East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-06-25

clarence >. DarroW, chlef counsel
! for Haywood, Meyer and Pettibone
in the murder trial now going on in
Boise. Idaho, is one of the most fas-
cinating personalities with which
ever became intimately acquainted,
writes Judson Grenell in the Detroit
News.
For the better part of six months
i lived with him in the Chicago slums
in an experiment in cooperative liv-
ing, with half a dozen other congenial
spirits. We occupied one floor of a
model tenement building, erected
to shelter "a families on one city
lot. While each of us had separate
apartments, the meals were eaten to-
gether, first-class high priced cook
preparing them.
Here in this tenement building, al
most in the heart of Chicago's slums,
within easy reach of Hull house, that
great settlement presided over by
Jane Adams, Mr.. Darrow lived his
life, studying humanity at close range
and mingling with the common peo-
pie" in way that has made him the
idol of the wage-working people of
the Windy city.
Mr.. Darrow is geniality personified.
In this respect he is another Joe La
bodic. He is deeply read student
of political economy of the modern
school, his erudition at least equaling
that of the late Henry A. Robinson,
hnn
for a debate on the creation and
proper division of wealth has ever
lived in Detroit. He was also fond
Of the applause and appreciation of
his companions, and nothing suited
him better than to gather a dozen or
more people in his library room in
THE Langdon," the name of the
model tenement, and there read in
his easy and drawling manner the
latest emanations from his pen.
Adapts Himself to People.
I heard most of his autobiogra ply
from his own lips in this way. This
has more recently been embodied in a
hook, and like aii of Mr.. Darrew's
writings, Is full of his PHILOSOPHERS
and his love of honor, truth and JUS
tice. There. too, l read his other
works, such as "Resist Not Evil"
and his talk to the inmates of a
prison where in his quaint way he
described how he was hely up "by
the predatory interest outside the
prisons walls-:he streetcar, gas,
electric and other monopolies-and
how he believed that many of those
inside should be out. while many out
and looked upon as good citizens
ought to be wearing stripes"
There was a spring election fol
mayor on while we lived together,
and one evening l went the rounds
with him. He talked to the Hebrews
of the Ghetto. and they nearly smoth-
cred him with embraces He de-
claimed before big labor organiza-
tion on the west side, and at every
telling period / feared the floor would
give way from the force of the stamp
ing feet. He also addressed a higher
toned audience on the south side, and
fere, too, while telling the same
things, the language was adapted to
his hearers, and the satisfaction of
those who heard him was equally as
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