THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
. . . THE PEOPLE'S FORUM . . . The Need For Unity Dear Sirs: I am inclined to agree with Harry Baldwin in the Forum when he says "I'm tired of straddling the fence with The Progressive." I enjoy...
...Oscar Fields Taylorville, III...
...hogs brought ?2.65 per 100 pounds...
...His record as district attorney was a good one...
...If the common people had been treated right there would never have been a revolution in Russia...
...S. L. Gokhale Schenectady, N. Y, Our Popular Position Dear Sirs: It seems to be my plain duty to add my little voice to those who have advocated for Norman Thomas in the approaching election...
...As I see it you have three choices...
...He is also right in the assumption that there is a reason for not endorsing the Socialist ticket...
...Indeed the noble experiment was in full bloom...
...The ominous shadow of retribution stealthily approach-ad...
...Defeat F.D.R...
...The two latter are supporting Roosevelt-Truman, along with "Dear Sidney...
...He sees clearly that the Government must assure jobs and must accordingly plan for adequate and useful public employment, in coordination with states, municipalities, and private business...
...Now it stands convicted of being a paper without a party, or in other words, all dressed up, and no place to go...
...If elected are you going to repeal them or if not, are you going to appoint men who will not enforce them...
...Socialist Party Weakness Dear Sirs: Since The Progressive does not answer the criticisms of writers in the Forum I would like permission to answer Harold Flickner, Coo-perstown, N. Y., in your Oct...
...We must build for the future good by working together now, and not hold up our progress by dividing our votes and influence between which of the two old party candidates might be the lesser of the two evils...
...H. S. Stovall Alma, Mich...
...Of course it is possible that the Democrats may again go in for "leaf raking," but in any case they will not allow Americans to starve and freeze "under the bridge" as the Republicans under Hoover did...
...But the evidence clearly indicates that there is less danger of want and suffering by the masses in the postwar period under a Democratic Administration than there would be under a Republican Administration...
...Roosevelt simply used the national debt as an escape...
...La Follette entitled, "America Must Speak Up Now," was very interesting...
...N. A. Anderson Monterey, Calif...
...Bad times are ahead of us—as writers in The Progressive have time and again made clear — no matter who is elected...
...Charles G. Merrell Dunedin, Fla...
...I agree largely with your criticisms both on international and domestic affairs, but in the practical choice between candidates and parties at this time of crisis, how can you reasonably not decide for Mr...
...but you "throw away" your vote if you vote the way reason and common sense dictate by' voting the "Socialist ticket, for Thomas and Hoopes...
...The election laws are designed to keep minority parties from the ballot because of the expense involved...
...But this does not imply that capital can be abolished...
...If we relapse to laissez fa ire with Mr...
...It is the old game of divide and rule...
...The Oct...
...In contrast, while Mr...
...He staved off progress with poverty...
...America was catapulted into the maelstrom and Hoover, politely and politically, committed seppuku...
...Weren't those laws passed for the benefit of the common people...
...In my opinion The Progressive should come out in favor of Mr...
...Of course, common sense tells anyone that Roosevelt is not a lover of communism, for he is interested in protecting his inherited wealth...
...Now is the time to unite in support of Thomas rather than to dissipate our strength between the two parties of big business...
...We have finally begun our great and most daring adventure in the Orient, but this adventure involves grave risks in blood and treasure...
...29, 1929, the stock market crashed and one long, hideous nightmare of misery followed...
...Pass This Paper On...
...Relief and WPA...
...Hell, I want a job...
...Perhaps The Progressive chooses the safe method of silence when there might be danger of committing political suicide...
...Thus we have the writer who pleads for a vote for Dewey, yet hopes that sometime the objective situation will be such as to enable her to vote for Norman Thomas, who truly represents her aspirations...
...J. M. H. Army Air Field Independence, Kan...
...In the coming election, if any vestige of real Americanism is to survive, Rooseveltism must go, even though Dewey leaves much to be desired...
...He publicly told a person inquiring for guidance on how to vote that he "should settle it between yourself, your conscience, and your God...
...Unity of purpose for Progressives and Socialists is essential for the eventual development of an American CCF...
...It is amusing to listen to the vitriol against the New Deal and its innumerable bureaus now...
...Thus we turn to a great American, Norman Thomas...
...Then there were over 6,000 closed banks...
