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JOHN P E T E R ALTGELD

Thcre ;iras rr inGleuii! Liberiy's clear. llght

Sl lo~re rzc.i,er- oil a brar'cr sreiic ilzati thut.

Here numas a prisoir, !here n :Ilur~ ?rho sat

H i g h iri thc h d l s of S iaic! Heyo~zd i k e m igh t

Of ig7~0~atrce rliid mobs :crl~ose l%ii,cli~tg Press

Yel ls at t l ~ ~ i ~ . bidding like fire slni,?l.'s h o i ~ ~ t d s ,

Read~r wi th coarse copvice tu cirrsr7 or blcss.

T o +iiukc or 1~7rrrrake rirlers! L o . therc sar~rids

4 gratirtg of tlrc doors, orid tlircc poor rricri.

Hel f less rirzd haled, I~nzirzg rrnirght to zzrte,

Cotirc j rof f i their larzy-smicd toliibs, look 1 4 p irrid l i t ~e ,

And thai~lz this 3Inrz tlzat tile! are free a,fnir~! '

Atid he-to all tlze ?aorld th is trrrirt dares say,

"Crrrse a s 3'011 will 1 I hrr7.e bccir jrrst th is dny"

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JOHN PETER ALTGELD Memorial

A T THE AUDITORIUM

S U N D A Y , A P R I L 2 0 , 1 9 0 2

GEORGE A. SCHILLING, CHAIRMAN

Programme O R C l N l S T . . . A. ALFRED HOLMES

CHORUS-"At the Altar of Truth," . . ~bfohr

German Singins Societies of Chicago PIOF. 0r.m W. RICHTEX. . Cond~~ctor

Address, WILLIAM P. BLACK

Address, BISHOP JOHN LANCASTER SPALDlNG

Address. CLARENCE S. DARROW

SOLO-"Within This Sacred Dwelling," . .!4oznrl

M R . OLOP VALLEY XTSS ENCBEBC, Accompan~st

Addrw, . . . . JOHNJ. LENTZ

C ~ ~ o n c s - " T h e Bard in Silence Slccps," .S , / chc~

Gerrnan Singing Societies of Chicago Pnon. L u n x ~ ~ c nnucil , . conductor

Committee of Arrangements Altgeld Memorial Meeting

JOSEPH W. ERRANT, Chairman

NORER GOTTLIEB, Treasurer JOSEPH A. O'DONNELL, Secretary

<+~orpe A. Schilling Arthmr Tossetti Joseph S, Martin E. 0. Brown Charles A. Wlllcnrns R. W. Eondiophoure Philip *npatcn Dnvid R. Levy L*"i6 F. Post Martin Beckar Clarence S. Darrow Frank D. Butler Dr. 4eopold Neumann Robert Llndblom Theodore 1. Ambere M. J. Foyer Daniel L. Crliise E. A. X lmba l l

PALLBEARERS CHOSE,\'

f i C I I Y K P I L L B E A R E R S . SaTURDI\I MORNING, M A R C H IS

I u d g ~ Wllllairn Pren i iw Sanlhel A. Cdhoun William Thompson wltiianr P. ulasr L O W ~ L F. post s n m u e ~ ~ l s c h u k r Joseph Mahoney Edward T. xoonan

(ieorpe A. Schliling Joseph Laoghlio M. F. Bingham Leon Bornrtein livber GotLIieb I. M, Kuebler Joseph F l n n Charles *.Lark Iobcph A. O'Dunnell Jacob C. Lebvrrg

~ t b e c t n . T, cren 6'. U. P. Snoli ing orcar E. 1,einen Philiy Angeten Thomas 6. hlcEllipotl Ch i s . J . Traloor

H D N D R I R Y P I L L B E A R E I S SUNDhY

Judrc Henr i M. Sheprrd H W. Clendennis dudre Marcur Klrarngh Thomas Ynntes Judpr Edw.rd F. """li" Adolph Krlus J u d ~ e hlurraj B Tuley S . S. Gregory Jitdge T h o m a s Wiuder John T l e n t l Judse Jallas Hutchiolon R. L. Allen Ex-Judge Tm, X. Brrnmm 1. W. Orr i ix ,nap" Thomas *.*,or." "ennil J Hopan Judpe Tarrlu Charles A Towoe Milton Ollrrr Altrsd L . Orenduri Colonel Ivho I. Mrrtin R. Ml~hae l i r

COMMITTEE IN CHARGE O C F U N E R I

EL>WARD P DZ-NNE. Cbmrmaa Nobel Gottlleh CYoPLantioi Goldller Ed-rrd T. Nooara Joseph W. Erraur William Tholllpaou Clarence S. Darrow Joseph S . Mrrno Dr. Leopold N~unlann

C h r r l ~ r Mlicbeli John P. nop*ios Walter S. Ho.le lamer C. Russell John J. Peeler Roger C. Sullivan 1 1. Tuwnsend John E. Traegsr JOh. powers P a u l steostnnn R. M. Ridse l l

George A . Scbllllilz 1arfi.l Reeler M J. Foyer

J O H N PETE B1 LOUIS P. POST IZ "THE

:R ALTGELD : PUBLIC" OF MARC= 22, 1902

h bleak lalrdscape stretcl>lt?g a\>;ly from hlr open grave. fierce March winds bcur- 1118 dorm the bitter cold oi a no1rh.m blizzard as they howled through the leaf- less trees. ton~blatlg waves heartng un the near-br shorc of the angry lake, and a iowerdg bnt not altogether ~tmlkia ~ k y ove rhang in~ the sccnc-this \>as the em- blernatlc trlbute ruhich external Nature paid t o the memory of Jolrn P. Allgeld, wh~ le his friends returned h ~ s mortal part to the absorbing elemenls of the earth from which it came.

I t sas a grand and fitting t r~bu te No other could so well have syinbolized

thc mar>. The bleaktleii was the blealr- ness of March and not of Derember, of life renewit>g and not of life at an end: and the s igt~s and sound5 of stlrsr and storm. in the midst of which the dead body lay-cnmposcd, iilent. indifferent, and as cold as the furionc blast ithelf-pictured forti, w:th pr;lphic &del>ty the story of a devoted life llvfd out to the mortal en3 in unfl~nchmg loyaliy to prlncxple and r l t h cold indifference to thc mallgnant clam- o r i n g ~ and their itlane echoes which had assa~led ~t on ~ ~ e r y hand

Nor was the picture wholly hal-sh Perferr artiir that she in. h-atlire was

faithful to the whole truth. She had cast a thin veil over the ib, and through the fleecy merher of that token of grief, the bright aun thrust its softened rays to sym- holize at once the hope which lie, "bc-

nnd otix tnortal ken" and the tender rove that hrd vitaliidd thts brave man's nobly +trenooils career.

