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REDEEMED.
As we have previously said, the ca
ture of Jerusalem will hardly prove
high and direct military importan
but its effect upon the morale of
Turks iiiust be tremendous^.
It brings closer the date when (Mo­
hammed will say to his "Christian
dog" Brother Wilhelm:
"What am I getting, or likely to ge^
by being run by you?"
Herd's hoping that General Aljenl&'
speedily mops all Palestine clean' 6t
the uqipeakable Turk.
"Jerwalem has fallen," said the
cable bulletin. Nay, Jerusaleoft haw
risen!
THE "VISION OF THE SANTA
CLAUS.
A poor rich man of Oskaloosa, la.,
cannot be a public Santa Claus in his
home town because fortunate Oska
loosa, although it has a population of,
10,000 or 12,000, has no poverty-:
en children who need him.
So. Mr. Frederick Knight Loga* the
poor rich man, has wired to th^fHotel
Majestic, New York city, to £et up a
big Christmas dinner for 25 boor chil­
dren and their mothers. Ajfcl his own
mother, now SO years oUg^
wm
Now some person
•'S-.
A
make
the long hard trip to Ngty York with
him ita order to act as- hostess at his
Christmas party. f. 1
wm
uke to read
that a certain ri^h man will enter­
tain half a hundred
0f
the poor in
the gorgeous ball room of a huge
metropolitan hotel, .but others will
notice that this ambitious Santa Claus
who comes, out of the west has what
is popularly called "vision." He sees
t^yond his home circle, and his own
Community, just like the only original
Ss&tg Claus who is supposed to go
$Mind the whole world, Christmas eve,
•nmtjng up little empty stockings.
MojNr-.of this "vision" of the good
old S&nta Claus is what a hard and
sad ^orld needs just now. We must
cultivate the imagination to picture
human needs which we do not feel.
Apd then we must gather strength to
help sbmehow, whether the great need
be hajlf a continent or half a world
away.j -1 •»".
To .'"be satisfied because we happen
to be Comfortable is to miss finest
spirited this terrible, wonderful age.
RUSSIA'S HEADACHE IS COMING.
One of the easiest things man does
is to stand on, a soap-box and build
out of hot-air a state. He can take
money from the rich and give it to
the poor. He can abolish capitalism
with a few ringing sentences, and lift
poor humanity from t&«* street and
dump it right into peace, cOuifort and
luxury. He can yank the mighty from
their thrones and hurl.them headlong
into oblivion.
Such is the wonderful power of im­
agination and oratory. The only trou­
ble is tha? when the eloquent orator
gets a chance to perforin he has a
dickens of a time of it making his
dreams come true.
Old human nature is so perverse and
stupid that it won't more any tester!
than it car move en masse, and can't
evolute pa fast as its dreamers can
urea^tn.
The Lenines and Trotzkys were
l^adcd'to the muzzle with dreams, and
/vory/pretty
dreams at that. They
druiuned a farm to every Russian peas
aju. They dreamed democracy to all
world, and all any nation needed
vas a few Lenines and Trotzkys to
boss the job and bump the head of
every blamed son-of-a-gun who would­
n't lie just as democratic as he was
ordered to be.
They wanted to free poor Rus,
fro in autocracy, even if they lia^
out-czar the czar to do it. JThey
wanted'every Russian to do/as he
darned pleased, but jailed lmn if he
didn't please as Leninc and: Trotzky
pleased.
Poor Russia is drunk on dreams,
and has an awful headache coming.
Hut the world will nroflt by her exper­
ience. The
0110
in the
thing that is certain
near
future is the awful failure
of the bolshevikl Utopia. Then the
world will think several times before,
elsewhere, it turns over the building
of a democratic state to lung-testing
wind-jammers who never built any­
thing more substantial than a bad
dream or a burst of oratory.
After all, experience counts for
something. Democracies can be built
only by laying one brick at a time.
Dreamers may point the way they
may dream the plan— but even the
plodders must do their part of the
work before the dream conies true.
And he will keep us out of war with
Turkey and Bulgaria, as long as honor
will permit.
Eomb for bomb! says bombed Lon­
don. And that's what she's been say­
ing since 1914.
"He kept us out of war," as long as
ho could. But, being in, he's in, and
we're with him!
