He who knew Bismarck and who had
sat in council with kings went walking and babbling half the night
through the empty streets.
It is amusing now to think of the things men said under the influence
of McGregor. Like old Doctor Johnson and his friend Savage they walked
half drunk through the streets swearing that whatever happened they
would stick to the movement. Doctor Cowell himself said things just as
absurd as that.
And all over the country men were getting the idea--the Marching Men--
old Labour in one mass marching before the eyes of men--old Labour
that was going to make the world see--see and feel its bigness at
last. Men were to come to the end of strife--men united--Marching!
Marching! Marching!
CHAPTER V
In all of the time of The Marching Men there was but one bit of
written matter from the leader McGregor. It had a circulation running
into the millions and was printed in every tongue spoken in America. A
copy of the little circular lies before me now.
THE MARCHERS
"They ask us what we mean.
Well, here is our answer.
We mean to go on marching.
We mean to march in the morning and in the evening when the sun
goes down.
On Sundays they may sit on their porches or shout at men playing
ball in a field
But we will march.
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