The Cry of Justice

About this eBook

Editor

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968

Title

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

Credits

MFR, Splendid Geryon and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

HN: Social sciences: Social history and conditions, Social problems

Subject

Social justice

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 65775

Release Date

July 5, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Cry for Justice
2. 2.Introduction by Jack London
3. 3.Acknowledgments
4. 4.Contents
5. 5.List of Illustrations
6. 6.Editor’s Preface
7. 7.A Consecration — BOOK I — The Man With the Hoe [A] — Country Life — An Aged Laborer — Farm Laborers — Helotage — Played Out — Rounding the Horn [C] — Insouciance in Storm — From the Sailors’ Catechism — Stokers [D] — Caliban in the Coal Mines — The Fertilizer Man — Pittsburgh — The Navvy [E] — The Song of the Wage Slave — Manhattan — A Department-Store Clerk — A Cry from the Ghetto — Trousers [F] — The Song of the Shirt — A London Sweating Den [G] — The Hop-pickers — Environment — Work and Pray — Conventional Lies of Our Civilization — The Failure of Civilization
8. 8.BOOK II — Wat Tyler — The Poor-Slave Household — By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand — The Lotus Eaters — Yeast — Alton Locke — Looking Backward — Rich and Poor — A Tale of Two Cities — Paris — King Hunger — London — London — A Life for a Life [H] — Isabella, or The Pot of Basil — The Sons of Martha — Reflections Upon Poverty — The Veins of Wealth — Lynggaard & Co. — My Religion — The Octopus [I] — By Anatole France — Progress and Poverty
9. 9.BOOK III — Not Guilty — Moleskin Joe [J] — The Carter and the Carpenter [K] — By Horace Greeley. — The Hunt for the Job — The Unemployable — The Bread Line — The Unemployed Problem — An Answer — The Parish Workhouse — By Kenkō Hoshi — The Bread of Affliction — No. 5 John Street — Night in the Slums [L] — A Night’s Lodging — The Menagerie — A Sentiment on Social Reform — Prisons — The Prison System — From the Psalms — Ballade of Misery and Iron — By Kenkō Hoshi — The Red Robe — By Kenkō Hoshi — A Hanging in Prison — The Punishment of Thieves — The Turn of the Balance [M] — 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
10. 10.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 — By John Stuart Mill — The Man Under the Stone — By Boethius — The Wolf at the Door — By Robert Herrick — Each Against All — By Matthew Arnold — Fomá Gordyéeff — The Sight of Inequality — Settlement Work [N] — 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
11. 11.BOOK V — A Man’s a Man for a’ That — By Thomas Jefferson — A Vindication of Natural Society — The Antiquity of Freedom — By Lord Byron — 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 — Comrade Yetta [O] — “New” Women — Bread and Roses — The Great Strike [P] — 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 — By G. Bernard Shaw — By Robert G. Ingersoll — 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 — By Wendell Phillips — 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
12. 12.BOOK VI — Social Ideals — Le Père Perdrix — The Duty of Civil Disobedience — Address to the Jury — By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Essay on Liberty — From The Epistle of James — The Walker — By George Washington — 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 Dungeon — The Sick Line — The Keepers — By Frederic Harrison — The Seven That Were Hanged — A Woman’s Execution — By Thomas Jefferson — These Shifting Scenes — The Eagle that is Forgotten — Immortality — Light Upon Waldheim — Beyond Human Might — Chillon
13. 13.BOOK VII — Jesus — Crusaders — Jesus the Revolutionist — To the “Christians” — Life of Jesus — From the Gospel According to Luke — A Tramp’s Confession — The Call of the Carpenter [S] — 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
14. 14.BOOK VIII — God and My Neighbor — From the Gospel of Luke — From the Bottom Up — From the Gospel of John — The Inside of the Cup [T] — Trinity Church — The Church and the Workers — Tainted Wealth — The Collection — By Émile de Lavelaye — The Voice of the Early Church — By Clement of Alexandria — By Tertullian — By St. Cyprian — By St. Basil — By St. Ambrose — By St. Jerome — By St. John Chrysostom — By St. Augustine — By St. Gregory the Great — The Annexing of Christianity [U] — Preface to “Major Barbara” — Prince Hagen — The Prince — Children of the Dead End [V] — Incantations — Exit Salvatore — From Micah — The Saint — The New Rome — The Priest and the Devil — Work According to the Bible — Resurrection — Sunday — By Isaiah — To the Preacher — The Reluctant Briber — By Savonarola — The Preacher — Twentieth Century Socialism — The True Faith — God in the World — Priests — Brotherhood
