Champ Clark letter to Bennett Champ Clark - September 8, 1917
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September 8, 1917. Lieutenant-Colonel Bennett C. Clark, Sixth Missouri Infantry, Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill, [Oklahoma] My dear Bennett: I have your telegram notifying us that you are leaving today for Fort Sill. A day or so ago, I sent you two copied of the Congressional Record. One of them contained my speech about the Bond bill; and one what I wrote of my Monmouth Courthouse Speech. Inasmuch as you are leaving today, you may not get them and I am sending you a couple more to Fort Sill. Not that there is anything so remarkable about the speeches, but because I am certain you would like to read them. Most of that Monmouth speech you have heard before. The principal reason I made the speech about the Bond bill was because when I interrogated Fordney he vowed and declared that United States bonds had never sold below par. Of course, the plutocratic press, such as the New York World jumped me about the speech because they don’t want
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No. 2. L-C. B. C. C. their dear clients to pay the taxes; but I am sure that the bulk of the people will endorse the speech. All the papers were full of the Bond speech except the St. Louis Republic which hasn’t a word about it. By the way, the St. Louis papers do not seem to know that there are any Missouri Regiments except those two from St. Louis. I know a good many people who are pickling rods for their own backs; and one of them is the Statesman who owns the Republic. I have one boy, and he is in the army. The owner of the Republic has five, and they are busy making money. Certainly these fellows who are making 100 per cent profits out of the war ought to be willing to give up 80 per cent, especially when you don’t commence to count until they have made 8 per cent. That leaves them 28 per cent clear profit which seems to me a fairly good profit. Your father, Champ Clark.
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Title | Champ Clark letter to Bennett Champ Clark - September 8, 1917 |
Creator | Clark, Champ |
Source | Clark, Champ. Letter to Bennett Champ Clark from Champ Clark. 08 September 1917. Clark, Champ (1850-1921) and Bennett Champ (1890-1954), Papers, 1853-1973. C0666. The State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, MO. |
Description | In this September 8, 1917 letter to his son Bennett, Champ Clark discussed his recent speech on the Bond Bill and noted that Missouri newspapers only cover the two regiments from St. Louis. Champ Clark, a long-time resident of Bowling Green, Missouri, was a politician in the Democratic Party. He served as a representative of Missouri from 1893 to 1895 and from 1897 to 1921. From 1911 to 1919 he served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Bennett Clark served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the 140th Regiment, 35th Division and as Assistant Chief of Staff for the 88th Division during World War I, and was Missouri State Senator from 1933 to 1945. |
Subject LCSH | Clark, Champ, 1850-1921; United States. Army. Camp Doniphan (Okla.); Clark, Bennett Champ, 1890-1954; Fort Sill (Okla.); World War, 1914-1918--Newspapers; World War, 1914-1918--Public opinion |
Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
Site Accession Number | C0666 |
Contributing Institution | The State Historical Society of Missouri |
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Date Original | September 8, 1917 |
Language | English |