Eugene V. Debs letter to Frank P. O'Hare - April 26, 1918
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Terre Haute, [Indiana], April 26th., 1918 Dear Frank:- Sorry I was obliged to leave you before your train time. Should not have done so except for illness at home. Theo. has just handed me the very happily posed family group with Kate
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[page 2] connected with the meetings I am booked to address which make another plan preferable, First of all, it is not at all certain that these meetings will be permitted to be held. I should not be at all surprised if as has been already intimated the authorities followed the lead of the Council of Defense of Minnesota and issued and order prohibiting me from addressing these meetings and prohibiting the meetings from being held. Just what I should do in that case I do not yet know but I should certainly not tamely submit. You doubtless know that the comrades in Minnesota wanted me to address some meetings in that state during the term of the war and the comrades were forced to abandon the meetings because they could secure no places in which to hold them. In the next place, these meetings. If held will be under the auspices of the state committee and for the special purpose of opening the political campaign in the several cities where they are advertising and will of course expect some return, while the local at each point is counting on taking up a collections in addition to the admission fee to start its campaign with. Besides all this I shall want to do something for Phil and the Social Builder to help them out of the hole, and under these circumstances it is not at all probable that the plan of distributing envelopes and calling for dollar subscriptions would pan out in very satisfactory results. I think it better, therefore to make a general appeal for such funds as may be secured for the defense fund. Of course I shall discuss Kate
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| Title | Eugene V. Debs letter to Frank P. O'Hare - April 26, 1918 |
| Creator | Debs, Eugene V. |
| Source | Debs, Eugene V. Letter to Frank P. O'Hare. 26 April 1918. Frank P. O'Hare Papers, 1850-1960. A1152. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | In 1912, Frank O'Hare became editor of the Rip-Saw, a socialist monthly issued from St. Louis. He was married to the prominent socialist Kate Richards O'Hare, who was imprisoned during World War I (April 1919 |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918; Socialism--United States--Periodicals; Political prisoners--Government policy--United States; Political prisoners--United States; Espionage, American; Sedition--United States; Women prisoners--Abuse of |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I; Children's Crusade for Amnesty; Llano del Rio Colony; Rip-Saw; Liberty Defense Fund |
| Site Accession Number | A1152 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | April 26, 1918 |
| Language | English |