Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1889 — Rampant Socialists. [ARTICLE]

Rampant Socialists.

Chicago socialists celebrated ,Sundav, the 100th anniversary of the shrining of the Bastile. Lacy Parsons made a fiery speech in which she predicted a revolution: “The fall of the Bastile,” she said, wm a victory for free government a blow to tyranny, but it did not dMtroy economic slavery. We have a free government; they have a free government in France, yet we are slaves. There must be another revolution (applause) —a revolution animat the ‘bsatiles’ of labor. The people most rise and arm; they will rise, and they will storm and capture those ‘bastilea,’ and they will bear out the heada of those devils—thoM capitalists—on the tops ol pikestaffs. [Applause.] They presume to rale by the divine right of the rifle and the gatlinggun, [the noose and the prison, but they have no such divine right. You must seize thoM rifles and those gatling sons, destroy the gallows and storm tne prisons. Yon must march arm in arm and shoulder to shoulder against these ’bastilea’ of labor, Yon moat not march in the street to be mowed down, but you must get within the walls, and victory, sweet victory is yours.” Paul Grottkau apoke in German. He said that men, by the very power of wealth, ruled the commCfi people m they were never ruled by men wearing the royal purple. He said that another revolution wm surely coming, and that Chicago could not stop it with hangings, nor the police of the world, with gatling gams. Tyrants would again be overthrown and the common people would again be triumphant The story of the French revolution would be repeated throughout the world.