I have wished since that I had said more, said something that could perhaps have made a great burden a little easier for that brave and tortured soul. But he rode away with that wan, persistent smile. And the storm did break, and the abuse it rained upon him broke his heart. Glance over this majestic city, see its workshops, its warehouses, its commercial palaces, its office temples, and the thousand other structures that show the possibilities of human achievement and tell who did all this. We are at present in the midst of a great industrial and commercial depression.
Industry is nearly at a standstill all over the earth.
For many years his heart had not been good. He had never seemed very strong. Before going to Joliet he had been in court all day and was very tired that night. He went directly from the train into a crowded hall and immediately began his plea for the Boers. About midnight he was dead.