B a Altgtld'q transcendent love was known

to all and felt by all who understood his ideals What if it were true. as one of his polit!cal cantemporanes wriles of him, that "he had brlt few friends"? What mat- ters that. if ~t be also Lrue, as the snme writer says, not adrnlrtngly but critically, that "he loved the nhale human race"?

Can anyman haxe gleater love than that? Is not he of whom tlmi can be said one o f those raiiidnt FOUIS w110se n1emory is most sacreilly c11eri;hed hy manlrlnd? Surely we ma) ray of A l r ~ e l d , then, in only slight paraphra.e of the eloquent Ian- gcage of Henry George. whoie career is noiv recognized ti, have lleen auided 17)-

the satne comorehens~ve love, that in h ~ s breast there arise a desire, lllgher yet than the des~ re to "know haw tile elobe was forgcc trace to theti sources the rpnncs nf l i fe3 ' that thcre arose ~n him that

the pas~so t~ of paisionb, the Ilope of hope?-the desire that he. eve11 he, might somehow aid m maklng life bet- ter and brighter, m dcstroylng r a n t and sin, sorrow and shame. That iil olred~ence to this deslrc he mastered and curbed the animal: that he turned his hack upon the feast and renounced the place of power; that he sacrificed wealth and lcft it to m r n of narrower affrct lo~~s to gratify pleaiant tastes and bask themselrei in the warm soil- shme of the brxrf day That lle worked for those he n ~ r e r r a u aod never conld see. for a fame, or maybe but for n sc&~t justice, that could only comc long after the clodr had rattled upon his coffin lid That he toiled nr the adiance, rvhere it >vas cold and there was little checr from men, and the stones were sharp and the bram- bles t h ~ c k That amid the scoffs of !he present and rhr Fneers thal stah llhe knives, he lluilt for the futlrre: and that he rot a trail whir11 prog~easire l~urnmitv snvv licreafler broaden into a high road

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This career, so iighteoual>- inspired and so suddenly and aple~~dldly closed to nor - tal comprehension, cat~not have ended. Lilce the everlasting farces which we ob- serve in material natare. it cannot but go on forever in the directiou in which it has set out. To qnestion this is to da~ th t par- pare in the universe; and to douht uni- versal purpose is to ignore the testimony offered even by physical law.

Though we excluded wholly from con- sideration ihe significance of the moral i l n s e in man. to doubt univerlal purpose mould be to disregard the significance of all that is rational in the theory of evo- Intlnn ~t iel i . Ii moral character endcd a i t h physical disintegration. if it were a mere f leet~nn expresrion of chemical ac- tion and reaction. if the soul were snalo- POIIS to the frutt initearl of the sccd of

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the tree, l i the physical budy gen- erated and maintained life instcad of hav- Ing derived its orig~nal impulse irom llfe and being continually dcpcndent upon the source of that impulse. if man were a ma- terial body with an ephemeral soul instead of an immortal soul wsth an ephemeral body, if the moral sense were only a clys- talization of matter-if tlns concc~tion oi hvmanity were true, then, indeed, might the ideals of nublc men be barren and all their service under righteous standards but a hopeless struggle The univcrse would he utterly without beneficence and mani- festly without purpose-a self-manufac- tured, self-perpetuating, self-operating, in- consequent and gigantic Frankenstein.

The imagination abhors and the reflect- ing intellect recoils from a monstrosity so hidcorrs and irrat~onal

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But the question of Altgeld's personal and conscious immortality need cause no dissensio~l between those who believe in it and those who do not. H e has entered into an ilnmortallty which all his admirers perceme more or less clearly, however much they may disagree about its s~gmfi - cance as a represelltation of sniritual im- mortality. F6r his dramatic 'death has served to c lean~e his name and character of the evil reputation which sordid rascals manufactured ior him and the thnuehrlrs.

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mob acknowledged; and in conseque% the world will now see Altgeld as he was. and not as the "law and order" enemies of just law and true order painted him. With his real character thus revealed. h ~ s writings and speeches and other JluMic acts will be appreciatcd by the many as only a few could appreciate them during his maligned career. ThauR.1 his body lies moulderina in the crave. and even t h o ~ r c h . .-.. the man himself Lad ~er i shed wlth his body yet his works wilt go marching on and 'with longer strides and infinitel; greater effect than ever before.

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unique man, in connection with the vicious reputation which social parasites gave him and the swell mob adovted. it is worth" of special mention that the qualities thev how agree in attributing to him are tlid very qualities which in his lifetime they denied him. Then they said that he had neither ability nor honcstv. But now the" arrree that hbility and honesty were hi; dihbn- wishing characteristics. Those who still speak of him as dangeruus explain that it was his ability and honesty that made him

This encomium, so eminently just and known so to be by all who were familiar with the man's character, must comc as a

surprise to thousands who had learned through the same newspapers which now praise him for these distinguishing rluali- ties. that he was an illiterate and brainless demagogue. But the motive for the slat%- ders of Altgeld is not far to seek. While he lived it was necessary to discredit him ~n order to keep open the channels fa r rc- spectable and legal plunder; and a hlnt was taken from the method of house- breakers who poison the watch dog in the yard before venturing to climb into the dwelling a t the window. But now that he is dead, and supposedly no longer dan- gerous to thc beneficiaries o i vested wrongs, the truth about him is allowed to come out.

The pity of it all is, not that Altgeld was slandered by those whose villainies he foi~ght. That was part of the fight. The pity of it is that the slanders of those he fousht were believed and repeated by so many far whom he fought. Of him it was sadly true as of all the heroes of whom Lo~<el l thought when he wrote-

they were souls that stood alone, While the men they egoxized fov hllrled

the corrtu~nelious stone

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Two of these slanders upon Altgeld stand out in bold relief. One relates to his pardoning of the anarchists, and the other to his course in the Debs railroad strike of 18w. With reference to them there could be no morc appropriate acca- sion than this for again setting forth the truth.

