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I gtegi Four The Devil's Letter to Woodpile. them are niy right-hand buddies on earth. I draw up the plans and they work by them. " We used to be sorter sneaking in our methods, but we learned that you THE FOOL-KXLLEB CUT OUT THE TRASH. And here beginneth a little sawed-off Sermon on the Paper Famine. You can tell your rap and send word to vour Uncle The Hot Place, Sept. 10th, 1916. Tipar davliner Woodv : How arc you making it these ens e that Hank and his family that there is days? Having a pretty strenuous ' 7'? 3' something badly out of jomt m Tt hPnt.st.hfl "uw "v 5U t tW Drazeniy as a preacner lorKing , . out a rooster s hind leg at a Sun- time of it, ain't you? devil (and that's me) why you The Fool-Killler has been using want to run for president again, .w-j"JZZ?iTZ white. paper in considerable seeing what a stew you have lived PJcnlc- We01l quantities for several years, and it v . I aiyi rlirl Ai-t."4- m ftl'O Tnnn ?k f ill liC VJi. Vlitl UVJ-li ixivxv iuu y"'4"-' re- : xl, irooro T hftl'o has hardly been a minute of the anymore, because you fellows are time that you haven't had five or P anu """""K 11 . , i,. . A. t xi-, suectable. six Dans oi international sluckiii&- x T , yarn to untangle, and with such a gang of financial cats and politi cai kittens to help with the job, you have seldom failed to make the tangles worse instead of bet ter. Bat I like your grit. Stick to your balls of yarn and keep on windi my in the Roman I have several strings tied to the Benited States, either one of which will lead to this Warm Cli mate, but the one I am depend- per hundred until the beginning of this present year. But all at once the paper trust took a notion to create a ' 1 famine "and squeeze double tri bute out of the publishers, and now the same paper ; costs $6.00 September 191ff neck gait of grinding up white- paper, and this seems to be tne answer. But. one thing is showecrtam ; If you folks will just roll in the; clubs The Fool-Killer can stand it, about as long as any ot them. You-all could mighty soon kill the- paper by failing to support it, but! I am not uneasy. about; that. Yon never have failed me yet, and I don't believe you are going to fan me in this crisis. Stick to comrades, and let the paper trust do its worst. lilt; Uli lllUOb iO 1 11C licuaiLUUtoo , -, , , r string If you can't manage all W1?, A r, rl.r - i iviivi f -t-rt x w i it i v will i u i rm-mr t n a li a l-w-ll- o 4- mi n I nrir-ca xrn tn I c3 O v' r drop the others and wind like all en ot coming winter k P,flna1.,10e, Koii The mills claim there is ding. That's the way I got one XSeg ft ae the raw material out of start. But Fll bet my interest !?L" ! ' I ' Z hich paper is made, and if that Church against AO Ul v8 w is a fact, all papers and magazines must die inside of six months. But I don't believe a word of it. I believe theie is plenty of raw material, but they are not trying to get it to the mills.: They are purposely slowing down and your chance of election that you " uuulju; . . j u i n Hughes has made it known m don t know where all your wind- , . fe . , . . , . L'fVnA hls campaign speeches that he t xi. .xi n would like to unwind several of Ilia,!, JL 11UIU U1U UUlcr CllU Ul xir in i t xl vis v, 4o,1(,i ri;twfli ' fin n. your balls and wind them differ I -n 4- tin i iaiao Hint tTTin I1QVO cut. lib uiiai fe'-'0 uiai li jiu cial strings and that every turn brings your whole outfit that much nearer hell. But it's a fact. My.. chief Sub m-v- r jJ y. f 4- fJ'V! Aon r - matic ci ictuuic mooo ui tuc wnt. clT.TQn rti? man ball, and that the .Mexican faetured product so as to pull the hank of yarn is all spilling off llvil .i .lnnt?n AVP.r mv ahftn HftT uvei U1C 1IU& ui WAC as I -write and he says I had bet-. He Ws your Tarifl ball has got a ( ghe x . xn xi xi,: tx rut s litest iu it. anu nioicau ux ier not icii you uicse. tilings. xut . . . . . wiiiuiiiir tuc xiitioii atiiiit: iuiu i t i? x j x"n "u .i - you will turn about dl"7U U iCCl aim Utt" of the country should have to other way. But I wards kicking over your work- SUspend and go out of '.business, 'it , i t haskp.t and smlliii! several oi i i .. . T.. y mi hfl.vft nan i r , x iivoiiin . mau-p. a sensanona i . 'niow to cir- "hp rlnn'f tnnw I'nn parthlv fools Ac wpH ac T r?n TTo thinlra if von a Dail yu ;get warning ;and go the Know you won plenty of warning from better men than I am and you never paid any attention to it, .Even The Fool-Killer has often point ed out the danger of your wild career but you kept right on. Of course I hate that Pool-Killer be cause it is always working against my interests, but I must give it British string merely hobbled it publishers for two or three prices. But we are as helpless as a gang in a butcher-yard wTe can't do a thing but .stand and deliver -or quit. If all the papers and magazines and way LETTERS FROM THE FOLKS. juiu ut;&t issues. i p Very likely all these charges onnf -f , X T.x T J ?X --UX j; I J"" v-wx ,ju aie uuc, uut x liuii i see vvnat uu- fll1fl VlA Qx0 rtex ,r1 ,nnij ,roT,Tr ference that makes to me. lou Ar) - tt,.m are doing it well enough to t Entirely too mneh" good paper .hu me an iignu luuuave auaminv wast.p1 in TTintino' trnli got things in a dickens of a tangle The bi city dailies have to get but thats the way I wanted it ont fl snortinc snn" anH a credit for telling the truth. And dne Tn1;?. and about a now, , to cap the stack, I am telling UUY "1L dozen other useless 4 1 sections " you won't believe a word of it. I . vvuu t1,, otA1Atc" disgrace to civilization. They use ffcio r,nVP " v PYin Pll- "1111 UUt. XllUt iCllUVV OllOVll who fi notyp.R fn nT.inf tion that you earthly fools are a v A 1V i i v" naked pictures of society swells, jijA j x i. r. tne ouuictiist Liuis.et wuuiu iiive me an1 .;Tr lnTio.