The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-08-27
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swinton* you Will be- cad two
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II shall live until III fill mis-
sion, whatever that II rna ''s# said
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About.a year *ago. zDebss, TODD ~ the
bedside Of the dying SWinton and re-
ceived his benediction s= :5s 4 T.. :
Future: Of Socialism. & T ~.
"And what: Of: the future OF your
cause?" was asked by the reporter. r. :, T..
"A remarkable. change is taking
place. We are now admitted to the
great metropolitan press: Z The 1nde-
pendent and the Literary Digest have
written me for articles. :, This will be
an epoch making year for Socialism.
The article of Lawson on ;Amalgamated
Copper will make thousands Of So
ctalists The capitalists themselves are
destroying themselves ~.
|. How do you account for: your pop
ularity in conservative Boston," was
asked. - 80:
II must tell you Of my experience be-
fore the Twentieth Century club, the
most exclusive club Of Boston,. he re-
piled with a smile: sit was just after
the strike, when most people thought
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| before a packed house in Faneuil hall.
The next day I received a note from
Edwin B. Mead, editor of the New Eng
land magazine, sayingrFNthat he had
heard me and would like to have me
talk before the Twentieth Century club
! of which he was president. When the
time came it was ladies' day. We all
sat down to the table. The cream of
Boston was there. Mead had me next
| to him. No one knew. who was. At
| length Mead arose and said he had a
guest for whom he asked indulgence
one much hated and misunderstood.
| He then introduced me.
| He Charmed Boston,.
! "You should have, seen the express
sion on those peoples faces. 1t was
just such an occasion as breaks man
all up or brings to the surface all his
| latent strength. And L never felt more
kindly toward people in all my life. In
five minutes I had dispe1led that hate
| and at the end of forty minutes had
them for my friends and they are my
friends today"
He then went on to- pay a glowing
tribute to the. spirit of Boston.
IT see you have Dixon's books-the
! .Leopard's Spots,7, and his attack on
Socialism, observed the reporter.
'Dixon is brilliant, resourceful, but
sentimental, and his books will have
no permanent place in literature,"> he
said forcefully. =. mo man can write
his name in inn mortal letters who takes
the. ground that one race was created
to be the bondsmen of another race
attacks on slaVerV--and most brilliant
the writer evert heard :
TT does not matter that the Creator
has: sownawith sfars the ether and ha:
decked the earth. will countless beau
ties for. man S seni oyment, It does. no
tier hat air irHssa s. All: ocean TEEN. will
/. Wond erst q Allm erabl e forms OF LII
B oSchal IenEez ma n's. q 1r1irat ion1sand in
EVesti ION tde4 st nla ter that MA
Fur preads d forth 4 AL her scenes q
beauty and gladness land pours. *fortl
the melodies. Of her myriad stonguet
voices for mans sdelectation:: If liber
ty is ostracized and exiled, man is
slave and the World rolls around ii
space and 'whirls around the sun
gilded prison, a. doomed dungeon, AM
though painted: in all the enchantin,
hues that infinite art could command
it must stand forth b1otch amidst tn
singing spheres OF the siderial heaven
and those who Gull from the vocabu
laries of nations, living or dead, thei
; flashing phrases with which to apos
trophize liberty are engaged in per
petuating the most stupendous delu
sion the ages have known: Strike dow
liberty, no matter by what subtle an
internal art the deed is done the spina
cord of humanity, is sundered and tn
world is paralyzed, by the indescriba
An Admirer of Hugo.
, II notice you are an admirer Of HUI
CO." was the next impairment observa
ton.
"Ah, he was the champion Of lie
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was always On the side of those VIII
needed him, Do you remember in 'Th
Man Who Laughs the bitter satire o.
man? The wolf and the mainland tn
mans plea to the wolf, And whateve
you may do, Homo; never degenerat
into man.
"Mitchell's French Revolution T be
lieve is about the only work on the sub
ject tinged with Socialism" suggested
the reporter.
mo, Gronlund's.. Ca Ira is more sc
He was a great genius-Gronlund.
knew him we'll. He literally famisheC
He came to this country and lectureG
Just after I got out of jail he gave m
the manuscript Of his book, receentl
published by Stone. but I was too poo
myself to do anything with it. A sho1
time before he died he wrote me tina
Hearst had given him a position O.
his new York paper. In it he patheti
caly said he could now at last feed hi
poor body, and said that many times h
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