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It is all too long to go into now; but
the extent of repudiation of his note writing can be understood from the
fact that the people of the South are the most outspoken against his effort
to demand that every skunk in Germany should have a voice in affairs while
in this country there should be unquestioned subservience to one-man power.
Starting out with the position that the internal affairs of Germany should
be assured for democracy he has switched to the extent of now declaring
that this country and out Allies will not undertake to lead Germany into
establishment of her government: in short he has taken the recent election
evidently to mean that this country is a little oversized for his activities
without extending them to the world at large. I recall your former opinion
and mine; and I only will say that I have so far ourdistanced your view
that you could not now be even in my dust. As the play "Excuse Me" had
it,- I could be jailed for my thoughts. But seriously, the idea that people
would be throttled by the espionage law was one of the saddest delusions
that this administration has had. Thank God, the American people are not
built to bow before autocracy or oligarchy. I have not written you as
fully as I would along these lines because you were in service; and I
know that you are frank in expression as well as in name; and I didn't
want to suggest anything that might be a detriment to you. However, I
know that the officers must have taken considerable interest in what has
been transpiring in this country.
Well, the war is over, the influenza has subsided to the
vanishing point and now we are looking and longing for the return of the
two dearest boys on earth. Now my plans for the future can shape themselves
without the ever-present if.
I am going back down to Okahumpka to see your Aunt Vannie
and have a preliminary examination of her affairs; and then I am going
on to
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