that small handful of heroes had within them the power to rock it to
its foundations. To-morrow, when the Great Revolt breaks out and all
the world resounds with the tramp, tramp of the millions, the Oligarchy,
will realize, and too late, how mightily that band of heroes has grown.*

* Avis Everhard took for granted that her narrative would be
read in her own day, and so omits to mention the outcome of
the trial for high treason. Many other similar
disconcerting omissions will be noticed in the Manuscript.
Fifty-two socialist Congressmen were tried, and all were
found guilty. Strange to relate, not one received the death
sentence. Everhard and eleven others, among whom were
Theodore Donnelson and Matthew Kent, received life
imprisonment. The remaining forty received sentences
varying from thirty to forty-five years; while Arthur
Simpson, referred to in the Manuscript as being ill of
typhoid fever at the time of the explosion, received only
fifteen years. It is the tradition that he died of
starvation in solitary confinement, and this harsh treatment
is explained as having been caused by his uncompromising
stubbornness and his fiery and tactless hatred for all men
that served the despotism. He died in Cabanas in Cuba,
where three of his comrades were also confined. The fifty-
two socialist Congressmen were confined in military
fortresses scattered all over the United States. Thus, Du
Bois and Woods were held in Porto Rico, while Everhard and
Merryweather were placed in Alcatraz, an island in San
Francisco Bay that had already seen long service as a
military prison.