[Ads-l] Antedating of "Fellow Traveler"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> In "Groans of the People", 1912 by Jacob Rubin (as Rev. Ealer), p58, he
> uses "fellow-traveller" to refer to policies that are similar to Socialism.

Interesting citation, Dan. Here is an excerpt.

Year: 1912
Title: Groans of the People
Author: Rev. Ealer (pseudonym of Jacob Rubin according to Google Books)
Quote Page 58 and 59

https://books.google.com/books?id=ayA-AQAAMAAJ&q=+%22fellow-traveller%22#v=snippet&

[Begin excerpt]
Don't think that there are other ways of ending this world's misery.
Single Tax (to abolish Rent) is only a partial remedy, and SINGLE TAX
IS A PART OF THE SOCIALIST THEORY; Land (and other things) Currency
(to abolish Interest) is only a partial remedy, and it is a
fellow-traveller of the Socialist theory for a short distance, in that
it wants to make Interest impossible; all kinds of religions have
existed since the world began, and they have utterly failed to stop
the terrible strain under which we live; millions of laws have been
passed, and all kinds of governments have been  tried in vain; even in
Babylon and ancient Egypt they tried to regulate the trusts, and fix
the laws, and make the people go to church; in short, the world has
tried every imaginable remedy except the People's National Business
Company, or Socialism, and yet you refuse to read one Socialist paper
to find out at what the Socialists are angry, and you refuse to read
one book on Socialism to find out what it means. No wonder!
[End excerpt]

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