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...Woodstock, Ill., there is a boys' school, a collection of retired farmers, a prison. In the prison in the year 1895 sat a hot-blooded orator? of 40. He was Eugene Victor Debs, labor leader. He was in jail for the violation of an injunction. Back of this event was the story of an Indiana grocery clerk, a locomotive fireman, who became the organizer of the American Railway Union, who twice made the nation feel the fist of unionized labor. The second time was the great strike against the Pullman Co. in 1894 when President Cleveland had to despatch troops...
...mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest of the earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free...
...Prison Fare. Before the same association, Dr. George Walker of Baltimore said: "Milk, not bread, is the staff of life. Five quarts of milk a day alone will keep one alive, for milk contains every food requisite, except iron...
Died. Henry Luce Fuqua, 61, Governor of Louisiana since 1924; at the Executive Mansion in Baton Rouge; of internal gastric hemorrhages, suddenly. He had been a hardware merchant, cane sugar farmer, warden of the state prison. As Governor of Louisiana he had fought the Ku Klux Klan...
From jail he has been writing letters. Two of them got past the prison authorities. He says that the murder charge was trumped up against him by his political tools who, rather than pay what they owed him, packed him off to jail. Mr. Stephenson lists among his onetime tools Governor Ed. Jackson,* Mayor J. L. Duvall of Indianapolis, and many another weaker light...