What a Sorry, Shabby Show It Was with Morgan on Parade!
Cohen, Joseph E.
By Jinjt. E. Cake* What a Sorry, Sfeaf*y Skawlt Was with Morgan on Parade! Even tbe Mightiest Mil—rill of Them All Couiek t Stay tikt Dwf—When the Stem Cmm He Got Wet, Too. /\UR American money...
...The American Civil Liberties Union was appealed to, and they promptly sent a brig' young attorney, Mr...
...And there was the young m#n...
...They earn leU AU their merriment to making Satan held hit sides in Hell...
...Early the young man developed an Inquiring mind...
...Ikn tale the pel's arena setose...
...Much was made of that...
...His father was a man el mechanical bent, connected With a railway...
...Whoever night govern states or th* nation, whoever night be aMnt toned for industrial giants, when the letters of their titles were spelled out it would be found that, taken together, they but fed the mighty name of Morgan...
...But thst would only lengthen the parade with all these and sundry who have been play i--—--—ing atvmnii with "other peooto'a money" ami enriching theamaeives out \t the print mavhed from the labor of rha land...
...he loved nothing better than to sit with his fellow-students and drink beer and sing songs until well into the morning...
...Pressed to answer, he cheerfully admitted that he had been caught in the industrial collapse just like any ordinary human being...
...Nothing was taken for granted...
...The King...
...What matters in the Morgan myth is gone, like the flimsy figments of other years...
...It can't be done...
...ONE VOICE By Kenneth Douty 1SEF, o world that's green and fair, I see life bubbling clear and strong I say that summer's come again And the world is gay...
...In the Parade Lesser judges, statesmen, conspicuous members of the bar, publishers and other picked figures in molding opinion, making industry and shaping government filled in as the "choice and master spirits of the age," wearing his livery...
...Two policemen came over and started an unwarranted dispersal...
...I had said they never would be paid...
...And during those years his whole life was a glory to science...
...Camp Eden is located on a mountain side overlooking the Hudson River...
...WhUs hie witehee to taear Smbkmth Danee with torchlights...
...When the Coing's Good When the going is good Morgan can make or unmake business...
...And when industry slid down into the trough, he got drenched just like everybody else...
...At Castle Garden the immigration authorities were at first unwilling to admit him because his deformities seemed to promise that he would become a public charge...
...But how can a kin look regal when his purple rob' i drip with water, when straggly hair is tangled up with seaweed, and when he has to rub sand out of his eyes...
...the Proteus was a nickname his fellow-students gave him for his protean knowledge...
...Six of us Flushing Socialists gave up practically a whole day to appear in court as his witnesses...
...Once the test of navigating in storm is put upon his majestic splendor there is the utter shattering of the Morgan myth...
...haven't eaten for four days, maybe five...
...Brutish Caliban it merry As he new tofrme to see Hem the witches' crew benls ever AU the toad */ Germemy...
...Then I hear of a man Young—just twenty-two, Young—he should be strong, And young—he should be gay, And young—the world's for him: And they pick him up on Baltimore Street...
...He suspended sentence, however, in deference to the overwhelming evidence against thecop's testimony...
...After a year's party activity there he sailed for the United States in the Steerage of a French liner in May, 1889...
...an electrical engineer at alii ha was the Wisard, turned loose in his magnificent private laboratory en Wendell Street In Schenectady by the General Kiev-trie, and told to go ahead and do what he chose...
...Gosh, the way of the innocent is hard, especially for Negroes, Socialists and nonconformists in general...
...They came upon the young Negro...
...Farewell— though it be a fond farewell—to the saga of their tawdry kingdom...
...The accommodations and board are good and there are facilities for swimming, boating, tennis, hiking and other sports...
...Two years later the company of Mr...
...I cannot tear from out my hroat a cry Deep enough, strong enough To blast the walls of Jericho, Hut I dedicate this voice I have To that great multitudinoue chorus Shouting the end of lifeless life Heralding the coming of avenging dawn...
...All of which was done, no doubt, to liscourage folks from attending Socialist meetings...
...That question the gentlemen who make up the present government administration are trying to answer...
...But made it up again with the systemnRe is sworn to uphold by placing the boy on r year's parole...
...He did not even accept a fixed salary, but helped himself to whatever he needed when he needed It...
