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). Transcription: Copy Erie [Pennsylvania] [March] 2 1918 Dear Phil:- I just got your letter of [February] 26 yesterday and with all the excitement and strain that I am undergoing, I had to smile at its very masculine at attitude. I know just as well as you do that what is important to the S R is circulation, but what is more important to me is that I shall be able to ?ǣcirculate ? in fre
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). Transcription: Copy Erie [Pennsylvania] [March] 2 1918 Dear Phil:- I just got your letter of [February] 26 yesterday and with all the excitement and strain that I am undergoing, I had to smile at its very masculine at attitude. I know just as well as you do that what is important to the S R is circulation, but what is more important to me is that I shall be able to ?ǣcirculate ? in freedom also. I know that I owe you loyalty and allegiance, which I have hardest worked and most poorly paid employe on your trained staff and that my judgement and ideas never received any particular attention. I know very well what my duty to you and to the S R is, but I also know that I owe a higher duty to myself and to my four children. Those four children come first, Nothing else on earth is so important to me as they are. I know, I knew when I passed through St. Louis that a Titanic fight must be made if I escape going to prison. It means organization, propaganda, arousing public opinion, and bringing political power to bear. I waited in vain for the N E C to act. They ignored the whole matter. I told you over and over agin in as many was as I could possible frame it just what would have to be done. In fact I wired from Bismarck that the defense work must be planned out and that someone of experience an training would have to go on the job. I knew that Edwin lacked experience and that you lacked vision, and the things necessary to plan and execute such a campaign as must to be made. I told you to get Frank on the job, and he offered to let his business go and do it. He and George Goebel are the only two men in the U S who have t the training and the experience, and the necessary understanding to the work. He was willing to go to St. Louis and start the defense work, He wou
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