Dad, As A Good American, Believed His

The American People Will Take Socialism, But They Won't Take The Label. I Certainly Proved It In The Case Of Epic [end Poverty In California]. Running On The Socialist Ticket I Got 60,000 Votes, And Running On The Slogan To 'end Poverty In California' I Got 879,000. I Think We Simply Have To Recognize The Fact That Our Enemies Have Succeeded In Spreading The Big Lie. There Is No Use Attacking It By A Front Attack, It Is Much Better To Out-flank Them.

I Have Not Only Found Good Health, But Perfect Health; I Have Found A New State Of Being, A Potentiality Of Life; A Sense Of Lightness And Cleanness And Joyfulness, Such As I Did Not Know Could Exist In The Human Body.

There Are A Score Of Great Religions In The World, Each With Scores Or Hundreds Of Sects, Each With Its Priestly Orders, Its Complicated Creed And Ritual, Its Heavens And Hells. Each Has Its Thousands Or Millions Or Hundreds Of Millions Of True Believers Each Damns All The Others With More Or Less Heartiness - And Each Is A Mighty Fortress Of Graft.

It Is The Music Which Makes It What It Is; It Is The Music Which Changes The Place From The Rear Room Of A Saloon In Back Of The Yards To A Fairy Place, A Wonderland, A Little Comer Of The High Mansions Of The Sky.

But I Have A Conscience And A Religious Faith, And I Know That Our Liberties Were Not Won Without Suffering, And May Be Lost Again Through Our Cowardice. I Intend To Do My Duty To My Country.