Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-07
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tyranny Of England. Multitudes Of
people placed Rosa upon pedestal
and hailed him as their hero. After a
time this meteor faded. Now. in his
old age. O'Donovan Rosa holds a ioh
as an inspector Tor the Brooklyn Rand
Transit comr " at 81 per day.
theodore Tilton still lives. but the
world that knew him q generation ago
knows him not. Here is q man who
has tasted the sweet and the bitter OF
public appreciation. Most of us re-
member him as a pathetic figure In a
great scandal Of more than thirty
years ago. That. however, is by no
means his chief claim to distinction
though II cannot be doubted that II
made his name far more widely known
than IL was known before. For TWEEN
" years prior TO the Brooklyn social
upheaval Theodore Tlton was one OF
the most popular and brilliant figures
on tho American lyceum platform in
the days when the lyceum really stood
for something. He was one of that
immortal group which included Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Wendell Phillips and
William Lloyd Garrison. Tilton was
one of the early abolitionist orators,
He was splendidly gifted. widely Gull
tured and of magnificent oratorical
ability. AS editor of the New York In
dependent, as lecturer and orator, he
charmed and convinced, He appeared
more than 1000 times on the lyceum
platform. Shortly after his domestic
trouble he went to Paris where he has
resided since Mr.. Tilton has publish
cd many volumes Of poetry and is stln
writing. He occupies an honorable
place among Partisan writer's, but has
disappeared altogether from the high
place that knew him years ago.
Terence V. Powderly was a powerful
parsonage not many years ago. AS the
head of the knights of Labor he was
the idol of a million men, He was
great as an organizer. Coming up
from the plain people to a place of high
executive authority, he remained demo-
cratic. obedient TO the will of the peo-
pie and was honored far beyond tho
average man who devotes his talents
to the cause of labor. The United
States government recognized his
worth and made him commissioner OF
immigration Tho knights of Labor
somehow fell to pieces as an organiza-
ton, and Terence V. Powderly flashed
and fell like burned out Roman candle.
so far as the public eye was concerned.
Mr.. Powderly Is now understood to be
devoting his energies, in private ca
pacity. to the nducement of European
immigration to the south. He is a
kindly. courteous, whole souled man,
but no longer dazzler.
What of John l.. Sullivan? Pugilism
is not one of the aesthetic arts, but 1t
enjoys a certain popularity. Many
able poets have sighed for mere
scintilla of the popularity and public
recognition accorded to pugllists. and
sighed in vain. Tohn L. once was an
international parsonage. No man ever
enjoyed his fame in pugilsm. He was
at" For dozen years he dazzled,
until Corbett's fists finished him at
New Orleans. Now Mr. Sullivan is
doing things in vaudeville.
As to John Alexander Dowie his
drop from the limelight to the dreary
dumps is so recent that he scarcely
may be said to be eligible to this list
But his drop has been so sudden and
so far that 1t is no error to assign him
to the flashed meteors. Dowie dazzled
for some years as the creator of new
religion, as the founder of the modern
Zion and the upholder of the mantle OF
the ancient prophet Elijah. Very re-
cent developments have so dimmed his
prestige that he has fallen from his
high estate and is said TO be a three
fold wreck--fnancially, physically and
mentally. ROBERTUS LOVE,