The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-09-05
Clarence barrow.

SidESHCe CdFfOW.
Not the least important feature of
the Labor day program in the metropo-
lis Will be the address of Clarence S.
Darrow, the brilliant Chicago attorney.
a modern Robin Hood of the legal pro-
fession, who accepts big fees from cor
porations ard gives his services free
in defense of the down trodden and
oppressed.
Among the little band of socialist
"intellectuals, which includes Jack
! London, Joseph Medill Patterson Up-
tor Sinclair and Robert Hunter. OAR
row is easily the most commanding fig
IRE 1t is doubtful if even John Mitch
ell. Samuel Gompers or Eugene Debs
can compare in popularity among the
Workingmen with this original genius.
barrow IS now in his fifty-first year
and is native Of Ohio. ALWAYS a
friend of the labor organizations. the
great strike of the American Railway
unlon, of which Eugene v. Debs was
the leader. gave him his opportunity.
During those troubled times. barrow
worked day and nirht to protect what
he considered the rights of the strikers.
With the anthracite coal strike came
another opportunity for displaying his
legal genius in the cause of the toll
ers and next to Mitchell barrow was
me most conspicuous figure in the in
vestlgations of the arbitration board.
Then came the alleged kidnapping
Of Meyer. Haywood and Pettibone. the
leaders of the Western Federation of
Miners. All over the land the labor
| unionists were reused to white heat
IN defense of their imprisoned "com-
rades," and again the call came for
BARROW His brilliant conduct of the
case, resulting in the acquittal Of all
che accused men. is matter of recent
history with which all are acquainted
OF all the influences which operated
to make barrow the peculiar genius
that he is, perhaps none was more DO
tent that his association with Governor
Atgeld, OF Illinois. After Altgeld's re-
tlrement from the governorship, he
formed legal partnership with OAR
row, which continued until the death of
/ the former. Over the, body Of the man
while living, but worshipped when
dead, Darrow delivered an grafton that
has been justly compared to the one de-
llvered by Robert Ingersoll over the
grave Of his brother.
Eccentr.city, the usual accompani-
ment of genius. is not absent in Oar
row. He IS no friend of the tailor the
barber or the manicurist. His clothes
"nich are always Of the ready-made
variety. appear to have been slept in
Ihe shoes he wears are sometimes in
the last stage of decrepitude. and his
nat is Iar from new Nor is this affect
alton. To meet barrow is to know tha,
ne is real. He is merely too busy toe
concerned about more important mat
ters, to consider his personal amman
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! On the platform he is a genius Re-
SHINING MS discourse in a low mono
.one' twirling his eyeglasses in his thin
pony myers, he soon warns up T., his
| subject Then comes the deluea q,
words, flow Of perfect, fiawless nict
ures. filled with profound sy1nnatbv
anu snarpest sarcasm, at times rising
from tear-stained entreaty to the
neishts OF denunciation and moving his
hearers by turns to pity and scorn. Nor
IS he particular as to his audience
one OF MS most remarkable addresses
was delivered before the prisoners in
Tue chicago jail, and has becomel rev.
oiutionary classic.
barrow writes as we'll as he talks
ana IN his little book, Resist Not
EVIL he has summed up one of the
most remarkable PHILOSOPHERS of life
'ia' the human mind has ever con-
ceived. An agnostic as to the existence
oI COD and the Immortality of the sonl
! harrow Is yet profound believer in
the non-hesitance doctrines of Jesus
His philosophy combines the ideals
Of Jesus. Confucius, Buddha. Socrates
end Plato with those of Karl Mary and