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Tile anarchist pardon was the culmina- tion of a labor-meeting tragedy on Hay- inalket square, Chicago, on the 4th of May, 1886. A labor strike was in prog- ress and a mecting oi the workingmen had gathered at that ooint, early in the evening, to protest against the recent dis- turbance by policemen of a peaceable labor meeting and the killing of workingmen in attendance. The mavor had been oresent a t the meeting o i protest and h id re- mained until it was about to break up, whereupon he returned to the station house of the police precinct, and, after as- suring the police captain that the meeting was orderly, went home. No sooner had he gone than the police captain, without further in for ma ti or^, led a detachment of pol~ce to the meeting place and ordered the remnant of the meeting, there being still no disorder, to disperse. As the po- lice approached a bomb was thrown from an alley. I t ehploded and killed several policemen. No one knows or suspects to this day who it waq that threw the bomb. Yet certain persons who have never been proved to have had any connection with

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Upon the questioll of h a v n ~ r heen punlrhed enough, I %.:I1 s~mply say that ~f tlir defendants had a iair tnal, and nothmg has developed since to show that they were not gunlty of the crime charged in thc indlctmcnt, tile" there ought to be no executive interference. for no punishment under our laws collld then be too severe. Government must defend itseli; hie and property muit he orotected, and law and orilrr muit b e mainlained Murdcr must he pllnished, and if the defendants are guilty o i murder, either committed by their own hands or by same one else acting oil their advice. then, if t h w hare had a fair trial, there should bk in this case no executive interference The sail of America 3s not adapted to

the growth af anarchy. While our in- stitutions are not free from Injustice, they are still the best that have yet been devlsed, and therefore mast be mamtained. T,et h:storj dec~de which was itght-

Gay. Altgeld, who refused to pardoil a crime ao heinous, merely because the con- nc t s had suffercd a few years' imprison- ment in explation, or the lead~ng citizens of Chicago, who asked a pardon for the men f o r that reason, but denounced the gcvernor when he granted one because the convictions had been procured by unlaw- ful methods

When hc had decided that no pardon could be properly granted i f the men had been fairly eanvccted and st111 appeared to have been gmlty, Gov. Altgeld tamed hjs attention to the plea that the prisoners had been convicted fraudt~lently and were suf- fertng unjustly. Wlth extreme care this admittedly able and honest jurist persol%- ally examined the record of the trial; and there he found evidence of such gross dir- tartions of the law and iraudr upon d as to leave him no alternative, as a sincere man and npright magxstrate, but to par- don the prisoneri, not as an act o i mercy to onfort~lnate criminals, but in simple justice to innocent and outraged men.

Instead of drawing the jury in the us- ual manner, from the body of the county. the trial judge had appointed a special offi- cer, selected by the prosecnting attorney, to summon such juror- as hc pleased

This officer boasted in advance of the trial and while selectinr jurors, that hc uras managing the case and that the prlr- oners irould hang as certain as death. he- cause he a n i calling ruch mcn as the ,xis- oneis yonld have to challcngc peremptvr ~ l y , thereby wasting their challenger, and that when these had been exhausted they would havc to take such jurors as the pror- ecution wanted. And ~t all camc out in that way The prisoners did exhauit their challcngcs, and consequently dld have thrust into the jury box to t ry them for their liueq a body of men almost e ~ e r y one oi whom had conlesscd in open court, upon entering the jury box, that he was prejudiced against the prisoners.

The attention of the trial judge b e i ~ ; ~ called to this proceeding and its manifest injustice, he nevertheless declined to inter- fere, but. on the contrary, was strangely persistent in queitioning confessedly hos- tile jerore. even those who said in terms they did not believe they could rendcr a lair and imuartial verdict. until. under the pressure oi' lrading questions. they were led on to answer cate~orically that not- ivithstandmg their hostile opinion already

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Examinxi~g the decision of the Supreme Court of the state it, the iarnolis Cronin case, decided after the same Supreme Court had sustained the conbiction oi the anarchists. the governor fotlnd that in t h i ~ case the comt had declared the Illi- nois rule as to the impartiality of jurors to be the very reverse ol what had been accepted as correct procedure in the mar- chist case. Said Ihe court on this point h reversing the Cronin case conviction:

The holding of this and other courts is sobstat~tiallr umform, that when it is once clearly shown that there exists ill the mind of Lhe juror, a t the time le rr called to the jury box, a fixed and

bosltive opinion as to the merit. of the case. or as t o the gtult or inno- cence of the defendant hc is called to try, his stltement that. notw~lhrtand- ing S U C ~ opinion. he can rcnder a fair and impartial verdict accordmg to the law and evidence ha. little if any tcn- dcncy to establish his impartiality. . . . To compel a person accused of

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a crime to be tried by 3 juror who has prejudged 11,s c s e is not a frlr tnal Nor should a defendant be corn~elled to rely, as hzs sectrnty ior the ikpar- tiality of Lhe jurors by whom he is to be tned, upon the rcdniining and con- trollillg illfluence upoll Lhe jltror's mind of has oath to render a lruc >erdlct according to the law and the evidence. His impartiality should appcar bcforc he is permitted to take the oath.

I-Iad the plinclple of this decislon in the Cronin case been applied to the anarchist rare, a new trial nould have bee11 grrntcli on the ground that the deiendantj were denleri the benefit of an impartial jury. But public sentiment had been so stronjhy dwaycd by a local press bent on conviitinr these men. that its banclul influence reached even into the sanctuaries oi the law. and iound no resistance until it dashed against thc unyleldinr cliffs of Governor John P. Altgeld's sturdy char- acter.