The army advertises that it want3
150 'phone girls. To look after the
Hindenburg line?
When congress convened it was
found one congressman had resigned.
Every little helps.
Now, Austrians and Hungarians, who
have found a home with us, are ye
for us or for German autocracy?
Rryan^ays he wasn't chased by a
bull but another man was chased by
a steer. If this isn't a correction in
detail, we never saw one.
The drys have been losing In Mas­
sachusetts. Apparently, while men
can get used 40 Massachusetts they
haVie to have a" stimulant.
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Hoover issues a statement saying
the prices of milk, meat and corn will
drop about Jan. 15. It'll be just our
luck to be out of town that day.
-i "I understand they are going to limit
Residence 'phones to 50 calls a month,"
rfostcards Buck. "Shux! I've used
t*|at.ina.ny calls getting one number."
.War on Austria but not yet on Tur­
key and Bulgaria, says Woodrow.
Hfcavy odds that he's got something
hpt on Austria to spring when he gets
T*)ady!
"^To be at peace with Neighbor A and
furnish a key to his hen house to
Neighbor is dishonorable and mean.
We'll be the honest enemy of Aus­
tria.
Rumanian troops, 'tis reported,
"maintain a reserved and dignified at­
titude and reject fraternization." Now,
doesn't that sound just like La Fol
lette?
After hearing the message. La Fol­
ic tte left the capitol, alone, say Wash
ington dispatches. Seems to us he
might have had the company of Gron
na and Gore.
The song "Over There" was sold
recently by one music publisher to
another for $25,000. If anybody says
the high price is due to the war, for
once we'll believe it.
Lewiston (Me.) street car conduc­
tors have struck because the company
has installed automatic fare collectors.
The street car companies are getting
so they want everything.
The government is to pay for the
work of breaking the ice in St. Mary's
river and the Straits of Mackinaw
until Dec. 22. We'll be paying for the
snow plows on the railroads yet.
"La Follette sat like a graven
image" as Wilson's message was read.
Bully! and since Bob has got into the
graven image business, let him study
that Sphinx in Egypt! Nobody has
got it to open its mouth in centuries.
We shall be ready to admit that
the United States is really awake to
the war when the men at. home agree
to give up smoking one day in the
week in order to provide smoke3 for
the soldiers in France and the train­
ing camps.
What are they giving us? Food
control cuts alcohol in beer to three
per cent. Amount of .grain for brew­
eries is to be cut 30 per cent. And
-yet .the amount of beer produced is
no^to be less. Water! WTe suspect
water.
Cures Colds in Russia
LAXATIVE BROMO QUINIXG tab­
lets remove the cause. E. W. GROVE'S
^i^lBttrire on box. 30^.
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Mrs. O
'Hare,
Soul with
Judge J. M. Wade of Iowa, After
tioni-t, Imposes
to stop this warJs to strike.'
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BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE
Severe Sentence Upon Enemy of Country
That Has N urtured Here.
Declaring there always is a place for real reformers, but uo
room 011 American soil for reformers of the Kate Richards O'Hare
type in limes of peace and that less than ever is there space for them
iii a time of national stress, Judge Wade, of Iowa, after excoriating
the defendant and her treason to the United States government in
United States court Friday afternoon decreed that she pay the costs
of her trial on charge of sedition and that she spend the next five
years in the United States prison at Jefferson City, Mo.
Mrs. O'Hare, who had spoken more than an hour in her own be­
half preceding her sentence, received its announcement without a
word.
The defendant declared hers was not a plea for mercy but a
warning. She defied the court and the government of the United
States branded the indictment, the trial and the verdict as "gro­
tesque," and intimated that a revolution among the workers of the
country would result from her sentence.
The defendant consumed an hour in a rambling discourse which
was typically socialist., but whose tenor was that she would be of
greater service to the government at liberty than in prison, She was
followed by Judge Wjade, who devoted a full hour to shattering
every defense the witness had offered and to producing evidence and
argunmt proving beyond a question of a doubt in the minds of her
hearers that the North Dakota jury which last Saturday consumed
not more than thirty minutes in finding this woman guilty of sedi­
tion in utterances made by her in a public lecture at Bowman on
July 17,1017, acted wisely.
