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Title: Remembering Haymarket Author: Ross Winn Date: 1895 Language: en Topics: Haymarket, Ross Winn, labor Source: Retrieved on April 25, 2012 from http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Remembering_Haymarket Notes: Originally appearing in The Rebel, Vol. I No. 2, October 1895.
Once more we reach the anniversary of the martyrdom of Albert Parsons,
Louis Lingg, George Engel, Adolph Fisher, and August Spies. Though dead,
their silence is today more powerful than the voices strangled November
11^(th), 1887.
By the murder of these five leaders of the people, the plutocrats
thought to ensure their safety; instead they dug their grave. The world
is gradually learning the true history and significance of this crime of
crimes. Even now the boastful assertion of the daily press, that
“Anarchy is dead” is heard no more. Instead comes the cry for repression
to curb its rapid spread! All the powers of governmental despotism are
to be invoked. Fools! Did they think they could annihilate principles by
strangling the men who advocated them? Did not Parsons tell them: “Men
die, but principles live”?
Let us remember the Eleventh of November, and forget not the brave souls
who, on this day, sealed with their lives the devotion to the grand
principles of human freedom.
These men were martyrs. They died because they preached a better
condition for humanity. They were foully murdered by the ruling
classes—because they dared to oppose the infamous gang of thieves who
live upon the industry of the toiling millions—the working bees of the
human hive. Their lips are forever closed. Hushed are their voices in
the eternal silence of the grave, but the grand principles they taught,
the great truths they told, still live. Amid the silence and solitude of
the earth they sleep the sleep that knows no awakening. But the voices
that were strangled that day of martyrdom have worked a revolution which
nothing can successfully oppose. Their death was the real beginning of
the Anarchist propaganda in America. And on this day were born immortal
souls that will lead the van of human progress down the corridors of the
future, until their monument will rise in the realisation of the
principles for which they died.