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r h e governor went c r e i l iurthet *hall that. Hc inquired inlo the merits of the anarchist case a i dciclosed by the record made In court. and from Illat inonirv he condnded that-

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the ?acts tend to shorn, that tlie bolnb was Ihroivn as an a d of persollal re- venge, and that the proiecntlon has never diicovered who Lhrew it, and Ihe evidence utterlv fails to show that the lnan who did-thiow it ever heard or read a word coming from the defend- ants; consequently, it falls to show that Ihe acted on any advice given Iby them And if he dld not act oil or hecause of any adrice corning from the defendants, either in speeches or t h r n u ~ l ~ the press, then there was no casc against tliem, evetl under the law as laid down by Judge Gary [the trial

So Gov. Altgeld pardoned the impris- oncd anarchists. But as he did so because their nr~ilt had llever been ~ roued , and their corivi~lian was secured by s packed jliry. he did more than pardon the impnroned nlen In effect he also acquitted the hanged men

That was more than the "bcttcr element" of Chlcago could bear, morc than the local press which had hounded the men oil to their death could tolerate. If I l l ~ c l d had ln~ade ottt a weak care, it would have been ear" to out him down once for all. But t h c case'he made was invincible, and the press, the "better elemeot," even the judi- ciary of Chicago, stood condemned by the governor's historic pardon-condemned far

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ludlcial murder convicred of lynching un- der the forms Af law. There was the sit- uation that aroused the vic~ous animosily o f the classes against Altgeld, and helped faster it until h ~ s death forced the admls- sion which in every fai i mind most con- firm his awfttl judgment against the plianr tools of a rccklers Dress and a crared com- muniry-the admisdon that he was an able and honest man.

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The other slander upon Altgeld's char- acter that nhich relates to the Deb5 rail- road'strike of ,894. had to do with his statesmanqhip

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I t i i gellerally ul~derstood Illat Chicago r a q in a hopeless state of disorder, rvith ~ h x h the governor. in a spxrit of partisan sympathy wilh the strikers, refused tu in- terfere: and that lf President Cleveland had not come to the rescue with Federal troops Chicago might have been razed from its site. The truth is that the gou- ernor was p e r f o n n g his duty fully and faithfully, while the President committed the trnpardonable con~titutional offense of inradlng a state w t h Federal tronpr with- ant the requelt and against the protest of > t i duly constituled authorities

Immediately prior to the railroad strike a miners' strikc in I l l~noii had demanded ~ ~ ~ i l i t a ~ y interference in different narri of the ~ t a t e and Gov. hltgeld had promptly and effe;tively supplled the needed State troops When the railroad strlke broke out dirtusbances in connection wrth it occurred at various points in the state, and upon the applicatiol~ of local authnrities for State troops Gou Alteeld promptlv forwarded them. A+ different tlmes the Federal mar- shal of the Samhern Disliict of lllcnois appllerl for Stale rroopr to aid him m exe- eutina the procesles of the Federal courts, and his requests were complied with with- oat delay. These circ~~mstances indicate that if any appl~cations had calne from Chi- cago they would havc met with a similar responsp. But no applicationi were re- ceived from that quarter. The resort to Federal troops was t~~adex~>thou t the alight- e i l regard to the governor's authoilty or the digoily of the state. I t was made. moreover. under the evident influence of a railroad ring.

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President Cleveland had apnointed a spe- cial c o ~ ~ i ~ s e l to represent thr United States at Chicago in connection with the strike Thong11 the Cleveland adm~nistration was Den?ocratic. the counsel selected was a Re- p~~bhcan. Though the admintstration pro- fessed to hare no spectal sympathy iar cor- porations. the Republican it appointed was a comol-at1017 lnwycr I h o o g I ~ ~t prnfer~rd

to be itldiffcrent to the coliflicting interests of the nsrties to the strike--railroad corporations on one side and their em- ployes on the other-the Repnblican cor- poration lawver was also at the time t h ~ retainrd ntinrnrv of on? of the railroads /,;;.;.al;ei in the ;trike. - -

What the purpoqe of this railroad attor- ney. so invested wlth Federal .authority, n ~ a v have been ia not generally known nor at HI1 important But in fact. one full day before there had bee11 any damage to prop- erty in Chicago, and only thc day after the roads had ptrbliclv declared that their busi- ness war proceerlirig withalt1 interference, he sent a dispatch to Washing.ton calling for rroopr, and on the same day Federal tmous appeared in the city and camped on tlie lnlre front.

"Un to thib time." writes Gov. Altgeld, who is at least conceded to be an honest man. "there had been no serious disturb- ance of mails, no destruction of nronertv.

So g ram an assault noon the sovereignty of the stale could not have beem ignored by any governor without gross neglect of his sworn duty. Gov. Altgeid accordingly sent a reepectfol protest to Presideut Clcreland. in which he assitn~ed that the President must ha,.? been misinformed as tu the sitwition. expla:ned that the ample militaiv force of I l l ~ n o ~ s was at the ser- vice n i the Federal government for the enforcement of the Federal laws and had oot been sent to Chicago because no re- quest for aid had cornc from there: and. after supporting his general statpment? by n citcum~taotial narrstion of lhe facts, con- cluded with these dianified wurda:

As governor of the Statc of Illinois. I PI-otest against this [the ordering of Federal troops mto Ch~cagol . and ail< the immedxale withdrawal of the Fed- eral troops from active duty in the state Should the sitrlation at any time get so S C ~ I O L I S that r e cannot control it with the State forcer. w e will prolnptlr asli for Federal assistance. but until soch tlmr I protest with all doe deference apainqt this tancalled for reflection ~lpon &r people, and again ask the immediate withdrawal of the troops.

To that respectful merragc of a Demo- cratic xovernor to a Democratic president

been eithcr sought frolu or withheld by the

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state, but stated that the troops had been sent t o Chicago upon the demand of the postal and the law officers of the United Statrs-a justificai~an which, if valid would utterlv annihilate statehood at th; whim of a district attorney or a postmas- t e r ; and it concluded with the gratuitous and obviously insulting sugestiou that in thus sendina Fedcral troons into Ch~caeu without c&sultine the - state off icas there had "been no intentiotl of thereby interfering with the plain duty of the local authorities to oreserve the oeace of the city;" a peace, %y the way, Ghich was not broken until afler the Federal troops ap- peared.

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In reply to that extraordinary tuessage from the President, Gov. Altgeld tele- graphed a statesmanlike explanation of the constitutional grounds upon which his pro- test rested, closing with the further i f -

spectful assurance that the very presence of Federal troops in Chicago was a men- ace to the peace of thc city, because it had aroused the indiznation of a large class u i

people w h o , ~ ~ ~ I ~ i l e uphold l~~g law andorder. had been taught t o believe in local relf- government, and, therefore. resented what they ,,regarded as unwarranted interier- ence

His final words were:

Inasmt~ch as Fedenl ttoop? can do nothing but what the State troops can do thcre. and believing that the State is anmlv able to take care of the sttu- ation Bid enforce the law, and believ- inp that the ordering out of the Fed- eral troops war unwarranted, I anain ask their u,ithdra\r.al.