...The present Sen...
...Human Slavery Dear Sirs: In his address to the Foreign Policy Association, President Roosevelt said: "The United Nations do not traffic in human slavery...
...But the public well remembers laissez faire and Hoover's rugged individualism...
...Eric Johnston, and monopoly finance in general, trying to push government aside and leaving virtually everything to business...
...Thomas Hales Boston, Mass...
...John G. McDonald, San Francisco, Calif., entitled, "Wasting Your Vote," is one of that kind, for it takes the prize for vague generalities and downright contradictions, Now read his article again carefully, and see for yourself...
...If the Progressive Party were running a candidate for the Presidency many—if not air—of the readers of this magazine would, no doubt, vote for him because of loyalty to the Progressive idea...
...Now carefully consider this basic fact: If we, on Nov...
...That's what all the big shots and the capitalist press tell us, but history itself and all the facts in the case prove the opposite...
...Thomas And Hoopes Dear Sirs: We still enjoy reading your splendid editorials and your regular writers...
...Truher Local 234, Railway Machinists Emil Kausch International Fur & Leather Workers No...
...but since the Progressive Party did not put up a candidate for President this year the point is academic only...
...There is no possibility that a change now from Democratic leadership to Republican leadership would in any way aid our war effort...
...The Progressive is wonderful magazine reading—the best brains in the country...
...Charles Bloomstein Boston, Mass...
...Marion Hitchcock K'ansas City, Mo...
...So regardless of how we feel as individuals you should, as the fountain of Progressive ideals, state your opinions, and come out for someone...
...It Will Make New Friends...
...True, but I only accomplish the exact proportion of good that my insignificant lone voice bears to that of The Progressive, or say that of a Roosevelt or Dewey...
...While they will not probably be elected, a large Socialist vote will show the major parties where we the voters stand on issues...
...There have been many charges that the CIO-PAC is communism, pure and simple...
...Even if everything goes as nearly perfect as any military campaign ever went, many thousands of our fighting men must die before we can recover the Philippines...
...so far as the social application of capitalism is concerned, it should be called the Predatory System...
...Robert M. La Follette, Sr., declined to endorse either...
...The resources of any one member of this powerful association would make the voluntary dollar of a PAC contributor look like deflation had struck...
...Small wonder the "little kings" of America are afraid of Sidney Hillman...
...And F. D. R. never heard of full employment...
...What is the difference between a Republican and a reactionary Democrat ? Why do the Republicans always favor Wall Street and big business...
...Such are the roseate and luscious fruits of a Saturnalian spree of "free enterprise...
...Vote for Thomas and Hoopes...
...We are even more disturbed by the trends shown in the foreign policy of Roosevelt—which is faithfully echoed by the Republican Dewey...
...The much publicized "education" that PAC is peddling consists of a thorough check into the record of any candidate for office...
...PAC Defended Dear Sirs: As the final days of the campaign draw to a close the fury of attack on the CIO-PAC reaches an all-time high...
...But as governor of New York, the second job in our country, his record is none too good...
...Also it seems clear that "protest" voting—for someone who has no chance of being elected—or refraining from voting, as a gesture of disgust of the state of things, would, at this time, be hardly more than evidences of disgruntled frustration...
...A Labor View Dear Sirs: We, the undersigned, cannot follow the endorsements of either the United Labor Committee or the Political Action Committee in this election, since these two groups are supporting candidates who do not stand for a program of full employment or lasting peace...
...Just look very briefly on the international and domestic accounts...
...The same trouble exists in the present political campaign outside the regular party adherents who will vote for anybody with the party label...
...We urge all trade unionists to abandon the two old parties and vote Socialist, since only Thomas and Hoopes in this campaign have suggested how the productive capacity of our nation could be used for full employment in peace as well as during wartime...
...It would be like a breath of fresh air a sewer cleaner when those in high office, or other educational position, choose to tell the whole truth in an entirely fearless manner...
...What is the answer...
...The capitalists deny all responsibility for the welfare of their employes, as to whether they have incomes sufficient to live on or what becomes of them after they are no longer able to work for them...
...It is small comfort for cowardice to find reasons of expediency and politics for neglecting what appears to be so plain a duty this election...
...How can any man endorse the enforcement of a peace without knowing the peace terms which are to be laid down...
...Dewey proclaims the necessity of jobs, he follows the line of NAM, USCC, the facile-tongued Mr...
