Uoung &En, Itfe Fe Befope Pou. Cwo Ootcee Are

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, !$ u' i ~ORNDECEMBER 30,184? DIED MARCH 12, 1902

B t I: 31 ' "Uoung &en, Itfe fe befope pou. Cwo ootcee are caIlfng pou - o.ne comtne from tbe ewampe of eelflebnees anb force, wbere euccees meane beatb; anb tbg otber from tbe btIItope of Juettce anb progreee, wbere men fatlure brings gIorp. Uwo Itgbte are seen tn pour borfjon -one tbe fast fjablng mareb Itgbt of power, anb tbe otber tbe etowtp rietng eUn of bwman brotberboob. Cwo wape tie open for '?ow-one Leabing to an ever towet anb tower pIain, where are beatb tbe Criee of

1 ~eeeepatr an8 tbe cursee of poor, wbere manboob obrlvele an0 ? 1, , - poeeeeetsit rote Down tbe poieeeeor; anb tbe otber IeaOtng ojsl to tbe bfgbIanbe of tbe morntng, wbere arEqearb tbe gIab eboute of bumapitp anb wbere boneet effort 10 rewarbeb witb tmmortaIitp."

4 JOHN PETER ALTGELD

Thcre ;iras rr inGleuii! Liberiy's clear. llght Sllo~rerzc.i,er- oil a brar'cr sreiic ilzati thut. Here numasa prisoir, !here n :Ilur~?rho sat High iri thc hdls of Siaic! Heyo~zdike might Of ig7~0~atrcerliid mobs :crl~ose l%ii,cli~tgPress Yells at tl~~i~.bidding like fire slni,?l.'s hoi~~tds, Read~rwith coarse copvice tu cirrsr7 or blcss. To +iiukc or 1~7rrrrakerirlers! Lo. therc sar~rids 4 gratirtg of tlrc doors, orid tlircc poor rricri. Helfless rirzd haled, I~nzirzgrrnirght to zzrte,

Cotirc jroffi their larzy-smicd toliibs, look 14p irrid lit~e, ' And thai~lzthis 3Inrz tlzat tile! are free a,fnir~! Atid he-to all tlze ?aorld this trrrirt dares say,

"Crrrse as 3'011 will 1 I hrr7.e bccir jrrst this dny" -1 'oliairiiic DcClcyre.

JOHN PETER ALTGELD Memorial

AT THE AUDITORIUM

SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1902

GEORGE A. SCHILLING, CHAIRMAN

Programme

ORClNlST. . . 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 MR. OLOP VALLEY XTSSENCBEBC, Accompan~st

Addrw, . . . . JOHNJ. LENTZ

C~~oncs-"The Bard in Silence Slccps," .S,/chc~ Gerrnan Singing Societies of Chicago Pnon. Lunx~~cnnucil, . conductor Committee of Arrangements Altgeld Memorial Meeting

JOSEPH W. ERRANT, Chairman NORER GOTTLIEB, Treasurer JOSEPH A. O'DONNELL, Secretary

<+~orpeA. 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. Xlmball

PALLBEARERS CHOSE,\'

fiCIIYK PILL BEARERS. SaTURDI\I MORNING, MARCH IS Iudg~Wllllairn Preniiw Sanlhel A. Cdhoun William Thompson wltiianr P. ulasr LOW~LF. post snmue~~lschukr Joseph Mahoney Edward T. xoonan

~tbectn. T, cren (ieorpe A. Schliling Joseph Laoghlio 6'. U. P. Snoliing M. F. Bingham Leon Bornrtein orcar E. 1,einen livber GotLIieb I. M, Kuebler Philiy Angeten Joseph Flnn Charles *.Lark Thomas 6. hlcEllipotl Iobcph A. O'Dunnell Jacob C. Lebvrrg Chis. J. Traloor

HDNDRIRY PILLBEAREIS SUNDhY Judrc Henri M. Sheprrd H W. Clendennis Chrrl~rMlicbeli dudre Marcur Klrarngh Thomas Ynntes John P. nop*ios Judpr Edw.rd F. """li" Adolph Krlus Walter S. Ho.le Jud~ehlurraj B Tuley S. S. Gregory lamer C. Russell Jitdge Thomas Wiuder John T lentl John J. Peeler Judse Jallas Hutchiolon R. L. Allen Roger C. Sullivan Ex-Judge Tm,X. Brrnmm 1. W. Orr 1 1. Tuwnsend iix ,nap" Thomas *.*,or." "ennil J Hopan John E. Traegsr Judpe Tarrlu Charles A Towoe JOh. powers Milton Ollrrr Altrsd L. Orenduri Paul steostnnn Colonel Ivho I. Mrrtin R. Ml~haelir R. M. Ridsell

