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Hellraisers Journal – Monday March 7, 1910
“The Capitalist Class” by Rudyard Kipling, Music by Franz Beidel
From The Progressive Woman of March 1910:
THE CAPITALIST CLASS
There was some question for a time as to whether Kipling was the author of the poem “The Capitalist Class.” We believe the controversy has settled the authorship in his favor. Comrade Franz Beidel, of Chicago, has written some music to Kipling’s words, thus making one of the most beautiful and effective songs in our revolutionary music. We are glad to give you the music, which is published here for the first time. If there are any who do not care for a minor strain, we would suggest that they change the key to G major, as it is very effective sung this way.
[Emphasis added.]
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote If Blood Be the Price, LRSB 15th Ed p27, 1919
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs_of_the_Workers_(15th_edition)/We_Have_Fed_You_All_for_a_Thousand_Years
The Progressive Woman
(Girard, Kansas)
-Mar 1909 to May 1911
(note: some issues missing)
https://books.google.com/books?id=Zo1EAQAAIAAJ
Progressive Woman of Mar 1910
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Zo1EAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA16-IA145
Song We Have Fed You All, Prg Wmn p12, Mar 1910
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Zo1EAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA16-IA156
See also:
Tag: We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years
https://weneverforget.org/tag/we-have-fed-you-all-for-a-thousand-years/
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We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years
-Jack Herranen and the 9th Ward Conspiracy