...Now what can a Progressive do in this election for the welfare of his country...
...If any voter comes to the conclusion that the Socialist Party's program represents his own hopes, it should be incumbent on him to so indicate on Election Day...
...La Follette could have polled a huge vote if he had run...
...After all, a vote for Thomas is a vote for a clearly defined constructive program, while I have yet to discover what a Democratic or Republican vote really represents...
...EDITOR'S NOTE: In 1016, when Woodrow Wilson, founder of the New Freedom, was seeking a second term and was opposed by Charles Evans Hughes, the late Sen...
...R. J. Bowers Los Angeles, Calif...
...Does anyone really believe that the forces now struggling for a better world can achieve their objectives by their adherents swelling the ranks of their opponents...
...No doubt a more accurate word would be COMMON-ISM...
...President Roosevelt shares the twin bed with Dewey as anti-communist-fascist, etc...
...Roosevelt has floundered and shifted, has he not held throughout to the fundamental perspective that the Federal Government must effectively exercise responsibility for full employment and economic stability...
...The time has come for labor to vote a ticket that means freedom of not only the American workers but those of all the world whether they be at this time free people or colonial slaves...
...Pass This Paper On...
...Then the goose that laid the golden egg flew high, wide, and handsome, and the welkin reverberated with the blatancy of the golden calf...
...D. C. Gibson Memphis, Tenn...
...During the regime of Andy Mellon the ship of state was loaded to the gunwales with the eternal verities (?) of freebooting enterprise...
...Roosevelt...
...Seely For Roosevelt Dear Sirs: I should like to publish the following letter in your Forum before the election...
...66 Harold C. Schrubbe Brewery Workers Local No...
...F. D. R...
...Whether or not the NAM attempts to dictate the vote of the industrialist this writer does not pretend to know, but one thing is certain — they are lined up...
...You have broken with the past...
...I enjoy The Progressive but the name is not appropriate unless it progresses somewhere...
...At present they want the government to do this for them, and they do not even want to pay the bill...
...Eight years too many...
...It was inaugurated solely for the purpose" of staving off the revolution our country was facing when it went to the dogs under Hoover...
...If a candidate is considered unfavorable to the common man, the local organization is told exactly why...
...Dear Sirs: In the most important election since that of Lincoln, it seems to me that Progressives should cast their votes against the fourth-term candidate...
...There can hardly be any doubt that the program and policies of the Democratic Party are more progressive than those the Republicans offer...
...This paper has given us a lot of news and information about the Roosevelt Administration for a number of years and we have become convinced that he is incompetent and undesirable to continue in office, or to meet the future requirements needed to bring about an appropriate peace plan...
...First, on international lines I assume that you are not isolationist...
...47, CIO Edward Schultheis International Assn...
...At Detroit, Hoover lectured the American Legion about the law ol diminishing returns...
...And at Washington, Hoover became more jittery, and the Bonus Army got a sample of regimentation when it was (as Republic Steel might say) "pushed around" by martyr (?) MacArthur's troops...
...F.D.R...
...Hoover was on the threshold of abolishing poverty and Utopia was nigh...
...A. Mote Bellingham, Washv * * * Pro-German Dear Sirs: Why the Public Library will carry anything as pro-German as The Progressive is beyond me...
...In the meantime Hoover was monotonously repeating that "prosperity is just around the corner...
...2 issue, as to why The Progressive does not endorse Norman Thomas for the Presidency...
...Read Montagu Norman, by John Hargrove...
...Why is Russia making such progress if not for the common people going ahead and doing things for the common good instead of piling it up for a few millionaires...
...Dewey is reaction at its worst...
...At foreclosure sales, irate farm-erf menaced law-enforcing officers...
...His record on all issues is the best all around in major league politics...
...If the northern Tories and the southern Bourbons would vote together in one party and the northern and southern progressives (and there are a growing number) would unite in another party, there would be no doubt of the outcome...
...Why is the wealth of our country piled up in the big cities and not more justly distributed...
...In many states we can't vote for Norman Thomas, the one honest candidate, even if we don't agree with all his theories...
...It's my vote, I won't waste it...
...Lewis C. Popham, III New York, N. Y. * * * Best Brains Dear Sirs: I feel very thankful to the late Oscar Ameringer, who put me in your reading circle...
