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Only one thing about the meeting Herman had not liked. There were
packages of wicked photographs going about. Filthy things. When
they came to him he had dropped them on the floor. What had they to
do with Germany's enemies, or preventing America from going into
the war?
Rudolph laughed when he dropped them.
"They won't bite you!" he had said, and had stooped to pick them up.
But Herman had kept his foot on them.
So - America would go into the war against the Fatherland, unless
many hundreds of thousands did each their little bit. And if they
did not, America would go in, and fight for England to control the
seas, and the Spencer plant would make millions of shells that honest
German workers, sweat-brothers of the world, might die.
He remembered word for word the peroration of the evening's speech.
"We would extend the hand of brotherhood to the so-called enemy,
and strangle the cry for war in the fat white throats of the
blood-bloated money-lenders of Wall Street, before it became
articulate.


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