The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest / The writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice; selected from twenty-five languages; covering a period of five thousand years
THE HEAVY SLEDGE
MAHONRI YOUNG
( American sculptor, born 1877 )
An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest
THE WRITINGS OF PHILOSOPHERS, POETS, NOVELISTS, SOCIAL REFORMERS, AND OTHERS WHO HAVE VOICED THE STRUGGLE AGAINST SOCIAL INJUSTICE
SELECTED FROM TWENTY-FIVE LANGUAGES Covering a Period of Five Thousand Years
Edited by UPTON SINCLAIR Author of “Sylvia,” “The Jungle,” Etc.
With an Introduction by JACK LONDON Author of “The Sea Wolf,” “The Call of the Wild,” “The Valley of the Moon,” Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED WITH REPRODUCTIONS OF SOCIAL PROTEST IN ART
Published by UPTON SINCLAIR NEW YORK CITY AND PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
Dr. John R. Haynes, of Los Angeles, very generously purchased from the publishers the plates and copyright of this book, in order to make possible the issuing of this edition. I asked Dr. Haynes if he would let me make acknowledgment to him in the book, and he answered: “Dedicate the book to those unknown ones, who by their dimes and quarters keep the Socialist movement going; to the poor and obscure people who sacrifice themselves in order to bring about a better world, which they may never live to see. Write this as eloquently as you can, and it will be the best possible dedication to ‘The Cry for Justice’.”
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The Cry for Justice
Introduction by Jack London
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Illustrations
Editor’s Preface
A Consecration
BOOK I
Country Life
An Aged Laborer
Farm Laborers
Helotage
Played Out
Insouciance in Storm
From the Sailors’ Catechism
Caliban in the Coal Mines
The Fertilizer Man
Pittsburgh
The Song of the Wage Slave
Manhattan
A Department-Store Clerk
A Cry from the Ghetto
The Song of the Shirt
Environment
Work and Pray
Conventional Lies of Our Civilization
The Failure of Civilization
BOOK II
Wat Tyler
The Poor-Slave Household
The Lotus Eaters
Yeast
Alton Locke
Looking Backward
Rich and Poor
A Tale of Two Cities
Paris
King Hunger
London
London
Isabella, or The Pot of Basil
The Sons of Martha
Reflections Upon Poverty
The Veins of Wealth
My Religion
Progress and Poverty
BOOK III
Not Guilty
The Hunt for the Job
The Unemployable
The Bread Line
The Unemployed Problem
An Answer
The Parish Workhouse
The Bread of Affliction
No. 5 John Street
A Night’s Lodging
The Menagerie
A Sentiment on Social Reform
Prisons
The Prison System
From the Psalms
Ballade of Misery and Iron
The Red Robe
A Hanging in Prison
The Punishment of Thieves
The Police-Court Reporter
The Straight Road
The “Cadet”
The Priestess of Humanity
Sisterhood
The Woman of the Streets
In the Strand
The Bridge of Sighs
BOOK IV
The People’s Anthem
The World’s Way
Written in London, September, 1802
The Preface to “Les Miserables”
Bound
These Populations
The Ship of Humanity
Freedom
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
The Land Question
The Lady Poverty
The Jungle
The Sad Sight of the Hungry
The Right to be Lazy
The First Machine
The Man Under the Stone
The Wolf at the Door
Each Against All
Fomá Gordyéeff
The Sight of Inequality
Concerning Women
Women and Economics
The Wrongfulness of Riches
Despair
Inequality of Wealth
The Two Songs
Savva
The Man Forbid
Peasantry
An Italian Restaurant
Tonight
A South-Sea Islander
Out of the Dark
Heirs of Time
Beyond Human Might
Weavers
Alton Locke
BOOK V
A Man’s a Man for a’ That
A Vindication of Natural Society
The Antiquity of Freedom
Concerning Moderation
The First Issue of “The Liberator”
Working and Taking
Address to President Lincoln
Boston Hymn
Battle Hymn of the Chinese Revolution (1912)
The Revolution
Cry of the People
Ladies in Rebellion
A Doll’s House
A Girl Strike-Leader
“New” Women
Bread and Roses
What Meaneth a Tyrant, and how he Useth his Power in a Kingdom When he hath Obtained it
An Open Letter to the Employers
God and the Strong Ones
Alton Locke’s Song: 1848
Labor
The Two “Reigns of Terror”
In Trafalgar Square
Europe: The 72nd and 73rd Years of These States
The Dead to the Living
Free Speech
The Mask of Anarchy
Real Liberty
Christmas in Prison
Robbers and Governments
“Gunmen” in Israel
“Gunmen” in West Virginia
