The Ford Mary Austin (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: houses opposite. Widening rings of disturbance lapped up the outer circle of anarchists and drew away devotees of the philosophy of Vitality in favor of the nearest manifestation of it. Carried forward by the general movement of the street, Kenneth caught, above the circle of excited exclamation, a high, feminine voice shaking out bitter denunciations of Capital and the Established Order. ..". Call yourselves Americans . . . call yourselves freemen . . . miserable wage slaves that dare n't say your souls are your own for fear somebody will dock your pay for it! ..." "And what pay?" The voice rose again above the mingled growl of corroboration and resentment. ." . . Is it all that you earn with your brain and your brawn and your time ... is it even a fair proportion of what you earn . . . ? And you call this a free country, and your flag the emblem of liberty. ..." "Aw, g'wan, leave the flag alone, can'tcha'!" The adjuration which arose from the outer circle evoked a feeble cheer, overmatched by cries of "Go on! She's right! Shut up, you! she ain't said nothing!" "I tell you it is the capitalistic flag of a capitalistic ?" What followed was too confused to make out. There were cries and scuffling; he judged the speaker had been pulled from her soap box, but whether by her friends or detractors he was not near enough to determine. Evidently she was still going on with her arraignment of the Great American Tradition; scraps of injurious phrase floated clear. By this tune the policeman had come up, and Kenneth, following some obscure clue of the voice, plunged into the crowd beside him. "What's up, officer?" "Th' iron workers. They're out." Kenneth recalled that he had read as much in the evening papers. "That's one of these here New York organizers. ..." The policeman ...