WHERE ARE THE "WILD MEN" OF YESTERDAY?
Zimand, Savel
WHERE ARE THE "WILD MEN" OF YESTERDAY Obscure Socialist of Two Decades Ago Now Share Power in Running the Governments of Europe By Savel Zimand IT is. abort; of sue teen year* since I met them...
...Such- a policy win smell as sweet to me by any other'name If It be the same policy...
...The decade had raised him to the highest Ogrnnacle of office...
...I do not believe they will ever be ab^r to accomplish It...
...Why so politely ?" "He is...
...or weak men, or...
...In those days be was still striving" for the stars...
...E. T. BATES...
...They ought,- however they may disagree on tactics, to be personally friendly with each other, and to cultivate friendship by sharing their amusements and any acUvltiea In which they can unite...
...totortoaut Utile knew that thbjms vsi had served his appre»*leO)fhip and-wandered about as a Journeyman, was to baeonto a decisive factor in toe.history ot a new epoch...
...In 1022 I Saw this Journalist again...
...Today his dream has'coma true.' It waa the dreasn' of this mine, boy which helped make Ramsay Mac Donald premier of Britain...
...He was writing far a Ruasisa daily...
...addressed himself: to .too unTsjrs .of hia country with .so clear an understanding of the problems' in hand, such readiness to compromise in order, to achieve lasting geod that be is being praised as the best premier the Danes have .had to many years...
...It Is unthinkable that business' men" and bankers will allow this, to happen...
...a man- from Sweden who had' suffered prison stripes six times tor-bis ideals talked of peace on earth...
...and capacity...
...hands of the law, two from Jails snd eight from officers of the law outside ot jails...
...New . they called him their George Washington...
...The other was a tall young man of dark olive complexion, with^klnd...
...As he raised his head be displayed one of the handsomest faces of the English speaking world", and he delivered his message in a voice of rare beauty which inspired the pilgrims' hearts as he enriched their minds...
...I see: a group of men agape for a new order, eyes burning With a desire to recast this old world of ours,, and I hear treasures of erudition on theories, reforms, social systems, panaceas and...
...But everyone was under the' spell'of her logic, the force of her arguments...
...A compelling personality who could speak:well on many subjects, be advocated the- declaration of a general strike in case ot war...
...Thirty* years ago Edward Bellamy exposed the flaw in the price system...
...Later the same people were, destined to make history and, emerge as the moat in teres tins Political figures of .our times...
...This was Jean, Jaures...
...To my mind, more than any other be resembled the Hebrew prophets.' Af a child laborer of eight, be bad gone toto the coal mines...
...A few-ntontas ago "they laid him to rest with' military and ,ctvll pomp In the Pantheon, where only great Frenchmen have a place...
...When they passed the doorkeeper, .this man bowed politely, and nia friend asked...
...But as The world is in continual flux, be, toe, changed and during the great war he» served as minister : of intendance, back by the French lines, and was delegated by the King of Belgians to represent his country In important missioas«fo- allied nations snd to the United States...
...The press had hardly learned to spell their names...
...Forgotten Is it now how this British Labor preutier was for years the most unpopular figure in his country...
...Ha seemed'the snoat aoHtery figure of all these men...
...help af thto rebel, takes first pake* to housing legislation...
...This is the book "Profits...
...first...
...Socialists, to use the word • In its larger meaning, are divided into warring factions...
...ThiS number, ranking with tlte number 10 for 1924 as the sinaJlest number of persons lynched in any year since records of lynchlngs have been kept, is 17 leas than the number 33 for 1923 and 41 less than the number 67 for 1922...
...be human...
...and mora as cranks...
...A tew were to...
...was the reply...
...With talents which as pr|me minister were to make him the hope of a baffled Europe, be could not then secure ~a seat in the House of Commons...
...labor-power...
...When J&H hear theirluamea.-you may dotibt at first ' whether ; such a galaxy of people actually came together...
