Hellraisers Journal: The Compassionate Heart of Eugene Debs Re-Converts Florence Kelley to Socialism

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Quote EVD, re Knocked Down Women, Miners Mag, July 17, 1913
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Hellraisers Journal, Monday July 6, 1908
Compassion of Eugene Debs Re-Converts Florence Kelley

From The Socialist Woman of July 1908:

A RE-CONVERT.
—–
Rose Pastor Stokes.

Florence Kelley, Am Mag, July 1910
Florence Kelley

Mrs. Florence Kelley is one of the noblest women I know, and has worked for twenty years or more for Socialism among trades unionists and other classes of men and women. She used to belong to the Socialist party, but has not been a party member for many years. Last Sunday Mrs. Kelley was present at the mass meeting of the Christian Socialist Fellowship, when Eugene V. Debs spoke.

She was there when everybody else on the program spoke; but when she heard his wonderful plea for the woman who is not “fallen” but “knocked down;” for his sisters who are forced by a cruel and heartless system to sell their honor for a living, when she heard him declare, in a voice broken with emotion, that he honors these sisters of his and places his arm about them, and takes his stand by their side, Mrs. Kelley could not hear more.

Her face was flushed, and I saw the tears she wouldn’t let come to her eyes, as she exclaimed: “I am ashamed to be out of the party that has a man like that at its head! I’ll take out my membership card for him tomorrow.”

And her word is as good as her bond. Welcome to another new comrade!-The New York Evening Call.

[Photograph added.]

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SOURCE
The Socialist Woman
[Later-The Coming Nation]
-March-Dec 1908
https://books.google.com/books?id=OvM4AQAAMAAJ
Vol. II No. 14 – July 1908
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=OvM4AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA31
“A Re-Convert” by Rose Pastor Stokes
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=OvM4AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA34

IMAGE
Florence Kelley, Am Mag, July 1910
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=jeAvAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA322

See also:

Christian Socialist Fellowship
http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/csf/1907/0815-carr-csfhistory.pdf

Quote EVD, re Knocked Down Women, Miners Mag, July 17, 1913
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=BT4tAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.RA1-PA59

Eugene Debs, Jesus & The “Woman in Scarlet”
-by Stephen J. Taylor
Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana’s Digital Newspaper Program

Florence Kelley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Kelley

Rose Pastor Stokes
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/stokes-rose-pastor

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The White Slave – Joe Hill