Arthur Desmond

Political writings of Gerald Desmond. Obscure and long forgotten writings of Gerald Desmond, lecturer and writer, who under the cloak actually were Chicago bookseller Arthur Desmond (1859-1929), author of Might is Right, 1896, writing as "Ragnar Redbeard." These two books The Struggle for Existence, and The State and Government, were first published by The Socialist Party of Canada, 1911.

The Devil's Book Agent Arthur Desmond Presents: Radical Books-For or Against ANYTHING Vol. I. Pamphlets and Books collected from the vaults of Thurland & Thurland, The House of Gowrie, and The Gold Coast Book Store. Remember, "BOOKS ARE TRUE FRIENDS." Arthur Desmond (1859-1929), Bookseller, Printer, Publisher, and author of the book "Might is Right," under the pen-name Ragnar Redbeard.

The Gospel of To-day: Power of Might-the Eternal RightThe lecture is a searching, scathing review of a book whose author Mr. Brewer classes as a tiger from the jungles, "not a pretty toy tiger, such as still may be found in the mountains of Bengal, but a genuine old saber-toothed tiger of the Pliocene age." A lucid presentation by Charles Louis Brewer of the old and new conceptions of the idea that "Might makes Right.""Might is Right Inc.," articles and letters from workers incorporating the writings of Ragnar Redbeard. (Arthur Desmond, 1859-1929)Charles Louis Brewer 1873-1952

The American Anti=SocialistAn organ of Jeffersonian Democracy - 1912-1914, No. 1-6. By John Basil Barnhill, Editor and Publisher. The inevitable effect of Socialism would be to sacrifice liberty on the altar of a procrustean conception of equality. In the interest, therefore, a political freedom which it violates and derides; in the interest of commercial freedom which it openly seeks to destroy; in the interest of Art and Genius which it would sterilize; in the interest of the Democratic principles which it contravenes; in the interest of the home which it threatens, Socialism must be destroyed. John Basil Barnhill (1864-1929) Noted anti-socialist writer, politician, lecturer, debater, and editor of various journals including: The Eagle and The Serpent, "A Journal of Egoistic Philosophy and Sociology." 1898-1902 (under pseud. John Erwin McCall)The Nationalist, "A Journal for Free Peoples and for Peoples Struggling to be Free." 1900-1902The American Anti=Socialist, "An organ of Jeffersonian Democracy." 1912-1914Humanity First, "The orderly evolution of society can be secured only by the abolition of interest." 1919-1921