As far as we have seen the socialists of Chicago are alone entitled to the credit of filling the cup of grief without "slopping over." They adopted the following well-considered resolutionslast Sunday on motion of T.J. Morgan:
Resolved, That this body deeply regrets the suffering and death of the late James A. Garfield; we desire it also understood that our regret and sympathy in this case differ in no respect from that which we feel at the suffering and death of the humblest worker who is stricken down in the performance of his duty; and,
Resolved, That we sympathize with his family in their bereavement, as we sympathize, but more keenly, with the poor worker's widow and family, who are left destitute to struggle for life, unnoticed and uncared for, with the human wolves who surround them.
Resolved, That as sincere grief is ever silent and undemonstrative, we cannot protest against the present ostentatious demonstration of grief, as both unsincere and unbecoming, and characteristic only of oriental and monarchical pageantry.
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