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Source: Mother Earth Source type: magazine Document type: editorial column Document title: “Observations and Comments” Author(s): anonymous Date of publication: October 1911 Volume number: 6 Issue number: 8 Pagination: 226-32 (excerpt below includes only page 226-27) |
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| “Observations and Comments.” Mother Earth Oct. 1911 v6n8: pp. 226-32. |
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| Keywords |
| Leon Czolgosz. |
| Named persons |
| Michele Angiolillo; Gaetano Bresci; Leon Czolgosz; Émile Henry; Ravachol; Auguste Vaillant. |
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Observations and Comments [excerpt]
THIS issue of M E,
is dedicated in part to the memory of Leon Czolgosz who, ten years ago paid
with his life for the daring shot of September 6th.
He was almost unknown. His martyrdom during his
incarceration, as well as his death in the electric chair at Auburn prison,
are devoid of the human sympathies and romantic glamor that surround the graves
of Ravachol, Vaillant, Henry, Angiolillo, Bresci, and our Russian heroes.
Now, after a decade, as we approach his sombre
suffering figure, we see in him the nameless representative of a nameless humanity—humanity
enduring endlessly, hoping endlessly, and forever thrust back into the abyss
of poverty and despair.
Some day, this nameless mass will awaken from
its leaden sleep. Some day, its just indignation will become strong enough to
shake off the parasites and vampires that had been thriving on its body. When
that day comes, the image of Leon Czolgosz will grow more dis- [226][227]
tinct, more real in its kinship with those for whom he died.