Right before all of the chaos occurred a man by the name Sam Fielden, was giving a speech to the crowd of hundreds of about 500 workmen. Fielden preached to the people that the rich were their enemies. He declared that the rich had robbed them because they do all of the rich mens' work and the rich men get all of the workers money. After blaming the rich for these crimes Fielden points for the law and the next offender. He accuses the law of being unjust. He describes the actions as the law as, "Only the day before, they'd attacked the McCormick Reaper Works, and the law had shot them down, but when, he'd asked, when would it shoot McCormick down (Cries of Never!) Have nothing to do with the law, he'd told them: the law had no mercy, it degraded them, it turned them out in the road". Fielden was describing all of the injustices in the law and mostly how the laws are made to put the working class down and so that the upper class may maintain all of its power. As Fielden continued he pushed the idea of "stabbing" the law and "killing" the law. He believed that if the law was fair and equal then the event at the Haymarket would have been completely avoided. Fielden continued be naming all of the unjust arrests that took place due to the bomb being thrown. he mentions the notorious eight that were arrested out of the crowd for being known anarchist leaders. He also mentions the unjust closure and arrest of two anarchist newspaper companies. Overall Fielden had a feeling of disgusted towards the law and he blames the laws lack of fair for causing the death of many innocent people.
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