“Did you live with him in New York?”—“No, sir. I just got my mail there.”
“Now,” said Foster, “you say you were a proletariat. What do you mean by that term?”—“I understand it to be a man without any means of support.”
“And you, having no money, had your mail sent to Justus Schwab because you had no home, eh?”—“Yes, sir.”
“Now,” asked Mr. Ingham, “I’ll ask you if you did not use the term proletariat in the sense in which Socialists always employ that term?”—“No, sir, I did not.”
SAMUEL FIELDEN.
Samuel Fielden, one of the defendants who was speaking at the time of the bomb explosion, testified that he did not know who threw the bomb, and denied that he fired at the police with a revolver. He was cross-examined by Mr. Ingham for the State, who asked: “At what age did you come to the United States?”—“Twenty-one.”
“Did you have any business before you came to the United States?”—“I went to work in a cotton mill at eight years of age, and worked in that mill until I left the country to come to the United States.”
“How long have you been a Socialist?”—“I joined the SocialiasticSocialistic organization in July, 1884.”
“How long have you been a revolutionist?”—“In the sense of an evolutionary revolutionist, I have been so for a number of years.”
“How long have you been of the belief that the existing order of things should be overthrown by force?”—“I don’t know that I have ever been convinced. I am of the opinion that the existing order of things must be overturned, but whether by force I don’t know.”