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But those speeches must be from 1917 or 1918, not 1914, as Mr Klein says that the War will soon be over (presumably because America has finally entered), and Mr London talks about the scandal of how physically unfit American recruits were. (Fascinatingly, disability due to VD was more common in rural areas than in urban ones, which is counter-intuitive to say the least) This is interesting, too, because the socialists were almost universal in their opposition to the war and the draft (you may recall that Eugene Debs was jailed for sedition for just this reason); apparently the good Congressman is not above using facts from a despised proceeding to prove his point.
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