The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-12-09
is TO BE FITTINGLY OBJ
SERVED AT BOSTON
SUNDAY
HIS TOOTH ANNIVERSARY
Sketch of the Great AbC.
IitiOniSt and His Life Work

Boston, Mass. Dec. s.-Elaborate ar
rangements for the celebration Of the
one hundredth anniversary OF the birth
Of William Lloyd Garrison, the abolition
list, have been completed by the Garrison
centenary committee OF the Boston Spf-
frage league. The celebration is to be-
gin tomofsv~ by ,ile placing OF a chap
let on the statue OF Garrison In Common
wealth avenue. The program will be
continued Monday with exercises in
Faneull hall The morning session will
be in charge Of the colored women and
the Grand Army OF the Republic. The
afternoon and evening sessions win be
devoted TO brief addresses by eiainent
men OF either race, on various plS9sas
Of Garrisons' Ife work.
William Lloyd Garrison was born in
Newburyport, Mass, December 10. 1906.
His father was lost at sea and his
mother had hard struggle to support
her family. When William was large
enough. he was sent on election and
training days to sell candy which his
mother had made.
During the war Of 1912 the family, with
the exception OF william, moved to Lynn.
William, though but seven years old,
was left behind in Newburyport to live
with Deacon Ezekial Bartlett. AT the
age Of nine he was apprenticed to Gam
alel w. oliver to learn shoemaking.
The next few years he spent at vari-
Gus trades, drifting from place to place,
but finally returning to Eewburyport,
where he went to work for Ephraim w.
Allen, publisher OF newspaper called
the Herald. where be learned the art
OF printing. While here he first began
to WELD the pen which was to make him
world famous At the age OF twenty he
was writing forceful articles in defense
Of Timothy Pickering and Harrrlson
Gray Ot.s.
In 1929 he edited the National PhIlan-
thropist of Boston, the FIRST paper to be
devoted to the cause OF total dbstinence
The following year he started, with
Benjamin Lundy, paper called the Lib
orator. Some protests were made be-
cause Of the papers radical tone, but
the proprietors announced that they
would publish II as long as they could
live on bread ana water and sleep on the
office hoor.n
Tho LiSerator was printed from bor-
rowed type, set by the partners in hours
snatched from their regular labors as
journeymen printers, worked off the
press and mailed by them TO those whom
they desired to interest in the cause Of
the abolition Of American slavery Il
had no subscribers at its beginning, but
ere long the paper and its editor be-
came known to the whole country. The
south resented its attacks in no uncer-
tain tones. AT a public meeting in Mis-
sisaippi 1t was resolved that whoever
should circulate the paper was justly
worthy in the sight OF Goo and man Of
immediate deaIh' Similar action was
taken IN other states Of the south.
The sentiment against Garrison was
not confined entirely to the south. On
the twenl y-first Of October. 1885, the
editor Of the Liberator was seized by
mob in Boston ard dragged through the
streets with a rope around his neck. and
was only saved by being committed to
JAIL
But Garrison boldly keB up his agi-
tation and the humhtF OF his followers
increased rapidly Il has been declared
that 10 his tongue and his pen was due
more than to anything else the course
Of events finally leading to the outbreak
OF hos.ilities between the north and the
south Garrison lived to see abolition
Of which he was the pioneer advocate
and for which he had labored unceas-
ingly for 50 many years-become an ac-
complshed fact His death occurred in
Roxbury Mass. May a. 1879.