Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-07-14
IN SPACE OF TIME.

A decade ago Gov. John P. Altgeld of Illinois
was called anarchist by the Mark Hanna
brand of patriots but one OF his greatest
speeches is being published by leading republican
papers with approval. This the peroration
of the speech delivered by John P. Altgeld at
Joliet March H. 1902. As he pronounced the
last words of his address the ex-governor of IL
linois tainted and remained unconscious until
his death on the following day:
But, some says, is there any use in our
making an effort? Are not all the bankers of
this country all of the trusts and great corpo-
rations of this county, all of the powerful forces
Of this country, not the drawing rooms and
the clubs of this country now controlled by con
centrated and corrupt wealth? Are they not
growing stronger every year, and do they not
Willy and attempt to crush everybody that does
not submit?
''Can anything be accomplished in the way Of
curbing this great force and protecting the
American people?
My friends, let me cite you parallel:
George William Curtis and other writer's of his
day have described the slave power back in the
ifties They tell us that slavery sat in the
white house and made laws in the capitol;
that courts of Justice were its ministers that
senators and legislators were its lackeys; and
it controlled the professor in his lecture room,
the editor in his sanctum, the preacher in his
pulpit that it staggered in the drawing room
that it ruled at the clubs; that it dominated with
iron hand all the affairs of society; that every
year enlarged its power every move increased its
dominion; that the men and the women who
dared to even question the divinity of that in
stitutiOn were 0straciZed, prosecuted were
vilified-aye, were hanged.
But the great clock in the chamber of the
omnipotent never stands still. It licked away
the centuries. Finally it struck the hour, and
the world heard the tread of million armed
ooI Gle cbaI Co.,
ever.
Note the parallel Today the syndicate rules
at the white house and makes laws at the capt.
tOl; courts of justice are its minister's senators
and legislators are its lackeys. 1t controls the
preacher in his pulpit, the professor in his sane
| tum; it swaggers in the drawing room; it rules
| at the clubs; it dominates with rod of iron
| the affairs of society. Every year enlarges its
| power; and the and women who protest
against the crimes that are being committed by
organized greed in this country who talk OF
/ protecting the American people-are ostracized
are vilifed, are bounded and imprisoned.
| 1t seems madness to question the di
vinity of the American syndicate. But, my
! friends the great clock is still ticking-stil
ticking. Soon it will again strike the hour anC
the world will not see million, but ten mil
lion free men rise up armed not with mllskets
but with freemen's ballots and the sway of thu
syndcates will vanish from America forever
Il am not discouraged Things will RICH
themselves The pendulum swings one way ant
then another. But the steady pull of gravitatior
is toward the center Of the earth. ANY structure
must be plumb to endure or the building will
fall to the ground
$50 it is with the nations-wrong may seen
to triumph; right may defeated; but tn
gravtation of eternal justice is toward tn
thome of God. Any political institutions which
is to endure must be plumb with that line o
Observation-Disclosures.