Wade's Charge
"T11 nil the vears I have been-on the bench." said Judge Wade,
in the address which preceded the passing of sentence, "I have made
it a rule to try to find out who I am sending to prison. When this
ease closed 1 made up my mind I would find out what were the ac­
tivities of the defendant. She testified on the stand of her loyalty
to and support, of the president, and I hoped I might find she was
such a woman, and a light penalty might be imposed.
"Tlire is only one way to win a war—men, money and spirif
Because of those essentials, congress enacted an espionage law to
reach people trying to put hatred and distrust in the hearts and
minds of our citizens. I received information from Garrison, 111
presence '-emmficlxfor the defense, thatrMrs. O.'Ilare made this
statement there:
'Mothers who send their sons into this war to become soldiers
are no bettcrjMwur breeding auiipAls, This war is waged on behalf
of the cimiwTistijl If we had loaned our money to Germapy, we
wduld be' fight in
Jf now ijlth Germany against the allies. "The way
Dangerous Writer.
"I wired to the postofficc department at Washington,jjrfiich ad
v.ised me that the Social Revolution,'which has Mrs. O'lmrerou its
editorial staff"' had been barred from the mails for groSs vldfiitions.
They tohi. me: 'The party seems to be an extreme of that ^jype of
effort to handicap the government in every way possible.'
"At some period during June or July, the government barred
the Social Revolution from the mails. I have not been able to ribtain
copies for.Jun.e and July. I have before me one of April,"
lle r^aclifi'oni this organ of the socialists in whose editorship
Mrs. O'llare is promnent an editorial by Debs referring to the bank­
ers as eager for bullets, while "fool workingman stop thii1 bullets."
Debs remarked: "WHien you see the bankers on the firing line it
will be time f^V yoii to be seized with a patriotic itch to be shot into
a crazy cpiilt."
The Gospel of Hate.
"Then," said Judge Wade, "comes the statement which forms
the foundation of this whole gospel of hate: That this is a wa^of
the capitalists that the average man has no chance that 200 or 300
millionaires or billionaires dominate the souls and consciousness of
99,000,000 Americans."
He quoted from an article written by Mrs. O'Hare in May, fol­
lowing America's declaration of war on Germany, on "capitalism
forcing America into this war."
"We socialists," wrote Mrs. O'Hare,
our country's being dragged into this
war. VVe oppose it now. We will op­
pose the enactment of a conscription
law, and we will oppose conscription
in mass force if need be."
"This," said Judge Wade, "is the
gospel she thinks she can help the
nation with."
Heart With Germany.
'VVe have placed her in a class that
we feel is heart and soul with Ger­
many. Nothing would please us more
than to hear she had received a life
sentence,'" read Judge Wade from a
report furnished him by the depart­
ment of justice at St. Louis.
'Mrs. O'Hare was chairman of the
committee which brought in the reso­
lutions of the extreme wing in opposi­
tion to the government last summer.
This was after war had been declared.
Mrs. O'Hare openly defied the govern­
ment and the civil authorities. She
said the Socialists would not be mo-
Germany, on "capitalism
have bitterly opposed
a.
Purest Sedition.
That," said Judge Wade, "is splen­
did support for the government—
WE SHOULD NOT BURN GARBAGE
By P. C. MOLOEN.
E SHOULD not burn any of our kitchen garbage. Burning garbage
is a serious form of waste.
Even though we reduce our garbage to the minimum it will
£till contain much matter that can be converted into banyan food.
If We are so situated that we can raise a pig or some poultry, this garbage
can be fed to tlieiu and come back to us in the form of meat or eggs.
In towns and cities garbage disposal is chiefly a matter for community
co-operation.
It the community has no reducing plant where the garbage may be con­
verted intc glycerine or soap, the city or town authorities should provide a
ln?rd of hogs to which garbage .may be fed.
Four hundred hogs are fattened from the garbage from a chain of restau­
rants in Omaha. One hundred of thesu hogs are ready for market every three
mouths.
Hull. Mass., has a herd of 325 hoj *, which converts garbage into pork.
Young pigs were purchased by the town's committee of public safety and
one man hired to take charge of tliom. The use of land for housing and
pasturing was donated and the only expense was the cost of the pigs, the
cost of the houses and the wages of the manager.
