Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-08
Proud of East Side.

The East SIDE is proud OF IT'S achieve
ment in sending MIR. Londcn to Congress
and Mr. London is proud Of the East
Side" He is described as the arch type
of the East Side New Yorker, who
came from Russia without funds. pros
poets or friends. and by sheer study. Work
and application made himself Il factor
among his own people and a :crce in the
community in which he lives. Forty-tWo
wears old, Il lawyer and an orator whose
street corner speeches are repeated oy
the dwelerS in the tenementS OF Essex
Division. Rivington and other East Sue
streets. he is regarded not only as
philosopher and student of Ioistoy'
hut as one who has himself lived in the
tenements and who knows what II Is TO
have only the street for a front yard and
the fire escape for a breathing spot
He was eighteen years old when he
arrived in New York from southern
Russia and took up his abode on the
East Side. He worked at anything at
first. just to make a living. Then he
studied law. and for a dozen years he
has been attorney for various labor
few East Side employers. student of
government and socialism. and
socialstic orator whose popularity in
that sphere of activity has taken him
to many parts of the country. He is
fairly well to do, but is far from
wealthy. He has taken most of his
retainers on promises. and has received.
in many instances. nothing more sub
stantial. He has held an ambition for
ten years to go to Congress. He was
morning, the returns from the twelfth
district showed he had been elected
over Henry NJ. Goldfogle.
Talks of His Mission.
My mission to Washington" said Mr.
London, will be to preach the phil
osophy of socialism-not to be a law
maker. My work will be the teaching
of the new philosophy of life. l be-
ieve that the doctrine of self help has
been applied in too narrow sense.
Lawmakers have been too inclined to
give too much consideration to their
Iwn conGition-to the northumberland
100 little to society at large. 1t is
true that up to ten or fifteen years
ago the social problem in the United
states was entirely different from the
soeial problem in Europe. Before the
'ery eyes OF our young people men
rose to positions of great Importance
and became great industrial financiers.
Recently, during the last fifteen years,
L veritable revolution has been taking
place In the United States. There is
more need every day for social legis-
alton. Personally l attribute the adop-
tlon OF labor laws during the last five
EearS to the propaganda of socialism.
look upon my election as an oppor-
tunlty to use the floor of the House as
a fort from which to address the mem
oers OF Congress as well as the Amer
lcan people. The fact that l will be
lhe only socialist there does not dis
courage me. 1t will make me the
more noticeable and add to my re-
sponsibility. 1t will give me the OPP
portUnity to be heard.
personally, I am not concerned
whether l get through certain laws or
some one else does SO. Nor am l pre-
pared to say that l am the most prac-
teal man to suggest the most practical
methods. but l do insist that it is the
socialist party which urges the solu-
ton of the labor problem. Iexpect to
be more the advocate of an idea than
Il legislator, and this in spite of the
fact that my work has been OF the
most practical kind, and I have been
characterized as revolutionary in aim,
but conservative in method.
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