Chicago Socialists and Revolution
SUNDAY, October 13, a meeting of about one thousand Chicago Socialists was held in a hall in that city. The janitor of the building unfurled the stars and stripes on the stage, but the flag was greeted with a perfect storm of hisses. A red flag was then unfurled, and was greeted with prolonged cheering. A violent speech was made by a New York Socialist who was loudly applauded. He said that he was proud of Chicago, the city in which the Anarchists were hanged, because he felt that one day it would be the Paris—the city of revolutions—of America. Awful discontent is smouldering in the hearts of laborers, he said, and it is useless and idle to think that the revolution which will soon burst forth will be a peaceful one.