The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1913-01-02
The Root
Of Evil
By THOMAS DIXON
Copyright. 1911, by Thomas
Dixon
CHAPTER XIII.
An ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

to Stuart was made memora bl
by a sinister event In Unio
square. A mass meeting o
the unemployed had been called 4
protest against their wrongs and par
tieulariy to deDounce the men who hat
advanced the price of bread by Great
ing q corner In wheat
On his way down town Stuart reat
with establishment that DIR. woodma,
would preside over this gathering HI
determined to go. As he hurried through
the routine work OF his Office. giving
his orders for the day. be received q
telephone call from Nan. asking him
TO accompany her 10 this meeting.
81 don't think you ought to GO" 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 | wish TO go,
fer you Immediately"
An hour later when Stuart. seated
by Mans side. reached Union square,
the automobile was stopped by the po-
lice and turned into Seventeenth street.
Every inch OF space In the square
seemed blocked by a 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 a hundred
feet OF the rude platform that had
been erected for the orators The
scene about the stand bristled with POI
licemen.
Besides the special detail OF picked
men who moved about the stand. &C.
caslonally clubbing an inofrensive man.
a battalion OF 800 reserves was drawn
up In serried lines about 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.
dra wing Nan with him. He was as
tonished Mt the genuine eloquence and
power with which the first speaker.
evidently OF anarchlstic 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 castle or a throne. The meth
DDS of your modern masters are more
subtle and successful. You vote to
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
"a W no trace OF the degeneracy and loss
OF elemental manhood which make
the sight Of European mob loath-
some and hopeless. These men were
It'll men. the might OF freemen IN their {
souls and good right arms
When the last echoes of the cheers {
had died away there was stir near I
the stand and Stuart saw the stalwart |
hgure of DR.. Woodman suddenly rise.
He lifted his arm over the crowd. de-
silence. {
The doctor plunged at once into the $
message with which his heart was Q
luivering: u
"Let no man tell you. my friends. a
that the God OF our fathers is a myth. l
You can't lose faith Ia God because i
you have not lost faith In eternal jus o
ice. This faith is just coming into .
existence In the hearts OF 4
BY this sign we know that .,
new age Is born. Poets and artists no a
onger gaze into heaven. Their eyes =,
ire fixed on earth. Men have ceased >,
% long for another world therefore n
heir hope is now for this one. 10 bring a,
Justice and beauty TO pass on this n
.arth in wisdom and fearlessness OF n,
ieath-this is the new creed OF the IN
people!
my friends, the workingman OF to- #
lay lives better than the kings of the al
middle ages. Have patience. my &C
friends. the workingman OF tomorrow
will be the heir OF all the knowledge, hi
4 all the pain and all the glory of the
centuries. We should not be so ina h,
,atient. we should not be discouraged.
The progress of the world has really a,
ust begun. And so |. who watch the b,
arkness pass and see the eastern SKI OF
egin to glow-I cry to you who may IL
till be below: BE of good cheer. the fe
lay dawnsp"
A feeble cheer rose from the hun d.
lred or more who knew the doctor al