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Title: Voltairine De Cleyre Author: Ross Winn Date: 1903 Language: en Topics: Voltairine De Cleyre Source: Retrieved on March 13, 2012 from http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Voltairine_De_Cleyre Notes: Originally appearing in Winn’s Firebrand , Vol. II No. 1, January 1903.
Most of my readers are doubtless acquainted with the sad and terrible
news of the shooting of our beloved and gifted comrade, Voltairine De
Cleyre. We of The Firebrand office are so far from telegraphic
communication that, as our paper goes to press, we are yet in ignorance
of our strickened comrade’s condition. But we hope for the best.
We are indebted to Comrade James Myers, of Philadelphia, for a report of
the sad affair, and for newspaper clippings.
Herman Helcher, the assailant of Comrade De Cleyre, seems from the
account, to be an unfortunate victim of one of those false and vicious
ideas that form the basis of Christian ethics. The idea of
love-ownership, which is the foundation of the present system of legal
marriange, was the logical motive that impelled this weak-minded boy to
commit his terrible deed. Thousands of similar cases have occured and
are constantly occuring. Much as all of us would deplore the death of
our gifted, grand and gloriously intellectual Voltairine De Cleyre, we
can only pity her slayer as the victim of false and fatal teachings,
which it is the mission of Anarchy to destroy.