The President returned to this rrspect- ful, thooghtfnl and statesmanlike message another curt rcply. Said he:

IVhile I a m still persuaded that I neither transcended my authority or dutv on the elnereencv that eanfrat~ts us.'it seem5 lo Ge t i a t in lhis hour of danger and public stress discussiat~ may as well give way to aclire effort on the part of all authority to restorc obedience to law and orotect hie and property

Could utter indifferel~ce to the fonda- mental law of the nation be more plainly exoressed. without deoartine from diolo- matic phrares and 'adoptrng collo&ial terms? A n d now we are reaping some of the harvest af this indifference. When a Democratic oresident. without the excuse

by Federal troops, thc seeds of the Imper- ialism whlch is now rampant and defiant under Republican authority, were sown in the oublic mind.

Q a The comparative qualities of Gov. .%It-

geld as a profound Democratic statesman may be safely left to the unbiased histo- rian who contrasis h ~ s ahlc state paper on the ouestion oi ordering Federal trooos upon' active rluty into a state, with tile autocratic rcplits of his antazonist in lhis passage at nnns 111 the field of higher politics.

V.

One of Altgcld'b acts a? governor was never openly criticised. I t is hriefly told bv the Chcaeo Record-Hpmld, a Renub- lkan mper, &om which w e quote:

In the 1% session of thc lesislatrire franihise corporation bills were

pasird very like those which made the scssion of 1897 a reproach Mr. .\It- geld could have made a million, and probably nrdl~onr. by lctlina thcm lhe- iomc l a w , bnt hey wele vctocd. The truth is that one i~~i l l ion dollars in

cash had been placed at Aitgeld's disposal, under circumstances which rvould hare ell- abled him to appropriate it with absolute safety to himself. The sole condition was that he should sir" those llills But he

of necessity--for t h e troops of the state had bcen offered by the governor to en- force the Federal laws-imperiously si- lenced the argumentative protest of a faith- ful governor whose state had been invaded

JOHN PETER ALTGELD

debased press and fawned upon by the sycophants might have gone to arsoeiate and cansp;re with othcr such characters in the Federal Senate and instead of being dcnou~lced as a r;actlonary drmagopre been lauded as a progressive statesman. But he was too able to be beguiled and too honest to betray his trust. H e held the mercenary plotters back, knowing full re11 that the rich and influenttal ones among them would punish him without mercy. And they did They platted against this able and honest governor until even this wreckage of his fortune had disappeared. Yet, through it al1,he defied them and went h l ~ way-lmpo~enshed, lonely, but faith-

Democracy like that which inspired John P. Altgeid to exclte the vindictive wrath of corporation influences by challenging the Federal administration of his own party when it cast aside party ,deals and defied national limitations by invading a state of which he was governor with an armed force, sincerity like that which in- spired him to incur obloqtty by pardoning unpopular prieoners because they had been unjustly convicted, though he might havc avoided ceniurc bygiving them theirllhcrly as an act of grace: honesty Ilke Ihal which imgelled him, rather than bow before Baal, to sacrrfice the private fortme he already had and refese another which he collld have got without even thc asking, winning at the same time applause fro111 the paw- erful hut sordid moneyed intererts which had brlbed both political palties in his leg- islature and needed only his cignatlire to make lheir conquest of eoormonsly valu- dlle p ~ t b l ~ c privileges campletcthese were the qualities w-hich made Altgcld'r patriot- Ism vital.

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Voters tell us they wan1 able men in office. but do they? Altgeld's ability is concebed, hut rhey turned him out of office. He was too ahle to be the tool of c o r w rations unconsciousb.

They say they want honest men in office; but do they? Altgeld's honesty is now admilted, but they turned him out of office. He WPE too Wone~t tn became the agent of corrupt and corrupting corpora- tions consciousIy.

Thpv s a r the" are huntins with lanterns f a r slhc;ie men. But if thiy are, why do the rays of their lanterns never search out the man of sincerity, through the shadows of predaceous misrepresentation and ma- lignant abose, until after he is dead?

B.B

Jt was a brief and painful life, that of this able, honest, sincere,. unyielding and unswerving, democratic statesman; but it closed as all such men might wish to have t l ~ e ~ r awn lives dose. His sincere democ- racy made him plead the cause of the Rli- pinas; not for their sake alone, brrt for ours as well I t made him plead the cause of the Boers: not for their libert~eq alone. but €or English liberty too. And in this fight for democracy, facing ovcrwhelmil~g odds, but with democratic truths pouriiig hat from hi3 lipi, he died while yet hardly past the middle years o i h~iman liie. But now as of old, and with John P Altgeld as with all othcr men, the insnlrine wards which hlawulay attlibatrs to Horatitrs still holds true, as they ever will:

Then out rgnke brave I<oratius, The r n i t n i n o f the gets:

"To ezrery man irpon t h b t a r t l~ Death cnncth soan or fate

A~sd hovr ran mon die bciicr Thon facing fearful odds ,

For thc ashes of B r J fallrevs And the tenspiei of h b gads.''

Address by Charles A. Towne AT TEE G R A V 4

Patient under measureless ~ n r l ul lde~ ierred calumny; self-contained amid the madneaa of faction. unselfish m an age of gain; charitable to Ignorance 2nd mallec altke: firm in his reliance on the ultimate victory of justice in the affairs of men, in spire of every defeat, he was "e'en as lai t a man as e'er my conversat~oll coped n~lthal.''

In every haliilrt of the nation today, and in many a place bcyond the sear, there arc

dong shall have her altars

"The truth that I have tried to make clear will not find easy acceptance. If that wuld be, it would have been accepted long ago. If that could be, it would never have h e n obscured. But it will find f r i e n d s those who will toil for it; suffer for it; if nced be, die for it. This is the power of Truth.

