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When a soldier in the German army had provoked him to the point where he had to fight, this modern Titan had seized his tormenter and without apparent effort had dashed the man's brains out by butting him against the wall of the barracks. For this episode Nettinger had been compelled to serve eleven years in the military prison.
"The future of the Republic is at stake," observes a third. "How will it all end?" This is the question that is uppermost in the minds of all. "There is no time left to weigh the effects of defeat," Nettinger asserts. "Each of us has but one thing to do, and to do this successfully he has pledged his life. No man can do more."
He had been admitted to the councils on the supposition that the best way to pacify and placate the Anarchistic element was to offer them full representation in the work of regenerating the government. Nettinger had been one of the few men who succeeded in eluding the police during the days of the reign of anarchy in Chicago in 1885. He is a man of gigantic build, and of imperturbable placidity.
"I am glad that we parted without formality," Nettinger declares to the group of committeemen who are his companions on a train that leaves Chicago for the South. "It would have unnerved us to speak of our meeting as 'the last'" says another of the group. "I have faced danger in my life, but I regard this as the most astounding departure that has ever been made in the interests of humanity."
Men who have been defrauded of their ideas and patents; others who have been the victims of unjust legislation, the dupes of the speculator, the betrayed friends of men who have ridden to fortune on the backs of those who gave them their first start. Under the new ruling, the first man to be recognized is Herman Nettinger, a man known to all the assemblage as an anarchist.
During these years he had familiarized himself with the teachings of the socialists, for his companions were, many of them, students of sociology. Upon his release he had come to this country. He invented a compressed air motor, but the American Motor Trust robbed him of his patents. In the space of five minutes Nettinger strives to defend the theory of anarchy.
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