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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday September 21, 1909
“Oh, come, ye outcast of the earth…make the world a home.”
From the Appeal to Reason of September 18, 1909:
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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday September 21, 1909
“Oh, come, ye outcast of the earth…make the world a home.”
From the Appeal to Reason of September 18, 1909:
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Hellraisers Journal – Monday August 4, 1919
From James Oppenheim: “Gene Debs, this fragrant song for you…”
From The Workers World of August 1, 1919:
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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday May 13, 1919
Leavenworth Penitentiary – “The Girls Who Sang for Us” by Ralph Chaplin
From the Leavenworth New Era of May 9, 1919:
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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday May 4, 1919
Leavenworth Penitentiary – “Prison Nocturne” by Ralph Chaplin
From the Leavenworth New Era of May 2, 1919:
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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday April 22, 1919
Poetry and Philosophy from the New York Rebel Worker
From The Rebel Worker of April 15, 1919:
I FEEL SO GOOD.
I have to sing
I feel so good.
Because some grand
Duke’s sawing wood.And pretty soon
A big bunch more,
Will have to work
Until they’re sore.And then we stiffs.
Will run this earth.
And all their pains
Will cause us mirth.And if some guy
Tells us that’s wrong,
We’ve got a story
Good and long.Of things they’ve done
While we were slaves;
Grand Dukes and such
Are common Knaves.-A. SIGISMUND.
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[From Jean-Jacques Rousseau]
The first man who, having inclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying “This is mine,” and found people simple enough to believe he was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind by pulling up the stakes or filling up the ditch and crying to his fellows:
Beware of listening to this imposter; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all of us, and the earth itself to nobody.
(Jean Jacques Rosseau.)
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[Photograph added.]
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Hellraisers Journal – Friday April 11, 1919
Leavenworth Prison at Night: “Silence intense…”
From the Leavenworth New Era:
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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday April 10, 1909
From the Pen of W. F. Barnard: “The Children of the Looms”
From Wilshire’s Magazine of April 1909:
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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday March 17, 1909
“Where is your childhood of laughter and playing?”
From The Progressive Woman of March 1909:
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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday February 26, 1919
The New Appeal Book Department Publishes Oscar Wilde’s “Reading Jail”
From The New Appeal of February 22, 1919:
Greatest Prison Poem Ever Written
Oscar Wilde’s “The Ballad of Reading Jail” Has Just
Been Published by The New Appeal Book Department“The Ballad of Reading Jail” [first published in 1898] will live as long as the English language. It is the greatest prison poem ever penned. This soul-stirring masterpiece of literature is the most overwhelming argument ever aimed against the terrible evil of capital punishment.
“The Ballad of Reading Jail” was written while Oscar Wilde was in a prison cell. One of the prisoners, sentenced to hang, and finally executed, so moved Wilde to the depths that he was inspired to write this ballad.
This poetical classic is the first of The New Appeal’s Pocket Series. We have printed this poem on fine book paper and have bound it handsomely. It is printed in a convenient form so that you will be able to slip it into your pocket and read it on the street car during your lunch hour or during any spare moments when you will want something that will be of more use to you than the usual trash with which one whiles away his time. A poem like this is not read once or twice. Those who know this tremendous masterpiece have it within reach so that they may return to it time and time again. By publishing this long, readable poem in this simple, bulkless from we enable you to carry it with you without bulging your pockets.
Oscar Wilde was a genius. Whatever may be said about him, no one has ever questioned his mastery of the English language and his ability to express the deepest emotions in the simplest, most compelling, manner conceivable.
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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday February 21, 1899
On Municipal Water Ownership, the Public, and the Plutocrat
From the Appeal to Reason of February 18, 1899: