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debt would bring great inflation, and this in turn
involve drastic taxation, the only escape from which
lay in the exemption of Liberty Bonds -- "the
softest thing ever handed out to Wall Street," stated
one of the men, referring to a purchase of three
millions he had made that very day!

During my stay I was invited to attend a meeting
of a small group called to organize the "People's
Council for Democracy and Peace." Only a dozen
or so, mostly acquaintances of mine, were present,
Magnes acting as chairman and Lochner as secretary.
The original platform (to which I assented) read as
follows:

The
People's
Council

ObjectTo defend and promote democratic liberties in war time and to
work for an early and enduring peace.Program
1. To maintain our constitutional rights of assemblage and
free speech.
2. To safeguard the right of the people to discuss the aims,
scope, and method of our participation in the war, and to
advocate terms of peace.
3. To oppose the enactment of measures for compulsory
service. 1
4. To urge our government to seize every opportunity for
bringing about peace negotiations and establishing inter-
national organization.

My own connection with this body was slight,
though subjecting me to unforeseen and annoying
misrepresentation, the account of which may be
briefly rehearsed. 2

____________________
1 Congress having declared for conscription, this article was at once
abandoned.
2 Some critic has lately asserted that "the autobiography of any man, be he
a shelved prime minister or a retired pugilist, is but a carefully conceived and
artfully executed series of alibis."

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor Prophet of Democracy. Volume: 2. Contributors: David Starr Jordan - author. Publisher: World Book. Place of Publication: Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY. Publication Year: 1922. Page Number: 738.
    
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