Excerpt from The Debs Triology, Man, Woman, Child: Written for the New World, Girard, Kansas A number of years ago, when Eu gene V. Debs and I were on the staff of the Appeal to Reason, in daily as sociation, I wrote the following verses concerning him. They express the thought I had in mind very poorly. But they do call attention to the chief characteristic of this great man. He is a friend. He is the same sort that the poet Homer described before the days of Moses in the single line: He lived in a house by the side of the road, and he was a friend of man. Here is what I wrote. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.