COMMITTEE IN CHARGE OC FUNERI EL>WARD P DZ-NNE. Cbmrmaa Nobel Gottlleh CYoPLantioi Goldller George A. Scbllllilz Ed-rrd T. Nooara Joseph W.Erraur 1arfi.l Reeler William Tholllpaou Clarence S. Darrow M J. Foyer Joseph S. Mrrno Dr. Leopold N~unlann JOHN PETE:R ALTGELD

B1 LOUIS P. POST IZ "THE : PUBLIC" OF MARC= 22, 1902

the satne comorehens~velove, that in h~s breast there arise a desire, lllgher yet than h bleak lalrdscape stretcl>lt?g a\>;ly from the des~reto "know haw tile elobe was hlr open grave. fierce March winds bcur- forgcc 1118 dorm the bitter cold oi a no1rh.m trace to theti sources the rpnncs nf life3' blizzard as they howled through the leaf- that thcre arose ~n him that less trees. ton~blatlg waves heartng un the near-br shorc of the angry lake, and a the pas~sot~of paisionb, the Ilope of iowerdg bnt not altogether ~tmlkia ~ky hope?-the desire that he. eve11 he, overhangin~the sccnc-this \>as the em- might somehow aid m maklng life bet- blernatlc trlbute ruhich external Nature ter and brighter, m dcstroylng rant paid to the memory of Jolrn P. Allgeld, and sin, sorrow and shame. That iil wh~lehis friends returned h~smortal part olred~ence to this deslrc he mastered to the absorbing elemenls of the earth and curbed the animal: that he turned from which it came. his hack upon the feast and renounced It sas a grand and fitting tr~bute the place of power; that he sacrificed No other could so well have syinbolized wealth and lcft it to mrn of narrower thc mar>. The bleaktleii was the blealr- affrctlo~~sto gratify pleaiant tastes ness of March and not of Derember, of and bask themselrei in the warm soil- life renewit>g and not of life at an end: shme of the brxrf day That lle worked and the sigt~sand sound5 of stlrsr and storm. in the midst of which the dead for those he n~rerrau aod never conld see. for a fame, or maybe but body lay-cnmposcd, iilent. indifferent, and for as cold as the furionc blast ithelf-pictured n sc&~t justice, that could only forti, w:th pr;lphic &del>tythe story of a comc long after the clodr had rattled devoted life llvfd out to the mortal en3 upon his coffin lid That he toiled in unfl~nchmgloyaliy to prlncxple and rlth nr the adiance, rvhere it >vas cold and cold indifference to thc mallgnant clam- there was little checr from men, and oring~and their itlane echoes which had the stones were sharp and the bram- bles th~ck That amid the scoffs of !he assa~led~t on ~~eryhand Nor was the picture wholly hal-sh present and rhr Fneers thal stah llhe Perferr artiir that she in. h-atlire was knives, he lluilt for the futlrre: and faithful to the whole truth. She had cast that he rot a trail whir11 prog~easire a thin veil over the ib, and through the l~urnmitvsnvv licreafler broaden into a fleecy merher of that token of grief, the high road aun bright thrust its softened rays to sym- rO B holize at once the hope which lie, "bc- nnd otix tnortal ken" and the tender rove that hrd vitaliidd thts brave man's This career, so iighteoual>- inspired and nobly +trenooils career. so suddenly and aple~~dldlyclosed to nor- B a tal comprehension, cat~not have ended. Lilce the everlasting farces which we ob- Altgtld'q transcendent love was known serve in material natare. it cannot but go to all and felt by all who understood his on forever in the directiou in which it has ideals What if it were true. as one of set out. To qnestion this is to da~thtpar- his polit!cal cantemporanes wriles of him, pare in the universe; and to douht uni- that "he had brlt few friends"? What mat- versal purpose is to ignore the testimony ters that. if ~t be also Lrue, as the snme offered even by physical law. writer says, not adrnlrtngly but critically, Though we excluded wholly from con- that "he loved the nhale human race"? sideration ihe significance of the moral Can anyman haxe gleater love than that? ilnse in man. to doubt univerlal purpose Is not he of whom tlmi can be said one mould be to disregard the significance of of those raiiidnt FOUIS w110se n1emory is all that is rational in the theory of evo- most sacreilly c11eri;hed hy manlrlnd? Intlnn ~tieli. Ii moral character endcd Surely we ma) ray of Alr~eld,then, in aith physical disintegration. if it were a only slight paraphra.e of the eloquent Ian- mere fleet~nnexpresrion of chemical ac- gcage of Henry George. whoie career is tion and reaction. if the soul were snalo- noiv recognized ti, have lleen auided 17)- POIIS to the frutt initearl of the sccd of JOHN PETER ALTGELD the tree, li the physical budy gen- surprise to thousands who had learned erated and maintained life instcad of hav- through the same newspapers which now Ing derived its orig~nalimpulse irom llfe praise him for these distinguishing rluali- and being continually dcpcndent upon the ties. that he was an illiterate and brainless source of that impulse. if man were a ma- demagogue. But the motive for the slat%- terial body with an ephemeral soul instead ders of Altgeld is not far to seek. While of an immortal soul wsth an ephemeral he lived it was necessary to discredit him body, if the moral sense were only a clys- ~n order to keep open the channels far rc- talization of matter-if tlns concc~tion oi spectable and legal plunder; and a hlnt hvmanity were true, then, indeed, might was taken from the method of house- the ideals of nublc men be barren and all breakers who poison the watch dog in the their service under righteous standards but yard before venturing to climb into the a hopeless struggle The univcrse would dwelling at the window. But now that he he utterly without beneficence and mani- is dead, and supposedly no longer dan- festly without purpose-a self-manufac- gerous to thc beneficiaries oi vested tured, self-perpetuating, self-operating, in- wrongs, the truth about him is allowed to consequent and gigantic Frankenstein. come out. The imagination abhors and the reflect- The pity of it all is, not that Altgeld ing intellect recoils from a monstrosity so was slandered by those whose villainies he hidcorrs and irrat~onal foi~ght. That was part of the fight. The pity of it is that the slanders of those he a # fousht were believed and repeated by so But the question of Altgeld's personal many far whom he fought. Of him it was and conscious immortality need cause no sadly true as of all the heroes of whom dissensio~l between those who believe in Lo~

the growth af anarchy. While our institutions 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- ncts had suffercd a few years' imprison- ment in explation, or the lead~ngcitizens of Chicago, who asked a pardon for the men for 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 if 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~lentlyand 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 pardon the prisoneri, not as an act oi mercy to onfort~lnatecriminals, 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 officer, 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. hecause he ani calling ruch mcn as the ,xis- oneis yonld have to challcngc peremptvr ~ly,thereby wasting their challenger, and that when these had been exhausted they would havc to take such jurors as the pror- Upon the questioll of havn~rheen ecution wanted. And ~t all camc out in punlrhed enough, I %.:I1 s~mplysay that that way The prisoners did exhauit their ~f tlir defendants had a iair tnal, and challcngcs, and consequently dld have nothmg has developed since to show thrust into the jury box to try them for that they were not gunlty of the crime their liueq a body of men almost e~ery charged in thc indlctmcnt, tile" there one oi whom had conlesscd in open court, ought to be no executive interference. upon entering the jury box, that he was for no punishment under our laws prejudiced against the prisoners. collld then be too severe. Government The attention of the trial judge bei~;~ must defend itseli; hie and property called to this proceeding and its manifest muit he orotected, and law and orilrr injustice, he nevertheless declined to inter- muit be mainlained Murdcr must fere, but. on the contrary, was strangely he pllnished, and if the defendants are persistent in queitioning confessedly hos- guilty oi murder, either committed by tile jerore. even those who said in terms their own hands or by same one else they did not believe they could rendcr a acting oil their advice. then, if thw lair and imuartial verdict. until. under the hare had a fair trial, there should bk pressure oi' lrading questions. they were in this case no executive interference led on to answer cate~orically that not- The sail of America 3s not adapted to ivithstandmg their hostile opinion already JOHN PETERI ALTGELD

