Horace Traubel

Sidney H. Morse

Sidney H. Morse (1833-1903)

October 3, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
Related Links: “Liberty and Wealth“ Sidney H. Morse [tag feed] Bibliography: Books and pamphlets: So the Railway Kings Itch for an Empire, Do They? (1877) Articles: “Camp-Meeting Notes.” The Index. Vol. 3 (1872) 290. “Address of Mr. Sidney H. Morse.” Farewell dinner to Francis Ellingwood Abbot (1880) Sidney H. Morse, “An Anti-Slavery Hero,” The New England Magazine 4, no. 4 (June 1891): 486-496. “Sprigs of Lilac for Walt Whitman.” The Conservator. 3, 4 (June, 1892) 26. * * * [Sidney H. Morse], “Ethics of the Homestead Strike,” The Conservator 3 no. 6 (August, 1892): 42-44; 3 no. 7 (September, 1892): […]
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Horace Traubel, “Free Speech in Philadelphia or Anywhere” (1909)

July 7, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
Free Speech in Philadelphia or Anywhere.* I. I am glad that in speaking of Emma Goldman today you took high ground for free speech and shooed off the dogs of war. There’s no sense in trying to kill ideas with brickbats and guns. The policeman’s club is never an argument. It always vulgarly and brutally remains a policeman’s club. To suppress Emma Goldman is not an evidence of power but a confession of weakness. Imagine a whole nation put on edge by a little woman a few feet high who says a few things with which majorities do not agree! […]
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E. Armand, “The Gulf”

August 9, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] This short piece by E. Armand appeared in Horace Traubel’s The Conservator in 1910. It’s an interesting piece to have appeared in a magazine dominated by the shadow of Walt Whitman—and an interesting example of Armand’s thought. [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE GULF All the societies of the vanguard—Social Democrats, revolutionaries of all shades, various communists—say that the individual is a “product of his environment.” It would be more exact to say that individuals are products of their environment, adding that the individual person, more especially, is the end of an ancestral line, which […]