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...Thirdly: We should by all means make it a policy not \o send our army into any foreign territory, whether it be European, Asiatic, or elsewhere other than on the North American continent, bet our army be sufficient for defense and let its equipment be the best and most efficient man can devise...
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...I offer a few such, not that they should be used in the original form, but merely as suggestive to La Folletts's AIagazine as one of the great mediums of information and of public sentiment First: It seems to me that when wo engage in war with Germany or any other nation, at this time, we should make it our policy to fight for our rights, privileges, honor, and the cause of humanity, Independently, without fear or favor, and by all means refrain for entangling alliances, with any of the nations now engaged in the great European war...
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...As it is now, it is such a long wait between numbers that one has to do a lot of "sifting" from the daily papers in order to get even a slight idea of what the truth really is...
...A. Z., Morrisonville, Wisconsin...
...Take for instance the way the press ridiculed.you and the other eleven gentlemen both hy words and cartoons, simply because you gentlemen voted as your conscience dictated as well as what you thought the best for the people...
...If they do not allow our representatives to use their own judgment, then -why not do away with our congressmen and leave it all to one man—the President—and put us back on a footing with the way Russia had been...
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...There is altogether too much pro-this and pro-that in this country today and not enough of just pure unadulterated Americanism.—J...
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...In these days of an almost continuous succession of crises of great importance to all the people, it is to be regretted that La P'om.ette's Magazine does not come each rccek as 1 always look for it to enable me to know the truth about things going ou in Washington and then judge...
...Fourth: FIRST, LAST, AND ALL, THE TIME LET OUR POLICY BE FOR DEFENSE: NEVER FOR AGGRESSION.— W. J. m., Pierre, South Dakota, March 26, 1917...
...I think it's treat The only trouble is that we have not got a few more like Mr...
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...They seem to publish nothing ilong the peace line at all and one kas to think the free press as it now b censored proves it to be the biggest nenace we have today...
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...Those Americans who really think are now condemning Congress for its failure to pass the Gore resolution and save the misery and expense of war.—O...
...The newspapers give only one side.— L. A. B., St Paul, Minnesota...
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...It has been with a great deal of pleasure and interest the writer has noted La Follette's Magazine's heroic fight and that of the eminent Senator on behalf of continued peace and strict neutrality, as between the United States and the great European conflict Personally my sentiments are in favor of peace and strict neutrality, and in this respect feel that we have been justified in working for and expressing our convictions and hope for that cause...
Vol. 9 • April 1917 • No. 4