a crime to be tried by 3 juror who has prejudged 11,s cse 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 character. 8 8 rhe governor went creil iurthet *hall that. Hc inquired inlo the merits of the anarchist case ai dciclosed by the record made In court. and from Illat inonirv. . he condnded that- the ?acts tend to shorn, that tlie bolnb was Ihroivn as an ad 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 defendants; consequently, it falls to show that Ihe acted on any advice given Iby Examinxi~gthe decision of the Supreme them And if he dld not act oil or Court of the state it, the iarnolis Cronin hecause of any adrice corning from the case, decided after the same Supreme defendants, either in speeches or Court had sustained the conbiction oi the thrnu~l~the press, then there was no anarchists. the governor fotlnd that in casc against tliem, evetl under the law thi~case the comt had declared the Illi- as laid down by Judge Gary [the trial 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 So Gov. Altgeld pardoned the impris- reversing the Cronin case conviction: oncd anarchists. But as he did so because their nr~ilthad llever been ~roued,and their The holding of this and other courts corivi~lianwas secured by s packed jliry. is sobstat~tiallrumform, that when it he did more than pardon the impnroned is once clearly shown that there exists nlen In effect he also acquitted the hanged ill the mind of Lhe juror, at the time men le rr called to the jury box, a fixed and That was more than the "bcttcr element" bosltive opinion as to the merit. of of Chlcago could bear, morc than the local the case. or as to the gtult or inno- press which had hounded the men oil to cence of the defendant hc is called to their death could tolerate. If Ill~cldhad try, his stltement that. notw~lhrtand- ln~adeottt a weak care, it would have been ing SUC~opinion. he can rcnder a fair ear" to out him down once for all. But and impartial verdict accordmg to the thc case'he made was invincible, and the law and evidence ha. little if any tcn- press, the "better elemeot," even the judi- dcncy to establish his impartiality. ciary of Chicago, stood condemned by the . . . To compel a person accused of governor's historic pardon-condemned far JOHN PETER ALTGELD ludlcial murder convicred of lynching un- to be itldiffcrent to the coliflicting interests der the forms Af law. There was the sit- of the nsrties to the strike--railroad uation that aroused the vic~ousanimosily corporations on one side and their em- of the classes against Altgeld, and helped ployes on the other-the Repnblican cor- faster it until h~sdeath forced the admls- poration lawver was also at the time th~ sion which in every faii mind most con- retainrd ntinrnrv of on? of the railroads firm his awfttl judgment against the plianr /,;;.;.al;ei in the ;trike. - - tools of a rccklers Dress and a crared com- What the purpoqe of this railroad attor- muniry-the admisdon that he was an able ney. so invested wlth Federal .authority, and honest man. n~avhave been ia not generally known nor at HI1 important But in fact. one full day IV. before there had bee11 any damage to property in Chicago, and only thc day after the The other slander upon Altgeld's char- roads had ptrbliclv declared that their busi- acter that nhich relates to the Deb5 rail- ness war proceerlirig withalt1 interference, road'strike of ,894. had to do with his he sent a dispatch to Washing.ton calling statesmanqhip for rroopr, and on the same day Federal D B tmous appeared in the city and camped on It ii gellerally ul~derstood Illat Chicago tlie lnlre front. raq in a hopeless state of disorder, rvith "Un to thib time." writes Gov. Altgeld, ~hxhthe governor. in a spxrit of partisan who is at least conceded to be an honest sympathy wilh the strikers, refused tu in- man. "there had been no serious disturb- terfere: and that lf President Cleveland ance of mails, no destruction of nronertv. 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 perfonng his duty fully and faithfully, while the President committed the trnpardonable con~titutionaloffense of inradlng a state wth Federal tronpr with- So gram an assault noon the sovereignty ant the requelt and against the protest of of the stale could not have beem ignored >ti duly constituled authorities by any governor without gross neglect of Immediately prior to the railroad strike his sworn duty. Gov. Altgeid accordingly a miners' strikc in Ill~noiihad demanded sent a reepectfol protest to Presideut ~~~ilita~yinterference in different narri of Clcreland. in which he assitn~edthat the the ~tateand Gov. hltgeld had promptly President must ha,.? been misinformed as and effe;tively supplled the needed State tu the sitwition. expla:ned that the ample troops When the railroad strlke broke out militaiv force of Ill~no~swas at the ser- dirtusbances in connection wrth it occurred vice ni the Federal government for the at various points in the state, and upon the enforcement of the Federal laws and had applicatiol~ of local authnrities for State oot been sent to Chicago because no re- troops Gou Alteeld promptlv forwarded quest for aid had cornc from there: and. them. A+ different tlmes the Federal mar- after supporting his general statpment? by shal of the Samhern Disliict of lllcnois n citcum~taotialnarrstion of lhe facts, con- appllerl for Stale rroopr to aid him m exe- cluded with these dianified wurda: eutina the procesles of the Federal courts, and his requests were complied with with- As governor of the Statc of Illinois. oat delay. These circ~~mstancesindicate I PI-otest against this [the ordering of that if any appl~cationshad calne from Chi- Federal troops mto Ch~cagol.and ail< cago they would havc met with a similar the immedxale withdrawal of the Fed- responsp. But no applicationi were re- eral troops from active duty in the ceived from that quarter. The resort to state Should the sitrlation at any time Federal troops wast~~adex~>thoutthe alight- get so SC~IOLISthat re cannot control eil regard to the governor's authoilty or it with the State forcer. we will the digoily of the state. It was made. prolnptlr asli for Federal assistance. moreover. under the evident influence of a but until soch tlmr I protest with all railroad ring. doe deference apainqt this tancalled for e B reflection ~lpon&r people, and again ask the immediate withdrawal of the President Cleveland had apnointed a spe- troops. cial co~~i~selto represent thr United States at Chicago in connection with the strike To that respectful merragc of a Demo- Thong11 the Cleveland adm~nistration was cratic xovernor to a Democratic president Den?ocratic. the counsel selected was a Re- p~~bhcan.Though the admintstration pro- fessed to hare no spectal sympathy iar corporations. the Republican it appointed was a comol-at1017lnwycr IhoogI~~t prnfer~rd been eithcr sought frolu or withheld by the JOHN PETER ALTGELD

