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Title: Labor and Freedom

Author: Eugene V. Debs

Release Date: September 29, 2010 [EBook #34012]

Language: English

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Labor and Freedom

The Voice and Pen of Eugene V. Debs

While there is a lower class I am in it;
While there is a criminal class I am of it;
While there is a soul in prison I am not free.

Published by
PHIL WAGNER
St. Louis
1916

[Illustration: Logo. 115]

_Introduction_

_I think if I had been asked to name this work that comes to us from the
rare mind and tender heart of 'Gene Debs, I would have called it "The
Old Umbrella Mender." It was this tragic, touching tale that I first
read in the manuscript; and it is the memory of this that will always
return to me when I think of the book. It is the perfect painting from
the artist's brush--the sculptured monument from the master's
chisel--that makes one lowly, loyal soul to live forever in the hearts
of humanity's lovers._

_Not but that every line in the book is a treasure, and every sentiment
brought forth an appeal to all that makes for justice, and equality, and
freedom; nor will it detract from, but rather add to, the beauty and
inestimable value of the entire collection if others, likewise, carry
with them the image and memory of the old umbrella mender, as they
travel with Debs the struggling, storm-tossed way of Labor and Freedom._

HENRY M. TICHENOR.

St. Louis, March 1, 1916.

MISCELLANY

THE OLD UMBRELLA MENDER.

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