...And whoidees ^t-haSpeht-to/beT' I aaked the Journalist near toe...
...Even in their own lands their Influence -was- sma.IL, Of one, for exafcnple, the atory was told that he took a visiting friend to the public museum In-his home city...
...I am convinced that you do not know...
...do that?- asked his friend again...
...Of the 10 persons lynched aU were Negroes...
...A few years of executive rei sponsibifity had tempered even thto extremist...
...Such unionists ss are Idealistic enough to belong to the party ought to be idealistic enough to disregard thilr economic grievancea tor the sake of the movement...
...they were mostly known a* wild men...
...a Belgian firebrand thundered against "capitalistic justice and war...
...P. frmm...
...In the eyes of the average ^person they were anything but normal citizen...
...Bge looked Uke one of those' people who are too busy"to...
...And once mors in 1024, a few days .before he was called to form the first Leber Government > '. r There also, at Copenhagen*.' apogd another Scotsman with a face cast in tragic mold...
...But postwar events have brought about a situs- i tton in which the seller of goods is at mercy of the buyer of goods, the tor-: merly despised employe, the seller of...
...Create % poJOtlcaJ party of workers to challenge tne oppressors of labor...
...This was Emile Vandervelde...
...The offenses charged were: Murder, 0; rape, 4; attempted rape, 2; killing officer ot tbe law...
...The serenity of the party vanished in a. torrent of invectives...
...He waa seated near me and at...
...As s matter of fact...
...His sentences came out like cartridges from a'magaxlne.' • And after so many years those sounds of passionate love of humanity agrn...
...Mow' he Is a roetober of the German Reichstag.^ But oven then my...
...A Prima ' ¦ ' ' ' . Minister to Bm" \V', There at Copenhagen...
...It is not necessary to say "We oan do it" and be laughed at, when we-can say "We vare doing it" and show .samples of the co-operative commonwealth...
...It woubi hardly take more then one long pull to reach the SoclalhH #ahd in view"--: physical, intellectual and spiritual freedom...
...Ten of the persons lynched were taken from the...
...cavalry, artillery, armed communist battalions, young guards,' factory workers, marched for nearly Ave hours before my eyes...
...J. Croat Britain" ' t ¦ There, at Copenhagen the spokesman of'a small band of British seed-bearers of a new world talked'on the pursuit of hspplness and oMlberty...
...By word and nctlon they had come in conflict with, the laws of the lands and not a tew of them had more than once "done time...
...n J You wHI also have to bear in mind that many of them were then comparatively obscure people...
...first, because they are wrong aboujt where the point ot exploitation lies...
...In 20 of the cases the prisoners were removed or the guards augmented or other precautions taken...
...Our trouble In the past baa been that we have been too eager, to find excuses for eJtthlty' and to exchange thrust for thrust...
...but later revealed that he could learn to keep close to the earth...
...An Si...
...assemblage of thinkers, heroic tribunes of people, passionate fighters, men of gseat devotion...
...r It .wag/a' distinguished group, and In the course of the talk I mentioned a name...
...I' can see him standing in front of the fireplace with the air of the most disappointed man in the world...
...Missouri, J...
...There were,men among them who- already were considered the world's worst .agitators: there were some-set down as loaders of lest causes...
...If there is real goodwill persistently shown by one party, the other parties may in time become ashamed of unfriendly conduct...
...today foreign minister of Belgium;.signer of the treaty ot lioearno...
...I find there were 16 persons lynched in £125...
...To illustrate: Ton say that, there are two"classes with antagonistic interests...
...There were many others at that dhw ner in Copenhagen...
...They were people of toe sort .who kept their respective countries in -turmolt And as we all know e) Usees want peace...
...Tuaaegee, Ala...
...buyer of laborpower: . that la...
...His 'ayfgrasi showed bis identlficauJbn, with the wag of life of the ardiasa-y:man and with his dreams...
...The "Nation's Business" has admitted that "profits are the life-blood of industry...
