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Chief of Police in Chicago Fears Outbreak of Anarchists at Any Time

CONDITIONS ARE DANGEROUS

Chief Severely Criticises Judge Who Showed Leniency in Cases of Agitators - Speeches Made Demanding More Assassinations - Serious Matter, Says Shippy.

Chicago. Feb. 4.--"Never in the history of Chicago have anarchists and other enemies of law and order been more dangerous than they are at present." declared Chief Shippy yesterday. "The police are watching their movements closely. You never know when they are going to break out."

He then criticised the recent action of Municipal Judge Oscar M. Torrison in suggesting that two men, arrested for posting red placards unlawfully, advertising an anarchist meeting, be released without penalty. Chief Shippy said that it amounted to an encouragement of the anarchists.

The chief was grave and troubled. He had just finished reading a police report on an anarchist meeting the night before at 363 Dearborn street, in the Illini cafe. This meeting was called to celebrate the assassination of King Carlos and Prince Luiz of Portugal. Most inflammatory speeches were made at that meeting.

Here are some of the sentiments expressed by E. McIntosh:

"Who was McKinley? Was he any better than you or I, or the king of Portugal? Was he not a king who was put there by a certain element to down another weaker element? He got just what he deserved as much as the king of Portugal and some more in this country ought to get the same thing right now.

I am with the mob. I would like to go out right now with the mob behind me and kill every policeman on the street and then throw their bodies into the lake, like so many dead fish.

I could go out now and rob every store and kill right and left.

"I am hungry. I have more respect for a robber than for any of the unemployed, because the robber gets it, while the unemployed has not sense enough to get it. They have no sense here at all. In Russia they are doing it right. They kill policemen every day there, and they rob banks and leave their receipts. saying the money will be used for the revolution.

"I fully sympathize with the queen of Portugal and I am sorry she did not meet the fate of her despotic husband. My mother was a liar when she taught me to be honest and not to steal and rob. The preacher was a liar when he told me to believe in God.

They are all liars. The whole of society is a mass of liars."

The chief put back the report on his desk for a moment. The desk was full of police business. but the anarchist situation in Chicago. he thought, was more important than nearly anything else at that moment.

"Violent language, this," he commented. "Do you think it safe or desirable to permit meetings where there are such utterances?"

Assistant Chief Schuettler, who was present, shook his head.

"And," continued the chief. "what are we to think of a judge of the municipal court who will apparently give encouragement to such violent red flag meetings?"

Appended to the police report was a clipping from the Chicago Daily Socialist, which related how Judge Torrison at the East Chicago avenue municipal court recently recommended to Assistant State's Attorney Elliott that a nonsuit be entered in the case of Charles Kissling and William Wahl.

These men were tacking large posters upon trolley poles in violation of a city ordinance.

The posters were red, printed in white ink in German, advertising a meeting to be held in commemoration of "Bloody Sunday."

At this meeting, held subsequently, one of the speakers was McIntosh, the man who wanted to kill all the police, to rob, and murder.

Chief Shippy called attention to a report, also by Sergeant Mills, of a meeting held at Brand's hall Jan. 23 under the auspices of the United Anarchist Groups of Chicago. There were 400 anarchists present, and $10 was collected to pay for the hall. This was the meeting called to celebrate "Bloody Sunday," the meeting the red posters advertised. The report stated:

"The chairman, Edward Winfield was an individual with one leg. He introduced Miss Lilian Forberg. She criticised the city government, the capitalists, etc. The second speaker was Lucy Parsons, who said:

"I am glad to meet a few of my old friends who have been with me for the last twenty years--the detectives. The American flag is a disgrace to this country. The stripes represent the slaves and the stars the shame of the American people.

"The Americans are all asleep, and it takes the foreign class to wake them up and make them revolutionize the present system of government. The American soil is the place where the red flag will float forever and be recognized by the rest of the world.'