...Two weeks later he drifted to Yonkers, where he called on Rudolph Eickemeyer, a distinguished German electrical manufacturer, who suspected the genius in Steinmetz...
...Wwthfnt to their ITstosW Settata, Cessnas •/ /sewaxi smd Hate, Underneath ths tsmkirem, kindle /leases to eraekU a* emU...
...That is beyond him...
...And yet even that possibility of extracting the debts out of the hides of American workers hasn't all the elements of the inevitable...
...Curiously enough, he was not, strictly speaking...
...Incidentally, ha was also a professor at Union University, although h* never graduated from his own university and the only degrees he held were honorary...
...Even as you and I," He could not turn the tide of events...
...Small and big nations sing high 05 whisper low as he cracks his little finger over a loan...
...There has been much comment, particularly in the Communist press, to the effect that the Brunswick episode—as reported by Nazi sources—indicated the "surrender" of the Socialists to the Nazi savages...
...He demurs: "Insofar as they are covered with Liberty Bonds and other issues ef the U. S. they will be paid to the last cent These bonds will be paid by the producers of wealth in this land . . . but the bonds will be paid to the last cent...
...Saturday evening an entertainment, social and dance will be held...
...What we own Ik almur one-third «f the wealth of the world...
...The cop gave a lurid account of disorderly conduct against the lad...
...A. T. C. of Pittsburgh postcards in an objection to ny remarks here made two weeks -go about the war debts...
...A goodly crowd was there...
...The story of Karl's Socialist activities will be told in a subsequent chapter of this series...
...But if he cannot ride capitalism, who can...
...Here's hoping to be correct on all fronts . . . soon...
...The public had I h« right to i»pposs that when Morgan went on parade it was witnessing the mam event...
...Karl August Rudolph Steinmetz was born in Brealau April 9th, 1865...
...After his regiment others could come...
...Four days and maybe five, Life and maybe death, For mm times men on streets times streets Throughout this land...
...Had a tiny taste of justice in magistrates' courts of New York City this week...
...Eickemeyer was taken over by the General Electric, and Steinmetz was taken over "together with the other liabilities," he said...
...Well, A. T. C, your class angle on the argument Is well taken...
...And yet what enormous feet of clay on this same colossus of coin...
...They pushed and shoved with a waving of nightsticks...
...We trust that the American Civil Liberties Union will see fit to appeal this rase and at least free the outraged lad from the onus of probation...
...At the Gymnasium he was by all odds the greatest scholar of his time...
...4—"The Unrest of the Youth—How Can We Appeal to Them...
...he carried that spirit throughout his life, in his personal relations, his scientific work and his Socialism...
...To be sure, the House of Morgan is not the only banking castle either here or as to international finance...
...So why make him out to he monarch of our golden cycle...
...Private banking, private business, private capitalism are exposed for the sham and mockery of the public welfare they are...
...An Inoffensive Lad Is Ticketed, Transformed Into a Negro "CLriminaJ" 1 By & A. MTM^r- —nrf I CALIBAN IN GXRMANY SEE sum nsnsssasi eel the wisthee, 1 fensem se Genes**;— 7ef emmet a hap*, sWana smuUrms Witemm larsed aVssseac gloe...
...The strong and vital j realism of public banking, public business and public benefit—the nation for those whose labor builds the nation and who can save it from the feeble myths of capitalism in retreat...
...Enough, anyhow, to justify the judge to judge him guilty...
...Discussion leader, William E. Bohn...
...A young Negro lad was attending our open-a • meeting on Main Street in Flushing last Wednesday evening...
...He waa prodded and threatened with the nightstick...
...penniless, homeless and crippled, ignorant of the language and without a job...
...W. M. F. that led to {plaint with Interior 0/ lutivs of the sot yet been ates for the I reason to 1 find them situation as rticularly as ing elections est provides indidates to not be sent salt be deter what has istwick it is ate who repWon for this I able to take seminations This item is interesting particularly, because it explains what really happened in Brunswick after the "authentjf" Nazi reports to the effect that half the Socialist Deputies in that state had resigned from the Diet and the Party in order not to stand in the way of "coordination...
...Thanks to them, neverth"less, for their prompt and willing cooperation...
...speakers, James Oneal, Samuel A. DeWitt, Bela Low, William M. Feigenbaum, August Claessens and others...
