The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-12-02
An Observation-Disclosures.

n by q sinister event in Union
square. mass meeting OF
the unemployed had been called to
protest against their wrongs and par
ticularly to denounce the men who had
advanced the price of bread by Great
| ing q corner in wheat.
On his way down town Stuart read
| with establishment that DR.. Woodman
would preside over this gathering. He
determined to 60. AS he hurried through
the routine work of his Office. giving
| his orders for the day, he received a
telephone call from Nan. asking him
to accompany her to this meeting.
81 don't think you ought to 60" he
answered emphatically. There might
be a riot"
Pm not afraid"
And you might hear some very
plain talk about your husband"
That's exactly why l wish to go!
I'll send one of my cars to the office
for you Immediately"
An hour later when Stuart. seated
by Mans side. reached Union square,
the automobile was stopped by the pO-
Every inch of space in the square
seemed blocked by solid mass of mo-
| tionless humanity. Stuart left the car
in Seventeenth street and succeeded
finally in forcing way through the
crowd to a position within hundred
feet of the rude platform that bad
been erected for the orators. The
scene about the stand bristled with DO
licemen.
Besides the special detail Of picked
men who moved about the stand. &C.
casionally clubbing an iDoffensive man.
| a battalion of 800 reserves was drawn
| up in serried lines about a hundred
yards to the north on the edge of
Fourth avenue Between these re-
serves and the crowd about the stand
an open space was kept clear for their
possible assault in case of any dis
| turbance.
When the speaking began Stuart
| pressed his way as close as possible,
drawing Nan with him. He was as
| tonished at the genuine eloquence and
| power with which the first speaker.
evidently of anarchistic leanings, de-
veloped his theme. a passionate plea
| for freedom and the highest develop
ment of the individual man. His con-
Guiding sentences reused his crowd to
a pitch Of wild enthusiasm.
"In the old world. from which your
| fathers and mothers fed in search Of
| freedom. men enslaved their fellow
men by becoming lords, dukes or
| kings, numbering or poisoning their way
! to a castle or a throne The meth
| DDS of your modern masters are more
make them your masters, and still
| imagine that you are free"
A cheer like the roar of an angry sea
| swept the crowd. Again and again il
| rose and fell. increasing in volume as
| its contagious spirit set fire to the rest
| less minds Of the thousands who had
| packed the square. but could not hear
| the man who was voicing their faith.
In the deep roar of their cheers there
was no sodden despair. AS Stuart
looked into the faces of the crowd he
saw no trace of the degeneracy and loss
Of elemental manhood which make
the sight of a European mob loath-
some and hopeless. These men were
still men, the might of freemen in their
souls and good right arms.
When the last echoes of the cheers
had died away there was a stir near
the stand and Stuart saw the stalwart
figure of DR.. Woodman suddenly rise.
He lifted his arm over the crowd, de-
handing silence.
The doctor plunged at once into the
message with which his heart was
quivering:
Let no man tell you, my friends.
that the God of our fathers is myth.
You can't lose faith in God because
you have not lost faith in eternal jus
tice. This faith is just coming into
conscious existence in the hearts of
millions. BY this sign we know that
new age is born. Poets and artists no
longer gaze into heaven. Their eyes
are fixed on earth Men have ceased
to long for another world, therefore
their hope Is now for this one. To bring
justice and beauty to pass on this
earth in wisdom and fearIessneSs of
death-this is the new creed CT the
people!
MY friends, the workingman of to-
day lives better than the kings of the
middle ages. Have patience, my
friends. the workingman of tomorrow
will be the heir of all the knowledge,
of all the pain and all the glory of the
centuries. We should not be so i'm
patient, we should not be discouraged
The progress of the world has really
just begun. And so |. who watch the
darkness pass and see the eastern sky
begin to glow-I cry to you who may
still be below; BE of good cheer. the
day dawnsr''
A feeble cheer rose from the hun,
dred or more who knew the doctor
personally. 1t was the only response
the sullen crowd gave to his burst of
feeling. They were not in sympathy
with his optimism. The anguish of
the present moment Of bread hunger
and cold was too keen.
When the doctor sat down Stuart
saw Harriet suddenly lean over. draw
his big shaggy head down and kiss
him. He hadn't recognized her before.
The next speaker made his attack on
the corruption and graft OF our system
| of government with brutal frankness.
He assailed the foundations of the re-
public, and at last the principles which
underlie civilized society itself On