Word: masons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This morning you printed a communication from F. van Mason. May I express my appreciation...
...Mason's perspicacity in discerning that an intelligent man with "Honest Beliefs" can expiate his treason only by being kept locked up, is commendable. I agree with his inference that only by confining such a man can he be made harmless. Mr. Mason, who is well aware that ours is a government by, not of, the majority, compels my respect by the clearness with which he perceives that the "thousands, even millions" who venture from the good road trod by the respectable majority are "uneducated" and "unthinking". I even go with him in his implied belief that the word...
...agree with Mr. Mason that the ideal for which our young men died was pure and Godly. I am sure he will believe with me that the fate of Socrates and the fate of the Nazarine were merely confirming exceptions, added to which may soon be the fate of Debs, to the great truth that the voice of the people is the voice...
...prison with them. I am afraid he will but not alone. I am afraid that six men will have to carry him to that place where all convictions, whether acquiescing or dissenting, thrive unnoticed and unmolested; to that place of infinite and final freedom, the grave. Then perhaps Mr. Mason, and all others who think as he does, will rejoice with me. J. J. DOLX...
...sincere beliefs" are such that they hinder a righteous cause, such as our war with Germany, let him suffer the full penalty of his crime in the name of the brave men who died willingly for a real, Godly and pure ideal. F. VAN W. MASON...