Illinois vs. August Spies et al. trial evidence book. People's Exhibit 127.
Arbeiter-Zeitung (Newspaper) article, "Delusive Imaginations," 1885 June 24
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Introduced into evidence during testimony of E. F. L. Gauss (Vol. K p. 721-732), 1886 July 31.
Transcript of translation of article.
An editorial headed "Delusive Imaginations" of Wednesday, the 24th of June, 1885, closed as follows:
"Fellows! Agitators! Dark, threatening economical storm clouds have arisen in the United States; they become thicker above our heads; they will discharge themselves and bring a flood of inexpressible misery upon us, A terrible crisis is coming. Let us close our ranks and do not let us pierce our own flesh but that of a capital. The time is too serious. Let us rather see in every comrade a welcome fellow-combatant. Let us do this, and then the day of liberation, which will be celebrated here in a short time and which celebration must seem to us as derisive laughter of hell, will soon be followed by the true and real day of liberation; that is our most earnest desire."