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My method might lose a boy his degree, but a degree is not worth so much as the capacity and the drive to learn, and the undergraduate desire for an empty baccalaureate is one of the holds the educational system has on students. Two years later, both of them were reporting Pancho Villa's uprising across the Mexican border, with Reed gaining most of the journalistic glory.

If John Reed had deliberately arranged his life to contradict all the future cliches about Communists, he could not have done a more thorough job.

He was not a poor boy; he was born into wealth and privilege. La Follette from the beginning has asked, not the bosses, but the people for what he wanted, and after 1894 he simply broadened his field and redoubled his efforts. "We are all wrong on the land," he said, and the thought of Wilson flashed to my mind. He had a major impact on the public he wrote for and the way that they viewed their representatives.

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It read books and fed on the conversation of scientists, not to quench an inquiry with the latest information, but to excite and make intelligent the questions implied.

(12) In his autobiography Lincoln Steffens explains how he visited James and Joseph McNamara, who had been charged with the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building.

I spoke to Darrow, who gave me permission to see his clients, and that afternoon, when court adjourned, I called on them at the jail.

Mine does not. It is no use. W. Scripps) hulking body, in big boots and rough clothes, carried a large grey head with a wide grey face which did not always express, like Darrow's, the constant activity of the man's brain.

Legacy

Steffens is remembered as the most independent reporter of his age. But Bullitt would not play this game.

Lincoln Steffens: A Biography. I guess I never worried about that.

(14) Theodore Draper, The Roots of American Communism (1957)

If Steffens did not immediately go all the way to active participation in the Communist movement, the rest of the journey was traveled by his protege, John Reed.

Twenty-one years separated Steffens and Reed in age, and the younger man could start where the older one had left off.

Not a little of the attraction Reed had for the majority of the poor, immigrant Communists may be attributed to what he was, as well as to what he did. There were J. B. McNamara, who was charged with actually placing and setting off the dynamite in Ink Alley that blew up part of the Times building and set fire to the rest, bringing about the death of twenty-one employees, and J.

J. McNamara, J. B.'s brother, who was indicted on some twenty counts for assisting at explosions as secretary of the Structural Iron Workers' Union, directing the actual dynamiters. Steffens had been a friend of Reed's father, a prosperous Portland, Oregon, businessman. At the beginning of my junior year I had several cinches in history.

The people had stopped talking; they were for action on the program. And the socialists, the American, English, the European socialists, they did not recognize their own heaven.