...The wings of his imagination raised {he short stocky Frenchman'till he seemed tot tower...
...Another thing that The New Leader could do would be to try to unite aU working people on the political field...
...Forgotten are the peltings he faced at wartime meetings, the campaigns of vilification, Slander and calumny directed against'him...
...ARCHIBALD CRAIG...
...I was to see him again in 1021 When he was elected by his colleagues—as leader of Hia Majesty's Opposition...
...The New Leader: What can the Socialist Party do while it is too small to be politically Important...
...Ia-< fan try...
...Bay 8bor», L...
...In the whole range of political assemblages was there ever its like...
...We Agree to DEssgree Editor, The New Leader: I have Just come across your article on Credit Control in your Issue of January 2. I withdraw my former charge that "you must know...
...Ot the 41 persons thus before the courts- 21 were senteneed— five suspended sentences, dependent on good behavior, of from four to twelve months on the road...
...I look again' upon an...
...He did not, aa Douglas has done, propose a remedy...
...take high rank—Albert Thomaa...
...one of the subscribers to our paper...
...There at Copenhagen a spokesman from Holland with constructive mind untangled the' coils' of revolutionary proposals...
...I heard ban spssjf in the enetefft Kremlin at ssuaanu Be> had conse into power and he, toe, had> changed...
...Intervals he made notes of the discussions...
...XI _ The Heidal&KM SaddU-M6mWr\ 1 This was Hjalmer Branting.' prime minister-to-be of Sweden, a leader in founding the League of Nations...
...since 1 wrote you, the biggest possible reinforcement of the Douglas analysis baa come to the front in America...
...Two ef the victims were lpsane...
...Tbe other la the Cooperative .League, which collects' information on how aU other enterprises can be run independent of capitalism...
...Ws cannot stage public' ownership as an exhibit, but we can build up consumers' co-operation, not only for the present benefit to Its members, but because tt la the substance of thlngi hoped for...
...I agree...
...In 13 other instances armed force was used - to repel the would-be lynchers...
...In 1920 I wag again in this same house i& Berlin 'and I once more mentioned hid name...
...ring to my ears...
...He started life as an aristocrat, ripened into a scholar, became an agitator and died a statesman...
...For Socialists to hold that to finance the...
...In three Instances during the year-persons charged with being connected - with lynching mobs were indicted...
...If La Salle, Proudban,' De Greet apd Ferguson have "beaten" Major Douglas to tbe proposal to finance "consumption, all' the better...
...That is the-other subscriber," said the editor, Sookty " ¦¦[¦ ¦ BaeeatoJi Tftaws ' * Tot there was good reason why society in the early years of the century regarded them aa agitators and resented them...
...Tim mQU, tary bands were playing and tea crowds were cheering, the war lord at Russia...
...day of hia burial...
...If Socialists and other "upllfters" would only Join in...
...tanej turmoil of OenneJy...
...This man was - Friedrich Ebert, the first president of the German Republic...
...The other Russian waa taller with sv thoughtful fprehead aajd- persuaetve.' itpp...
...Maker* of the German Revolt: " . There at Copenhagen two dogged fighters' ranged side by side...
...They are non-partisan, but all that they do Is grist to our mill...
...The labor union is not a necessary part of the co-operative commonwealth...
...We can help these organisations to show the people that capitalism is not necessary, and that all production can be done better without it...
...for example, who became France's able minister of munitions during toe Great War, and Philipp Schefdemann, first premier of the German Republic;, two* latea, premiers <H, that republic .and many another present day minister...
...There, too, at Cppefeegnh'wad the representative «f the Danish fire-eaters, a man of cbSTSjctor...
...He stood there, the Journalist t had met at Copenhagen, cheered and aaclaim4%° like a Napoleon.' This was Trotsky...
...They called this man—I was to meet him to Copenhagen—a monster,.a blind'tonatic...
...trouble breeders, or knock-kneed doctrinaires, on barm - less -buffoons who wore sandals and lived en nuts and cheese...
