,- & * , !$ 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.