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SANDBERC TO LOEB To Jacob M. Loeb: You are one of the Jews sore at Georgia for the way they hanged Leo Frank and called him a damned Jew there in Atlanta. And you're talking a lot about lib erty and the rights of school chil dren. You came from Kovno in Russia and you ought to know some thing about liberty; And how school boards, police boards, military boards and czars have gone on year after year, To choke the Jews from having societies, organizations, labor unions, Shoving bayonets into the faces of the Jews and driving them to the ghettoes. You know what I mean. You know these European cities where they call the Jews a despised race; And anybody who spits in a Jew's face is not touched by the police. D'ye get me? I'm reminding you what you already know. You're the man who is leading the school board fight on the Teachers' Federation. And you forget, your memory slips, your heart doesn't picture How you and your fathers were spit upon in the face, And now the soldiers and police misused your women Just because they were Jews, and in Kovno Anybody could get away with what they did to a Jew woman or a Jew girl; And now you, a Jew, stand up here in Chicago and act proud Because you have in effect spit in the faces of Chicago women, accus ed them, belittled them. First you tried to cut their wages, back there in May, a seven and a half per cent cut, And now you're going to make it a law that teachers can't have a labor union; And they got to take what you and Hothman and Myer Stein hand 'em. I don't think you'll get away with it Sam Gompers, an English Jew, will speak tonight at the Auditorium, And Jacob LeBosky and Sam Al schuler and other Jews in this town Are against the game of shackling the teachers and repeating Kovno and Kiev and Odessa here in Chicago. In fact, five hundred Jews are al ready in revolt at your Kovno trick Of slamming the door on free speech at the Hebrew Institute. These five hundred are the real blood of the Jew race That give it a clean flame of hero ism. You belong with the trash of his tory, the oppressors and the killjoys. Carl Sandburg. t o o ; OH.THUNDEM! Y'SEt Ttt' LtDDY, WAS Buyin" SOME- INSECT POWDBP-f w IS itTOBB APPUW?, SAYS SHE To Ttf P'LITB" Y0UK6 CLERK WELL.Ttf YbUHG Cl.fcR.te Btm 50R.TA ABSENT MNDED SAYS:GVe 'EM A. TEASPOOMTUU AVTEMiACH MEAL, MADAM! quACK tl fjEL . mAMiaMatMiailaasMSMt