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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday November 26, 1912
Girard, Kansas – Wayland’s Last Paragraph, “…no unkind words…”
From the Appeal to Reason of November 23, 1912:
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To a Good Soldier
[-by Kate Richards O’Hare]
We shed no tears of grief; grief is for the naked lives of those who have made the world no better.
We have no idle, vain, regrets; for who are we to judge, or say that he has shirked his task or left some work undone? No eyes can count the seed that he has sown, the thoughts that he has planted in a million souls now covered deep beneath the mold of ignorance which will not spring into life until the snows have heaped upon his gave and the sun of springtime comes to reawaken the sleeping world.
Sleep on our comrade; rest your weary mind and soul; sleep sweet and deep, and if in other realms the boon is granted that we may again take up our work, you will be with us and give us of your strength, your patience and your loyalty to your fellow men. We bring no ostentatious tributes of our love; we spend not gold for flowers for your tomb, but with hearts that rejoice at your deliverance offer a comrade’s tribute to lie above your breast-the red flag of human brotherhood.
KATE RICHARD O’HARE.
St Louis. Mo.[Photograph and emphasis added.]
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote EVD re Death of Wayland, AtR p1, Nov 23, 1912
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/appeal-to-reason/121123-appealtoreason-w886-waylandcoverage.pdf
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-Nov 23, 1912
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/appeal-to-reason/121123-appealtoreason-w886-waylandcoverage.pdf
IMAGE
J. A. Wayland, Leaves of Life p6, 17 of 289, 1912
https://archive.org/details/leaveslife00unkngoog/page/n16/mode/2up?view=theater
Compare to:
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/wayland/6/
See also:
Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday November 20, 1912
Girard, Kansas – Comrade J. A. Wayland Has Died; His Memory Will Live On
See Nov 23, 1912, Appeal to Reason, pages 1-4, for full coverage of events surrounding the death of J. A. Wayland: day of his death, tributes, reporting re ongoing legal persecution of the Appeal.
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/appeal-to-reason/121123-appealtoreason-w886-waylandcoverage.pdf
Leaves of Life
-by J. A. Wayland
Appeal to Reason, 1912
https://archive.org/details/leaveslife00unkngoog/page/n6/mode/2up?view=theater
Apr 13, 1912, Appeal to Reason of Girard KS
-Eugene Debs Reviews “Leaves of Life” by J. A. Wayland
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113717283/apr-13-1912-appeal-to-reason-of/
May 18, 1912, Coming Nation of Girard KS
-Ad for “Leaves of Life” by J. A. Wayland
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113717074/may-18-1912-coming-nation-of-girard/
Nov 23, 1912, Coming Nation of Girard KS
-AM Simons re Wayland: “The Future His Monument”
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113717663/nov-23-1912-coming-nation-of-girard/
Autobiography of Mother Jones
Chapter 4 – Wayland’s Appeal To Reason
https://archive.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/4/
Julius Augustus Wayland (April 26, 1854 – November 10, 1912)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Wayland
Tag: J. A. Wayland
https://weneverforget.org/tag/j-a-wayland/
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