You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
Saturday July 25, 1903
New York City, New York - More on Thursday Night's Meeting & Speech by Mother Jones
After Benjamin Hanford made his controversial speech, Mother Jones was introduced by Col. Geiger to the cheers of the 30,000 New Yorkers assembled to hear her. She spoke from the back of a truck with her arms around the shoulders of two of the youngest textile strikers. She said that she had marched 92 miles with her band of little slaves and:
We are quietly marching toward the president's home. I believe he can do something for these children, although the president declares he cannot. Congress last year passed a bill giving $45,000 to fill the stomach of an old prince, and he endorsed that, and if he could do that he surely could tell congress to pass a bill that would take the children out of the God-accursed mills and put them in the schools
Later Mother expressed disapproval of the speech made by Benjamin Hanford, stating that she had not realized that he would make such a violent speech. Regarding Hanford's strong criticisms of the Acting Police Commissioner, Major Ebstein, and the New York City Mayor, Seth Low, Mother made this statement:
Both Mayor Low and Major Ebstein treated me with all possible courtesy. I could not ask for better treatment from any one. The Mayor was in every way a perfect gentleman in his dealings with me.
For his part, Major Ebstein said that he would certainly allow Mother Jones to have another meeting, "why shouldn't I?"
And indeed she did hold another meeting last night at the corner of Twenty-fourth Street and Fourth Avenue. She was escorted there by Capt. O'Connor of the West Thirtieth Street Police Department and his reserves . She spoke to a crowd of 1,500 for about an hour on the subject of child labor. She also praised the policemen and advocated shorter hours for them.
Since their arrival in the City, the Crusaders have been swimming in the East River and enjoying the hospitality of the Socialist at their headquarters on East Fourth Street.
The Secret Service has reportedly been to see Mother Jones in an effort to get her to give up her plan to march on the home of President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. Mother continues to insist that the Army has every intention of going to Sagamore Hill:
Oh, yes, I shall certainly go to Oyster Bay but I will take only these three little boys with me, to see the President. If he refuses to see the boys, why, I will not see him, that's certain. But I think he will see us. Why shouldn't he. We are law-abiding American citizens.
The Army has plans today to visit Coney Island where they will be the guests of Frank Bostock, the owner of a wild animal show.
SOURCES
The Atlanta Constitution
(Atlanta, GE)
-of July 24, 1903
The New York Times
-of July 24, 1903
http://select.nytimes.com/...
-& July 25, 1903
http://select.nytimes.com/...
Mother Jones
The Miners' Angel
-by Dale Fetherling
So IL U Press, 1974
The Children's Crusade Summary
Day 18: Friday July 24, 1903
In New York City
Speech at Twenty-fourth Street and Fourth Avenue
(Use with "get directions" on google maps to follow general route of march.)
Friday July 25, 1913
Calumet, Michigan - Striking Copper Miners March with Tall Annie & Her Flag in the Lead
Annie Clemenc, miner's daughter and miner's wife, is six feet tall, and some say she is taller than that by two inches. This morning she led a parade of 400 striking copper miners carrying a flag so massive that it required a staff two inches thick and ten feet tall. The miners and their supporters marched out of the Italian Hall and through the streets of the Redjacket neighborhood to the Blue Jacket and Yellow Jacket mines. They marched silently, without a band, lined up three and four abreast. The miners were joined by their wives and children, all dressed in their Sunday best.
It seems, perhaps, that James MacNaughton, General Manager of the Calument and Hecla Mining Company, has met his worst nightmare in the statuesque shape of Big Annie.
SOURCES
Tall Annie
-by Virginia Law Burns
MI, 1987
Big Annie of Calumet
-by Jerry Stanley
NY, 1996
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Ain't Got No Home-Woody Guthrie
The gamblin' man is rich
and the workin' man is poor.