state, but stated that the troops had been by Federal troops, thc seeds of the Imper- sent to Chicago upon the demand of the ialism whlch is now rampant and defiant postal and the law officers of the United under Republican authority, were sown in Statrs-a justificai~an which, if valid the oublic mind. would utterlv annihilate statehood at th; Q a whim of a district attorney or a postmas- ter; and it concluded with the gratuitous The comparative qualities of Gov. .%It- and obviously insulting sugestiou that in geld as a profound Democratic statesman thus sendina Fedcral troons into Ch~caeu may be safely left to the unbiased histo- without c&sultine the - state officas rian who contrasis h~sahlc state paper on there had "been no intentiotl of thereby the ouestion oi ordering Federal trooos interfering with the plain duty of the local upon' active rluty into a state, with tile authorities to oreserve the oeace of the autocratic rcplits of his antazonist in lhis city;" a peace, %y the way, Ghich was not passage at nnns 111 the field of higher broken until afler the Federal troops ap- politics. peared. V. Q B One of Altgcld'b acts a? governor was In reply to that extraordinary tuessage never openly criticised. It is hriefly told from the President, Gov. Altgeld tele- bv the Chcaeo Record-Hpmld, a Renub- graphed a statesmanlike explanation of the lkan mper, &om which we quote: constitutional grounds upon which his pro- In the 1% session of thc lesislatrire test rested, closing with the further if- franihise corporation bills were spectful assurance that the very presence pasird very like those which made the of Federal troops in Chicago was a men- scssion of 1897 a reproach Mr. .\It- ace to the peace of thc city, because it had geld could have made a million, and aroused the indiznation of a large class ui probably nrdl~onr.by lctlina thcm lhe- people who,~~~I~ileupholdl~~g law andorder. iomc law, bnt hey wele vctocd. had been taught to believe in local relf- government, and, therefore. resented what The truth is that one i~~illiondollars in they ,,regarded as unwarranted interier- cash had been placed at Aitgeld's disposal, ence under circumstances which rvould hare ell- His final words were: abled him to appropriate it with absolute safety to himself. The sole condition was Inasmt~chas Fedenl ttoop? can do that he should sir" those llills But he 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 am still persuaded that I neither transcended my authority or dutv on the elnereencv that eanfrat~ts us.'it seem5 lo Ge tiat 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? And now we are reaping some of the harvest af this indifference. When a Democratic oresident. without the excuse of necessity--for the troops of the state had bcen offered by the governor to enforce the Federal laws-imperiously si- lenced the argumentative protest of a faithful governor whose state had been invaded JOHN PETER ALTGELD debased press and fawned upon by the Voters tell us they wan1 able men in sycophants might have gone to arsoeiate office. but do they? Altgeld's ability is and cansp;re with othcr such characters concebed, hut rhey turned him out of office. in the Federal Senate and instead of being He was too ahle to be the tool of corw dcnou~lced as a r;actlonary drmagopre rations unconsciousb. been lauded as a progressive statesman. They say they want honest men in office; But he was too able to be beguiled and too but do they? Altgeld's honesty is now honest to betray his trust. He held the admilted, but they turned him out of mercenary plotters back, knowing full re11 office. He WPE too Wone~t tn became the that the rich and influenttal ones among agent of corrupt and corrupting corpora- them would punish him without mercy. tions consciousIy. And they did They platted against this Thpv sar the" are huntins with lanterns able and honest governor until even this far slhc;ie men. But if thiy are, why do wreckage of his fortune had disappeared. the rays of their lanterns never search out Yet, through it al1,he defied them and went the man of sincerity, through the shadows hl~way-lmpo~enshed, lonely, but faith- of predaceous misrepresentation and ma- lignant abose, until after he is dead? B.B Democracy like that which inspired John Jt was a brief and painful life, that of P. Altgeid to exclte the vindictive wrath this able, honest, sincere,. unyielding and of corporation influences by challenging unswerving, democratic statesman; but it the Federal administration of his own closed as all such men might wish to have party when it cast aside party ,deals and tl~e~rawn lives dose. His sincere democ- defied national limitations by invading a racy made him plead the cause of the Rli- state of which he was governor with an pinas; not for their sake alone, brrt for armed force, sincerity like that which in- ours as well It made him plead the cause spired him to incur obloqtty by pardoning of the Boers: not for their libert~eqalone. unpopular prieoners because they had been but €or English liberty too. And in this unjustly convicted, though he might havc fight for democracy, facing ovcrwhelmil~g avoided ceniurc bygiving them theirllhcrly odds, but with democratic truths pouriiig as an act of grace: honesty Ilke Ihal which hat from hi3 lipi, he died while yet hardly imgelled him, rather than bow before Baal, past the middle years oi h~imanliie. But to sacrrfice the private fortme he already now as of old, and with John P Altgeld had and refese another which he collld as with all othcr men, the insnlrine wards have got without even thc asking, winning which hlawulay attlibatrs to Horatitrs at the same time applause fro111 the paw- still holds true, as they ever will: erful hut sordid moneyed intererts which Then out rgnke brave I

