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...You "struck the nail on the head" with the article "The right of the citizen to oppose war and the right of Congress to shape the War Policy...
...I would like to say I Jim well pleased with the stand Senator La Follette has taken on the Taxing War Profits— F. L. IV., Marathon, Io tea...
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...which is the World's Greatest Newspaper, although perhaps you do not know it, is ever bragging and bullying, while you get there all the time without any apparent effort to do the thing and "it sinks deeper into the bog...
...liy our system of Indirect taxation, which by the way is unconstitutional (for the Government has no right to delegate its sovereign power of taxation to landlords and business interests) the mass of the people have already paid their taxes to landlords and business Interests and t.Vjy have paid enough to finance two wars...
...Inclosed please find check of one dollar to renew my subscription for your magazine, for I would not do without it...
...But judging from the sentiments of the many people with whom I come in contact you have the support of the majority of people in spite of what the newspapers have to say against you.—A...
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...I believe I was among the first subscribers in this locality, have enjoyed the paper, have admired the Senator and was with him in all his reform measures right up to (he time our Congress declared war which declaration, right or wrong, has been made but now I believe it the duty of every citizen in the U. S. to support the Government and neither by word, thought or act in any way to give aid and comfort to the enemy...
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...May God ' keep you fearless and strong, so that you will voice these sentiments in the future as you have in the past.— G. P. K., Syracuse, Keb...
...I hope the Senator will use his great influence for this country afid for Heaven's sake quit giving aid to the most cruel gang of out-laws that ever drew blood and plunged a country into an unholy war...
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...Your matter is striking and I wish to add—A man seeking the truth on the way of truth shall find it, follow it, and conquer...
...On the first page of which appears your peace resolution, in which you again take up the "gauntlet" of the rights of the American citizen, as you have so often done, and for which you have been, and still are, being, ridiculed by a large percentage of the press...
...B. S., Chicago, 111...
...Just received telegram from Organizing Secretary of the Peoples' Council for Democracy and Peace, at New York that they were unable to procure a hall in Minneapolis for "Constituents Assembly" September 1-6...
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...I want to vote for Robert M. La Follette for the next president...
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Vol. 9 • September 1917 • No. 9