-Wii-i rn- deteruiined to come to hell in spite of hell. JMv oub-iJevil savs l run a a' black eye if he should get elect- about the. confounded ly capers ed. But that possibility is too re- of Miss Hob , g h Ml, great risk of losing American m0 Slve me'W unf1asinf3ess Dudel von Strut. trade, but I say there is no risk $er UP 101 Inf 11001 ' If all such silly and worthless in it. If there was I wouldn't do 0dy before Hughes steps on rot cou e cut out and the it. As I see it now, the Benited your fc aln:. ?r feet papeis would print, only matter States is just as certainly mv ollt f the. 1Brit.lsh hobble pour tll useful and fit tQ reftd meat as if I already had it on my the financial pms and political their forty-page editions could be griddle ' buttons out of your shoes and go reduC(;d to about eight pages or Personally, it makes no differ- right w winding your-little .balls iess, aiid there would be a great ence to me which gets elected, you ne ?y P saving in paper. , rr;,. tt titi.;i, about holding some of the balls, nri 1,0 t-i,. You are both just a like, only I -iuf M;hlstle and 1 11 eorae or send fourths of the high-brow boodle- JOHN FLYNN, Donnaha, N. C By accident I ran across a paper by tne name of The Fool-Killer. As I began to read I began to laugh. The more I read the more I laughed. Finally got tickled and laughed all over my ¬ self. Find enclosed my check for a year's subscription. Please send me five or six copies of different months past. M. D. BOWLES, R2, Hanson, Ky.-- You will find enclosed $2.00 for twelve doses of your medicine to be sent to each of the enclosed names. If yoif will send me some sample copies I think I can send you another club before long. Send them and I will set the woods a-fire- over here. PETER SPRAJEAR, P. p. Box 32S, McKeesport, Pa. I enclose the names and addresses of sixteen of my friends and the moey .order to pay for their subscriptions to The Fool Killer. All the pay I ask is that you send the paper regularly to these fel lows... Some of them have never seen your paper, but took my word for it. So I hope . ypu will give them some ireal stuff, and most likely all of them will raise a club afterwards. PERCY GLASCOCK, Box 20, Albany, La. I have just received my second copy of The Fool-Killer. I showed my first copy to a dozen men, and every one spoke, in fsivop o ife. We are all Socialists here and would all read your paper. We also have a live Socialist Local here and The Fool- jviner will be good propaganda. If you will send me a bundle of sample copies i will see Chat they fall into good hands and will send you a club. I think it would be safe to say I can get a subscriber for each sample copy. H. J. PARKER, Santa Anna, Texas. Your last issue was fine enough to rid the woods of a bunch of them. W. D. Harmon, Glasgow, Mo. I am highly pleased with your paper, which I received last night. I didn't know what kind of a paper it would turn out to be as I had never seen it before. I am going to show it to my friends. xlxStttfUttT PAYNE. AlhertvillF. I am sendintr von a i Ala. 1 1 -WW 1 1 i 1 Relieve m gnes is a utile more alike than you are. If you still keep the job of winding the inter national balls of yarn you will lead your country to hell, and i a hand. Sulphuricallv yours, SATAN DEVIL. bought, lying, lickspittle publica tions can die and stay dead, and the country will be better off. A few of the very best papers, Your Grandpap Norman Hap- including The Fool-Killer, must Hughes takes the job he will get I good, in an article which he ignor- be saved out of the wreck, at all it here just a little quicker. antly believes to be a defense of I Wouldn't expect either you or the Woorlnilft administration xiugnes to admit that you are makes this brilliant remark: "It is a well-known adage in the law that if you have no ease your serving me but you are, just the same, whether you know it or not. Men like vou are mv main denend- nce. It is so easv to fool vou safest course is to abuse the op- into the belief that" you are lead- Posing side." And then, very de ing when you are only following libera tely and without further de my lieutenants up there. Rockef el- la Ir- Hapgood proceeds to do ler, Morgan, du Pont and men like so- nazaras. i want to see every paper live that is fighting the bat tles of poor, struggling humanity, and the rest can go. Perhaps the thing we need is fewer and better papers, and maybe the paper famine will prove to be a blessing in disguise. I have been wondering how long the publishing world could go on at such a furious, break- your wonderful paper. I think it is the best of its kind on earth. Hope I can obtain more subs. H. A. BISHOP, Powell, Ohio. Your paper is a peach and I have become very much interested in it, and I be lieve I can get you several subscrip tions in this territory if you will send me some sample copies. It has not yet been introduced here and I wish very much to be the one to have this pri vilege. JOHN S. BENSON, R2, Bx33, Lakf Cityr Ark. Let The Fool-Killer come to see me for twelve months. I have been a fool, but my eyes are coming open. I have voted for both old parties but I am done with them. From now on I will vote with and for the labor ing man. If you have 'to raise on the price of The Fool-Killer on account of the Paper Trust, I will help you raise it. Don't ever stop. Shoot it to them. (Thank you. comrade, for vmir kind offer to help raise the price of The Fool-Killer in case of need. It may have to be done, for the Paper Trust has seemingly set in to freeie us all out. At this writing news print paper is six cents a pound, and it takes a jump upward about oace uiuuiu, x-earson ) .