ELBERT HUBBARD

NZ Truth, Issue 524, 3 July 1915, Page 7

ELBERT HUBBARD

Lost m the Lusitania I Spurned by the Socialists j :_' Coquettes with the Capitalists TSlbert Hubbard. editor of the "Fra." •who, it was reported, went down on 'the ill-fated Lusitania, at the beginning of | his career, coquetted with the AmeriIcan Socialist Party, and at one t\me applied f6r membership therein. He was "blackoalled," and thus rejected! Hubj bard, however; continued to exploit the | growing. Socialist sentiment, and not ] 1 1 IX recent years, when certain 'Murkan I Labor leaders began to criticise, adi vers«ly certain, of hie. writings, did be openly oppose Marx's desdples wi^h tongue and pen. . Then Jbe ]aeX out to I defend the multi -millionaire, and so I successful were his many publications |and other undertakings that he all but | succeeded m raising himself Into their j class. But even Elbcrt Hubbard's most j bitter liabor opponents never accused! i or even suspected, him of. gaining his i wealth 'by bthe'r than .the most strictly honest means, or what aro considered strictly honest under tho present comj mercial system. From revelations j made recently m New York concerning i certain Colorado operators and John p. \ Rockefeller, junr,,. it would seem that, \ like most Yankees. Elbert* Hubbard. tbo i idealist, was not. above a. IKtle bit of 1 ; "graft" when it paid him well to do a j "write up." Irrespective of the rights or j wrongs of, the cane, the inljim- | o>ib Colorado Labor war was on, and • many inbor mm wore shot m cold J)looU nud- many others s<vnt to tta6l. Klbort Hubbard wrote a defence of the operator?' actions, and m j justification of the employment by the | masters of hired gunmen to shoot 'down the strikers. In an Inquiry into ; tho John D. rtockefoller Foundation a Korles of letters from Hubbard came to • light, m which were made proposals to j John l>., junr., tQ pay Hubbard the sura I of £40.000 for printing said defence m ; the "Fra," Rockefeller's gang to have n j million copies for free distribution i throughout the U.S.A. Thus another f tin god of the "ethical" Socialist and reformist Is knocked down from its all too exalted pedestal, like many others before him, he failed to rise superior to his environment. Will he be the |lHt*t?