"Will it at length prevail? Ultimately, yes. But in our own times, or in times of which any memory of us remains, who shall say? For the man who, seeing the want and misery, the ignorance and brutishness caused by unjust social institutions, sets himself, in so far as he has strength, to right them, there is disappointment and bitterness. So it has been of old time. So it is even now. But the bitterest thought-and it sometimes comes to the best and bravest-is that of the hopelessness of the effort, the futility of the sacrifice. T o how few of those who sow the seed is it given to see it grow, or even with certainty to know that it will grow!

"Let us not disguise it. Over and over again has the standard of Truth and Justice been raised in this world. Over and over again has it been trampled down-oftentimes in blood. If they are weak forces that are opposed to Truth, how should Error so long prevail? If Justice has but to raise her hcad to have Injustice flee before her, how should the wail of the oppressed so long go up?

"But for thosc who see Truth and would follow her; for tho% who recognize Justice and would stand for her, success is not the only thing. Success! Why, Falsehood has often that to give; and Injustice often has that to give. Must not Truth and Justice have something to give that is their own by proper right -theirs in essenu, and not by accident?

"That they have, and that here and now, everyone who has felt their exaltation knows, But sometimes the clouds sweep down. It is sad, sad reading, the lives of the men who would have done something for their fcllows. T o Souates they gave the hemlock; Gracchus they killed with sticks and stones; and Onc, greatest and purest of all, thcy crucified."-ZIeny George, in l'Pvogress ntzd Pover!y".

Address of Clarence S. Darrow AT THE FONER%L. FRIDAY, M A K C A 14, 1902

In the g i a t flood of haman life that i i spawned upon the earth, ~t i s not often that a man is boril, The frtend and comrade that we mourn today w a i formed of that infimtely rare mixture that now and then a t long, long intervals combines Lo make a man. John P. Altgcld was ac~e of the rarest souls who ever lived and died. H i s was a lhumhle hirth, a fearless life and a dra- matic fitring death. We who knew h ~ m , we Gho loved him, w e ir-110 rallted t o hir rrlatxy hopef~ll calls, we who dared to prase hiin w h ~ l e htr heart still beat. can llot yet feel that we hall never hear his voice again.

John P Altgeld was a soldier tried and t rue; not a roldicr clad m uniform, decked with spangler and led by fife and drum in the mad intoxication of the battlefield: such soldiers have not been rare upon the ealth in any land or age. John P Altgeld war a soldier in the everlasting strl122le of the hunlan race for llbcrty and justice ou the earth. From thc firs1 awakelling of his yolmg mind until the last relentiris summons came. he was a soldier who had no rest ur furloogh, \vho f i a i ever on the field in the forefront o i tlie deadliest and most hopeless spot. whom Itone but death could n~uster oot. Liberty. the r?lentlesr goddess. had turned her fateful rmilc on Jolm P. Altgcld's face when he ivas bol a child. and to this first, fond love lie was fnithfal urltu dcdrlc.

Liberty i i the rnost jealous and eiact lng niistress that can begmle the brain and iool of man She xrill have nothinz from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended lave servei hut t o betray But when oilce the fierce heat of her quenchless, lostrous rvei har burned illto the victim's hcart. he will know nu other smilc but h e ~ r . Lihcrly will have none but t!>e pre?t.dcvoted souls. and by her d o - ttoos vis~ons, he(- lavish orumiaea, hcr bnutldless hnger, her illfillitely sitcliing rharmr \he lores her iictilnr over hard and stony ways, h j deaolate and dangero~ts paths. thraoqh miscry. obloqlly and want in a martyr's cruel death Today we pay o u ~ last sad homage tn the most dcsoted lover, the mort ahject slaie, the i onde~ t . wildest, drcamiert viclim that r r c r gave his life to liherty'c i ~ ~ ~ n l o r t a l cause

In the b i r t o ~ of tlzr collntr). ~ i h e r e h e Isred and dxed. the life and wnrki of our de\oted dead will one day shine in words

of everlastmg light, When the bitter feel- lngs of thc hoar have pasrrd away, when the mad and poisallooi fever of con~mci- ctalisnl shall hare run its coarse. when

mourn the brave-anil loving frlend are glad

JOHN PETER ALTGELD

to adopt this name. If, in the infinite econ- omy of nature, there shall he anotl~er land where crooked paths shall be made straight, wherc heaven'? justice shall review thc judgments of the earth-if there shall be a great, wise, humane judge, beiore whom the sons of men shall come, ~2.e can hope for nothiug better for ourselves than to pass into that infinitc presence as the com- rades and friends of John Pardon Altgeld, who ODened the ~ r i s o n doors m d set the captive free. '

Even admirers have ~e ldom understood the real character of this great humane matt These were sometimes wont to feel that the fierce bitterness of the world that assailed him fell on deai ears and an unresponsive soul. They did not know the man, and they do not feel the subtleties of human Ilfe. It was not a callous heart that so often led him to brave the most violent and mal~cious hate; it was not a callous heart. ~t was a devoted soul. Hc so loved justice and truth and liberty and rirhteousness that all the terrors thit the ea;th could hold were less than tlie condem~lation of his own con- science for an act that rvas cowardly or mean.

John P. Altgrld. Iikc many of the carth's great souls, was a qolitary mat,. Life to

him was serious and earnest-an endless tragedy. The carth was a great hocpital of sick, wounded anrl suffering, and he a de- voted surgeon, who had no righL to waste one moment's time, and whose duty was to cure them all. While he loved his friends. he yet coold work without them, he could live without thrm, he could liid them onc by one goad-bye, when their courage failed to follow where he led; and hc could go alone, out into the silent night, and, look- ing upward at the changeless stars, could fidrl c6n1tnuniat1 there.

My dear, dcad friend, long and well have nc k?own you, devotedly have m e followed you, ~ m ~ l l c i l y have w e trusted you. fondly have wc loved you. Beside your bier we no\>. must say farewell. The heartless call has come, and we must stagger on the best ~ 1 . c can alone In the darkest hours we will look in vain for your loved form, we w ~ l l listen hopelessly for your devoted. fearless voice. But, though we lay you in the grave and hide you from the sight of man, your brave words still m.ill speak ior Lhe poor. the oppressed, the captive and the Neak: and your devoted life inspll-e co~~ntless souls to clo and dare in the holv caasr for il;&li vou l&ed h n d died.

