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1 letterhead Jan. 6 1909 Dear Mr. Muir: We are fighting our best at this end of the line and have started an avalanche
of protest. We are planning to back this up and crystallize public opinion by preparing a brief pamphlet with ten or a dozen
of the best views and send to 1500 of the great newspapers of the nation and also place one in the hands of every member of
congress. This will mean more money unfortunately but is well worth this expenditure. I suppose you saw by the papers that
Bade' has been putting in some heavy licks in Washington. It was the best thing we could have done to send him East. On the
train he met Rev. E. L. Parsons a cousin of Herbert Parsons, a member of the Public Sands Committee, and chairman of the New
York State Republican Committee got him intensely? interested. It is too bad that money is the main deterrent to limit our
efforts. Parsons I have raised considerable, have put up ourselves as much more but one telegram (and we have sent dozens)
cost us 29.00 We have already spend 350.00 We will have to get more members to contribute but to call on our membership publicly
now would mean to split the club wide open. When we get rid of our associate on the Bond? we can work more smoothly. If the
powers that be are back of us we will win as you say if not, we will still have made a grand fight awakened public conscience.
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