The sun., 1903-08-30

r..dc QnIons-NOw He Has Fallen.
a., III Health. by IBIS Onest Abuse OF
po,cr 10 n shameful Ccll. and Dls-
,.,,ch,scnlcnt In Ills Adopted Land.
s,xc SING. Aug. 20. With misfit garb OF
.,,,oony,,t hanging loosely from his huge
S,,ue thr big, bony hands, sign from
,,ich ho. been law TO 5000 workingmen
ond terror TO a score Of employers, hanging
p,cn nv his sides, his small head shaved
.lose and all of the fierce, defiant light gone
40, oS his beady eyes, Samuel j. Parks
ho,,n his first real day Of prison life here
,,.day A thief on his right a forger on
bis left. the notorious Ammon, whose re-
oor, conviction will go down in history
one of the triumphs of District Attorney
Iero:ne's admnist ration, opposite him,
Parks worked for eight hours to-day, sorting
ory hair, from short hairs, brittle ones
from supple ones. To glance up from
bis work would bring the sharp rap of
. tho keepers long club on the table, and
more than once during the day this sound
ro,,inded Parks that the power of his
,,,,,,b his influence and his following
hod departed from him, and that inside
,be great stone walls Of Sing Sing prison
be stood in exactly the same relation to
society as every other man of the ,l80
now confined there.
Striped of the power that made him
the terror Of all employers of labor with
whom he came in contact, deprived OF the
following that made his every pubic move
,rumphal procession, deprived even
Of the right Of speech and put humbly
a, n work that is degrading to man of
his skill. weakened by constant cough
ing. for he has consumption and both lungs
are now affected and suffering from an
otbcr incurable disease, Parks is pitiful
sight.
SPIRIT Is GONE.
His spirit has gone. 1t burned fercely,
despite his physical ailments in the face
Of the opposition of employers and his op-
ponents among laboring men. 1t did not
desert him when he was facing his present
fate before jury, but it has all gone now.
Parks is crushed and humbled man.
A model prisoner they call him at Sing
Sing, where he marches to and from his
cell with head hanging on his breast and
works at the most monotonous OF all prison
labor without protest, and with not one OF
the violent curses on his lips with which
he has, in the past. been wont to emphasize
his antipathy to anything.
Parks's union may stick by Parks, may
vote money and confidence, may march
riderless horse at the head Of their ranks
on Labor Day in honor OF their absent
idol; but the power to rouse Parks from
the lethargy into which he has fallen has
gone from them, as it has gone from him.
The bewidering blow Of a conviction when
few feet away stood his henchmen ready
TO elevate him to their broad shoulders
and carry him in triumph through the
streets, followed by the sudden and un-
expected trip to Sing Sing, the shaving OF
the head of its sparse locks, the substitu-
ton of a convct's garb for the custom
m-ne clothes Of which he was always SC
proud, and the realization of his lost citizen
ship and his place in the world as con
yicted felon, have left Sam Parks a mere
shadow of the raving, cursing, ail-powerful
tyrant who paralyzed a giant industry,
rnt 100000 skilled workmen idle on the
streets, and was planning strikes Of mag
nitude that even the most daring Of the
labor leaders had never dared to think
of before when his fortunes fell.
KAcEED BY DISEASE.
The sympathy that Parks might have
had because of his physical ills, which are
serious indeed, he never got when a free
man because they were hidden behind his
great energy, his fearlessness and hi'
daring. They stand out now that he has
bnen stripped Of these thing, and make
him indeed an object of pity. Backec
by the old spirit Parks !night serve ter
years at hard labor III a worse prison thar
Sing Sing and weather il, BIT with his
spirit gone it is doubtful if ne will last long
N the shops. They say at the prison that
t will be the hospital before long, and il
lie comes out of there alive at ,he con.
clusiom Of his sentence ne will be another
sam Parks, with the sam Parks OF so re-
cent memory gone forever, his career
simply a lesson to labor leaders that There
.sa line over which the most corrupt anc
not cross.
Parks is 80 years old, He was an Hit
crate Irish BOY Of 70 or thereaboutS wheI
he cane 10 America, big, strong, brave
and with much of tho magnetism which
has since made him such an idol with his
followers Parks drifted out West as {
tramp, almost, and wound up in the lumber
country, where men fight their way to th'
T ont withtheir fists backed by their courage
H. such an environment Parks was bounc
TO forge ahead. His fame as a sluSgel
still lives in the lumber camps Of Canada
and Minnesota. and all through The North
west 10 say that a man fights Ike San
Parks is TO pay to him the highest o
tributes.
STORY OF rYRANr.
PARKS di-sipdted. He wearied Of ont
section after another and led parties 0
uuDcrmcn about the country. He wa
good deal Of Il wanderer, and took NJ
the trade of an ironworkcr simply becaus'
he happened To run into camp of bridge
builder, and liked them. Bridge builder
are rough men. Their work is dangerous
they drink heavily, they live on the grounC
most of the time ana they fight. Park
could fight He ceaned out champion
after champion. He was natural born
vraut. man who wouldn't bend to h
will then got "sIugged, just AZ in more recen
wears rebels have been punished by hin
IN New York
Parks was a good lumbcrman when h'
worked he was a good irOnwOrker
and the bridge builders who worked will
him before he began to live on the assess
u"ntS he could levy on other mems salaries
say that he was the best of all the rlvecr'
Ten Years ago Parks drifted into Chicago
and went TO work quietly at his trade
He joined the union and became more %
IosS prominent in il but was hardly leader