BY FLORENCE WILKINSON Where have they gone, the unremembered things, The hours, the faces, The trumpet-call, the wild boughs of white spring? Would I might pluck you from forbidden spaces, All ye, the vanished tenants of my places! Stay but one moment, speak that I may hear, Swift passer-by! The wind of your strange garments in my ear Catches the heart like a belovèd cry From lips, alas, forgotten utterly. An odour haunts, a colour in the mesh, A step that mounts the stair; Come to me, I would touch your living flesh-- Look how they disappear, ah, where, ah, where? Because I name them not, deaf to my prayer. If I could only call them as I used, Each by his name! That violin--what ancient voice that mused! Yon is the hill, I see the beacon flame. My feet have found the road where once I came. Quick--but again the dark, darkness and shame. THE BATTLE AGAINST THE SHERMAN LAW HOW CAPITAL AND LABOR COMBINE TO SAFEGUARD THE TRUST AND LEGALIZE THE BOYCOTT BY BURTON J. HENDRICK ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS Under the existing laws of the United States, it is a crime to organize a combination of individuals or corporations into a business aggregation in restraint of trade. It is likewise a crime for labor men or labor unions in different States to combine for the prosecution of certain aggressive enterprises popularly described as boycotts. Any person convicted of engaging in either of these prohibited acts may be fined not more than $5,000 for each offense, or imprisoned for one year at hard labor, or both. According to reliable estimates, there are in the neighborhood of five hundred large trusts or combinations that daily violate this law. There are many thousands of smaller corporations and business firms that indulge in secret practices for which their officers may at any time be lodged in jail. As for the national prohibition of boycotts, labor organizations openly exist for the express purpose of conducting them. The constitution of the most powerful labor organization in this country, the Federation of Labor, specifically provides for engaging in this form of industrial warfare.