Every town and city can do what Hull is doing.
We must not waste any of the food value in garbage. To bum It, at any
time, i»seedless waste jest now it Is an economic criuie.
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Serve Five-Year Term
Devoting Hour to Scoring Sedi-
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splendid seed to plant in the minds
and the hearts of the people!"
Defended Submarines.
Mrs. O'Hare defended submarine
wafare as directed only against' the
capitalists and declared that Amer
ica was making war on the common
people of Germany.
"But a few days before," said Judge
Wade, "the president of the United
States in the most dramatic hour the
nation had ever known had said to
the world: 'This is not a war against
the German people,' and before the
sound of his voice had died away
these people, headed by Mrs. O'Hare,
gave him the lie.
"They brand 'the declaration of war
as a crime against the people of the
United States and the nations of the
world they state *ho more dishonor­
able war has been declared in the
history of the world.'
"The defendant goes on record for a
niore vigorous prosecution of class
propaganda, as against the temper­
ate wing of the convention which had
favored a suspension of class warfare
during the war she urges demonstra­
tions against the.war unyielding op­
position to conscription, mass opposi
tion to conscription propaganda
against military training.
"She urges that representatives in
congress be petitioned to vote against
all appropriations for military pur
poses, and the first name that appears
on these resolutions is that of Kate
Richards O'Hare."
Blasphemy and Rot.
I The court read sentence after sen
tence of blasphemy, sacrilege and pure
rot from a drama, "World Peace,"
written and published by Mrs. O'Hare,
in which she pictures America bound
by unseen bonds.
"Maybe it is good for the American
people to get that stuff now in this
hour of national peril, but I don't
think so. If that's the kind of gospel
the socialists stand for they have no
place on American soil in times of
war or in peace.
"There is always room for the re­
former of the right type, but there is
neve^rOohi for any who can see
nothing to praise but everything to
condemn in their country."
Eyes That See Not.
"If this woman came up from tlie
couth she passed through the most
productive and prosperous country in
the world a section best fitted as
residence for man. She came up
through Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kan
sas, Minnesota and the Dakotas, t'pe
great1 garden spot of America. She
came through a country rich in fine
farms, beautiful cities, with schools
open to every American child, no mat­
ter of what race or faith filled with
churches, with their spires pointing
heavenward, mute emblems of hope
But she saw none of these She saw
only.jhato and distrust:and she brought
onlyjga message of despair."
1! Would Continue Worki
Mb, O'Hare's closing appeal, was
that she 'be permitted in this hour of
the nation's need to continue her work
of the last six months. What that
irk has been the court's investiga
revealed, and it was the conclus
A juage Wade that America has
place (for, such work in times of
leekce^ anC tess rhan ever in times of
war! 4
'Mr*. O'Hare's Talk.
tjUaUiK the terms and the gestures fa
niillar to everyone who has followed
socialism or attended socialist meet­
ings reading much of her address
from notes which lay on the table be­
fore her, Mrs. O'Hare then proceed­
ed to defy Judge Wade to sentence
... her, for fear that the meeting out of
d, for St. Louis was against the war, jUStice to one standing so high as she
aid the authorities were afraid to in- in the councils of the socialist party
tested, no matter what they said or
terfere.
"Fine stuff for our boys and girls
at this time!"
might precipitate a social revolution
and jeopardize America's success in
the war with Europe.
She attacked the conduct of the
case Judge Wade's rulings on points
of law the integrity of the cqurt the
honesty of the prosecution and the in­
The court read from Mrs. O'Hare's
resolutions in opposition to war in­
troduced at this time, calling on the! teHiVenc^orthe^ jury!
workers to refuse their support to the «gjje (qij of having delivered her
government in the war to "stand out Bowman speech in 'North Carolina,
against the false principle of national
when the
patriotism and for international sol- highest, of delivering it to 10,000
idanty repeating that this is a "war people at Bisbee the day after loyal
of capitalists that "the forces of Americans had driven I. W. W. sym
capitalism which led to war in Europe pathizers with her doctrine out of
are even more hideously manifested, that city, and the day preceding the
by capitalism forcing our entrance Bisbee vote on the strike she told of
into war."
draft riots were at their
delivering it in the northwestern lum­
ber regions, during the I. W. W. trou­
bles there. Wherever trouble, hatred,
discord existed, anywhere in Amer­
ica, there, by. her own confession, was
this stormy petrel with her gospel of
despair and distrust.
