Evening star., 1926-10-24
DEBS' VISION COMES
TRUE At HIS BIER
M0urners of All States Form
Human Brotherhood at
Funeral Rites.


TERRE HACTE. Ind. October %.
The human brotherhood that Eu
gene V. Debs gave his life to bring
about. was his in death today.
To the bier OF the famous Socialist
in his CONT ortable Terre Haute home
there came mourners from every so
cial strata. Outside the fower-em-
howered parlor where lay the body
they left their worldly mantles Of po-
lifical faith. social convictions and re-
ligious beliefs to do obeisance TO a
beloved friend.
Capitalists, against whom Debs
used his most effective invectives,
We're here at the funeral because
they loved the charitable viscena rian.
And the scanned faces OF labor whose
cause was ever on Debs' escutcheon,
streamed a benediciion OF tears.
Rich and poor. lofty and humble. It
was a brotherhood OF mar, AS DebS
hoped for.
Engulfed BY Mass.
Here and there in the mass of hui
manity that engulfed the Debs home
and stretched for half a block In
three directions, was an enfeebled
neiRhbor who had known this man
since. az a pink checked youth OF 10.
he first learned of the workers
problem as fireman on the Terr'.
Haute and indianapolis Railway.
Later companions. Morris Hillquit OF
New YORK, Representative Victor
Berger Of Wisconsin and Seymour
Stedman Of Chicago. who had stood
shoulder-to-sho oulder with Debs In the
battle Of socialism. mad come 10 give
testimony of their affection.
After the funeral ceremony at the
Debs home the body was taken to
Indianapolis to be cremated. The
ashes will he buried in Terre Haute
cemetery. Pallbearers were taken
from the ranks of Terre Haute So
cialists and workers. There was no
religious service. as Debs was
member of no church.
Dehs died in a sanitarium near
Chicago Wednesday night after suf-
fering nervous breakdown a month
earlier. He had suffered from heart
trouble. He was nearing his list
birthday.
His Words Come Back.
His love was all-encompassing.
1t knew no geogra phical limitations,
was not limited by race or creed"
said Stedman. Debs' mouthpiece in
the election of 1920. when the Social
lat leader, confined in Atlanta Fed
eral Peniteniary. was his party's pre-
sidential candidate. Debs' own words
came hack to substantiate Stedman;
Love is omnipotent. it will over
throw all tyrannies, it will open all
prisons"
Berger, who is said to have con-
verted Debs to socialism, Hillquit
and William Cunna of Chicago. also
eulogized the Indianan.
Guinea. Debs' attorney when he
was convicted Of obstructing the draft
during the World War. recalled Debs'
serenity at his trial.
Knew No Bitterness.
There was no bitterness in him."
Guinea asserted. When the news
paper reporter whose testimony con-
victed Dehs met him outside the court
and. tears streaming from his eyes,
cried You don't blame me. Mr.. DebS,
this exemplar of the Nazarene com
forted him: No, my boy. you told the
truth. ! bless YOU for it.
And when he came back from AT
lanta TO Terre HAute, where he had
been born and had lived all his life.
shall never forget his words at his
own threshold. Thousa nds outside
were cheering him. With arms out
stretched to gather to his breast the
wife who had been his comforter In
darkness, he said, Home again He
now is home again, where winds of
opposition can never touch him
Up from the sea Of tear-streaked
faces came the sobs of touched hearts.
And a soft autumnal wind rustled a
requiem among the fading leaves.