Call for a new social order : some activities of Charles Fremont Dight.

  • Charles Fremont Dight
Date:
1936
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    12 CALL FOR A NEW SOCIAL ORDER pressed against it, the water touched our chins and was about to put out our lighted candles. 'Dight, let's go back,' said Beattie, 'this is a foolhardy undertaking'. *We can't crawl back now, and if we dam up the loose dirt we are in just a little bit we'll drown; let's go ahead,' I said. Beattie agreed, for I was in front and would naturally be first to stick tight. Just then the water splashed against my candle and put out the light. I had great difficulty in getting a hand to the matches and lighting one which gave out only a sizzle when applied to the water soaked wick. I can hear that tantalizing sizzle still. We were get¬ ting chilly in the spring cold water. After several at¬ tempts the wick was lighted and we pushed and squeezed along until we reached a room that would hold perhaps a hundred people. What difficulties we might encounter in the last half of the way we did not know, but we took the risk and were two happy fellows when the first gleam of light appeared from the tunnel's lower end at 'Siloam's shady riir which we caused to be a muddy one and which angered the natives who came to get water in their goat¬ skin water-bottles and porous jugs. It is not hard to understand how a man of this daring and sturdiness could become the doughty fighter that the doctor is known to be for the cause that he has espoused. Some of his contests in the city council are herein related. fhe doctor had for years been a socialist and he frank¬ ly announced before the primary election for nomination in 1914 that he stood four-square for the full socialist demands of that time which made him an opponent of the capitalist system, since the socialist demands were in opposition to the policies of the democratic and repub¬ lican parties and it seemed paradoxical that those cap- talist parties, through a capitalist daily paper, should have aided in the election of a socialist. But that they did so, whether with an honest purpose or not, is shown from quotations that follow from the paper in 1914. Doctor Dight at that time lived at 4818, 39th Avenue South, in Minneapolis, near to the parkway and beside Minnehaha creek in a house that was unique in structure and which, because of that and its beautiful site, had repeatedly been photographed and written up not only in Minneapolis papers but in papers as far east as in New York and Washington, D. C., and as far west as Denver, Colorado. Many people drove long distances to see the house, and perhaps its owner, and it was not unusual for parties under all sorts of excuses to seek
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