English Translation

62a - 28 - (Američan) wrote the infamous Max ŠvagrovskýHis article and in the Chicager newspaper "The Spokesman" (Hlasatel) a personally familiar, 'but a very dangerous enemy), appeared new difficulties, which made és almost (impossible to overcome the same. The author Fuchs writes to Tvrzický on 1 July 19l5, in which he says the following about "Američan" (The American): "Cleveland is already so permeated by its poison that any work seems unnecessary. The terrible conditions here are not improved by your answer to Max Švagrovský. It will be necessary to leave Cleveland to his skill, by polemics with the "American" (Američan) the reverence is brought to other settlements and we only harm the cause". At that time it was not yet known that an organization of the broadest masses of people in the whole of America would be necessary, even for later political' phases of the revolutionary struggle, because America's participation in the war was still unthinkable at that time, on the contrary, in the most official places there were many sympathies with the cause of Germany, And so one went from settlement to settlement, from farm to farm, from heart to heart and throughout America, whole months and whole years. Some work had already been done by Tvrzický, Voska, Tuma and Císař, but it was beginnings that often blocked the path of the most terrible incomprehension and lack of time. Iška, in order to pour into the people the flame of distrust, which would grow up quickly and safely, found that legal question; which for years ruled on the lips of all, who worked: "Where does the money come from", so it sounded from ocean to ocean, yet the money was so scarce! The suspicious people, by Dr. Iška and the press who helped him, closed his pockets rather seihe,dadit as a farmer from Odekla said, "The speakers in Chicago don't build up for our money any 'houses'" and as one of the so incited liberals wrote: "From our association, as far as I have to say etvas, who you get nothing for your Masaryk. If he has nothing, he should earn the money like me and my family. We do not support such sluggards". Like a completely free thought; in this case the free thinking, in the service of the stiffest reaction to be put with success karn, over it gives. - 29 -