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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday November 14, 1909
Mother Jones News Round-Up for October 1909, Part I:
-Found in Girard, Kansas and Texarkana, Texas
From Pittsburg [Kansas] Daily Headlight of October 9, 1909:
Mr. Debs Entertains.
Eugene V. Debs entertained a few friends last evening [in Girard] at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Warren, giving some of his fine readings, which were highly appreciated. The following named guests were present, others invited not being able to attend on account of the rain: G. H. Shoaf and daughters, Dr. J. T. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Tubbs, Mrs. Josephone Kaneko [Josephine Conger-Kaneko], Miss Pearl Busby, Mrs. Helen Unterman, of Idaho, S. Barrett, J. S. Cassin, Mother Jones, Mrs. Molkey, Mrs. S. P. Nichols and children, Charles and Gladys, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. D. Brewer, J. E. Snyder, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Fuller and son Floyd, Miss Maud Swan and Miss Margaret Simpson….
[Photograph added.]
From the Appeal to Reason of October 9, 1909:
[…..]
Mother Jones will be filling appointments in Texas before you read this unless she again fails us by being called to some strike center or to the rescue of some imprisoned comrade, and you will then have the opportunity of hearing this great soul. Comrades and locals are asked to write state headquarters and renew their calls for Mother.
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From The Shreveport Times of October 13, 1909:
[Mother Jones in Texarkana]
Mother Jones, the most beloved woman in the United States among laboring men, spent yesterday in Texarkana, leaving last night for Dallas and Fort Worth, from where she will go to Del Rio, In connection with the recent arrest and detention there of a number of Mexican political refugees. Mother Jones is not interested in the case of the refugees as it applies to the political matters involved, but is deeply concerned over the labor questions involved and from which it is said the real cause of their arrest sprang.
While here Mr. Jones did not meet formally any of the local labor leaders, but received in her pleasant, motherly way all who called. She stated that after Del Rio she would visit El Paso and from there would make a tour of the far West, returning to her home in Chicago, next summer. Enroute home she expect to pass through Texarkana and gave promise that if possible she would stop off here and deliver a lecture. She left on the Cotton Belt at 9:45 for Fort Worth.
From the Appeal to Reason of October 16, 1909:
MOTHER JONES.
—–This grand old warrior of the revolution is the guest of the Appeal for a few days. She has just returned from the Black Hills, where she delivered the labor day address and a number of other addresses to the miners and other workers in that district. All the meetings were largely attended and full of enthusiasm. The miners in the Black Hills know Mother Jones for what she is, and fairly idolize her. Mother Jones is never so completely in her element as when she is among the grimy slaves of the pits and dungeons.
While in the Black Hills Mother Jones was the guest of that other soldier of the revolution, Freeman Knowles, the brave editor of the Lantern, who is so offensive to the capitalists that their courts keep him in jail most of the time.
In the following lines which are clipped from the Salt Lake Tribune, the loyal devotion of Mother Jones to the working class at a time that tried the souls of the bravest, is set forth most happily:
While Mother Jones was engaged in helping a strike in Utah the authorities sought to get her out of the way by arresting her on the claim that she had violated a smallpox quarantine. The sheriff who arrested her seemed to really believe the charge and was thrown into a frightful panic at the fear of the disease. A local paragrapher in the Salt Lake Tribune gave vent to the following as a comment on the proceedings:
Who visited, one certain day,
A home where smallpox held full sway,
Broke quarantine and fled away?
Twas “Mother.”Who drove the sheriff to the woods?
Who proved that he was not the goods?
Who terrorized three neighborhoods?
Twas “Mother.”Who’s talking at a fearful rate?
Who makes the strikers demonstrate?
Who’s raising thunder in this state?
It’s “Mother.”Mother Jones was not afraid to go to jail with the strikers who had small-pox, nor could she be kept from them by the fear that she would be inoculated or the threat that she would be sent to prison.
The brave service this gallant old agitator has rendered to the working class during the past quarter of a century will never be told in words. When Mother Jones falls asleep she will leave a legacy of faithful and unselfish service to the working class which has never been excelled in the World’s history.
From The Salt Lake Herald of April 25, 1904:
Note: Emphasis added throughout.
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SOURCES
The Pittsburg Daily Headlight
(Pittsburg, Kansas)
-Oct 9, 1909
https://www.newspapers.com/image/94739340
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Texas)
-Oct 9, 1909
https://www.newspapers.com/image/66982177/
-Oct 16, 1909
https://www.newspapers.com/image/66982187/
The Shreveport Times
(Shreveport, Louisiana)
-Oct 13, 1909
https://www.newspapers.com/image/208905133
The Salt Lake Herald
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
-Apr 25, 1904
Poem for Mother Jones re Utah Quarantine
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058130/1904-04-25/ed-1/seq-4/
For story of Mother’s quarantine at Helper, Utah, and arrests of those who rescued her, see page 1:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058130/1904-04-25/ed-1/seq-1/
Continued page 2:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058130/1904-04-25/ed-1/seq-1/
Note: search of Salt Lake Tribune did
not reveal article mentioned in the Appeal, nor the poem.
IMAGE
Mother Jones, Elkhart IN Dly Rv p2, July 19, 1909
The Elkhart Daily Review
(Elkhart, Indiana)
-July 19, 1909, page 2
https://www.genealogybank.com/
See also:
Hellraisers Journal – Friday October 15, 1909
Mother Jones News Round-Up for September 1909:
-Found Speaking at Labor Day Celebration in Lead, South Dakota
Tag: Mexican Revolutionaries
https://weneverforget.org/tag/mexican-revolutionaries/
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