...I believe a better world is possible and I know it won't come into being through voting Democratic or Republican...
...It would shake our democracy and endanger what liberals must hope to attain in international advancement...
...It was big money from New York and southern Bourbons in Texas that for a time defeated the will of 65 per cent of Texas voters wanting Wallace...
...In total, they seem to reflect the great dilemma of our time—the desire to move toward a known good opposed to an inability to face the issues and decide on a course of action...
...So this Nov...
...Or the man who admits that the Socialists and Thomas have the only man and platform he can honestly support, and that such a vote would be a method of indicating non-support of the major parties— and then pleads for a vote for Dewey on the basis that he is the 'weaker' aspect of the 'one evil,' thus, after first rejecting the choice of the 'lesser of two evils,' finally embracing it...
...Anyone who thinks there is any redeeming feature in the race of barbarians known as the Germans doesn't know history...
...Let us hitch our wagon to a star, knowledge of the truth, and follow the star till it leads us to the King of Glory...
...The issue is monopoly, not capitalism, and The Progressive is strongly against monopoly...
...I've waited 22 years to vote, eight years to vote Socialist...
...Common sense demands that the government should control these industries for the benefit of the people, or that the common people should control the government instead of the rich, and be able to tell the wealth wizards what share of their incomes must be paid to the workers...
...It is a historical fact that the Republican Party has been on the un-progressive side of every issue since the Civil War...
...What a pity that Robert M. La Follette, Sr...
...It is encouraging to observe more and more liberals turning their backs on the sham battle between Dewey and Roosevelt and finding in the common sense and intelligence of Norman Thomas the candidate most worthy of their support...
...Pvt...
...Should Support Dewey Dear Sirs: The recent article by Sen...
...Consider that this started under a Federal debt of about $25 billion, and that at the end of the war we shall have at least $250 billion...
...All writers, speakers, and followers of the Socialist Party have one perennial theme: "Abolish the capitalist system-" This puts them where no sensible person can follow them, because the capitalist system cannot be abolished...
...Despite His Faults Dear Sirs: I feel keenly that The Progressive and Sen...
...And the two old parties, have, by several outstanding facts, laid themselves wide open for attack by our Socialist and Progressive forces all along the line...
...In the face of the choices as they are, you will bear a heavy burden of responsibility if by sitting through this election, or just supporting Mr...
...Treat the common people right, and we will have no Browders or CIO Political Action Committee...
...To end imperialism which causes wars should be the chief aim of labor in this compaign...
...This title, in my opinion, should also suggest that The Progressive should also speak up in favor of Mr...
...Dewey may not have given us everything we wanted for an in-v ternational plan, but he at least is democratic in spirit and promises to be the best choice of the two...
...Cpl...
...in fact 'own' is the word recently used by Mr...
...R. H. Knapp Saginaw, Mich...
...Are they not in a combine to work for their own interest...
...How are we, the people, to know what you think except by your printed word...
...Dewey rather than to straddle the issue and throw some votes on the wrong side of the ticket...
...Most of the Forum articles are fine, too, but sometimes an article gets into the Forum that a Philadelphia lawyer could hardly explain...
...Therefore India is a slave-nation owned by England, and yet India and England are both among the United Nations...
...I want to take particular issue with your own wording that "the Nation more often than not prefers to close its eyes to the shortcomings of the Big Three...
...Since the late eighteen hundreds, corporations and business men have had the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM...
...Since we, the people, are but a product of our education and environment, those who help to create this education for us are highly responsible for our actions...
...Thomas, you will effect the election of Mr...
...16th letter by Mr...
...Seeing that he did not step down we shall vote him down...
...7, vote directly against our own judgment, and the facts of history, vote for either the Roosevelt or Dewey ticket, it will be just dandy...
...I consider it most important to defeat the man who in 1940 solemnly declared he would not send our boys into a foreign war, and then, immediately after election, put us in it when he allowed American naval ships to convoy munitions to Great Britain...
...The 1929 colhipse, its mass unemployment and the general demoralization, were a terrible national scourge...
...But because of the changes in our political, social, and economic policies that would accompany a change of administration, there certainly would be a bad disruption of our war effort if the Democrats are turned out of office...
...But alas...
...The first: President Roosevelt has served a long, long time and he should step down...
...Surely neither represents the Progressives...
