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Another response to someone else about the situation involving Mrs. Mattie Calbreath. This letter states that the situation is now being looked into and will have a full report once stuff has been clarified and in the meantime to be doing other…

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Lauer, pre-Babel, informing on suspicious local German ministers sowing anti-Americanism

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Notes that some have taken down signs put up on businesses recently added that state the need to speak th e English language.

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Author notes that all Europeans are foreign to this land and English therefore refused at some point to give up their language for native languages here. Moreover, notes that Iowa only entity outlawing foreign languages.

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Forceful letter against Babel Proclamation, especially section in which letter writer says "if you force me to use the English language

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Forceful editorial against Babel Proclamation, citing easy reconcilability of Germanness and American national identity.

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Babel Defiance on account of local community's struggle against "Prussian autocracy."

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Postwar. Member of Lutheran congregation, for English-only, now bemoans those "old German heads" of the church trying to reinstate German services. Can the governor help him in stamping this out?

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Board of Ed. Endorses Babel, especially regarding German language, as seen in move to discontinue German-language classes.

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Methodist minister writes forceful letter in support of Babel, in which deep-seated anti-Germanism plays no small role.

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