Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-06
Will open CAMPAIGN
Nicholas Klein Will Address Will.
mar Audiences This Month";.
Noted Educator viii Follow.

The Socialists will formally open
their city and county campaign CD
Saturday evening, the 23rd inst. For
that occasion they have secured the
service OF Nicholas Klein 'tbe boy
orator." of Cincinnati O., state Or
ganizerfor Minnesota, who will deliyer
al address at Bonde hall at 8 p. m. j,
and will also speak at the same place
at 2:3O on Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. Klein is in many respects a
remarkable young man, q type of
American grit and pluck. He ;s
twenty two years Of age, but during
his short life time has personally ex.
perierced the most difficult hardships
of the laborer of to day. Born and
bred in a typical tenement Stun, he
began the hsnd-to- hand fight for sub.
sistence when five years of age as a
newsboy on the streets, and when
eight years old he became wage worker
in q factory. Deprived If the ad-
vantages of even an ele mentary school
training, his education las been gained
wholly by active home study and
practical experience in the h # airs OF
life. Mr.. Klein becameearly identified
with the trade union movene nt, and
when eighteen years of age was leader
of the greatest strike in the history OF
Cincinnati, against the Western Union
company. He is also an expert
athlete and has held positions as in
ssructor in the gymnasiums of his
home city. The young labor leader
has been engaged more or less in
public speaking for half dozen years,
and is an able and earnest exponent
of the rights OF labor. His eff1 iency
as speaker is highly praised by the
daily press OF his own city, as we'll a.
by prominent workers in the move
ment wherever he has been engaged
His own experie, ces, together with a
ceep study of social questions, make 8
him very fitted for his work in the
political labor movement, ard his
fellow workers here are anxious that
large audiences turn out to hear their
brilliant yourg comrade.
Another event expectantly ,oked
forward to by all Interested in dis
cussions of problems OF to day is the
coming of scholar and orator OF
quite a different type from the young
graduate Of the school OF child labor,
viz: Prof. Geo r. kirkpatrick, OF
Topeka, Kan. This gentleman pos
sesses the intellectual training OF
Americas highest educational insti-
tutions, and has held positions as
professor OF polical economy in two
prominent colleges. His gare ability
as an orator and his profound knowl-
edge Of the science of sociology is
attested to by many OF the most promi.
nent men in American educational
life, such as the late lamen,ed Dr.. Carl
Swensson, OF Bethany college, Kan.
sas, Prof Albion w. Small, bead oil
the department Of sociology, Chicago
University, Or: F. NJ. Taylor, pro.
lessor OF finance, Michigan Uoiver.
sity, and others. His lecture is a
scientific, yet popular, exposition OF
the subject of ''The Making and TAX
ing of Wealth. The date will be
soon announced.
Everyone interested In public ues:
tions sh 4uld not fail to hear both OF
these speakers, whose careers are 10
such striking contrast, but whose de.
votion to the cause of tho struggling
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