Hellraisers Journal, Sunday April 12, 1908
-Mother Jones News Round-Up for March 1908
–Found in Kansas and Texas on Tour for S. P. of A.
From Proletarec of March 3, 1908
-Slovenian Language Socialist Newspaper:
Vi delavci gradite palače in ječe. Bogati postopači stanujejo v prvih, a v zadnje potisnejo vas. — Mother Jones.
From The Chicago Daily Tribune of March 3, 1908:
Here we find Mother Jones and Lucy Parsons connected by Chicago Chief of Police Shippy to the recent attempt on his life. The Chief blames the speeches of Mother Jones, Lucy Parsons and, apparently, even the settlement workers of Hull House and Graham Taylor of Chicago Commons, for the attempted assassination upon him by the alleged anarchist, Lazarus (Harry) Averbuch. Averbuch was killed by the Police Chief during the attack.
Mischief Done by Anarchist Speakers.
The situation which developed into the tragedy of yesterday was thus discussed by the chief:
“A number of attacks were made on the police at the Brand’s hall meeting [a few days previous to the assault]. Several of the speakers might just as well have told their deluded hearers to go out and murder every policeman they saw. That was what one of the speakers said he wished he could do-go out and kill every policeman and throw their bodies in the lake to the fish. Lucy Parsons spoke at this meeting, attacking the police bitterly.
“A few nights after this meeting Mother Jones, who was one of those who denounced the police at Brand’s hall, spoke at Hull house and Lucy Parsons was in the audience.
The social settlements,” continued the chief, gravely, “are first cousins to the anarchists. Graham Taylor, who spoke recently before the Association of Commerce, denounced the police as the most corrupt body of men. This kind of talk is what leads to assassination.”
Playing with Edged Tools.
“It is the suggestion that causes these poor, deluded men to go out with their knives and revolvers to kill….
From The Chicago Daily Tribune of March 4, 1908
-Further statement of Chief Shippy:
“I think Chicago is going to witness a weeding out of undesirable citizens,” said the chief. “I think you will find there will be no more meetings in which murder is advocated. I think that Mother Jones, for example, will not be allowed again to address an audience at Hull house. I think Hull house will not be used for any such purpose in the future.”
-Statement of Emma Goldman:
EMMA GOLDMAN STILL DENYING.
Springfield, Mo., March 3.-Emma Goldman, the anarchist, addressing a meeting, tonight said anarchism did not mean murder and killing, but aimed at the overthrowing of present society, the church and bad government.
She followed this with a tirade against the newspapers, saying they and the police were responsible for the assassination of rulers and for the wicked form of government.
She repeated her declaration that Lazarus Averbuch, who attacked Chief Shippy of Chicago, was not an anarchist and that she had never heard of him.
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From the Appeal to Reason of March 7, 1908
-Tri-State Edition, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas:
-Texas
W. J. Bell, State Secretary, Tyler.[…..]
Reports indicate that Longview had a successful week of agitation with Comrades Taylor and Mother Jones. The hoodlum element undertook to create a disturbance and every effort was made during Comrade Taylor’s lectures to create trouble. On Wednesday night someone fired a pistol in the rear of the court-house, but it only arouse Comrade Taylor to greater effort and he fired intellectual shots from the rostrum in return….
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TRI-STATE ARMY
[…..]
-Last week the Appeal office was favored by a visit from Mother Jones and John C. Chase, of Haverhill, Mass. Mother has departed for Texas, where she will work for a while, and Comrade Chase went on his way, filling dates at Joplin and Kansas City. The Appeal office enjoyed their stay and would be glad to see them return any time.
From the Appeal to Reason of March 14, 1908
-Tri-State Edition, Texas:
Speakers’ Dates.
[…..]
Mother Jones-Mt. Carmel, March 12-14; Trenton, 16-17; Princeton, 18-19; Copeville, 20-21; Fairlie, 23.
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From the Appeal to Reason of March 21, 1908
-Tri-State Edition, Texas:
Speakers’ Dates.
[…..]
Mother Jones-Copeville, 20-21; Fairlie, 23; Cumby, 24; Cross Timbers, 25; Campbell, 26; Lone Oak, 27-28; Grand Saline, 30-31; Tyler, April 1-7.
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From The Girard Press of March 26, 1908:
DANGEROUS GROUND.
Mother Jones, the Socialistic Joan of Arc, is quoted as follows in her Girard speech last Saturday:
I would like to see every church and charitable institution in the land burned, and Tom Paine’s temple of justice reared on their ruins.
We are loth to believe that all Socialists subscribe to this, because this would be eliminating the dividing line between nihilism and socialism. It is utterances like this that lead up to tragedies such as was enacted in Denver in which a minister of the gospel was murdered.-Pittsburg Kansan.
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From the Appeal to Reason of March 28, 1908
-Tri-State Edition, Texas:
Speakers’ Dates.
[…..]
Mother Jones-Lone Oak, March 27-28; Grand Saline, 30-31; Tyler, April 2-8….
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[…..]
-Comrade Tinsley, Longview, Tex., sends in a list of 27. Mother Jones has recently visited that section and the canvass which this comrade has given that place goes to show that something is doing down there….
SOURCES
Proletarec
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Mar 3, 1908
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045377/1908-03-03/ed-1/seq-1
The Chicago Daily Tribune
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Mar 3, 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/image/350243529/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/350243550/
-Mar 4, 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/image/350243717/
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-Mar 7, 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67587219/
-Mar 14, 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67587226/
-Mar 21, 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67587233/
-Mar 28, 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67587244/
The Girard Press
(Girard, Kansas)
-Mar 26, 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/image/183974371/
IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones, Palaces and Jails, AtR, Feb 29, 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67587204/
Mother Jones, Mar 11, 1905, AtR
https://www.newspapers.com/image/66992169/
See also:
Non-English press of the Socialist Party of America-
-Slovenian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English_press_of_the_Socialist_Party_of_America#Slovenian
Proletarec
http://catalog.crl.edu/search/?searchscope=1&searchtype=o&searcharg=9447497
Proletarec, Jan 1, 1906 to Nov 27, 1918
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045377/
Graham Taylor and the Chicago Commons
https://faith.galecia.com/essays/graham-taylor-and-chicago-commons
Comrade Taylor=Clarence H. Taylor of Baltimore
-per Appeal to Reason of January 25, 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67587159/
“Leo Heinrichs, O.F.M. 1867-1908
–Protomartyr of Colorado”
-by Deacon William Joyce, S.F.O.
of St. Augustine, Florida
https://web.archive.org/web/20110722000132/http://www.franciscan-sfo.org/fe/Heirichs.html
Life and Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume 1
-Containing a Biography by Thomas Clio Rickman
and Appreciations by Leslie Stephen, Lord Erskine, Paul Desjardins, Robert G. Ingersoll, Elbert Hubbard and Marilla M. Ricker,
-ed by Daniel Edwin Wheeler
V. Parke & Comp, 1908
https://books.google.com/books?id=3zcNAAAAIAAJ
Life of Thomas Paine
-by Thomas Clio Rickman
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=3zcNAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA1
Dick Gaughan – Tom Paine’s Bones