...The Progressives ai-e in the majority in this country, but party allegiance keeps them apart...
...Gov...
...2 issue entitled "Dust In People's Eyes," showing a thumbnail cut of Louis Fischer, from whose article in the Nation it quoted...
...Comdr...
...Certainly Sen...
...As he says, the Editors are in substantial agreement with the Socialists on most of the vital questions of our time...
...It is not in truth a "system...
...Free Enterprise' Spree Dear Sirs: The minions of Mammon and other Janus-faced flunkies are again pontificating about the beatitudes of "free enterprise...
...Maybe in Wisconsin you have, but we who don't live in that great state don't know...
...Every "ism" in the dictionary has been hurled into the battle, and no doubt a few new ones coined...
...I have nothing to lose by taking an honest and fearless stand, you may say...
...Dewey and recourse to "normalcy" of the old-line Republican order...
...For Thomas Dear Sirs: With election day coming up in a few days I think that your fine paper should announce who it favors in the election...
...Now, we face a critical domestic situation...
...I give every issue away for the good of the nation...
...He represents big business...
...Corn sold for 12 cents per bushel...
...Any other course will only add to the futility and frustration of our contemporary political scene, as well as weaken the very forces you hope someday to support...
...Churchill in one of his Parliamentary debates...
...Gov...
...Russell Egner Minneapolis, Minn...
...If so, then is there any reasonable doubt as to whom you should support now for leadership in the country whose cooperation will be essential to effective international arrangements ? Next, on domestic policy, do you not agree that the absolute postwar requisite is to assure jobs and prevent industrial collapse in the transition to a peacetime economy...
...Perhaps the editors and owners of The Progressive would like to advocate the choice of the Socialist candidate for President this Fall...
...Some will vote against "that man" in the White House and with some reason, but others realize "you can't beat something with nothing" and furthermore realize that you must judge a man by the company he keeps (or keeps him...
...Thomas has no chance...
...Dewey and sink into a depression, this will be much more calamitous than the post 1929 period...
...There are certain fundamental principles that must be followed to attain freedom of the people, definite goals to be attained to insure liberty* Just reporting the evils existing and not uniting the people in a forward-looking program for liberation exposing the evils of the present is not enough...
...we must prevent it through planned and adequate Federal action...
...Weren't all New Deal laws passed by liberals and progressives...
...A. F. M. Lange Brooklyn, N. Y. Twin Beds Dear Sirs: Well, the cat is out of the bag...
...Over 14,000,000 idle, surly men stomped around, like "outlaw" bronchos in the corral, and clamored for work...
...If Hoover had been reelected in 1932 when millions were standing in the bread lines, he would have been forced to do the same or leave the country...
...Therefore Vote Socialist...
...Why keep on electing boneheads to Congress as we have been doing and getting only a stab in the back...
...It has been equally, or more, critical of the Republican candidate...
...Is it not because they get their big contributions from them...
...of Machinists, No...
...It Will Make New Friend* I Questions For GOP Dear Sirs: Are the common people any better off in GOP states than they were under the Democrat governors...
...The Progressive has placed itself in a very peculiar position by all its past articles and editorials...
...Thomas For President Dear Sirs: -Certainly, I'll vote Socialist...
...That old slogan, "Abolish the capitalist system," scares people of all classes away from the Socialist Party...
...If you want to know how our money system is run for the private bankers for private profit, read it and learn something...
...The only remaining question is whether the rich industrialists should escape' the responsibility of caring for the employes who have served them...
...We believe that only the Socialist candidates, Norman Thomas and Darlington Hoopes, are supporting-such a program and discussing the job before us in achieving these goals...
...La Follette, with your influence on liberal and political independents, should declare yourselves for the re-election of President Roosevelt...
...What chance have I with Dewey...
...We must progress toward a goal, and that goal is not made clear in your paper...
...Shades of "Fighting Bob" La Follette...
...The independent voter is confused and uncertain...
...Yet everyone is still on the job...
...In the local union some have given, others have not, and it has been most interesting to note that not one dollar has yet been extracted with the aid of a blunt instrument...
...9 John J. Schupp B1092, Radio & Electrical Appliance Union, IBEW Robert Repas Local 2, Am...
...Only Norman Thomas among the candidates has spoken out on what those terms should be...
...I understand that slavery is ownership of man by man, singly, or in group...
