Hellraisers Journal: Why Workers Walk and Why “Wandering Willies” Tramp While Plutocrats Wallow in Luxury

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You pity yourselves,
but you do not pity your brothers,
or you would stand together
to help one another.
-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday July 27, 1898
Chicago, Illinois – Workers Walk in Rain as Street Cars Pass By

From the Appeal to Reason of July 16, 1898:

Your Turn May Come to Be a Tramp, AtR, July 16, 1898

WHY DO WE WALK?

E. B. Webster in National Tribune.

As I started home from “down town,” when I reached Madison street I noticed hundreds of people walking, all going west.

I was intending to take a car, but seeing so many people walking, I says to myself: “The cars must have stopped.” But, no, the cars were moving right along, one every half minute.

Then why do the people walk? I determined to walk home with the rest and punish myself for having been dormant and letting the street railway company buy up the street for a few thousand dollars from the aldermen who had the power to give away what they never owned and had cost them nothing.

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