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Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Mrs. Emma [sic] Parsons Will Publicly Denounce Anarchy” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: St. Louis, Missouri Date of publication: 8 September 1901 Volume number: 54 Issue number: 18 Part/Section: 2 Pagination: 4 |
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| “Mrs. Emma [sic] Parsons Will Publicly Denounce Anarchy.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch 8 Sept. 1901 v54n18: part 2, p. 4. |
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| Lucy E. Parsons; Lucy E. Parsons (public statements); McKinley assassination (personal response: anarchists); anarchism (criticism). |
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| William McKinley; Albert R. Parsons; Lucy E. Parsons [first name wrong in title]. |
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Mrs. Emma [sic] Parsons Will Publicly Denounce Anarchy
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CHICAGO, Ill., Sept. 7.—Mrs. Lucy Parsons, widow
of Albert Parsons, who was hanged as one of the conspirators in the Haymarket
riot, said that as a result of the attempted murder of President McKinley and
the increase in number of anarchists, she would publicly denounce anarchism.
Mrs. Parsons is president of the Anarchists’ Club.
“Anarchism,” she said, “is crankism nowadays.
When a man becomes a real crank he calls himself an anarchist. Anarchism now
embraces all the cranks in crankdom. I shall publicly make known to the anarchists
of Chicago and the public in general very soon my sorrow and regret for the
attempt upon the President’s life.
“We never knew anything of this kind of anarchy
until the last few years. Real anarchy is voluntary association for the purpose
of distribution and exchange of the world’s wealth. It’s far from this idea
of assassination.
“When the present system of capitalization is
abolished and people have free access to nature’s resources, society can be
carried on entirely without force. Our new anarchistic club was formed for the
purpose of education and enlightenment.
“I am sick of assassinations. Assassins are the
worst enemies of true anarchy. If employed by capitalists they could not do
us more harm.”