...The First Step Dear Sirs: As a constant reader of The Progressive, I am keenly interested in the debates carried on in the Forum...
...Dewey...
...Recently President Roosevelt and the Democratic Party have been included in this fear-panicked attack...
...Endorse Neither Dear Sirs: All praise to The Progressive for its politically courageous decision not to endorse the two old parties and their candidates...
...What do those words mean...
...I may not again subscribe...
...In the last analysis, a vote for either of the major parties is a vote against the cooperative commonwealth...
...Balance the debits and credits, and the President has plenty of debits, yet as liberals you must find a decisive credit balance in his favor...
...Why are all the bankers Republicans...
...Pass This Paper On...
...Verily "the Great Engineer" had labored in the vineyard and brought forth a Frankenstein...
...The wind-mill battle going on between Roosevelt and Dewey now is simply for the purpose of confusing the public and to divert their attention away from the basic troubles that causes all the misery in the world—a ruthless monetary system under private control that spawns misery and war...
...It seems to me that anyone who has been reading the Nation consistently for the past year or two could not honestly make such a statement...
...Therefore we have formed a rank and file Labor Committee for Thomas and Hoopes...
...In Russia large personal fortunes were absorbed in the commonwealth and Stalin's salary wouldn't even purchase Roosevelt's fishing tackle...
...Admitting that Mr...
...This seems to be a paradox...
...Isn't that a honey of an argument ? The Progressive Party has no national ticket of its own in this campaign, neither has the Farmer-Labor, American Labor, nor Communists...
...Hobart McKean Circle, Mont...
...Retired) Chicago, 111...
...John Bauer Montclair, N. J. * * * Reply From The Nation Dear Sirs: I noticed an item in your Oct...
...June Petty Helsel Keokuk, la...
...In the five first paragraphs of his article he makes out a clear case against the two old Tory parties and their national tickets, headed by Roosevelt and Dewey, and then cancels it by saying we will "throw away" our votes if we vote the Thomas-Hoopes ticket...
...N. E. R. Camp McCoy, Wis...
...Norman is the president of the Bank of England...
...If the voters of the United States had the intelligence that a genuine democracy calls for, the man elected for President on Nov...
...C. S. Seely Lt...
...Modern civilization requires enormous industries, and they must be financed...
...I'm a working man...
...What law did the Republicans ever pass that was for the common people...
...For this reason it seems clear that we should not do anything that may possibly disrupt our present smoothly running—and winning— war machine...
...La Follette's father never failed to take a stand, even, as in the present case, when the choice is most difficult for liberals...
...of State, County & Municipal Employes Milwaukee, Wis...
...Hugo Van Arx Business Manager The Nation New York, N. Y. Shades Of 'Fighting Bob' Dear Sirs: I am most disappointed that The Progressive has not (thus far) found it fit to advise its readers regarding the Presidential election...
...Are you not eager for an effective world organization that will stop wars, provide means for peaceful settlement of disputes between nations, and furnish mediums for cooperation among all peoples for economic and social advancement...
...Thus the party that was against the TVA, and how wrong they were, is not the one we want in the White House for the next four years...
...His labor and soldier vote record is terrible...
...7 would be neither Roosevelt or Dewey but Norman Thomas...
...He dolefully intoned about the dole...
...That is a long time...
...But with Thomas, maybe he won't be elected, but it will be because some one else failed to vote for him...
...is not alive today...
...Unless we are prepared to exercise our civic responsibilities on the level of our highest ideals, how can we expect others to do so...
...For if he does not, he would probably be in the White House for 16 years...
...It has left no room for doubt as to its stand as regards the now dead "New Deal" candidate...
...Rooseveltism Must Go Dear Sirs: The failure of The Progressive to take a definite stand for Americanism and against Rooseveltism has robbed it of nearly all its value to me...
...Under this vastly greater debt, we cannot risk collapse...
...England owns India...
...Thus I see only one way for you to turn, but you will probably not...
...7 we should vote for Thomas and Hoopes, two great men...
...Are you afraid to stand with the Socialists...
...This is the same reason all our other political and educational leaders choose to remain silent, or tell deliberate lies, when cornered in the same manner...
...U.S.N...
...Why do you love the "horny handed sons of toil" so well just before election, then forget all about them afterwards...
...Because of ravenous hunger, human beings in Chicago fought over salvaged garbage...
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