PART VI.

CHAPTER 1.

THE HAYMARKET MEETING

A GRAPHIC DESRIPTION OF THE ATTACK ON THAT PEACEABLE ASSEMBLY—THE COMMAND TO DISPERSE AND THE TRAGIC REPLY—TERRIBLE EFFECTIVENESS OF ONE BOMB—TE POLICE WOULD HAVE BEEN AN EASY PREY FOR AN ORGANIZED CONSPIRACY—A REIGN OF TERROR—PAPERS SUSPENDED, HOMES INVADED AND SUBJECTS SUBJECTED TO CRUEL INDIGNITIES.

Taken from the Denver "Labor Enquirer" of May 17, 1886.

The readers of the Enquirer have read with bated breath the startling news flashed from this city on Tuesday last of the ushering in and demonstration of the new method of scientific warfare.

What was it, and what the occasion of the brining forth of the fell destroyer from his lurking-place in the realms of science with such direful results? The cause may be given in a future letter, the results may be given here.

The minions of the oppressing class were marched up to one of the most peaceably assembled meetings ever held in this country by any class of people to discuss questions concerning their own interests, and commanded them to "disperse." The individual giving this order was backed by about 300 armed and bludgeoned police, whom the capitalistic press describe as having "grasped their clubs tighter as they came in sight of the Anarchists assembled."

Well, as the minions moved from the station, which was half a block away from the meeting, they came like a lowering cloud to blot out the sunlight of free speech on American soil. Sweeping from curbstone to curbstone (a new military tactic which they had