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1 Celebrated Illinois Case That Made History 1917

handle is hein.trials/cdiscstmdhy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A CELEBRATED ILLIMYLS VASE THAT MADE HISTOXY Address of Stephen A. Day, delivered before the Illinois State Historical Society at Springfield, Illinois, May 10, 1917. In one sense, history is but the record of the growth of law. It is by the acts and deeds of men in the past upon which we build the structures of the future. Perhaps in no more enduring form are found these records than in the proceedings of our courts of law. Many adjudicated cases furnish the land-marks along the path of civilization, and in the history of this Nation no more striking example of the power and majesty of this g~eat Democracy is to be found than in a great case which occurred in the State of Illinois a little more than twenty years ago. In observing historical incidents, we are struck by the force of the climax, and sometimes are not equally conscious of the preceding and predisposing causes that lead up to the climax. We all recall the sorrows and the tragedies of the panic of 1893, when the whole nation was shaken to its foundations by a finan- cial depression and reign or disorder and dissension theretofore unequaled in our annals. Coincident with such crises and spring- ing therefrom, there often are seen the flames of social revolution and rebellion which theretofore were smoldering in the minds of the discontented. As a part of the great industrial organization of the Pullman Company, a model town was constructed for the employees, with the idea of building up a plant sufficient unto itself, possessing solidarity and co-operation as factors in its strength. During the panic of 1893, those in charge of the affairs and management of the Pullman Company, because of the general business depres-

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