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5) The article suggested by you for future use in the Century would have some bearing on that matter. Before writing any
thing I will think over the best method of tackling the subject, and meantime I will write (as you propose) to some of the
right kind of men to obtain their views. I would not hesitate about taking a run down to Fresno City, and perhaps to some
other places, to have some palaver with folks, but I haven t a dollar to go on just now, (I have had abominable luck with
my newspaper writing all this year. I find it pays better and is pleasanter work to chop wood for a living, and recently I
have been doing good for myself by that sort of exercise.) But I guess that I can accomplish what is needful by writing to
representative men. I suppose that it will be of advantage to prepare the article as quickly as possible in order that it
may be used early in the session of Congress. I will want to crowd 06369