Publication information

Source:
Conservative
Source type: magazine
Document type: editorial column
Document title: “Barbed Wire”
Author(s): anonymous
Date of publication: 21 November 1901
Volume number: 4
Issue number: 20
Pagination: 6-7 (excerpt below includes only page 6)

 
Citation
“Barbed Wire.” Conservative 21 Nov. 1901 v4n20: pp. 6-7.
 
Transcription
excerpt
 
Keywords
Theodore Roosevelt (name, pronunciation of); Johann Most; Leon Czolgosz (name); Leon Czolgosz (execution).
 
Named persons
Johann Most.
 
Notes
Omission of text within the excerpt is denoted with a bracketed indicator (e.g., [omit]).
 
Document


Barbed Wire
[excerpt]

     He says it should be pronounced Rosy-velt and it is thought best to let the impetuous young gentleman have his own way about it.

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     Now that Herr Most has fully proven that his famous “Murder Against Murder” editorial was published more than fifteen years ago, it is a certain Peerless one who stands convicted of plagairism [sic].

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     You may refer to anarchy as a cancer on the body of civilization if you wish to, but just make a careful diagnosis of the recent star anarchist’s name, and see if it doesn’t strike you as being more like “Pole-evil.”

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     Our minister wants to now [sic] what passed through what’s-’is-name’s brain when he took his seat in that fatal chair. Not wishing to keep anything back from him, the prison officials come square out and make a clean breast of it by asserting that it was about 1700 volts.