...second^ because the employers of the world themselves £ave a direct financial interest to immediately freeing the workers from the economic domination of our present costing system...
...1; Virginia, L. ' - R. R. MOTON, Principal...
...At twenty-three, he came out of the mines with an ideaHe would...
...Hm Who Rente in Thm Parthenon \* % * --There at Copenhagen, the representative of France's rebels, the hero of a thousand platforms, lifted the thunderlug organ, of his voice, now...
...But that is just What happened...
...1; insulting woman, 1. The States In which lynchlngs occurred and tee number in each State are as follows: Alabama, 1; Arkansas, 1; Florida, 2; Georgia, 3; Louisiana, 1; Mississippi...
...one for 30 days In Jail, and IS of from six months on the road to eight years In the penitentiary...
...sweet, now Hke the' roar of mountain cataracts...
...This was Lenin ot Russia...
...you see...
...They were firebrands, stamped upon, smoldering...
...th» shrewdness, the power of sndnraans/ and the savage health ot the farmer...
...Most of these are dead, but if their 'considered' opinions are one and'the same as those of Major Dottgias, they win make the finest sort of buttress-for the Douglas proposal...
...published by the Pollak Foundattah Newton,' Mass...
...Jersey City...
...Unless the seUers of goods increase wages, salasses and dividends tost enough to enaUe the wouldbe- consumer to buy those goods (or lowers prices to :tbe same end), the seller of goods (and' services) win tailIndustry will go under...
...Three others • had been formally released by the courts...
...And among them—twelve future prime ministers, well toward a hundred future ministers of state...
...He talked Hke a dssUluah'e...
...There was force, and indomitable wOJ to him...
...2; attacking child...
...But I remember htm at hia home in H/unpstead no further back that 1020...
...A Belgian - Firebrand There at Copenhagen in 1010...
...Permit me to make a few more to supply what be has omitted...
...However, I -must not' give you the idea that I think Socialists can ever bring about .their heart's desire—the freedom of the workers of the world...
...It la a subsUtute^or political action, and Its members, having mads-terms with capitalism, are not as good material for open warfare against capitalism as those' who are its unconditional subjects, who indeed have nothing to lose but their chains...
...Was he thinking of his early youth when .he went to school- with the present- King Oustsv of Sweden and engaged' to his early studies in astronomy, or did he brood over his subsequent struggles with the powers of darkness...
...Seven of these were in Northern States and* tZ in Southern States...
...From the Survey Graphic...
...He * stared with mild ¦ eyes...
...He spas gotten est of the way on the eve^oCtocsnreat-Waxr' Asoauuhnetad...
...Hot seemed to possess the totolllgenca...
...Ten years later I. waa his, tonW.n^St*^ m'to*j|t]Wlrte>au^ was F. at Vhrnkt^^m^^^atbaa ptnVfded wOJMOs* snaasStos to assjoctatibnd diaj" aiiiiili tapttltrr • Today, Hollandr^wtth the...
...Business men have only, one more logical step to take, and this is: The financed consumer is the source of all profits...
...The unorganisedhaying most to gain from Socialism, ought to be the main reliance of the political movement-and-their opportunity to free themselves by political means, since they have no other weapon, ought to be the keynote of Socialist policy...
...As I look back from this distance...
...Six, or less than one-half of those put to death, were charged with rape or attempted rape...
...the years saw them burst into.flame...
...This was Jambs Keir Hardie...
...The New Leader could help by speaking respectfully and kindly of the groups outside the Socialist...
...When t saw hint next bt 1081 be wee TtOnsg over a great nation...
...nmttor-e^f«^aP<na7...
...They were so little known that American newspapers of those days did not devote a single lino to their proceedings...
...Z was view--: Ing the garrison parading on the Red Square before the Kremlin Wall...
...By and by they met a man collecting refuse on the streets-' The rebel stepped and took hia bat oft to greet him...
