Hellraisers Journal: “Peace Hath Her Horrors No Less Than War” for Widows and Orphans of Pennsylvania and Colorado Mine Disasters Facing Poverty and Hunger

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Quote Mother Jones, Pray for dead, ed, Ab Chp 6, 1925—————

Hellraisers Journal – Friday January 29, 1904
Pennsylvania and Colorado – Hundreds of Newly Made Widows and Orphans

From The Rocky Mountain News of January 27, 1904:

Cartoon Horrors Mine Disasters, Widows n Orphans, RMN p1, Jan 27, 1904

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Hellraisers Journal: From The Lumberjack: Doctors and Nurses for Wealthy Men, But Not for Little Children Living in Poverty

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Quote EVD, Children of the Poor, AtR p2, Mar 17, 1900—————

Hellraisers Journal – Friday March 21, 1913
Cartoon by Ernest Riebe: Doctors and Nurses for Some, Not for Others

From the Alexandria Lumberjack (Louisiana) of March 13, 1913:

CRTN Ernest Riebe, Doctors for Masters Not For Child of Poverty, Lumberjack p1, Mar 13, 1913

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Hellraisers Journal: Drawing by J. H. Morier: “Gleaning from the garbage of the snow-wrapt street…this child’s woe.”

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Quote EVD, Children of the Poor, AtR p2, Mar 17, 1900—————

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday January 6, 1903
“Gleaning from the garbage of snow-wrapt street.” by J. H. Morier

From The Comrade of January 1903:

Child Gleans from Garbage Crp, Comrade Cv, Jan 1913

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Hellraisers Journal: From The Comrade: “How I Became a Socialist” by Father Thomas Hagerty, Seventh in Series

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Quote EVD, Father Hagerty, SDH p1, Aug 15, 1903—————

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday October 4, 1902
“How I Became a Socialist” by Father Thomas Joseph Hagerty

From The Comrade of October 1902:

How I Became a Socialist.

VII. [of Series]

By Rev. T. [J]. HAGERTY.

A CONVICTION grew upon me in my boyhood days-which has broadened and deepened with the out-going years—that human nature is inherently good. In the old Hebraic records, composite of earlier documents which register the world’s notion of creation, I was caught by the reiteration of the idea of the goodness of all things. The after-development of tribe and nation, however, seems to give the lie to this primal verity. Prophets and philosophers in the cuneiform script and Vedic hymn of Egypt and India, singers and sculptors in the psalm and glistening marble of Palestine and Greece, throughout the centuries have sought to keep alive the sense of goodness in the brain of man. Yet all the time murder and rapine, disease and wretchedness flaunted denial in the face of truth. Pariah, slave, and bond-servant groaned in hopeless toil the while Kung-fu-sdu and Gotamma the Buddha proclaimed kindness and justice and David and Homer sang of high emprise.

Father Hagerty, Comrade p6, Oct 1902

Christianity came, with a catholic breadth of goodness, teaching the brotherhood of man, gathering up the treasures of foregoing ages wherewith to enrich the race, and sending messengers of peace through all the turbulent highways in every land. Far-reaching deeds of love marked its growth in palace and hovel: yet the clash of swords and the snarl of the slave-driver’s lash broke in upon its holiness; and, ever and anon, hunger drove some mother to insane slaughter of the anæmic babe at her breast. The rich in high places rose up against a Savonarola and a Sir Thomas More and tried to silence the reproach of their goodness in death:

“And in such indexes, although small pricks
To their subsequent volumes, there is seen
The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come at large.”

Within reach of every banquet’s savor crouched the gaunt figure of Poverty; and the shadows of the Universities swept athwart the bleak paths of Ignorance and intensified the darkness. Gradually, through all the travail of the earth’s growth, came the machine to lift the burden from the straining muscles of men; and its only effect was to change the servitude of the many into an equally galling wage-slavery without surcease of misery and hate and crime. Meanwhile, the inherent goodness of human nature asserted itself in large heroism and patient bravery. Republics were builded out of the strength of the common people; and fine philosophies of liberty were engrossed upon the parchment of history, but humanity failed to reach the heights where gladness holds her breathing-places. The goodness of human nature seemed to be spent in the Sisyphus-like task of rolling some needless burden up the hill of Time and falling ever backward to the bottom in a futile renewal of toil.

