Monologue

Plim Monologue from Prince Hagen

From Prince Hagen by Upton Sinclair

male · defiant · 44 sec

They may over-ride it. (IS: There are the courts.) They may defy the courts. (RUTH: Oh, Plimpton, that's absurd!) Nothing of the kind, Rutherford! Suppose they were to elect to office some wild and reckless demagog... take, for instance, that ruffian you were telling us about... down there on the Bowery... (HAGEN starts, and listens) and he were to defy the law and the courts? He is preaching just that to the mob... striving to rouse the elemental wild beast in them! And some day they will pour out into this avenue...

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