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Hellraisers Journal – Monday February 15, 1909
Mother Jones News Round-Up for January 1909, Part I:
-Found Writing and Speaking on Behalf of Mexican Patriots
During the month of January 1909, we first find Mother Jones in the pages of the Appeal to Reason advocating on behalf of the Mexican Patriots imprisoned in the United States and facing deportation to Mexico where certain death awaits them at the hands of the Tyrant, Porfirio Díaz.
Hellraisers Journal of January 10th republished an article from the Appeal to Reason of January 9, 1909, in which Mother was quoted:
The Appeal can and will arouse the American People. Its voice rings like a clarion over all the nation. How the hearts of the refugees must be cheered when they hear the Appeal’s ringing challenge to the czar of Russia and the dictator of Mexico! More power to the Appeal! May every one of its more than three hundred thousand readers resolve this very hour to double its circulation, that a million more American people can be shaken from their lethargy and swell the mighty protest against Russian bastiles and Mexican dungeons on American soil.
[Photograph added.]
From the Kansas Pittsburg Daily Headlight of January 13, 1909:
GIRARD NOTES.
[…..]
Mother Jones of Socialist fame, was in Girard and went up to Fort Scott last evening….
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From the Springfield Illinois State Register of January 16, 1909:
Protest Meeting
At the court house Sunday at 2:30 p. m. The famous Mother Jones will speak. Admission free.
From the Springfield Illinois State Register of January 17, 1909:
INDIGNATION MEETING TO BE HELD
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Protest Against Imprisonment of Russian
and Mexican Political Refugees Will
Be Made-Mother Jones to Speak.An indignation meeting protesting against the unjust imprisonment of the Russian and Mexican political refugees will be held at the court house this afternoon. Mother Jones will speak at the meeting. She is one of the most remarkable women of the age and is known in every mining region of the United States for the help she has rendered the miners. At an age when most women have ceased active work, she is still vigorous and active.
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From the Springfield Illinois State Register of January 18, 1909:
OPEN DOORS, SAYS “MOTHER” JONES
—–WOMAN LECTURER ADDRESSES LABORING PEOPLE.
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Imploys Pointed Remarks and Striking Wit in Entertaining
Large Representation of City’s Workingmen-Advocates
Less Secrecy in Actions of Unions in Meetings
-Recites Conditions in Mexico.Meetings of laboring people should not close their doors to the employers of the men assembled. There should be no password required to enter. A freer attitude and less reserve in the actions of the labor unions of the country would be productive of infinitely better results.
So declared “Mother” Mary Jones of Chicago, the veteran woman labor exponent, at a meeting before a court room full of labor representatives yesterday at the court house. Forcibly and with characteristic bluntness, she entertained her audience for more than an hour with narration of her observations and conditions in the nation as she saw them.
Two Governments Prevail.
[Continued Mother Jones:]
Where one government prevailed forty years ago, this country is now ruled by two. The one-the political-with headquarters at Washington; the other-the despotic-with headquarters in the ranks of labor throughout the nation. When I say despotic, I mean that labor, representative of nearly every class in the United States in some degree, dictates every action which it desires. Congress is like putty in its hands. The president and the senate fall before it. It is then for labor to wake up and recognize its power.
We have heard protest after protest against the late injunction of Judge Wright. I say, if labor recognizes its capabilities and awakens to the emergency, it and not the courts will serve the injunctions. Injunctions are all right. It remains only for the right person or persons to be their author.
Reviews Conditions in Mexico.
Mother Jones went into considerable detail in portraying Mexican labor conditions. She has been in that country and has studied existing conditions extensively. Her recital of her findings there was most interesting.
The speaker has been in this city and vicinity several weeks. The meeting yesterday was the first of any consequence in the course of her stay. She did not fail to entertain her hearers with her pointed and convincing manner of talking and the aptness of her explanations all contribute to the making of an entertaining address.
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Hellraisers Journal of January 25th republished an article, written by Mother Jones, from the Appeal to Reason of January 23, 1909:
Oh! Ye Lovers of Liberty
by Mother Jones[…..]
But, let me ask you, Attorney Lawler, of Los Angeles, if you can reconcile your conscience to the crushing out of liberty and the human desire for justice. The class you represent has murdered and oppressed men, women and children in the interests of cursed greed. They have jailed the men who fed them; they have maligned us, vilified us, buried us in dungeons, hung us on scaffolds, chopped us to pieces, nailed us to the cross of profits as they did the Laborer of Palestine nineteen centuries ago. Have you not, Attorney Lawler, of Los Angeles, nursed from your mother’s breast the milk of human kindness? Will you stoop to stain your hands with the blood of these four brave lovers of liberty, by handing them over to that brutal dictator called Diaz?
Permit me, Attorney Lawler, of Los Angeles, to serve notice on you and your class that the working people of America are awake. You cannot make them slaves as are the peons of Mexico, slaves of the dictator whom you serve. Let me hand you the edict of the One you pretend to honor-“Thou shalt not kill.”
We are serving notice on you. Your dungeons shall yet be turned into club rooms. We want peace, we want justice, we want that which is justly our’s.
By all that is good and holy we shall have them…..
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SOURCES
Hellraisers Journal – Sunday January 10, 1909
Big Bill Haywood & Mother Jones Rally Support for Mexican Patriots
From the Appeal to Reason of Jan 9, 1909 -Mother Jones Appeals for Mexican and Russian Refugees
The Pittsburg Daily Headlight
(Pittsburg, Kansas)
-Jan 13, 1909
https://www.newspapers.com/image/94742929/
Illinois State Register
(Springfield, Illinois)
-Jan 16, 1909, page 5
-Jan 17, 1909, page 24
-Jan 18, 1909, page 5
https://www.genealogybank.com/
Hellraisers Journal: Monday January 25, 1909
Los Angeles, California – Mexican Revolutionaries Languish in Jail
From the Appeal to Reason of January 23, 1909 -“Oh! Ye Lovers of Liberty” by Mother Jones
IMAGE
Mother Jones, Dnv Pst p2, July 19, 1908
https://www.genealogybank.com/
See also:
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-January 9, 1909
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67587592/
-Jan 23, 1909
https://www.newspapers.com/image/66981597/
Tag: Mexican Revolutionaries
https://weneverforget.org/tag/mexican-revolutionaries/
Note: for more information on the Mexican Patriots as well as names and places mentioned in relation to them, follow links above to Hellraisers Journals of Jan 10 + 25, 1909 and scroll down to “see also” section.
Re Judge Wright’s Injunction, see:
Tag: Buck’s Stove and Range Case
https://weneverforget.org/tag/bucks-stove-and-range-case/
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