The Northern Guardian. — 1899-07-08 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

AMERICAN VISITOR.  EXTRAORDINARY CAREER.  (" G uardian " SneciaL)  A "Guardian" man on the hunt for "copy'. interviewed Mr Menew Soklaw. the gentlemen who waa before the West llartlepool magistrate; on Monday, charged with acting as a pedlar without having a certificate, end was mulcted ill the sum of lOs and Os coda. Mr Soklew maintains that tho conviction is illegal, and that he has been -unconstitutionally'. treated, and will looted in every passible way against the decisi,m. and to vindicate himself. With this objoot in view he . hes laid his ease before the U.S. Consul. who has replied that fall enquiry will be made. The main point in hi. argument a,. that he wee. when interferod with, on nriaate ground whwh he rented for the purpose of carrying ou  A LtAilinIATS 141-sINE,S, said was conesquaatly in,re seoutios as a pedlar thul ally or th.., bunine“  Sekhee is fitly described as one of Nature'. mutinsera Born at Sheffield in 1863, as received mine inatruction at the Blue Coat Sohool there, at 13 yeon of age WM embroiled in his lina ...voluted' and summarily expelled, and the remainder of his education has been aelf-acquired. Ile also worked in a printing office and hap forgotten what he learned thore. 'Wm at the "Nottingham loureml'• aiteet ten., --another geniva of  different kidncy—J. f.Barrie, tilt': ncvelint \Van tolerated in Ameroia for 15 years and has been everything fnnit tramp to vandidate for Go/agreed. Started an Amen:hist paper, and was a prime mcver in tile An.r.ican Laboar tharth movemente. "Maicared" Join Turner, the Anarehint, in his American tour, with big snowed, and again, nae with act, Grant, ra-Preeideut of the UMW,' Staten, at hin dwath one Yount McGregor, and wan implicated in the Deb Rebellion.  he has played with Booth, Mrs Langtry, Mr and Mm /frown Potter. Mrm Louie Fuller, and other atm of the Thermion firmament, mad hoe travelled thomiande of melee in th, Stskw and elsewhere m a member of operatic snd dramatic marmaniew. and m "Ilogoo" on ermeat,hers and go,de waggons, often with more money in his pocket when In Lilo latter eaprmdy than in the former. Me lived so an nolo. for 15 mantle on  IMRE LUNCHES AND PUMP WATER, I and has been in (maims a dozen timee or en. : lie im one of the herbed and hano amusing apeakera. and a zealous propounder M the doetriuns of the new school of SgoisteLiber width he saye is the outonne of the I latest enislysis of eixiologieal layoolegical I thought. .leked if he was not an .tnerchist, beldow replied proudly that he was, and , went on to sav that an Anarchist wan a man who knew how to rule himself. and being left alone himself, he let all other men alone , and woe too bud in Laing happy to have , time to mu chin with anyone este. Suicide he i,lioreeterixex ss the noblest of death, and I argues taut when a man has exhausted the ;pleasures of life he had bed finish it then. The leachino of the school of eocialism—emotional socialism—he said, could never amount to anything; they were evaneeeent and fleeting, whence. egoimn was founded on rock. uottom prine'-plis, and reeognieed knowledge of natures lam, Me Seklew is the  MOTOR or 700 " IRO 01 0100611," journAl devoted to mental freedom and pre green," and oontdbutue, b.ides, to many important journals in thia country, and the United Stat., his brother being a member of the staff of the New York Journal." Ile is isswessed of ready wit, and a pleasing per: sonslty, and talents which wuuld command sueceas if cried in any of the ordinary walks of but Seklew is too much a Roliemian to take kindly to any settled ooconation. Returning to the ou.tion of the legality of him business. Mr deklew said ho was still continuing to dispeee of his ties, but now sold conies of the -Truth-seeker. and gave the tine away with them. Ile has addresued several meetings during the pa,,t fry dap,. and pron.ol t.d. s, ,galn to-day nod ii, Idly.