Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-01-25
THURSDAY, JANUARY 18th, 1928.
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or magazine that out to chronicle the neglected truth
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demanding 'the truth" among any other class Most
people want to hear and read the things they agree with
the thing that does not fit into their system is a betrayal
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benefit is like that of the wind to the treestossng the
mind by contrary opinion will root it more deeply 1t IS
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public questions principally it is necessary to know both
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country have reached the conclusion on certain I'M
portant questions that neither party was wholly right and
that the national right obtanabe only by scientific
combination of the party principles into unpar
policy Such decision would have been treason so
years ago, but intelligence becomes less preudiced
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giving them what they would not want if they knew what
it
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