From Ecclesiastes
Political Violence
The Bomb
BOOK VI
Social Ideals
Le Père Perdrix
The Duty of Civil Disobedience
Address to the Jury
Essay on Liberty
From The Epistle of James
The Walker
Forcible Feeding
The Subjection of Women
The Old Suffragist
Going to the People
The Revolutionist
In a Russian Prison
Batuschka
Breshkovskaya
In Siberia
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
The Seven That Were Hanged
A Woman’s Execution
These Shifting Scenes
The Eagle that is Forgotten
Immortality
Light Upon Waldheim
Beyond Human Might
Chillon
BOOK VII
Jesus
Crusaders
Jesus the Revolutionist
To the “Christians”
Life of Jesus
From the Gospel According to Luke
A Tramp’s Confession
Lazarus
A Parable
From the Gospel According to Matthew
The Easter Children
The Quest
The Image in the Forum
The Quest
The Swordless Christ
How Long, O Lord
In a Siberian Prison Church
Before a Crucifix
BOOK VIII
God and My Neighbor
From the Gospel of Luke
From the Bottom Up
From the Gospel of John
Trinity Church
The Church and the Workers
Tainted Wealth
The Collection
The Voice of the Early Church
Preface to “Major Barbara”
Prince Hagen
The Prince
Incantations
Exit Salvatore
From Micah
The Saint
The New Rome
The Priest and the Devil
Work According to the Bible
Resurrection
Sunday
To the Preacher
The Reluctant Briber
The Preacher
Twentieth Century Socialism
The True Faith
God in the World
Priests
Brotherhood
BOOK IX
The Suppressions of History
Agis
The Labor Problem in Egypt
The People
From Ecclesiastes
Tiberius Gracchus
Captive Good Attending Captain Ill
Poverty
Free Labor
Plutus
Farmer and Lawyer Again
The Agitator
The Muckraker in Persia
The System
Grafters in Athens
Pure Food Agitation
Wall Street
Prosperity
The Leading Citizen
Hong’s Experiences in Hades
Monopolies
Intemperate Speech
Government
Murder by Statute
Rebuking a Tyrant
The Eloquent Peasant
Prayers Without Answer
The Suffering of Women
Divorce in Ancient Babylon
The Parable of the Hungry Dog
The Nature of Kings
King Yu’s Misgovernment
Slavery
The Power of Justice
Legislators
Concerning Wealth
The Perfect City
Concerning Independence
Oh! Freedom
Fredome
A Home of Righteousness
Palaces
Pride in Poverty
Millionaires in Rome
The Ruling Classes
Ladies of Fashion
Concerning Justice
Solon
Concerning Land
Radicalism
Seeking Causes
Solidarity
Socialism
The Promise
The Co-operative Commonwealth
BOOK X
Paradise Lost
Miss Kilmansegg: Her Moral
Northern Farmer: New Style
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
From Ecclesiasticus
Past and Present
Dipsychus
Utopia
The Crown of Wild Olive
Don Juan
The Cave of Mammon
Mammon Marriage
Snobs and Marriage
In Bohemia
Vanity Fair
The Sins of Society
Fifth Avenue, 1915
The Parasitic Female
In the Market-Place
Dinner à la Tango
Evils of Gold
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Letters from a Chinese Official
Stupidity Street
The Souls of Black Folk
Co-operation and Nationality
The Communist Manifesto
Portrait of an American
A Living Wage
Impressions
New Varieties of Sin
Tono-Bungay
Man the Reformer
To a Certain Rich Young Ruler
From the Politics of Aristotle
Concerning Charity
Crowds
The Dying Boss
A Ballad of Dead Girls
The Miner’s Tale
Romance
The Soul’s Errand
December 31st
Sisters of the Cross of Shame
Bringing the Light
The Selling of Love
The Butcher’s Stall
Fomá Gordyéeff
Venus Pandemos
BOOK XI
I Sing the Battle
War
Sartor Resartus
The Soldier’s Oath
The Coming of War
Slavery
The Biglow Papers
To a Nine-inch Gun
Kruppism
Our Father Which Art in Heaven
The Illusion of War
Lay Down Your Arms
Before Sedan
Doubt
The Wife of Flanders
Buttons
The Wine Press
War
In Praise of the Warrior
Song of the Exposition
Woman and War
The Arsenal at Springfield
War and Peace
A Prayer of the Peoples
War
A Project for a Perpetual Peace
Let the People Vote on War
Anti-Militarism
The Dawn
The Springtime of Peace
BOOK XII
Our Country
The New Freedom
An Ode in Time of Hesitation
The Price of Liberty
To the Goddess of Liberty
To the United States Senate
The Duty of Civil Disobedience
A Prophecy
An Election Campaign in New York
The Doom of Empires
The Statue of Liberty
The Deserted Village
England in 1819
The Victorian Age
Coronation Day
The Wrongfulness of Riches
The True Imperialism
Letters from a Chinese Official
Utopia
Tales of Two Countries
The Rights of Man
The Demand of Labor
Bryanism
The Rough Rider
The Bad Shepherds
The Cultured Classes
