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E. Armand, “La propagande vraie” (1905)

September 21, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

E. Armand, “La propagande vraie,” L’Ère nouvelle 3 no. 35 (Mai-Juin 1905): 121-126. La propagande vraie Les quelques réflexions qui suivent sont l’écho de conversations et de controverses auxquelles j’ai pris part ces derniers temps. J’ai eu, en effet, depuis quelques mois, le privilège de m’entretenir non seulement avec des amis inconnus ou que je ne connaissais que par oui dire, mais encore avec des adversaires où bien avec des personnes ignorant en partie ou en entier nos conceptions libertaires, J’ai donc fait acte de propagande. Or, d’une façon plus nette que jamais — car j’estime que c’est chose grave […]

Lizzie M. Holmes, “Evil Results Mean Evil Causes” (1905)

July 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Evil Results Mean Evil Causes. Two clergymen who were sincere and faithful workers in their special fields sat talking together in the study belonging to one of them. The elder had referred to the recent articles published in “Success” entitled “The Shameful Misuse of Wealth.” “It certainly is shameful to use wealth in giving extravagant banquets, buying fifty thousand dollar fur cloaks, one thousand dollar handkerchiefs, five thousand dollar dogs and supplying them with costly wardrobes, coaches and coachmen to give them their daily airing, etc. But if the money rightfully belongs to the spender, we have no right to […]

Lizzie M. Holmes, “Women Workers of Chicago” (1905)

July 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Women Workers Of Chicago. HOW THE PIONEER WORK WAS DONE BY A BAND OF SELF-SACRIFICING WOMEN WHO PAVED THE WAY FOR THE POWERFUL UNIONS OF THE PRESENT DAY. By Lizzie M. Swank Holmes. CHICAGO has been called the best organized city, especially in regard to women workers, in the United States, and the demonstration on last Labor Day was sufficiently important to give spectators a fair idea of the immense strength of union labor in the city. The history of the economic movement among women wage workers of that city is typical of that in all other large industrial centers, […]

Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Problem of the Enormously Wealthy” (1905)

July 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Problem of the Enormously Wealthy I had just finished reading one of the new and popular novels, entitled “The Undercurrent,” by Robert Grant, and had found it a very interesting and well-written book. I noticed that the author raised a number of vital and important sociologic and economic questions which intensely concern the people of this early twentieth century; but he seemed to have raised them merely for the sake of raising them, as he made no attempt at answering them. His characters suavely put aside every remedy that has ever been proposed, and the author suggests nothing but […]

Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Story of a Far Away Land” (1905)

July 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

A Story of a Far Away Land. Once upon a time, a long way off, there was a rich and beautiful island in the midst of a warm sea. The island was quite populous, but everything grew or could be found, either in the sky, or the waters, or the depths of the ground—all that the people could need; precious metals and stones were found deep in the earth, fine forests clothed the hillsides, and bountiful harvests were reaped from cultivated soil. The climate was glorious, and the breezes were fresh and pure and full of life-giving elements. Nothing seemed […]

Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Story of a Far Away Land” (1905)

July 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

A Story of a Far Away Land. Once upon a time, a long way off, there was a rich and beautiful island in the midst of a warm sea. The island was quite populous, but everything grew or could be found, either in the sky, or the waters, or the depths of the ground—all that the people could need; precious metals and stones were found deep in the earth, fine forests clothed the hillsides, and bountiful harvests were reaped from cultivated soil. The climate was glorious, and the breezes were fresh and pure and full of life-giving elements. Nothing seemed […]

Lizzie M. Holmes, “A Woman’s Club” (1905)

July 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

A Woman’s Club A group of women who live in a western city, possessing abundant leisure, yet not belonging to the upper four hundred, and not by any means drudges in the lower ten thousand, conceived the idea of forming a club of their own. It should be their very own—it should not be patronized by any of the women of the big “women’s club” nor corrupted by the membership of the common herd. They were sufficiently intellectual and aspiring to carry on a literary and social club which should vie with Capitol Hill organizations in point of interest and […]

Lizzie M. Holmes, “The Scab” (1905)

July 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE SCAB. The rays from a low afternoon sun fell through the dusty panes of a kitchen window and across a disorderly floor where a young man and woman were washing clothes. There were two large tubs of water on a bench, several pails and pans standing about, and a large basket near the door was heaped with clean, wet clothes. The man straightened up, rubbed the suds from his muscular arms, and exclaimed. “Gosh, Mollie, that’s harder work than runnin’ an engine. Now they’re ready to hang out, ain’t they? I’ll help you out with them but you’ll put […]