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Hellraisers Journal: “Woman at the Tub” by Annie Laura McDonald; Poverty Kills, Especially for Infants and Children

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Quote Mother Jones Raising Hell, NYT p1, Oct 6, 1916———-

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday April 25, 1899
“‘Twas only a woman with dress soiled and worn…”

From the Appeal to Reason of April 22, 1899:

Poverty, POEM Woman at Tub, Annie Laura McDonald, AtR p3, Apr 22, 1899

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Mother Jones Raising Hell,
NYT p1, Oct 6, 1916, re Mother Speaks to Wives of Street Car Strikers, Blamed for Riot

Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-April 22, 1899
https://www.newspapers.com/image/66952569/

See also:

Note: all my searching, sadly, led to no sources on life of Annie Laura McDonald, but I did find seven of her poems published from May 1898 to Feb 1899. From these poems we learn that she was a “Mrs.” and that she wrote from Newaukem, Washington. See:

Industrial Freedom
(Edison, Washington)
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085617/
Use “Calendar View,” with these dates:
-May 28, 1898, page 4
-Sept 3, 1898, pages 1 & 2
-Sept 24, 1898, page 2
-Oct 1, 1898, page 1
-Dec 24, 1898, page 2
-Feb 25, 1899, page 3

Tag: Poverty
https://weneverforget.org/tag/poverty/

A Few Books Addressing Poverty from 1883-1906:

Progress and Poverty:
An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions,
and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth-the Remedy

by Henry George
Kegan Paul, Trench, 1883
https://books.google.com/books?id=0wJFAQAAMAAJ

Looking Backward 2000-1887
-by Edward Bellamy
Boston, 1888
https://archive.org/details/lookingbackward200bell/page/n8

Wealth Against Commonwealth
-by Henry Demarest Lloyd
Harper & Brothers, 1894 (1902 edition)
https://books.google.com/books?id=JwJKjjRGzzYC

Equality
-by Edward Bellamy
Morang, 1897
https://archive.org/details/equality00bell_0/page/n6

The People of the Abyss
-by Jack London
Macmillan, 1904
https://books.google.com/books?id=tswJAAAAIAAJ

Poverty
-by Robert Hunter
Macmillan, 1905
https://books.google.com/books?id=Dik5A16-EfIC

The Bitter Cry of the Children
-by John Spargo
Macmillan, 1906 (1915 edition)
https://books.google.com/books?id=jRtShCzm4ygC

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The Commonwealth of Toil – Joe Glazer
Lyrics by Ralph Chaplin

Tagged Annie Laura McDonald, Appeal to Reason, April 1899, Edison WA, Edward Bellamy, Henry Demarest Lloyd, Henry George, Industrial Freedom of Edison WA, Jack London, John Spargo, Newaukem WA, Poverty, Robert Hunter, Socialists

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