People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — The Commonwealer In Fiction. [ARTICLE]

The Commonwealer In Fiction.

Miss Adeline Knapp, well known as one of the cleverest woman writers on the Pacific coast, has put the commonwealer of Coxey's army into fiction, as in a story called “The Wealer,” which appears in the May Arena. It is a very suggestive commentary, not upon the fantastic Coxey movement, but upon existing industrial and social conditions. As an analysis of the origin of much of the shocking crime that daily fills the newspaper, it suggests that there are Cains in our midst who never shed blood, but simply kill hope and opportunity. Everybody who reads Miss Knapp's story carefully will be impressed with its fidelity to the aspect of every-day life, and its great power of suggesting all the complex forces of society in a simple sketch of individual experience. In Miss Knapp we have a new writer of fiction who will assuredly win a high place for herself.