A MAN PASSING
A Man is Passing A MAN is passing. Nay, no demi-god, But a plain man, close to the common sod Whence springs the grass of our humanity. Strong Is he, but human, therefore sometimes wrong,...
...Flout him, you Who would not understand and never knew...
...Hully gee...
...I salute him, then, In these few words...
...What a paradise that must be for the ultimate consumer.—Chicago Record Herald...
...In a word, Uncle Joe Cannon himself does not suffer from a worse case of politico moral astigmatism than Senator Aldrich.—C...
...But he comes again...
...Year upon year he bore the battle's brunt And so, the hiss, the cackle and the grunt...
...He leaves a City with a Civic Heart, Which gives the fortune-fallen a new birth And reunites him with his Mother Earth, Which seeks to look beyond the broken law To find the broken life, and mend its flaw...
...W. Danforth in Human Life...
...Tranquil in triumph, in defeat the same, He never asked your praise nor shirked your blame, For he, as Captain of the Common Good, Has earned the right to be misunderstood...
...Hail him, you Who realize him staunch and strong and true...
...Aye, he forsook the Few and served the Mass...
...What's the particulars...
...Craft and Graft and Greed Ran rampant in our halls and few took heed...
...He served his fellow men And he is passing...
...WE'D BETTER HIBERNATE for a few years, Mike...
...Strong Is he, but human, therefore sometimes wrong, Sometimes impatient of the slower throng, Sometimes unmindful of the formal thong, But ever with his feet set towards the height To plant the banner of the Common Right...
...He found us dollar-bound and party-blind...
...he raised his hand against his class...
...The Public Service and the Public Rights Were bloody bones for wolf and jackal fights...
...Why," said the germ, "a rich inhuman being has endowed a college with $1,000,000 to search for the cause of disease...
...EDMUND VANCE COOKE in The Public at the close of Tom L. Johnson's last term as mayor of Cleveland...
...exclaimed the microbe...
...Human Life...
...SOMEONE has set up a claim that there is neither a pauper nor a millionaire in North Dakota...
...SENATOR ALDRICH has lamented bitterly for years over the growing hostility of the common people to the great interests in whose prosperity, to his way of thinking, lies the nation's only hope, but it has never occurred to him for one fleeting moment that perhaps the people may be right...
...He is embittered at the thought that all his efforts to aid the nation via said interests have won him not admiration but dislike...
...Choosing her conduct with a conscious care, Selecting one man here, another there And scorning labels...
...There's a terrible price on our heads," remarked the germ...
...Answer as you will, But truth is truth and his the credit still...
...He leaves a City with a Civic Mind...
...Behold...
...And is he fallen...
...A Man is passing...
...He found us, striving each his selfish part...
...A Man is passing...
...Who tamed it...
...And ever with his eye fixed on the goal, The Vision of a City with a Soul...
...A man is passing...
...Now, even the Corporate Monster licks the hand Where once he snarled his insolent demand...
...But his conclusion is not that he has been wrong but that most men are fools and do not know on which side their bread is buttered...
...Aye, but mark him well, He ever rises further than he fell...
Vol. 3 • April 1911 • No. 16