...N. J. „ A Year's Record of Lynching Editor, Tbe New Leader: I send you the following concerning lynchlngs for the past year as compiled by Tuskegee Institute in the Department of Records and Research...
...The one was Rosa 'Luxemburg snd ^"TaU^uV^lSllW *Tbere"U<^^»^nii *un> fammmm tosjto D*e wee a mae> pt taedinm beankf] thick-set off bedT toengh nadstodt, bto hands, ftobttog Jaw end, keamtog mpSL The face sugnesaedV a^ewerful nihat and « weB dtoofsstoed psisunalifj...
...I asked a person sitting near me who the "speaker was and I received the short reply, "He is an M. P. from Great Britain...
...Therefore It Is reasonable to believe that we have completed the circle and that one prophecy shall be fulfilled—"And first (the producer) shall tie last, and the last (the consumer) shall' be...
...Party and by reporting their activities sympathetically, as they would like to have them reported...
...rose plant, with*fertilizer (the means oflife) is not to bring.forth roses is obviously a mistaken idea...
...I remember that), a short time before my arrival In Denmark, I was present at" a,' soiree in Berlin...
...They were then and later stormy-petrels among the German rebels and aa such they were both killed In the communist uprisings- in 1010.' But before their deaths, the whole,world bad heralded them as two yreat Germans with eyes and...
...And to atone for all the sins committed against hlm>*is native land rested on the...
...He was a swift, graceful fencer In mental movements and discoursed in the tradition of the great parliamentarians of •* country rich in great parliamentarians...
...And the Goddess of History, who presumably knows the future as well as the - past, must have smiled dryly -at cur diss paragement...
...Tuskegee Normal end Industrial Institute...
...Just now...
...But before I take up...
...Utah...
...They were "gathered from all parts of-our restless world...
...i*"' "Why do yen...
...Throughout the' war they had not flinched in their Stand against the military .machine...
...To be sure,' be -wss>in* yet wtfhout Bonon to hte coantry: Thto was Theodore Steaming, toe present prime minister of Denmark, who has...
...fifteen years ago...
...The seller of labor-power is 'at the mercy of...
...mind unclouded, .with a courage surpassing the courage of the rest of us, who said boldly and .with persistency, whet their' mind and eyes told them...
...they misunderstood him and doubted him,-and-he misunderstood then...
...To do away with capitalism we must be able- to do the work of the world without it, and there is no better propaganda for Socialism than a thriving co-operaUve movement...
...He was formerly a little editor of a little paper,'* waa the reply...
...These good people did'not dream that a few years later tbey_ would,hail him as the savior of their country...
...of sue teen year* since I met them all in the • capital15*si)etwnark...
...A mountain, of a man he' waa, - who walked triumphant...
...He taught himself to write and-read...
...There are two agencies at work to ppovide substitutes for capitalism...
...especially long, very long and ponderous revolutionary declaration's...
...friendly eyes...
...They ought to recognise'that their differences are less important than their common purpose...
...One was a, stout, short, .lame woman...
...bow these wild men of yesterday changed and how we changed with them, I shall try to tell you something of the way''they impressed me at that dinner in Copenhagen...
...This time it was 'la Moscow., From a large grandstand...
...Comrade Thomaa has made some valuable suggestions...
...Two of these lynched were burned at the stake and one was put to 'death and body burned...-' There . were 39 instancea In 'which officers of the law prevented lynching...
...This was Ramsay MacDonald...
...To begin with your last paragraph, I want to assure you that I am not at all concerned about who worked out a credit-control policy "first...
...Utile did he dream that this rebel of 1010 would hold his people to the path of peace, would break with his former nartjsana,: would save b** country from-plunging into excessss of terrorism...
...One Is th» Public ownership League, which collects information on bow natural monopolies can be run without enslaving the people...
...The New Leader Mail Bag Editor...
...Even the bankers of the world have a personal economic stake, though they do not yet admit It, in "financing consumption...
Vol. 3 • January 1926 • No. 2
