Laura Monologue from The Machine

From The Machine by Upton Sinclair

female · defiant · 1:15 min

(Quickly.) Understand, that has nothing to do with your course. I am not asking you to spare him. You must go ahead and do your duty... you must do just what you would have done if I had never stood in the way. (MONTAGUE: It is a terrible thing to me, Miss Hegan. I cannot turn back...) You must not! You must not think of it! It will be a part of my father's punishment... and he has deserved it. He has prepared that cup, and he must drink it... to the dregs! (MONTAGUE: You can bear it?) It is not any question of what I can bear. It is a question of the rights of the people. I saw that quite clearly, as my father talked with me. Whether it is he who wins, or whether it is Murdock, it is always the people that lose. And, let it hurt whom it may, the people must have the truth!

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