Kate O' Hare letter to Caroline - January 26, 1922
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[written in top margin] ch. comrade Theo Please note this copy and return FPO [ms continues as normal] [January] 26, 1922. Dear Caroline: (LOWE) I am so sorry to have disappointed you in not coming to Terre Haute but I arrived home sick with a heavy cold and threatened with flu. Frank simply would not let me leave. I have read your letter carefully and I am sure that you accomplished all that could have been done at this time. Naturally our plans are a little hazy, and it is best that they should be. Frank and I must be very careful not to give the impression that we are bossing the job. We simply initiated it, and now we must make it possible for all interested persons and groups to co-operate. And by co-operating I mean feel that they have a part in planning. I think Theodore idea of a delegate from each co-operating group in as many cities as possible. Here in St. Louis we could possibly get one from the Socialist party, one form the I.W.W. one from the Civil Liberties and one from other organizations that are interested. It will quite easy I think to get a delegate Central Committee in Chicago, or with people from near enough to work with it. Think you had better get busy on that plan there. We will see what we can do in getting such a committee here. In the meantime Dorothy Clark is at work getting in touch with people everywhere and we are getting on with our circularization. Mae and Frank are just opening the mail, the first one that has really had any indication of how the idea would take. The returns are coming in far more quickly than we hoped and response is certainly cheering. Every one seems to feel that it is the ONLY plan. Not a word of criticism yet and many of praise. That looks good. One noticeable thing is that the returns have come from people who have not in the past been active workers. For instance our dentist who is not a radical at all sent $8. Frank says he will put it our bill, but at any rate it is cheering. Of course we are getting many letter from poor devils who are out of a a job. but we have touched a group heretofore untouched it seems. Now the thing we must work out is how to get the message to as many of the middle class liberals as possible. I am sending you samples of the stuff we sent out. I think each co-operating group should get something like it to their mailing list. I am at work on the story of the cases, and do you know Caroline I feel that I am going to write something that will have as much, or more, pull as the Debs story. I am planning now on a forty-eight page booklet and I believe I can write something that every person who sees it will read. It should be published by the CHILDREN
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ready. Dorothy wrote Mrs. Martin last night asking permission to use her name on a letter head as a member of the temporary organization committee. Hope se consents so we can get out something right away. We don
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| Title | Kate O' Hare letter to Caroline - January 26, 1922 |
| Creator | O'Hare, Kate |
| Source | O'Hare, Kate. Letter to Caroline. 21 January 1922. 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 |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I; Children's Crusade for Amnesty |
| Site Accession Number | A1152 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | January 26, 1922 |
| Language | English |