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Anarchy and Anarchists.
A HISTORY OF
THE RED TERROR AND THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION
IN AMERICA AND EUROPE.
COMMUNISM, SOCIALISM, AND NIHILISM
IN DOCTRINE AND IN DEED.
THE CHICAGO HAYMARKET CONSPIRACY,
AND THE DETECTION AND TRIAL OF THE CONSPIRATORS.
BY
Michael J. Schaack,
Captain of Police.
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS FROM AUTHENTIC PHOTOGRAPHS,AND FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS
By Wm. A. McCullough, Wm. Ottman, Louis Braunhold, TrueWilliams, Chas. Foerster, O. F. Kritzner, and Others.
CHICAGO:
F. J. Schulte & Company.
New York and Philadelphia: W. A. Houghton.
St. Louis: S. F. Junkin & Co.—— Pittsburg: P. J. Fleming & Co.
MDCCCLXXXIX.
Copyright, 1889,
BY MICHAEL J. SCHAACK.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
⁂THE ILLUSTRATIONS IN THIS WORK ARE ALL ORIGINAL, AND ARE
PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT.
TO
HON. JOSEPH E. GARY
AND TO
HON. JULIUS S. GRINNELL
THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY
THE AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
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IT has seemed to me that there should be a history of the development,the revolt, and the tragedy of Anarchy in Chicago. This history Ihave written as impartially and as fairly as I knew how to write it. Ihave kept steadily before my eyes the motto,—
“Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.”
It will be found in the succeeding pages that neither animosity againstthe revolutionists, nor partiality to the State, has influenced the work. Ihave dealt with this episode in Chicago’s history as calmly and as fairly asI am able. I have tried to put myself in the position of the misguidedmen whose conspiracy led to the Haymarket explosion and to the gallows;to understand their motives; to appreciate their ideals—for so only couldthis volume be properly written.
And to present a broade