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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday December 21, 1918
Mother Jones News for November 1918
-American Revolutionary, Thomas Paine, Among Favorite Authors
From The New Appeal of November 30, 1918:
Mother Jones and Debs
This morning’s mail has brought The New Appeal Book Dept. orders for Voltaire’s “Candide” from Mother Jones and Eugene V. Debs. Mother Jones writes:
I want Voltaire’s greatest work, “Candide.” You know he is a very great writer. He and Victor Hugo and Thomas Paine were my favorites when the late J. A. Wayland and I used to sit up at night and talk these great writers over.
Mother Jones knows that Voltaire’s “Candide” is worth reading. Do you? If you don’t, then be sure to order this beautifully printed and exquisitely bound edition, which we are selling, postpaid, for only 80 cents. This is a low price and cannot remain that low very long. But we will fill your order if we receive it in the near future.
[Photograph added.]
Ad for Voltaire’s Candide:
The Prophetic Words of Victor Hugo:
It’s Time Has Come
“THERE is only one thing stronger than armies,” wrote Victor Hugo, “and that is, an Idea whose Time has come.” Those were only a few of the prophetic words uttered by the French seer. It is one of the pities of language that Hugo is known here almost exclusively as a novelist, because prose is easier to translate than poetry. To France he is her greatest poet-a poet of glowing grandeur. So strong, indeed, is an Idea whose Time has come-so much stronger than armies, that those very armies join behind the first lines-the army of workers and thinkers. Look at the intellectual map of Europe at the time Hugo wrote; look at it again, only four years ago. Look at it now. And then, using your imagination; behold it ten or fifteen years later, when it has been rebuilt, when Russia and Germany have risen from the inevitable riotism that now scares them. A United States of Europe, perhaps, leading to that United States of the World which is even now germinating in the League of Nations!
Even here, the great Hugo was ahead of us. It is recounted that on his desk, the day he died in 1885, there was found a half-sheet of paper bearing the following words:
I represent a party which has not yet come into existence: the party of the Revolution, or Civilization. This party will transform the Twentieth Century.
There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, and then the United States of the World.
Bravo, shades of the great Victor! You are more alive, there in your hallowed grave today, than many a man and woman that walks the soil in the fatuous thought that the world, for their personal profit and comfort, will quietly slide back to its 1914 position.
On Sale: The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine:
Paine’s “Age of Reason”
Thomas Paine was perhaps the greatest and most wonderful analyst of the bible the world has produced. His arguments on the New Testament in “The Age of Reason” are masterpieces of criticism, bringing out in forceful and readily understandable language all phases of differences between the writings of the Apostles, and making such comments as even a child could understand his criticism of the truth contained in their writings.
Every follower of the church must read this great work to get the truth or fallacy of divine inspiration.
Thomas Paine says: “The most formidable weapon against error is reason,” and this volume certainly contains reason in every line.
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SOURCES
Quote Mother Jones re Hugo, Montgomery WV, Aug 4, 1912
Page 87 https://books.google.com/books?id=vI-xAAAAIAAJ
The New Appeal
(Girard, Kansas)
-Nov 30, 1918
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67587168
Page 2: re Victor Hugo
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67587166
Note: In quoting Mother Jones, The Appeal was paraphrasing a letter from Mother Jones to Walter Wayland:
Charleston, W. Va.,
November 15th, 1918.Mr. Walter Wayland,
Editor of the Appeal to Reason,
Girard, Kans.
My Dear Walter:I have been for some time wanting to write you to know how Julia and Edith are. I have had so much to do, that I have been unable to get around to that part. What has become of George Brewer and Grace. I think they made a great mistake when they left the Appeal. I don’t hear much of the party that they joined, it seems to me it went to pieces just as it rose. It certainly did not figure in the last campaign.
I hope that you will put some fire into the Appeal now that the War is over, the Appeal once was the best paper in this country, that is so far as the worker were concerned, but it has of recent years lost that fire, you must get a hold of some Editor who understands the reconstruction period for there is no doubt that there are stormy days ahead of us, and the Appeal can do more good than any other paper in the country if it is properly edited by men with the fight in them.
What has become of Copeland [Louis Kopelin]. I don’t hear of him only that he went across the water, did he return? Even Copeland did not have the fire in him that was so necessary to keep the Appeal going, that is to interesting readers, it was one of the papers that struck the angles in the right place.
I am going to the Illinois State Federation in a week or so, but you send those books here. I want Voltaire’s Greatest Work, Candide, you know he is a very great wrighter, he and Victor Hugo and Tom Payne were my favors, when you father [J. A. Wayland] and myself used to set up at night and talk these over. Perhaps some day I will go down to Girard and see you again.
Give my love to the girls and to John, tell them I love them just a I did in days of old.
Sincerely yours,
Mother JonesPS I hope the coming year will be a prosperous one for the coming year.
Mother Jones Speaks
Collected Writings and Speeches
-ed by Philip S. Foner
Monad Press, 1983
(see page 621)
https://books.google.com/books?id=T_m5AAAAIAAJ
The Correspondence of Mother Jones
-ed by Edward M. Steel
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985
(see page 184)
https://books.google.com/books?id=EZ2xAAAAIAA
IMAGES
J. A. Wayland, of AtR, 1854-1912
https://spartacus-educational.com/USAwaylandJ.htm
Appeal Books, Voltaire, AtR p1, Nov 30, 1918
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67587164
Appeal Books, Paine Age of Reason, AtR p3, Nov 30, 1918
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67587168
See also:
Julius Augustus Wayland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Wayland
George and Grace Brewer were Kansas Socialists
https://weneverforget.org/tag/george-brewer/
https://weneverforget.org/tag/grace-d-brewer/
For more on Walter Wayland and Louis Kopelin
https://spartacus-educational.com/USAappealR.htm
Voltaire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire
Candide by Voltaire
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19942/19942-h/19942-h.htm
Victor Hugo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo
Poems by Victor Hugo
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8775/8775-h/8775-h.htm
Thomas Paine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine
Age of Reason
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Reason
The Age of Reason
Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology
by Thomas Paine
Truth Seeker Company, 1898
https://books.google.com/books?id=he0RAAAAYAAJ
Part I
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=he0RAAAAYAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PR25
Part II
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=he0RAAAAYAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA68-IA3
The New Testament
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=he0RAAAAYAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA138
Conclusion
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=he0RAAAAYAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA168
Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
http://www.ushistory.org/paine/reason/
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