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Title: Salutation Author: Lucy E. Parsons Date: September 3, 1905 Language: en Topics: class struggle, working class, letter Source: The Liberator Notes: Chicago
In this age of quick transmission of thought, when all our energies are
strained to learn more and more about the sayings and doings of our
fellow beings, and especially those who are engaged in the same line of
work with ourselves, it becomes absolutely necessary for us to have a
medium of exchange if we are to keep in touch with each other, and if we
are to do any effective work. I believe we have all felt this need most
intensely since the suspension of Free Society. The Liberator comes to
fill this want. Comrades, are you ready to support the paper? Are you
ready to give your moral and financial assistance? If the paper is not
what you wish it to be, then make it so, write articles, send in reports
about meetings and reform movements generally in your vicinity. The
paper is yours, make of it what you choose. Articles will be published
from comrades and friends with the thanks of the editor. The line will
be drawn sharply at personalities as we know these enlighten no one and
do infinitely more harm than good. The editor has been too busy getting
out the paper upon the date promised to correspond with many writers of
known ability requesting them to contribute to The Liberator, but will
do so very soon. Among those who have been written to and have promised
to contribute articles are the well-known historian and scholar C. L.
James, who will contribute a series of articles on “Anarchism Defined.”
The first one appears in this issue. These articles will begin in the
simplest form and lead the reader gradually, step by step into the
philosophy of anarchism. Al Klemencic, of Pueblo, Col., will keep our
readers posted upon the labor movement in the middle west. Albert Ryan,
whose style and energy is here given us under head of “correspondence,”
and who is a member of the Western Federation of Miners, will keep us
posted on everything of interest in his part of the world. We will
endeavor to find some one on the Pacific coast to keep us informed from
that part of the country. E. N. Ling has promised us a series of
articles, beginning in October, showing the condition of the farming
class. As Mr Ling is a farmer and has been engaged in agricultural
pursuits both in this country and Canada we may expect something from
his pen that will be interesting and practical. And, too, our readers
will become quite familiar with the facile pen of “Rex.” Hoping comrades
will overlook the defects and shortcomings of the management of this
paper, remembering that the editor lays no claim to being a trained
writer, and where mistakes occur, they will be mistakes of the head and
not of the heart. Salutations and greetings to all friends of Liberty,
Solidarity and Equality.