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...Paulus Kempf, surgeon, sculptor, poet, and labor agitator, is one of the most unusual characters in contemporary literature. Fleeing the vengeance of a hostile mob, he arrives in a tine settlement of Finns, living peacefully on the shore of Lake Superior in the shadow of a scowling granite face which Nature, in an angry mood, has carved on the mountainside. Sick to death of his fellowmen, he grasps at the ideal of the superman, whom no laws or conventions can touch, and seeks to raise himself to this height. The villagers are raw material for the exploitation...
...however, demos is being served. Bad as their lowered taste is, the people are having their inning. What was caviar to the mob is dressed up to suit its ruder palate. And if there is a place for sex in literature why should not the varietry share it? Life with all its experiences means as much to it as to the more effete sophisticates. If these new periodicals flash a bit of light into the deadly village dullness or provide a vicarious escape for a dry goods clerk one must grant them some justification...
...Italian states made possible the present United Kingdom of Italy). "I much regret the extravagant excitement [in England] respecting Garibaldi, which shows little dignity or discrimination in the nation. . . . Brave and honest though he is, he has ever been a revolutionist leader." Diary Note in 1870. "Heard that the mob at Paris had rushed into the Senate and proclaimed the downfall of the dynasty, proclaiming a Republic. This was received with acclamation and the proclamation was made from the Hotel-de-Ville. Not one voice was raised in favor of the unfortunate Emperor [Napoleon III]. How ungrateful...
When Finis Bates arrived he took incognito to gave his friend's body from mob violence. For it was the body of his friend, John St. Helen, beyond peradventure?a hooplike scar over the eye, a neck cicatrice, an old leg fracture, a crooked thumb. And years before, near death in Texas, St. Helen had given Bates proof that only a friend, a lawyer never, could refuse to accept, proof that he was Lincoln's assassin...
...recent strike of garment workers at Paterson, N. J., he attempted to hold a meeting in a half, oposed by the police, and them led the strikers to city ban where he spoke for free speech and read the New Jersey State Bill of Rights. The police charged the mob and Mr. Baldwin was later sentenced to jail. Mr. Baldwin's activities as a pacifist during the World War also attracted the attention of the nation...