The Goslings: A Study of the American SchoolsSinclair, Upton
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The Goslings: A Study of the American Schools
Sinclair, Upton
Education -- United States
Now until you receive full instructions, send everything by U. S.
express to Hon. L. E. Jepson, 106 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis,
Minn., but always in a box so that contents may not easily be seen,
but never use a leg box in so doing. If you should have to send us a
leg for changes you had better get a small soap or cracker box and
bend it up and put it in that way.
Another letter explains that inasmuch as Mr. Jepson represents the city
of Minneapolis in the state senate, the railways give him free
transportation, and he will be very glad to visit his correspondent to
fit him with two artificial legs. Another letter laments the fact that
“The U. S. express has gone back on me, so I had to pay the 30 cents;
after this send by Gt. Northern and it will come all right to me all
right.” And still another letter is addressed to an agent who is trying
to sell an artificial leg to an old soldier. In order to get a cash
payment at once, the agent is instructed to make the old soldier think
that if he does not pay cash there will be a long delay. “Make them
think that if something is not paid, dozens will get ahead of them.”
This poster was used by Mr. Jepson’s political opponents in the effort
to keep him from being re-elected to the state senate. It is interesting
to hear that Mr. Jepson applied for an injunction, and the courts
suppressed the whole edition of these posters. Such a comfortable thing
it is to have your own courts!
Against conditions such as this the Socialists and labor men of
Minneapolis are carrying on a fight for the schools. Big Business owns
not merely the courts and the government, it owns the university, and
almost all the churches and newspapers. The labor people started a
newspaper of their own, but it seems to have gotten away from them, and
they have to go to the public with their bare voices. A Socialist school
board member told me that in the campaign of 1921, he spoke at a noon
meeting in front of some factory every day for two months, then at a
meeting in the afternoon, and six times every evening. He was a member
of the board while I was in Minneapolis, and took me into office and
showed me the insides.
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