Address by Charles A. Towne

AT TEE GRAV4

Patient under measureless ~nrl ullde~ 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 lait a man as e'er my conversat~oll coped n~lthal.'' In every haliilrt of the nation today, and dong shall have her altars in many a place bcyond the sear, there arc "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 hen obscured. But it will find friends 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. To 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. To 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, MAKCA 14, 1902

In the giat flood of haman life that ii of everlastmg light, When the bitter feel- spawned upon the earth, ~t is not often that lngs of thc hoar have pasrrd away, when a man is boril, The frtend and comrade the mad and poisallooi fever of con~mci- that we mourn today wai formed of that ctalisnl shall hare run its coarse. when infimtely rare mixture that now and then at long, long intervals combines Lo make a man. John P. Altgcld was ac~eof the rarest souls who ever lived and died. His was a lhumhle hirth, a fearless life and a dra- matic fitring death. We who knew h~m, we Gho loved him, we ir-110 rallted to hir rrlatxy hopef~llcalls, we who dared to prase hiin wh~lehtr heart still beat. can llot yet feel that we hall never hear his voice again. John P Altgeld was a soldier tried and true; 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 fiai ever on the field in the forefront oi 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 ii the rnost jealous and eiactlng 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 to 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 he~r. Lihcrly will have none but t!>e pre?t.dcvoted souls. and by her do- ttoos vis~ons, he(- lavish orumiaea, hcr bnutldless hnger, her illfillitely sitcliing rharmr \he lores her iictilnr over hard and stony ways, hj deaolate and dangero~ts paths. thraoqh miscry. obloqlly and want in a martyr's cruel death Today we pay ou~last sad homage tn the most dcsoted lover, the mort ahject slaie, the ionde~t. wildest, drcamiert viclim that rrcr gave his life to liherty'c i~~~nlortalcause In the birto~of tlzr collntr). ~iherehe Isred and dxed. the life and wnrki of our de\oted dead will one day shine in words mourn the brave-anil loving frlend are glad JOHN PETER ALTGELD

to adopt this name. If, in the infinite econ- him was serious and earnest-an endless omy of nature, there shall he anotl~erland tragedy. The carth was a great hocpital of where crooked paths shall be made straight, sick, wounded anrl suffering, and he a de- wherc heaven'? justice shall review thc voted surgeon, who had no righL to waste judgments of the earth-if there shall be a one moment's time, and whose duty was to great, wise, humane judge, beiore whom cure them all. While he loved his friends. the sons of men shall come, ~2.e can hope he yet coold work without them, he could for nothiug better for ourselves than to live without thrm, he could liid them onc pass into that infinitc presence as the com- by one goad-bye, when their courage failed rades and friends of John Pardon Altgeld, to follow where he led; and hc could go who ODened the ~risondoors md set the alone, out into the silent night, and, look- captive free. ' ing upward at the changeless stars, could Even admirers have ~eldomunderstood the fidrl c6n1tnuniat1 there. real character of this great humane matt My dear, dcad friend, long and well have These were sometimes wont to feel that the nc k?own you, devotedly have me followed fierce bitterness of the world that assailed you, ~m~llcilyhave we trusted you. fondly him fell on deai ears and an unresponsive have wc loved you. Beside your bier we soul. They did not know the man, and they no\>. must say farewell. The heartless call do not feel the subtleties of human Ilfe. It has come, and we must stagger on the best was not a callous heart that so often led ~1.ccan alone In the darkest hours we will him to brave the most violent and mal~cious look in vain for your loved form, we w~ll hate; it was not a callous heart. ~t was a listen hopelessly for your devoted. fearless devoted soul. Hc so loved justice and truth voice. But, though we lay you in the grave and liberty and rirhteousness that all the and hide you from the sight of man, your terrors thit the ea;th could hold were less brave words still m.ill speak ior Lhe poor. than tlie condem~lationof his own con- the oppressed, the captive and the Neak: science for an act that rvas cowardly or and your devoted life inspll-e co~~ntless mean. souls to clo and dare in the holv- caasr for John P. Altgrld. Iikc many of the carth's il;&li vou l&ed hnd died. great souls, was a qolitary mat,. Life to Address by Joseph W. Errant