...gtoinsaeU's mind waa like that at his friend and fellow-Socialist Albert Einstein, dwelling in th* realms of the abstract and dealing with prkiple* of incalculable value that had to be digested and applied practically by others...
...at the University all indications pointed to a brilliant scientific career, when everything was wrecked by his activity in the Social Democratic party—then outlawed under the Bismarck antiSocialist laws...
...He put him to work, and the genius was promptly revealed...
...That is a practical sentence of a year, and the first step toward making a good customer for prisons and police courts...
...thnse who stepped Itohmd him sftaaCd be the next biggest to him throughout tin- land, What a parade it has been...
...And his home life was likewise warmed with love and human affection...
...It is owned and managed by Socialists...
...The cop locked him up...
...Neither Congress nor the public is invited to intrude...
...P*rnon Lee, •are County, i from the ¦he Hudson ©Crisis and Wtor Action J» We Proleer, Charles Solomon...
...That has mew begmm to hu*, Witches, ck*rtHm$, throw ta hangers, Treaties, lies, and prttwdite...
...Nothing that could not be subjected to reason had any validity for him...
...As a young man Karl was universally beloved despite his deformities...
...And yet we must mush on...
...The present Secretary at the Treasury, an ambassador, a number of the Supreme Court and several outstanding figure* m Washington had been snaked upon by the benign monarch...
...At the present moment about a half-billion of quite liquid assets are bulging in his i pockets...
...I've heard of revolutions hi which debts, obligstions, bonds, and the like, were permanently liquidated...
...He rode the crest...
...The district attorney suggested a former conviction against the lad, which was a traffic violation regarding red lights, wherein he was fined two dollars...
...UR American money Wing has lieen on parade We are the richest nation on earth...
...The Socialists builed him out of the boosegow pending trial...
...That was all...
...But a chance acquaintance vouched for him, and the United States was spared the shame of having barred its gates to one of the greatest citizens in its history...
...When he came to America the Karl August Rudolph became Charles...
...N'.uuratlv...
...Lock me up, but don't strike me," the colored lad pleaded...
...speakers, Gus Tyler, Irving Barshop, Ethel Schachner, Julius Umansky, and others...
...Socialist Follies, the famous Circle 8 Symphony Orchestra and the Flushing Socialist Minstrel Show will be on the program...
...Railroads, public utilities, banking chains, newspapers, corporations in all pursuits thrived or failed by the will of the money king...
...No wonder...
...One of them even wrote a letter "hoping ha could return the favor" of being- in Morgan's good graces...
...I Socialists To Hold Irence at Camp Eden p arranging a W conference fring-on-theat Sunday, •rogram will sJ discussion Tendencies in •wment and ** Socialist •ader, Emil J8 Fashion ¦*«, Samuel *hih, Edward »ritsky, and Wt of the ¦M Can the [to Them...
...Mahler, to defend the prisoner...
...a bad cold that caused a purpled swelling of the cheek made him look even more unprepossessing...
...But he cannot »tem the tide of chaotic capitalism...
...His Mouse can put fourteen billion dollars back of the Allies in th" World War and draw America into the insane conflict...
...it is enough to say here that he got out of Germany in a hurry just one jump ahead of the police and went to Zurich...
...he stayed there until his death on October 26th, 1923...
...And Morgan is our inmuirclt...
...have been that paper totorie imrf electrical principles edern elec| and I have that despite enthusiasm was greetfsr SteinIs a series md explain1 he was \t grammar i make the mind underBwmbers of dentine reitand his me he read was under the United I years and Ml staghia was vary imperfect...
...With the correct version of the incident before them Socialists can understand why The New Leader laid down a rule for all "news" from Germany: If it is discreditable to the Socialists, assume that it is a lie until and unless proven otherwise...
...An* ex President carried his banner Chairmen of both Kepoblican snd Demorratie national committees followed cloee...
...After questions and adjournment some of the crowd still remsined to discuss in grouplets...
...The family was technically Lutheran, but the elder Steinmets shed all dogmas both in religion and politics...
...What is to take the place of the sorry fable...
...Such immense sums went into his dealings that he "could not remember" whether he had paid small items like income tax returns...
...So when be started down the avenue, the whole cminiry wan mir to en jay the spectacle...
Vol. 15 • June 1933 • No. 22
