. The rise and fall of anarchy in America. From its incipient stage to the first bomb thrown in Chicago. A comprehensive account of the great conspiracy culminating in the Haymarket massacre, May 4th, 1886 ... the apprehension, trail, conviction and execution of the leading conspirators . re is only one manthat acted as a lawyer, and he is Mr. Ingham, but you threefellows have not. I established the paper and issued it to the working menof the city of Chicago, and inside of two weeks I had enoughmoney from the toilers—from hired girls, from men who wouldtake the last cent out of their pocket t
. The rise and fall of anarchy in America. From its incipient stage to the first bomb thrown in Chicago. A comprehensive account of the great conspiracy culminating in the Haymarket massacre, May 4th, 1886 ... the apprehension, trail, conviction and execution of the leading conspirators . re is only one manthat acted as a lawyer, and he is Mr. Ingham, but you threefellows have not. I established the paper and issued it to the working menof the city of Chicago, and inside of two weeks I had enoughmoney from the toilers—from hired girls, from men who wouldtake the last cent out of their pocket to establish the paper—tobuy a press. I could not publish the paper because the honor-able detectives and Mr. Grinnell followed us up, and no print-ing house would print our paper, and we had to have our ownpress. We published our own paper after we had a press,bought by the money of the working men of the city. That isthe crime I have committed—getting men to try and establisha working-mans paper that will stand to-day, and I am proudof it. They have not got one press—they have got two pressesto-day, and they belong to the working men of this city. Whenthe first issue came out, from that day up to the day now, yourHonor, we have gained 4,000 subscribers. There are the gen-. LOUIS LINGG. USE AND FALL OF ANARCHY. 161 tlemen sitting over there from the Frele Presse and Stoats Zei-tiuuj—they know it. The Germans of this city are condemningthese actions. They would not read our paper. There is thecrime of the Germans. I say it is a verdict against Germans,and I, as an American, must say that I never saw anything likethat. Those are the crimes I have committed after the 4th ofMay. Before the 4th of May I committed some crimes. I or-ganized trades unions. I was for the reduction of the hours oflabor and the education of laboring men aud the re-establish-ment of the Arheiter Zeitung. There is no evidence to showthat I was connected with the bomb throwing, that I wasnear it or
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