PUFFS AND PUNCHES
Puffs and Punches Your kind letter in reply to my postal received. Also the first number of the new Monthly Magazine. I would be well paid for my subscription if the Magazine consisted each month...
...I am giving very many of my La Follette's away after I read them—C...
...War is a business, however, and a most formidable, all powerful monopoly...
...T. J., Utility, Louisiana...
...Tavenner explains in a thorough article how we can beat the "War Trust...
...I am just an ordinary employee of a big trust and I must say I can't agree with La Follette in some of the principles of his trust policy...
...Hoping the new departure: of La Follette's will prove sucessfui in every respect, and thanking you for your courtesy.—H...
...The weekly "Roll Call" must have been worse than a night-mare for whoever was responsible for writing it, and that person must feel greatly relieved by the change...
...A. B., South Omaha, Nebraska...
...But so terrible is the conspiracy of silence, on the part of the Interest-owned newspapers that it has been very, very rarely mentioned even in the local press and I doubt if one person out of a hundred in this state knows of this unusual, but highly successful venture.—R...
...L. O., Galesburg, Illinois...
...The conquerors, although the victors, are not the winners, for they too lose in wealth, in lives, and in progressive advance...
...Having read La Follette's Autobiography, I can not find words to express my gratitude and admiration for the fight and work the Senator has done in the past and is now doing, to protect and free the American people from the corruption and peril which Abraham Lincoln predicted would come in the near future of his time...
...We have great admiration for Senator La Follette and his fearless magazine.—J...
...I think your change from weekly to monthly is a wise one.—W...
...It touches on all that is honorable between man and mau...
...If all Profit is taken out of war, and preparation for war," says Mr...
...I hope the change will relieve him...
...I wish all voters and high school students would read his book and the La Follette's Magazine...
...In La Follette's Weekli of August 22, Mr...
...Clyde H. Tavenner, the young''spirited Congressman of Illinois, in concluding that "Private Profit In war is the menace to world peace has exposed the "War Trust" in his study of its practices...
...La Follette's Weekly was splendid, and it came none too often to suit me, but I am sure that the same amount of industry and intelligence that was expended upon the weekly magazine will produce a monthly publication of even more exceptional merit...
...The cure for the reckless expenditure of $250,000,000 annually is governmental manufacture...
...It would be a great innovation if you issued it in regular magazine form, making it miich easier to handle.—F...
...O. H., Crooks-ton, Minnesota...
...C. Li., New York City...
...Tavenner, "I predict that some of the very millionaire patriots who are agitating for an ever and ever increased amount of armament in the certain knowledge they will make huge profits in supplying the same, will be the loudest to protest against the annual expenditure of $250,000,000 for preparation for war in time of peace...
...H., Bridgeport, Wisconsin...
...I would suggest, however, that the page of your magazine is a little too long...
...As a business, returns, profits, are exacted...
...M. M., Rochester, New York...
...We are convinced that La Follette's fills a good purpose among other magazines...
...The modern tendency is to make the pages short...
...I am a little disappointed in the change as it is a long time to wait between issues...
...that on the contrary, Seattle is the rightful claimant of this honor...
...In the United States the trust is composed of the Powder Trust, the Armor and Ammunition Ring, and the Shipbuilding trust, and are assisted by their friends in the army and navy, as well as in Congress...
...Most people subscribe to so many papers and magazines now-a-days that it is difficult to read them all...
...La Follette's is doing a great work and should be read by every man interested in public affairs, and I would like to see it in the hands of every voter in the country.—E...
...I am a Democrat, but La Follette's is doing a good work.—F...
...J. H., San Diego, California...
...I have read with interest the first issue of La Follette's as a monthly magazine, and I approve the change...
...And for a busy public man, like Senator La Follette, to contribute signed editorials every week must have been taxing upon his strength...
...In your magazine recently you had a short article, "First City Street Railway," in which Mr...
...Enclosed are twenty subscriptions...
...Paul, Minnesota...
...That the trust exists there can be no doubt aid that its existence is world wide is evidenced by the efficient armed-in-peace countries of the world...
...but I hope his paper will always flourish.— J. A. B, Great Falls, Montana...
...It endeavors to restrain cupidity in personal gain to the injury of the stockholder...
...It strives to elevate politics in favor of the commonwealth, under which all should live contented, each doing his part to sustain it...
...The little town of Monroe, Louisiana, built and has operated for ten years or more Its street railway system...
...W., Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
...I now wish to say to you that you are both in error...
...I would be well paid for my subscription if the Magazine consisted each month of one signed article by the Senator...
...I think the change from a weekly ' to a monthly is good...
...The real profits of war, private profits are those of the "war trust," of the armor ring, the powder ring, and the other interests that benefit from the demand of instruments of warfare...
...Nothing Vital Lost" and "A Supreme Folly" are a good Magazine in themselves...
...H. B., Osak-is, Minnesota...
...Social Service Commission, American Federation of Catholic Societies...
...I anticipate that his editorials will be better than they have ever been, and it is largely for his editorials that I have been a subscriber of the magazine for the last four years.—C...
...Economists, pacifists, Christians,, and other anti-militarists repeatedly asserted that the colossal cost of war produced no assets...
...La Follette is the ablest and the noblest of all the great of his time.—F...
...What Senator La Follette writes usually on the first page is worth all it costs.—P...
...I consider a man misses an essential part of his political education if he does not read La Follette's Magazine whether he sympathizes with the Senator in political sentiment or not...
...B. C, St...
...J. H. Cronin writes that La Follette's is in error in stating that San Francisco owns and operates the first street railway...
...A mighty task indeed...
Vol. 6 • December 1914 • No. 46