As I read the annals of civilization in books and traced their later chapters in field and shop and factory, my early conviction of the inherent goodness of human nature was sharpened by its contrast with the physical evils everywhere so blatant. I saw the tragic waste of life wherewith the commerce of to-day stands crimsoned in the blood of the proletariat. I noticed little children slowly murdering by the loom and sewing-machine. In the disease-sodden tenements of the slums I saw hundreds of men and women dragging out a living death their lives foreshortening by the vilest adulteration of food and drink and by the foul air and reeking bodies of their fellow-men in the low, narrow rooms in which they huddled together. Drunkenness, insanity, and sexual perversions were all too common: nevertheless self-sacrifice, kindness, and wondrous patience were equally in evidence.

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Hellraisers Journal: From The Coming Nation: “Her Last Hope Gone”-Cast Aside to Starve Alone on City Streets of U. S. A.

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Quote BBH re Capitalist Class, Lbr Arg p4, Mar 23, 1911—————

Hellraisers Journal – Thursday August 1, 1912
In the Land of Plenty, U. S. A. – “Her Last Hope Gone” by Lewis Hine

From The Coming Nation of July 27, 1912:

Woman on Sidewalk Head in Hands All Hope Gone by Lewis Hine, Cmg Ntn Cv, July 27, 1912

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Hellraisers Journal: From The Comrade: “Little girl with the form so haggard, Little girl with the features old…” -by Hebe

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Quote Mother Jones, Child Labor Silk Mills, WB Dly Ns p1, May 11, 1901—————

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday November 2, 1901
“Little girl with the form so haggard…” -a Poem by Hebe

From The Comrade of November 1901:

Poem Little Girl by Hebe, The Comrade p46, Nov 1901

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[Drawing from page 48: “Civilization” by “N”]

CRTN Civilization by N, The Comrade p48, Nov 1901

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Hellraisers Journal: Socialist Montana News: “Laissez Faire” by Robert Hunter -What the powerful claim to believe in.

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Hellraisers Journal – Friday August 12, 1910
Robert Hunter on Laissez Faire, what the powerful claim to believe in.

From the Socialist Montana News of August 11, 1910:

LAISSEZ FAIRE.
By Robert Hunter.
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Robert Hunter, Painting by Sergeant Kendall crpd, The Critic, Jan 1905

The above is the name of a politic that the powerful claim that they believe in.

It means, “Let Alone”. It means that the community must not interfere in behalf of the weak, nor in aid of the strong.

It is the politic upon which our government is said to be founded and it has been called the politic of “Everybody for himself and the devil take the hindmost.”

Those who are successful sat that it is a fine doctrine, that it means, unlimited competition, unlimited struggle, and the survival of the fit.

They say everyone should have freedom to battle and to win, if he can.

And they claim that Laissez Faire permits a free race in which the swift always wins. And so Bryan and Taft, Cannon and Aldrich, and nearly all the leaders of both parties, say they believe in Laissez Faire.

When the the judges declare unconstitutional laws limitting the hours of work, they speak in the name of Laissez Faire.

When the trusts want to escape the law they plead in the name of Laissez Faire.

When the rich fight socialism they say it is because Socialism would hurt Laissez Faire.

And who is this Laissez Faire anyhow that has become such a terrible bogie?

Well I’ll tell you. It is a secret, but I tell you. He doesn’t exist. He is just gas and wind. He is a goblin.

If Jack Johnson should go to Mr. Rockefeller’s estate and beat up Mr. Rockefeller and take his property away from him, Mr. Rockefeller would run to the courts not to Laissez Faire.

If the workers were to gain control of congress and do away with the protective tariff, the powerful would denounce Laissez Faire.

And so the rich not believing in Laissez Faire have built up about themselves every kind of protection.

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