Germer, Adolph 1918-04-12
| Description: |
Letter to Eugene V. Debs on Socialist Party National Office letterhead, 4/12/18. Says that he is sending Eugene V. Debs an article from the SPOKESMAN-REVIEW published out of Spokane, Washington to show Eugene V. Debs evidence of the unscrupulous methods to which the prostitute press resorts. Includes article titled Americanization of Foreigners Is Slow Among Socialists which says that the socialists who support the war tend to be of American birth and have more than one generation of American ancestry while those who oppose the war tend to be of foreign birth or else have fathers and mothers of foreign birth. Writes that people like Allen Benson, Ellen Hayes, Charles Edward Russell, Algie M. Simons, Upton Sinclair, William English Walling, White, and Wright are in the first group while Eugene V. Debs, Victor Berger, Morris Hillquit, Scott Nearing, and Seymour Stedman are in the second. |
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| Origin: | 1918-04-12 |
| Source: |
http://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/evdc/id/3240 |
| Collection: |
Eugene V. Debs Correspondence |
| Subjects: |
Socialist Party of the United States of America Socialism -- United States Socialists World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements Famous Hoosiers Labor |
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