The first issue of the Forward, published on 4/22/1897. The inaugural issue headlines of the Yiddish Forward on April 22, 1897 set the tone for its social activism role: "Blood Runs in Civilized Europe" (Turkish-Greek war coverage); "Bravo Cubans!" (praising their resistance to the Spanish authorities); "From the Class Struggle: Locked-out Steamfitters are Holding Fast;"and "Doctors and Pharmicists: Bloodletting without Leeches" (1897)