The Appeal to Reason had its youth of vigor,
its later days of profound wisdom,
and then it passed away.
-Mother Jones
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Thursday August 10, 1905
Girard, Kansas - Mother Jones Visits with the Waylands, Will Speak in Nearby Pittsburg
According to
The Pittsburg Daily Headlight of August 4th, Mother Jones has been visiting with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wayland in Girard, Kansas. Julius A. Wayland is the editor and publisher of the
Appeal to Reason, the nation's leading socialist newspaper.
Mother Jones, the famous socialist orator, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs J. A. Wayland.
From the Appeal to Reason of August 5th, we learn that Mother Jones spoke before a large audience in Novinger, Missouri on July 23rd:
Comrade Wise, of Novinger, Mo., informs the Appeal that Mother Jones visited them on the 23rd of July and spoke to over twelve hundred people. The meeting was one of the greatest successes they ever had, and the comrades are profuse in their expressions of gratitude and hopes of success for Mother.
Today's Pittsburg Daily Headlight reports that Mother Jones will speak in Pittsburg, Kansas this evening:
Makes a Flying Visit
"Mother" Jones, the socialist agitator, who will speak in Pittsburg this evening, spent the day here among her friends and admirers among the local socialists. One of the local socialist committee stated this afternoon that she was not able to address the Chicopee meeting as expected this afternoon, and that she would make but one address in this field, that in Pittsburg tonight, she will leave here tomorrow for North Dakota to address a meeting there.
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SOURCES
The Pittsburg Daily Headlight
(Pittsburg, Kansas)
-Aug 4, 1905
http://www.newspapers.com/...
-Aug 10, 1905
http://www.newspapers.com/...
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-Aug 5, 1905
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGE
Mother Jones,
Appeal to Reason, Mar 11, 1905
http://www.newspapers.com/...
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Mother Jones on J. A. Wayland and the Appeal to Reason
J. A. Wayland
of the Appeal to Reason
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In 1893, J. A. Wayland with a number of others decided to demonstrate to the workers the advantage of co-operation over competition. A group of people bought land in Tennessee and founded the Ruskin Colony. They invited me to join them.
“No,” said I, “your colony will not succeed. You have to have religion to make a colony successful, and labor is not yet a religion with labor.”
I visited the colony a year later. I could see in that short time disrupting elements in the colony. I was glad I had not joined the colony but had stayed out in the thick of the fight. Labor has a lot of fighting to do before it can demonstrate. Two years later Wayland left for Kansas City. He was despondent.
A group of us got together; Wayland, myself, and three men, known as the “Three P’s” -Putnam, a freight agent for the Burlington Railway; Palmer, a clerk in the Post Office; Page, an advertising agent for a department store. We decided that the workers needed education. That they must have a paper devoted to their interests and stating their point of view. We urged Wayland to start such a paper. Palmer suggested the name, “Appeal to Reason.”
“But we have no subscribers,” said Wayland.
“I’ll get them,” said I. “Get out your first edition and I’ll see that it has subscribers enough to pay for it.”
He got out a limited first edition and with it as a sample I went to the Federal Barracks at Omaha and secured a subscription from almost every lad there. Soldiers are the sons of working people and need to know it. I went down to the City Hall and got a lot of subscriptions. In a short time I had gathered several hundred subscriptions and the paper was launched. It did a wonderful service under Wayland. Later Fred G. Warren came to Girard where the paper was published, as editorial writer. If any place in America could be called my home, his home was mine. Whenever, after a long, dangerous fight, I was weary and felt the need of rest, I went to the home of Fred Warren.
Like all other things, “The Appeal to Reason” had its youth of vigor, its later days of profound wisdom, and then it passed away. Disrupting influences, quarrels, divergent points of view, theories, finally caused it to go out of business.
[Photographs added.]
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SOURCE
The Autobiography of Mother Jones
"Chapter IV – Wayland’s Appeal To Reason"
https://www.marxists.org/...
IMAGES
Mailing the Appeal to Reason from Girard, Kansas
http://www.kshs.org/...
J A Wayland
http://spartacus-educational.com/...
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Dear Readers of Hellraisers,
This year for my vacation, Hellraisers will not be as scaled back as it was for the past two vacations. This happy change is due to my new & much faster computer.
The big change that my readers will see, starting July 16th, will be the shorter length of the postings along with fewer links.
When my readers find unfamiliar names, places, or events, please use the tags along with JayRaye (in diarist section of search feature). Or just leave a question for me in the comments and I will get back to you.
When I actually leave for Minnesota, I'll let everyone know.
Solidarity,
JayRaye
Note: Vacation has started! Until Aug 7th, I'll be able to check in about twice a day. From Aug 8-30th, I'll be checking in only 2 or 3 times per week. Hope everyone keeps on Raising Hell (with the corporate powers, not with each other) until my return from Minnesota.
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The Commonwealth of Toil-Pete Seeger
When our cause is all triumphant
And we claim our Mother Earth,
And the nightmare of the present fades away,
We shall live with love and laughter,
We who now are little worth,
But we'll not forget the price we had to pay.
-Ralph Chaplin
-with last line changed by JayRaye
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