AT THE GRAVE

HC siood by the river of llfc where the man had ~t In his power to estal>lish this wreckage flows thickest and fastest He Kingdom, if tic only would. dimbed to the mountam top ?nd measured And so he summoned met1 to came up the hcighra and depths of dally excstence. to thc full measure of their resoonsibilitier. He saw the light. His great heart over- and to crcate through thcir bwn efforts flowed He determtned to gain medth, and social conditions which ~vouldbe worrhy thus be able to help the stricken m~llionr. of loving and intelligent human beings. Power and position should be his, and with With the prophets of old he stood and these he would raise the multitude And a emphasized the re~~oniibilitiesof the marl voice said: "Wealth and power and posi- and the natlan. tion shall pass away. There will not avail. We mourn. We mourn because 11 ts Thou must rive thvself." He understood 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-: cast looked up with ncw hope and courage. "Mourn not for me. Upon you now re5ta The cnslaved strairhtened himself to the the responsibil~ty If you are my frtmds. statole of a man if you are loyal to the ideas for which we The weak and the frehle of the earth battled, if you wish to remember me. then leaned won him They called to htm, and continllr hrpvplv and carnertlv in the raose his great heart endeavored to respond to for which westaod. The Gtroggle iriuit all go on. By you the hanner must now be He spnlre, and everywhere thror~ghout carried forward." the earth tyran11:- trembled and the op- Today we huly our dead. To the great pressor feaicd for his stolen power elemental force* from which the body The prophet's voice is stilled The came we return that which remains Here. prophets do not flatter nor do thcy makc in the midst of nature's children. sh-I1 he obe~sance to power and position. They rest. speak the tiuth as they see it, and they tell "Opw ths nrms, 0 earth, rejoice the dead it to the people from the hoi~relapeand in FV*t/lth aentle pressure otid with lovhe wel- the market place come. John P. Alizcld bcliered in ertablishing Embrace him tcsdcrlg, e'en nr n mother the rciall of iavc and justice on thir earth Foidi her soit aertnients rovi~dtiie child He was not content to wait for its rcaliza- $he loves" tlon in some other renioter place He fell that only as irc strive to realize goodnes~ and jartice here. are rc justified in any hopes for the fotllre. With hint the Kmg- don1 of God was to he hers; and wtth his and and live inlense pa~sianfor the rrght he felt that The Present Crisis

BY TAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

IVheiz a deed is doiie for Fver.doin, tkro~~ghfile broad eart1i:s. aclziwg- breast Rzii~sa thrill oj joy propizetic, tr.eiiib1iiig orr jro!~i grist in z'est. .4nd the slar'e, ic~here'frlze cozcers, feels tlze sot11 rvithiiz hiirl cliinb To the a?r,f%~i7,erge of i!iaiihuod, us the erierfy sz~bliirze Of a celitury lbi~rstsf?ill-blossonzeil on the thor~zystezii of TLI+~~.

Once to ez,erjr man and nntlon cnmes fhi3g~zo~iier~t to dct.iile, 112 the strife of Trlrflz zlth Falseftood, lor the g-ood or. er'il side; Sori~egreat ca14se, God's xezw Messiah, ofleriitg eaclz the blooin or blight, Pirrts the oats t,pofl the left l?ai~d,ai~d tlze sheep ~poizthe right, .41d the choke xoe.7 by for ener 'twixt 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~suiid tlie Word; Triith foreyer on the srotiold, Wrong for c;,m on the throile- Yet thnt scai7old szva$ls tlze Future, ad, brhind the diliz 1ri2- klzocc,ll, Standetk God 7vithi1z the shadozq keeping ~~,ntcIzabove His o.ir89r. Thc?z to side emtk Truth is noble ?wketz ice s1~a1.e Jzcr ic~vetcf~ed 'rtlst, Ere hev cirrise briq fo~iid mid profit, aid 'tis pvospcrons to be just; Thert it is thc hran,e irza~cchooses, zolzile the co:oard sfnizds aside, Dui~btiii.gilz Izis abject spirit, till his Lord is crricificd, .And the nz~rltitirde?izakc ~,ii.tricof the fnitl! they hail denied. Co~ifrttile o'er earth's choser~heroes-they ;r8cre so~rlstlzat stood alone, While the men tifey a~oiriacdfer 1zi.lrlcd the conl~i>!ieiio?tsstofir, Stood serene, nnil do?m the futl~resaw tl7e folde?~bea~?~ i~fclirze To the side of perfect ji~stice,mastered by their faith di?!i?ze. By oize nzan's plain trz~tfcto manizood ond to God's sl~pucnfede- szgn. By the liglzt of bilvnitlg Iz~reticsChrist's blcedii~,qfeel I track, Toiling zip izeiv Calvaries c.i'er witlz the cross that t~ir?rs?lot buck, AIL^ these ~~ZOIL~I~Sof arifz~ish NIL~~CI. horv PIICJZ gctieratiorr lcarned Ol~eitera roord of that grand Credo ir'hiclz iri prophcl-hcnr-ts halh liiwited Since the first iliniz stood God-coi~~iie~cdwith l~1Sface to hr~iicrz 11pt11r7zea'. For Hiininliity sri,ceps o?ar:ord; x~lieretoday the ~r~artj'rstniids. O!z the IIIO~I-OIL,cro~!che~-I~id~~s rc'ith the siliier in hzs harids: Far i?z frorzt tlie cross stands reotiy nrzd the cri~cl?iiizgfagots biirvt, lYkile the hoolinf iiiob of yestcrdiig i~isilent air8r rctlir~z To fleozi wp the scatlared aslics ilitii his to^^?.".^ eold~.~~11111. Address of William J. Bryan

