"With the land and possessions of America rapidly passing into the hands of a favored few," Darrow wrote, "with thousands of men and women in idleness and want; with wages constantly tending to a lower level . . . with the knowledge that the servants of the people are bought and sold in legislative halls at the bidding of corporations and individuals: with all these notorious evils sapping the foundations of popular government and destroying personal liberty; some rude awakening must come.
"And if it shall come, when you look abroad over the ruin and desolation, remember the long years in which the storm was rising and do not blame the thunderbolt."
Year 1911
