We have so many comrades. Veteran Socialist Gerhard Meinert, born Schledehausen, Lower Saxony in 1861, died in Toledo, Ohio in 1904.

‘In Memoriam: Gerhard Meinert’ from the Chicago Socialist. Vol. 6 No. 270. May 7, 1904.

Toledo, April 25, 1904.

In the death of Gerhart Meinert, which occurred on April 10. Local Toledo lost one of its most active and earnest workers, and the movement in America, and particularly in Ohio, one of the all too few Socialists of the kind the movement needs so many of and has so few to keep it clear from the influence of those self-seekers who are the present menace to the party.

But few understood as thoroughly as did Comrade Meinert the teachings of Marx and Engels. His clearness and judgment will be long missed in the councils of Local Toledo, his purse was always open to the needs of the cause The clang of the chains of wage slavery, the sobs and groans of the victims of capitalism in sweat- shop, factory and mine ever rang in his ears. His every thought was for their emancipation.

We who knew him best and loved him most shall miss his earnest face and warm hand-clasp when we meet. But his influence will ever remain with us and the memory of his unselfishness and devotion to our cause, his noble character and pure life shall stimulate us to renewed activity.

Comrade Meinert was a druggist. In fulfillment of his wishes his body was cremated and six of his comrades acted as pall-bearers. T. F. KEOGH

The Chicago Socialist, sometimes daily sometimes weekly, was published from 1902 until 1912 as the paper of the Chicago Socialist Party. The roots of the paper lie with Workers Call, published from 1899 as a Socialist Labor Party publication, becoming a voice of the Springfield Social Democratic Party after splitting with De Leon in July, 1901. It became the Chicago Socialist Party paper with the SDP’s adherence and changed its name to the Chicago Socialist in March, 1902. In 1906 it became a daily and published until 1912 by Local Cook County of the Socialist Party and was edited by A.M. Simons if the International Socialist Review. A cornucopia of historical information on the Chicago workers movements lies within its pages.

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