She was at San Francisco with her
speech during the trial of the notor­
ious Mooney case, and then, hearing
of Bowman, she dropped into that lit­
tle nest of discord.
Conception of Bowman.
Her conception of Bowman may in­
terest the people who graciously en­
tertained her there: "A little, sordid,
sub-blistered, wind-blown, frost-scar­
red frontier, ordinarily beneath the
notice of one of the cardinals of the
socialistic heirarchy, but made on this
occasion because there existed there
one who had shown unusually loyalty
to the cause.
"A solid, substantial, stolid, com­
monplace farmer-type of crowd greet
dher there. The meeting was com­
monplace, and the audience was com­
monplace. There was 'nothing to over­
balance my reason and smite me with
the hydrophobia of treason.'-"
She Praises the League.
The Nonpartisan league came in for
fulsome praise from the lips of this
woman to whom the mothers of Amer­
ican soldiers are brood sows the sol­
diers themselves fit only for fertilizer."
She referred to it as "the greatest
and most revolutionary phenomena of
the age." She dealt at length with an
alleged postoffice fight at Bowman,
out of which she declared the whole
"grotesque" charge grew. All o( this
The defendant waxed eloquent as
she compared herself with Moses,
Sparticus, Watt Tyler, George Wash­
ington, William Lloyd Garrison and
that Son o( God whose name her so­
8ATTTRDAY, DEC. 15, 1917.
A GOOD ANTIDOTE
Every home in North Dakota should have a copy
of Judge Wade's address in court yesterday. It is
the kind of antidote that is needed to purg'e certain
communities of the teachings and of the pernicious
propaganda that arraign class against class and
withhold from the government that allegiance which
is essential to the preservation of democracy.
Jt is unfortunate that none'of the state administration has lifted
his voice in the defense of Americanism and scored the^ teachings
of the O'Hare's, the I. W. "W.'s and the notorious People's Council.
But it* is doubly fortunate that a federal judge was sent to North
Dakota clothed with full power to tell these seditionists that they
cannot continue longer to stab the nation in the back which has
protected them and given them an opportunity to work out their
destinies in the freedom of this western empire.
Contrast the sterling Americanism of Judge Wade with the
apologetic, eleventh hour expressions of Governor Frazier who pre­
sided over the infamous St. Paul seditous liieeting and applauded
sentiments uttered by Senator La FpMette very similar to those
which contributed to the conviction ofjtrs. O'Hare.
There is a deadly parallel betw'Sete the doctrine preached by
Mrs. O'Hare in Bowman last June and that which A. C. Townley
expressed on Registration Day at Devils Lake. On that occasion,
Mr. Townley said:
"The nation demands that you give yourself and your sons and
your brothers and your husbands and your sweethearts to be taken
across the seas and spill their life's blood on the field or Europe
and then comes to you and asks you to subscribe for the Liberty
Bonds to pay the expenses of the war. Thip is the injustice of the
war and the manner in which officials of the administration are
carrying it into effect.''
There has been no indictment by any grand jury returned
against Townley although the statement was heard by many.
In June, just one month previous to Mrs. O'Hare's address at
Bowman, Mr. Townley was reported in the state papers as saying
at Williston the following:
"The flower of the young manhood of this nation is going across
the water to bleed, as we are told for the honor of the country, but
it needs some effort for me to believe that these young men are going
to fight for the freedom of democracy. I believe and fear they are
going to bleed for the profits of the damned pirates who profit from
our food products."
Practically the same words which Mrs. O'Hare used in praising
the league in her speech before Judge Wade.
But this is not all.
Mr. Townley was quoted from reliable sources as saying at
Beach on June 11:
"Why should we buy Liberty Bonds when the government
asks us to pay enormous profits for the equipment to run our farms?
We'll never get anything from the government for anything that
we do in this struggle. Why should we help the government if
they won't help us?
The head of the league, whose prominent member, Judge Totten
of Bowman, stood sponsor for Mrp. O'Hare said later at Minot,
yj. D:, according to the best of authority:
"This is wrong, all wrong. I say )to you that measure (Liberty
Loan) is anything but patriotic because it takes the heart out of
those boys going across the waters to fight our* battles, knowing that
when they get back they must pay for it. When they get back!
