Theodore Debs letter Frank P. O'Hare - July 6, 1922

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Terre Haute, [Indiana], July 6th, 1922. Dear Frank: I have finished reading a second time your letter of the 3rd. Its contents were noted with mixed emotions. You were kind in putting the name of Henson on your list as requested and I thank you for doing so. The letter from Mrs. Brite is both interesting and gratifying. There is not the least doubt that the Crusade had done its work and left its mark. No matter what happens from now on the Crusade is an achievement, unique and humanitarian, and will be so recorded in history. The brave spirits who conceived and sustained it a t such a heartbreaking cost are entitled to far more credit that they would ever received in their own generation. The financial difficulties you are now experiencing is a part of the price you are having to pay for this noble service. It is nothing less than tragic that it should be so. I guess we are all in about the same boat as far as the financial phases of the struggle are concerned. You may be sure that we understand what you are contending with and that we can sympathize with you fully for we are having and have for a long time had the same experience. How strange that we should have to fight for our lives to be permitted to fight for the lives of humanity! Well, we will stick whatever betide and fight it out in the faith that our cause must triumph in the end. With all good wished I am YOurs as ever, Theodore