The Duty of Civil Disobedience
The Happiness of Nations
Paris
Farewell Address
America the Beautiful
BOOK XIII
The Children of the Poor
In a Southern Cotton Mill
The Flower Factory
The Beast
The Cry of the Children
Child Labor in England
Mill Children
In the Slums of London
Slum Children
No. 5 John Street
Locksley Hall Fifty Years After
Past and Present
Waifs and Strays
Oliver Twist
The Children’s Auction
A Modest Proposal
Child Labor
Mother Wept
A Workingman’s Home-Life
Behold the Future
The Factories
God and the Flowers
The Leaden-Eyed
Children and Economics
What to Do
True Education
New Worlds for Old
The Way to Freedom
BOOK XIV
The Reserved Section
The Monthly Rent
Penguin Island
“Mr. Dooley” on Success
Diomedes the Pirate to Alexander
The Leisure Classes
The Influence of Servants
A Gentleman and His Boots
Song of the Lower Classes
Tom Dunstan: or, the Politician
Lines
The Memoirs of Li Hung Chang
From Ecclesiasticus
The Pauper’s Drive
Complaint to My Empty Purse
“Mr. Dooley” on Poverty
Don Quixote
The Freebooter’s Prayer
Zadig
For the Other 365 Days
The Road to Success
The Latest Decalogue
What the Moon Saw
Portrait of a Supreme Court Judge
The Gentleman Inside
The Memoirs of Li Hung Chang
Penguin Island
“Mr. Dooley” on the Tariff
The Preacher and the Slave
Work for All but Father
Mr. “Dooley” on Industry
Lines to a Pomeranian Puppy Valued at $3,500
Labor and Capital Are One
“Mr. Dooley” on Prosperity
Why the Socialist Party Is Growing
The Babble Machines
The Ballad of Kiplingson
Militancy
“Mr. Dooley” on Woman Suffrage
Heloise sans Abelard
In the Shadows: the Priest
Thinking
The Tail of the World
BOOK XV
By-the-Way
Democratic Vistas
Today
What Is Art?
A Catechism for Workers
The Superior Classes
The Midnight Lunch Room
What Life Means to Me
Fires
Alton Locke
The Prophetic Book “Milton”
The Last Word
An Appeal to the Young
From the Book of Proverbs
Chants Communal
No Enemies
The Revolution
The Refusal
To the Retainers
Ad Valorem
The Lost Leader
Journalism
The Rebel
Jean-Christophe
The Problem Play
Fleet Street Eclogues
To a Bourgeois Litterateur
The Scholar as Revolutionist
A Warning
Stoning the Prophets
For Hire
A Man of Genius
Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield
Mother Hubbard’s Tale
The Journal of Arthur Stirling
Last Verses
The “Pinch of Poverty”
Man as God
A Preface to Politics
Learning
BOOK XVI
Is It Nothing to You?
The Sign of the Son of Man
Poverty Makes All Unhappy
The One Duty
Land Titles
The Rights of Labor
A Marching Song
The Duties of Man
From Revolution to Revolution
The March of the Workers
The Working Day
The Organization of Labor
The Wastes of Capitalism
From Revolution to Revolution
The Internationale
The Syndicalist
The Communist Manifesto (1848)
The Workingman’s Program
Jurgis Hears a Socialist Speech
The Marseillaise
Trial for High Treason
Jimmie Higgins
From The Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians
Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket
Progressivism and After
The Revolution in the Mind and Practice of the Human Race
Running a Socialist Paper
Renovating the State
The New State
The Coming Dawn
Labor Irresistible
From the Magnificat
To Labor
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
Wealth Against Commonwealth
Mutual Aid as a Factor in Evolution
Co-operation and Nationality
New Worlds for Old
Socialism and Motherhood
Progress in Medicine
The Socialist Faith
BOOK XVII
As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
The Kingdom of Man
On a Steamship
The Revolution
In Memoriam
Makar’s Dream
The Desire of Nations
The Great Change
My Utopian Self
Incentives
For Lyric Labor
The Perfect City
Utopia
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
From the Book of Leviticus
Cities, Old and New
Caesar and Cleopatra
A Festival in Utopia
The Utopian City
The Utopia of Syndicalism
The New Nationalism
Looking Backward
Liberty in Utopia
From the Epistle of James
The Social Revolution and After
The Understanding of Nature
The Future of Art
Art After the Revolution
Punishment in Utopia
A Preface to Politics
The Triumph of Love
The City of the Sun
Love in Utopia
Parentage and the State
The Deliverance of Woman
She Who Is to Come
Woman in Freedom
The Free Woman
The Coming Singer
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Index of Authors
Index of Titles
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