AT THE CxIVli

The occasion whxh hring~os hele calls mellt. The seemingly endless pracesaiorl fartli both sorrow and gratitodr-sorriln of flle~ldswho passed beside his bier and that such a life has been taken from us looked upon the face they had learned to 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 atll bear that mflrtet~ce on- as they can, it is inspring to hdone who ward so that the circle of his usefulness war amhiriaus to 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 trnth of the saymg that Born in anothcr land he has demonstratcd il is more blessed to give than to 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~dfor others the prowess oi Lhe body-no one consid- Not his accumulut~ons,hut hi- distrihu- ered 1x1s pl~ys~calstrensth. His was the tlons made him greal What little of prop prowe% of th~mind and hean. IIe was erty lie left w~ll descend to those mhu clear in reasoning and sound in log-LC;be- were related ta him, hut what he left 01 liming that truth is self-evidetlt and irre- greatest value will not go to ~I~OSCof his sistible he tried to prescnt the nakrd troth blood or cren to those >vl~owere 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 was world, and the world is bpttei for the life his master; ~t reepollded to ?wry appral uf one whose love was boundless and far help and his sympathy went out to all whose heart vraq large enough to tnki is who suffered or sorrowed. HP trlzd to every human being. It was fitting that h~ make the world better and his efforts >vill should die as he had lived-pl~adin~ tl~ btar fruit The waters that rim mnrmor- calrsc of the opprensrl. lng down thc mant~tainsjdt and then heln It 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 la the sea that things which are unseen are eternal ivashcs every coast and add rheil vuicc to Thii 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 to that publlc eartll all that therc war of oor departed opiniotl which motlids human achon and friend Bttt the better part of him we 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 we are sustamed and encouraged Inrgcr ~orld,so the influerlcc o[ the de- by the thought that tliat which artractcd eased is broadened rather than nnrrowpd ns to Mr. Altgeld still llici and st111 in- by his spirit's flight from itr earthly tene- cite? to worthy decds.

The Clock in the Chamber of the Omnipotent

But. says some une, is thcre any use in Bur the great clock in the Chamber of our mak~npan effort? Are i~otall the the Omnipotent ~le*~r?lands st111 It tirkcd bankclr of thls muntry, all of the trusts away the ycarr as ~t had once ticked away and great ~or~orzti~niof lhis cnunLry, all thr CCII~LISIF) Finally it alruck ihr hottr of the poivrrful forccr of 1111s cnilntry, is and the ivorld Iwaid the lread or a nllllloll not tlie faihlon of this country. are not al-mzd men. and slavery \anisbed froin the drawrng rooms and the clubs of this America frirever Kate the p.irallel. Today country now ~oillrolled by collcentrnted the sjndlcate rules at the Wliite TIoosc and and corrupt wealth? Are t11r.y not growlog stronger every year, and do they not vlllfy makca law, at the capltal; rouitb of jrlrtice and nttempl to crush everybody thit does are its rn~nistrrs: swators and l~giilator~ not ~ubmlt?Can anytlilng be sccompl~ihed are lackvvs. It controls the ~~riacherIII ~n the way of curhmg this grcar force and his pulpit, the proieawr m Ilii lecture protecttng the Amrncnn people? roum. the editor in hia sanctrlm. 11 swag- My friends, let mr cite you a parallel: gers lo the draniig-room, .t rolec at the George W~lliarn C~~itlrand ulhrr wliterb cluhr, it domlnnter with a rod oi Iron th? oi hls day have descrlhed thc slave power affalts of ioelety Hrel-y year ollarge, its hack ill the 30's. They tell un that slavery pon.ri: and thc mcn and women ivlio prn- sat 111 tbe White House and made laws in test agamct the crimes that are brmg cow the capital, tint courts of lititice wcre its mtttcd by orpanized greed it? thii country- miilisterq: that imatois and leri4atori who talk of grotectil~a the American iverc ~tslackeys. that ~t contlnlled thc pro- peoplr-are ostracized, are vilified, arr fessor In his lecture room, tlie edltor in his sanctnm, the preachci in his pulpit. hounded and impriionrd. It iecmi mad- that it rwaggcred in the draaingroorn ness to even quest~onthc dlrin~tynf thz that it ruled at the clubs; thrt tt dominated American Syndicate But my friends, that with troll hand all the affairs of society: great clock is st111 ticking-still t~clrlng. that every year enlarged itr power, every Soon ~t nlll again strike the llortr and the more increased its don~inion;that thc rne~ world will sep not ~.mo,mo lhut ~o.m.m and tlie women who dared to e~enquestton free men rise up. xnned not with tnopkets. the divinity uf that institotiun wrlr ostra- but with frcemen'r lullots, and the saay cized, were persecuted, were nllfied-aye. of tile ryndicate \will rall>rh fionr hluer~ca were hanged forever.