From Journalist Kurikka’s Journey
San Francisco, Ca. January 14th 1902
Writer Kurikka stopped by in Frisco on his lecture tour around last Sunday. He held two blazing lectures at our local Workers’ Association’s meeting place. In the first one he started by speaking about the workers’ question and ended by telling about the Kalevan Kansa Colonisation Company as well as Malcolm Island. His second lecture focused on the relationship between church and religion. The place was crowded with listeners, who followed the pleasant presentation with great enthusiasm, devoured it. After Kurikka had finished, the listeners contributed to the event by asking many, varied questions. The speaker answered all the questions readily, pleasantly, and fluently, so that no one seemed to be able to hide their liking for him. It seemed almost as if even the stiffest party men would have turned into one wave of joy forgetting that they are the sturdiest walls of the church society. You see, even the elders of all our societies and religious sects were present. After Kurikka’s theosophical lecture had ended there was for example one priest who spoke dialectal Finnish and tried his best to prove with the “book of books” how knowledge drives people into madness. For each of his arguments the lecturer had a fluent answer waiting and the audience
showed its appreciation with excited applauses.
Mr Kurikka is a sweet and elegant looking man, taller and bigger than the average. He is dark-haired with big brown eyes that have a pleasant glow to them. His hairstyle is that of the artists and writers of old days; it is long and curled at the ends. His spirit flows in an impressive and unforgettable manner, which is clear evidence of the fact that he speaks from his heart and feels the connection of the spirit that will achieve amazing progress in this century. When Kurikka speaks, he becomes totally excited about his subject, the structure of his speech is clear and clean, and his sequences of thought are long. He is very pleasant in conversation once you become acquainted with him, and feels so equal to you that you can’t help but wonder why a certain party has made the public believe the exact opposite. I too have heard all kinds of things about Mr Kurikka, but having gotten to meet him personally I can assure that he operates from purely scientific grounds, not in the name of any sect. I would therefore wish that others would also look into things before judging him.
From here writer Kurikka first travelled to nearby mining areas continuing all the way to Chicago Ill., perhaps even farther east. Best of luck!
H. –ont-.
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