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Address by Joseph W. Errant AT THE GRA V E

HC siood by the river of llfc where the wreckage flows thickest and fastest He dimbed t o the mountam top ?nd measured the hcighra and depths of dally excstence. He saw the light. H i s great heart over- flowed He determtned t o gain medth, and thus be able to help the stricken m~ll ionr . Power and position should be his, and with these he would raise the multitude And a voice said: "Wealth and power and posi- tion shall pass away. There will not avail. Thou must rive thvself." He understood

cast looked up with ncw hope and courage. The cnslaved strairhtened himself to the statole of a man

The weak and the frehle of the earth leaned won him They called to htm, and his great heart endeavored to respond to all

He spnlre, and everywhere thror~ghout the earth tyran11:- trembled and the op- pressor feaicd for his stolen power

The prophet's voice is stilled The prophets do not flatter nor do thcy makc obe~sance t o power and position. They speak the tiuth as they see it, and they tell it t o the people from the hoi~relape and in the market place

John P. Alizcld bcliered in ertablishing the rciall of iavc and justice on thir earth He was not content to wait for its rcaliza- tlon in some other renioter place He fell that only as i r c strive to realize g o o d n e s ~ and jartice here. are r c justified in any hopes for the fotllre. With hint the Kmg- don1 of God was to he he r s ; and wtth his inlense pa~s i an for the rrght he felt that

man had ~t In his power to estal>lish this Kingdom, if tic only would.

And so he summoned met1 t o came up to thc full measure of their resoonsibilitier. and t o crcate through thcir bwn efforts social conditions which ~vould be worrhy of loving and intelligent human beings. With the prophets of old he stood and emphasized the r e~~on i ib i l i t i e s of the marl and the natlan.

We mourn. W e mourn because 11 ts hard to part iron, our dear friend, from thc devoted champion of thc peoplc's cause. But consider how the world has been enriched and ennobled by his life. If he could speak to us today he would sa3-: "Mourn not for me. Upon you now re5ta the responsibil~ty If you are my frtmds. if you are loyal to the ideas f o r which we battled, if you wish to remember me. then continllr hrpvplv and carnertlv in the raose for which wes t aod . The Gtroggle iriuit go on. By you the hanner must now be carried forward."

Today we huly our dead. To the great elemental force* from which the body came we return that which remains Here. in the midst of nature's children. sh-I1 he rest.

"Opw ths nrms, 0 earth, rejoice the dead FV*t/lth aentle pressure otid with l o v h e wel-

come. Embrace him tcsdcr lg , e'en nr n mother Foidi her soit aertnients rovi~d tiie child

$he loves"

and and live

The Present Crisis BY TAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

IVheiz a deed i s doiie for Fver.doin, t k r o ~ ~ g h file broad eart1i:s. aclziwg- breast

Rzi i~s a thrill o j joy propizetic, tr.eiiib1iiig orr jro!~i grist in z 'es t . .4nd the slar'e, ic~here ' f r lze cozcers, feels tlze sot11 rvithiiz hiirl cliinb T o the a?r,f%~i 7,erge of i!iaiihuod, us the erierfy sz~bliirze O f a celitury lbi~rsts f?ill-blossonzeil o n the thor~zy stezii of T L I + ~ ~ .

Once to ez,erjr man and nntlon cnmes fhi3 g~zo~iier~t to dct.iile, 112 the strife of Trlrflz z l t h Falseftood, lor the g-ood or. er'il side; Sori~e great ca14se, God's xezw Messiah, ofleriitg eaclz the blooin or

blight, Pirrts the oats t,pofl the left l?ai~d, a i ~ d tlze sheep ~ p o i z the right, .41d the choke xoe.7 by for ener ' tw i x t that darkness ar%d that

light.

Carclcss sce??is the grcot Ancnger; history's pagcs but record One dcatlz-grapple it% the darkrress 'trcli,zlt old systerr~s uiid tlie

W o r d ; Triith foreyer on the srotiold, W r o n g for c;,m on the throile- Y e t thnt scai7old szva$ls tlze Future , a d , brhind the diliz 1ri2-

klzocc,ll, Standetk God 7vithi1z the shadozq keeping ~~ ,n t c I z above H i s o.ir89r.

Thc?z to side emtk Tru th is noble ?wketz ice s1~a1.e Jzcr ic~vetc f~ed 'rtlst,

Ere hev cirrise b r i q fo~iid mid profit, a i d ' t i s pvospcrons t o be just;

Thert i t i s thc hran,e irza~c chooses, zolzile the co:oard sfnizds aside, Dui~btiii.g ilz Izis abject spirit, till his Lord is crricificd, .And the nz~rltitirde ?izakc ~,ii.tric of the fnitl! they hail denied.

Co~ i f r t tile o'er earth's choser~ heroes-they ;r8cre so~rls tlzat stood alone,

While the men tifey a~oiriacd fer 1zi.lrlcd the conl~i>!ieiio?ts stofir, Stood serene, nnil d o ? m the fu t l~re saw tl7e f o lde?~ b e a ~ ? ~ i~fclirze T o the side of perfect ji~stice, mastered by their faith di?!i?ze. By oize nzan's plain trz~t fc to manizood ond to God's s l~pucnfe de-

szgn.

B y the liglzt of bilvnitlg Iz~retics Christ's blcedii~,q feel I track, Toiling zip izeiv Calvaries c.i'er witlz the cross that t~ir?rs ?lot buck, AIL^ these ~ ~ Z O I L ~ I ~ S of ar i fz~ish N I L ~ ~ C I . horv P I I C J Z gctieratiorr

lcarned O l ~ e itera roord o f that grand Credo ir'hiclz iri prophcl-hcnr-ts halh

liiwited Since the first iliniz stood G o d - c o i ~ ~ i i e ~ c d w i th l~1S face to h r ~ i i crz

11pt11r7zea'.

For Hiininliity sri,ceps o?ar:ord; x~liere today the ~ r~ar t j ' r stniids. O!z the I I I O ~ I - O I L , c r o ~ ! c h e ~ - I ~ i d ~ ~ s rc'ith the siliier in hzs harids: Far i?z frorzt tlie cross stands reotiy nrzd the cri~cl?iiizg fagots biirvt, lYki le the hoolinf iiiob of yestcrdiig i ~ i silent air8r rctlir~z T o fleozi w p the scatlared aslics ilitii his to^^?.".^ e o l d ~ . ~ ~ 1 1 1 1 1 .

