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Racine, Wis.
March 21- 1890

Dear Mrs. Colby,
I congratulate you
upon the fair way in which
you treated Mrs. Gage's compensation.
The editorial on the subject
in March 15 I thought
very good indeed. My paper
of March 8 has not come to hand.
or at least I have not seen it.
I have been gone it may have
been destroyed. Please send me
another. I enclose a few
lines which I hope you will print
in your paper I have not generally
been successful in getting my communications
either into the Tribune
or Journal. But I am persevering
If you had printed my
articles on the work of last
year it would have saved the
publication of that "Statement
of facts" & my article was
far milder. Now I hope