Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-05

In The Life, Writings and Speech
es of Eugene v. Debs," published by
the Appeal to Reason. Girard, Kan
sas, the disappointment in the biog-
raphy is perhaps compensated for
by the authorized writings and
speeches. Steve Reynolds can write
better biography than that miser-
able inefficient Life of Debs," which
bears his signature. and the only
excuse must be that he was rushed
so that the scissors and paste pot
had to be resorted to. And that is
not an excuse. it is but an explana-
ton. The writings and speeches,
with all the vim and logic and elo-
quence of Gene himself, with the
added value of his personal edit
ing, are of course worth more than
the low prices which the Appeal
asks for the book, which is substan-
TALLY bound in cloth. and typograph-
ically excellent. But Debs has be-
come such prominent figure that
real biography is needed. There is
no one better equipped than Steve
Reynolds to produce such book,
worthy Of handing down to poster
ity, but he must be given more than
fifteen minutes in which to prepare
his copy for the linotype operator.
Any sincere seeker after the
truth is missing something Of he does
not read the Twentieth Century
Magazine" Whether you are So
cialist, Spiritualist, Single Taxer, or
whatnot, you will find this magazine
unprejudiced against you. We know
that Everybody's" cannot conscien-
tiously attack trusts when it is itself
a trust; that it cannot sincerely at
tack stock watering when it watered
it's own from one to three; we know
that the Cosmopolitan" cannot han
estlys treat the subject of Mexican
peonage when it is owned by man
who profits by Mexican peonage-
and thus we hail with delight this
newer magazine sailing under the
newer flag of sincerity, independence
and fairness. If you want only en-
northumberland the misinforma
ton that goes with it, you had bet
ter stick to the Deadwood Dicks,
but if you want honest analysis of
present public matters and honest
criticism of present public figures,
and all this uncolored by an ssism,"'
you need go no farther than the
Twentieth Century Magazine
A new book. by an old author, nor
an. old book by new author classi-
fies Prince Hagan." We all read
1.-THE Jungle first, and then we
learned that Upton Sinclair had writ
ten other books before. There was
some polite wonder as to why these
children of his brain had had to wait
for their youngest brother to come
into being and boost them along, but
when we read these earlier books
the reason daWns upon US. They
taught a truth as unpalatable as
does the stockyards story, but, as
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the people in the stomach" although
he had aimed at their heads. Wei
now know that Prince Hagan" was
aimed at their heads; that there was
nothing in it to hit stomachs. and
that it missed its mark not because
of defective Workmanship, but be-
cause there were no heads yet to hit.
Heads now growing from the crop
of stomachs stirred into action by
the Jungle" there is at least a. /
market for earlier books. Prince
Hagan is character from a myth
ical country. where the inhabitants
live only for the storing Of solid
wealth in the form of gold and sill
YER He is q headstrong lad, and
the author promises the boys father
to bring to America with the idea
Of training him in better ways, SO
that he win be equipped to inherit +
the throne Of his native land. The
boy comes 70 America, studies our