Address of William J . Bryan AT THE C x I V l i

The occasion whxh h r i n g ~ os hele calls mellt. The seemingly endless pracesaiorl fartli both sorrow and gratitodr-sorriln of f l le~lds who passed beside his bier and that such a life has been taken from us looked upon the face they had learned t o and gratitude that such a man hai lived love showed how many were touched by among us. In this material age mhcn so contact with his life, and each one whom many arc srekmg to ahsorb as much of good he influenced a t l l bear that mflrtet~ce on- as they can, i t is inspring to h d one who ward so that the circle of his usefulness war amhiriaus t o scatler as much of good ar will ever widen. He has proved how great possible among his felloiv-men. Hc vcri- are the posnbilltiea under our inslltutions. hed in hls Ilfe the t rnth of the saymg that Born in anothcr land he has demonstratcd il is more blessed to give than t o receive, what one can do unaidcd lf he has high IIe will hc rcmernherrd not for u.ha1 alhers ldevls and a lofty purpose HIS was not did for hjm, hut for >+.hat he d ~ d fo r others the prowess o i Lhe body-no one consid- Not his accumulut~ons, hut hi- distrihu- ered 1x1s pl~ys~cal strensth. H i s was the tlons made him greal What little of p r o p prowe% of t h ~ mind and hean. IIe was erty lie left w ~ l l descend to those mhu clear in reasoning and sound in log-LC; be- were related ta him, hut what he lef t 01 liming that t ruth is self-evidetlt and irre- greatest value will not go to ~ I ~ O S C o f his sistible he tried to prescnt the nakrd troth blood or cren t o those >vl~o were intimately and it was through this that he ~nfluenced associated irlrh him. hut rather to all the the minds of ulhera. But 11,s lrrart w a s world, and the world is bpttei for the life his master; ~t reepollded to ? w r y appral uf one whose love was boundless and f a r help and his sympathy went out t o all whose heart vraq large enough to tnki i s who suffered or sorrowed. HP trlzd to every human being. I t was fitting that h~ make the world better and his efforts >vill should die as he had l ived-pl~adin~ t l ~ btar fruit The waters that rim mnrmor- calrsc of the opprensrl. lng down thc mant~tain sjdt and then heln

I t is written that the things vihlcb to form the river's mxjeitic current at last are seen are temporal, hut that the make their cnntrihi~tion l a the sea that things which are unseen are eternal ivashcs every coast and add rheil vuicc to Th i i is our consolation today. This acca- the ocean's mighty roar. So the thoughts aior~-sad as it 1s-would bc infinitely and xvords of this dead patriot have cnn- more sad if we were cansigning to the tributed and still cantribnte t o that publlc eartll all that therc war of oor departed opiniotl which motlids human achon and friend Bttt the better part of him w e shapes the destiny of the race knew as Altgeld survivcs the grave As \fie pas our trlbate of recvect at his the bird eqcaping from its cage Ljliers a grave, bnt w e are sustamed and encouraged Inrgcr ~ o r l d , so the influerlcc o[ the de- by the thought that tliat which artractcd e a s e d is broadened rather than nnrrowpd ns t o Mr. Altgeld still l l i c i and st111 in- by his spirit's flight from itr earthly tene- cite? to worthy decds.

T h e Clock in the Chamber of the Omnipotent

But. says some une, is thcre any use in our m a k ~ n p an effort? Are i ~ o t all the bankclr of thls muntry, all of the trusts and great ~ o r ~ o r z t i ~ n i of lhis cnunLry, all of the poivrrful forccr of 1111s cnilntry, is not tlie faihlon of this country. are not the drawrng rooms and the clubs of this country now ~oillrolled by collcentrnted and corrupt wealth? Are t11r.y not growlog stronger every year, and do they not vlllfy and nttempl to crush everybody t h i t does not ~ u b m l t ? Can anytlilng be sccompl~ihed ~n the way of curhmg this grcar force and protecttng the Amrncnn people?

My friends, let mr cite you a parallel: George W~lliarn C ~ ~ i t l r and ulhrr wliterb o i hls day have descrlhed thc slave power hack ill the 30's. They tell un that slavery sat 111 tbe White House and made laws in the capital, tint courts of lititice wcre its miilisterq: that imatois and ler i4ator i iverc ~ t s lackeys. that ~t contlnlled thc pro- fessor In his lecture room, tlie edltor in his sanctnm, the preachci in his pulpit. that it rwaggcred in the draaingroorn that it ruled a t the clubs; thr t tt dominated with troll hand all the affairs of society: that every year enlarged itr power, every more increased its don~inion; that thc r n e ~ and tlie women who dared to e ~ e n questton the divinity uf that institotiun wrlr ostra- cized, were persecuted, were nllfied-aye. were hanged

Bur the great clock in the Chamber of the Omnipotent ~ l e * ~ r ?lands st111 It tirkcd away the ycarr as ~t had once ticked away t h r CCII~LISIF) Finally it alruck ihr hottr and the ivorld Iwaid the lread or a nllllloll al-mzd men. and slavery \anisbed froin America frirever Kate the p.irallel. Today the sjndlcate rules a t the Wliite TIoosc and makca law, at the capltal; rouitb of jrlrtice are its rn~nistrrs: swators and l ~ g i i l a t o r ~ are lackvvs. I t controls t h e ~ ~ r i a c h e r I I I

his pulpit, the proieawr m I l i i lecture roum. the editor in hia sanctrlm. 11 swag-

gers lo the draniig-room, .t rolec at the cluhr, it domlnnter with a rod o i Iron th? affalts of ioelety Hrel-y year ollarge, its pon.ri: and thc mcn and women ivlio prn- test agamct the crimes that are brmg c o w

mtttcd by orpanized greed it? thii country- who talk of grotectil~a the American peoplr-are ostracized, are vilified, a r r hounded and impriionrd. I t iecmi mad- ness to even quest~on thc d l r i n~ ty nf thz American Syndicate But my friends, that great clock is st111 ticking-still t~clrlng. Soon ~t nlll again strike the llortr and the world will sep not ~.mo,mo lhut ~ o . m . m free men rise up. xnned not with tnopkets. but with frcemen'r lullots, and the s aay of tile ryndicate \will rall>rh fionr hluer~ca forever.