15. 15.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 — By Martial — By Cato, the Censor — 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 — ( From the Instructions of Ptah-Hotep ) — ( From the Icelandic, Eleventh Century ) — By Virgil — ( From the “Antigone” of Sophocles ) — ( From the Book of Good Counsels ) — ( From the “Medea” of Euripides ) — The Perfect City — Concerning Independence — ( From The Hitopadesa ) — By Xenophon — By Dante Alighieri — By Omar Khayyam — Oh! Freedom — Fredome — A Home of Righteousness — Palaces — Pride in Poverty — Millionaires in Rome — The Ruling Classes — Ladies of Fashion — Concerning Justice — By Marcus Aurelius — By Sadi — ( From “The Koran” ) — (Arabian proverb, Sixteenth Century) — By Nintoku — Solon — Concerning Land — By Solon — Deuteronomy — Leviticus — ( From, “Discourse on the Origin of Inequality” ) — Radicalism — Seeking Causes — By Plato — Concerning Usury [W] — ( From “The Koran” ) — ( From the Psalms ) — By Aristotle — ( From “Essay on Riches” ) — Solidarity — Socialism — The Promise — The Co-operative Commonwealth
16. 16.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 — By William Shakespeare — The Cave of Mammon — Mammon Marriage — Snobs and Marriage — In Bohemia — Vanity Fair — The Sins of Society — ( From a leading London newspaper ) — Fifth Avenue, 1915 — Hotel Life [X] — The Parasitic Female — In the Market-Place — Dinner à la Tango — Evils of Gold — The Theory of the Leisure Class [Y] — 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 — By Jack London — Tono-Bungay — Man the Reformer — To a Certain Rich Young Ruler — From the Politics of Aristotle — By Amos — Concerning Charity — Crowds — The Dying Boss — A Ballad of Dead Girls — By William Shakespeare — 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
17. 17.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 — By The Empress Catherine II of Russia — By Frederick the Great of Prussia — Our Father Which Art in Heaven — The War Prayer [Z] — The Illusion of War — Lay Down Your Arms — Before Sedan — Doubt — The Wife of Flanders — Buttons — The Wine Press — The News — The Diplomats — The Charge — 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 — By Micah
18. 18.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 — By Francis Bacon — By Daniel Webster — The Deserted Village — England in 1819 — The Victorian Age — Coronation Day — The Wrongfulness of Riches — By Walter Savage Landor — The True Imperialism — Letters from a Chinese Official — Utopia — Tales of Two Countries — The Rights of Man — By Otto von Bismarck — The Demand of Labor — Bryanism — By Ferdinand Lassalle — The Rough Rider — By William Ewart Gladstone — The Bad Shepherds — The Cultured Classes — The Duty of Civil Disobedience — By Ralph Waldo Emerson — The Happiness of Nations — Paris — Farewell Address — America the Beautiful
19. 19.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
20. 20.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 — A Modern Version — 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
21. 21.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” — By Heinrich Heine — 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 — By John Ruskin — By Ō-Shi-O — 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 — Biffen Falls in Love — 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
22. 22.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 — By G. Bernard Shaw — 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 — By Otto von Bismarck — 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
23. 23.BOOK XVII — As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free — The Kingdom of Man — On a Steamship — By Thomas Carlyle — The Revolution — In Memoriam — By Isaiah — Makar’s Dream — The Desire of Nations — The Great Change — My Utopian Self — By Isaiah — Incentives — For Lyric Labor — By Isaiah — The Perfect City — Utopia — The Soul of Man Under Socialism — From the Book of Leviticus — Cities, Old and New — Caesar and Cleopatra — By Alfred Tennyson — A Festival in Utopia — The Utopian City — The Utopia of Syndicalism — The Trade Union Congress — The Distribution of Wealth — 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
24. 24.Index of Authors — Index of Titles
25. 25.Books by UPTON SINCLAIR — Transcriber’s Notes: — FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber’s Notes:

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