Some cost for the boys who go across."
Mrs. O'Hare and A. C. Townley evidently were in complete
accord last June.
At Glencoe, Minn., on June 22, Mr. Townley preached the
O 'Hare brand of socialism and class hatred when he said:
"But if the nation should come to the big corporations and'
ask for their surplus wealth, I am afraid it would dampen their
ardor for war a bit. I'm afraid there might not be much of a war.
"Well the rich man will stay at home. He's making the 'rules
qf the game.' These boys will give the biggest sacrifices men can
!,make. They will give up their lives, Thjey will lose legs and arms.
MiWhole companies will be blown tp. atpms. Hundreds of thousands,
jfcs, millions, of the best you have,.will be sacrificed."
All this preliminary to Mrs. O'Hare's address at Bowman, in­
vited there by Judge Totten, a family honored by appointment to
the board of regents by Governor Frazier.
At the trial were league leaders ready to defend Mrs. O'Hare.
Ray Mcllaig, organizer for Townley in Idaho, rushed up to Mrs.
(/'Hare as the jury filed out and said:
"Massey sends his love."
Massey is a prominent figure in the Idaho Nonpartisan move­
ment.
The Tribune merely cites these instances to prove that Town
ley and Mrs. O'Hare talked the same kind of socialism. Soon after
the O'Hare arrest, Townley began to temper his remarks. After
the seditious demonstration in the St. Paul auditorium, lie became
suddenly, overnight, ostentatiously patriotic.
Judge Wade's remarks should be weighed carefully by Gov­
ernor Frazier and Townley. It is significant that Governor Frazier
defended Mrs. Totten, who together with Judge Totten and Rev.
George Totten, a member of the board of regents, took the stand to
defend this seditionist and blasphemer.
How long will the state tolerate a regime which appoints to
high places people of the Totten stripe?
It is merely Townley's good fortune that he does not share Mirs.
O'Hare's predicament today.
His protestations of loyalty bear too recent a date to carry
deep conviction. It is still a matter of record that his henchmeh
and his press defended and shielded this woman up to the time of
her trial and even after the verdict was delivered.
Will any of the Townley kept press have the courage to publish
Judge Wade's address in full?
Will Governor Frazier have the courage to denounce openly
the affiliation of the Tottens with such brand of seditionists?
Will he retract the fulsome praise he gave Mrs. Totten when a
federal grand jury was considering complaints of sedition against
her?
How can he defend the appointment of George Totten to the
governing board of the institutions of learning? Can he still tol­
erate a man in public office who approves and associates with the
enemies of the nation
Will the loyal farmers of the state-and they are patriotic
follow such leadership much longer?
The Tribune knows that the farmers of North Dakota do not
subscribe to the kind of doctrine preached by Mrs O'Hare It is
true, however, that the state administration has been sympathetic
to vultures who carry on the pro-German propaganda in this state
Governor Frazier, can well the masterly phrases of Jud«e Wade
Tune your patriotism to that pitch and you will no longer feelW
fortable the same company with the Tottens,--he O'Hares and
the Townleys.
portion of her harangue was read.
"The Bowman postoffice was given to
the wife of a leader of the new order,
and it created bitterness and hatred
and venom," said Mrs. O'Hare. Mrs.
Totten went to her lecture, said Mrs.
O'Hare and appreciated it and ap­
prove! it and aplauded it, just as did
others who bad been raised in the
same school. "And strange, grotesque
thing that is the outcome of this hy­
steria is that a judge and a jury and
the prosecuting attorney should seek
to usurp tile right of God Almighty."
cialist publications frequently have
taken in vain.
|ier Threat.
And then came this threat against
the government of the greatest repub­
lic in the world: "Passions are run­
ning high. Consider well, whether
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conviction will unite the people oT
America or disunite them."
•Consider the effect of this •erdlcl
on the people.
'If the cause of this nation la
and righteous is my conviction Wf
essary as a sacrifice?
1J
"One hundred thousand or
pie in America know me persoA^y. I
have carried my unbOrh hhildraa
the struggle for the working
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