An American Dissenter: The Life of Algie Martin Simons 1870-1950 PDF
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AN A M E R I C A N DISSENTER This page intentionally left blank KENT & GRETCHEN KRE UTER Dissenter The Lfe of A@ Martin Simons 1870-1950 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY PRESS LEXINGTON 1969 Copyright @ 1969, University of Kentucky Press Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-55042 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We are indebted above all to the Colgate Research Council of Col- gate University for its generous support and encouragement. A grant from the Littauer Foundation to the Colgate Research Council made possible a summer of research in the Simons Papers, and subsequent aid enabled us to examine other relevant collections. A number of librarians contributed in a variety of ways to our work. Most helpful, interested, and tireless was Eric von Brockdorff, formerly reference librarian at Colgate University. Others who an- swered our queries and hunted up material were Warren Albert, American Medical Association; Emilie Al-Khazraji, Josephine L. Harper, Biagino M. Marone, and Judith Topaz, State Historical Society of Wisconsin; J. Frank Cook, University of Wisconsin Li- brary; Michael Gieryic, Colgate University; Virginia R. Gray, Duke University Library; Helen S. Mangold, Huntington Library; Theo- dore Mueller, Milwaukee County Historical Society; and James W. Snell, Kansas State Historical Society. Among those who offered ideas and information about Simons and the American socialist movement or who read parts of the manuscript were Merle Curti, James C. Davies, Marcus Franda, Gerald Fried- berg, Jackson Giddens, Terry M. Hopkins, Dorothy Sickels, George H. Spargo, David Stern, and Karl von Loewe. Special thanks are due Robert Huston of Ball State University, who began to collect material on Simons in the early 195os, when a number of Simons' relatives and friends were still available for inter- view. Professor Huston was most helpful to us, both in his encourage- ment and in his warnings of the problems to be encountered in tracking down the writings of a man who was, for much of his life, a fugitive journalist. We are grateful to the McKnight Foundation for awarding a McKnight Prize in American history and biography to the manuscript of this book. This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Acknowledgments v Illustrations ix Introduction xi CHAPTER ONE On Native Ground I CHAPTER TWO Poverty and Philosophy I 8 CHAPTER THREE Many Mansions 35 CHAPTER FOUR Spreading the Word 55 CHAPTER FIVE Politics 82 CHAPTER SIX Kansas Exile I I 6 CHAPTER SEVEN Milwaukee Journalist 144 CHAPTER EIGHT War and Revolution I 63 CHAPTER NINE The New World 192 CHAPTER TEN Reminiscence 2 I 7 Bibliographical Essay 225 Index 231 This page intentionally left blank ILLUSTRATIONS between pages I oo and I o I Staff of the Chicago Daily Socialist, ca. 1906 A. M. Simons on the "Red Special," September 1908 Socialist Luncheon Meeting for the Mission by the Pro-War Party, August 2, I 9 I 8 Members of the American Socialist Labor Mission to Europe, Paris, I 9 I 8 between pages 08 and 09 I I A typical example of the crude but luring cartooning that filled the pages of most Socialist periodicals and newspapers A Ryan Walker cartoon An art nouveau reflection of Socialist expectations in I 902 A typical Marxist cartoon depicting the stages of history and forecasting the imminent demise of capitalism (All photographs courtesy of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin)
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