Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

From 1949 until his death he was curator of manuscripts for the Washington State Historical Society. He wrote Bars And Shadows: The Prison Poems while serving four years of a 20-year sentence. At the age of seven he saw a worker shot dead during the Pullman strike in Chicago Illinois.

Ralph Hosea Chaplin (1887—1961) was an American writer artist and labor activist. At the age of seven he saw a worker shot dead during the Pullman strike in Chicago Illinois.