It stammered.

The action showed that each mind stood apart, alone.
And yet the vote revealed that they were all together.
I have watched the long struggle of unionism in America and I know the law that has governed all its ups and downs.

Wherever it was still a movement it has thrived; wherever it became a mob it fell.

The one Big Union was a mob.

No movement based on passion finally wins; no movement based on reason finally fails.