the record and with the facts disclosed by the papers on file base their appeal on entirely diff

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Nazwa: Gov; Altgeld's Pardon and the Modern Tragedy Downfall of the Small Producer and the Crisis, Its Cause and Cure as Explained and Proposed by Socialism (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Author Unknown
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781331424475
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 40
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
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