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[[preprinted]]118 EAST 54th STREET New York -3-[/preprinted]]

we shall have it referred to the people in this state in 1915, and, then, we will have a job making the voters give it to us. This parade is in the evening, and will be very stunning, with yellow lanterns carried by every marcher.

I called upon the Bracketts, the other day, and they were very intolerant of my activities in the Bull Moose Party. I was told afterwards that they told Ethel Eames that I talked such bosh. As a matter of fact, I told them nothing practically about the Bull Moose Party, but about my canning investigation, during the summer. I told them about the hours the women worked. Miss Mary said in a very superior tone: "How did you get this information, by asking the employees?" as if, of course, they would lie. I said, no, by looking over the books of the employers, their records, which was somewhat amazing to her. She wanted to know on what ground we were able to get hold of the books. I said, because the State had given us authority to do so. They are utterly impossible, from the point of view of progressiveism, in any form. They belong to the superior ancients. The funny part is that they never will let you alone, and they wont allow us to meet on the common ground upon which we can meet, but they insist upon talking about the things they disapprove of.

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