1 Mendota Minn 1.18.16 Dear Mr Sweetman: Upturns here an
envelope addressed to you with some cuttings
cut, I want to deleted text let you see how
this side learns about your side. I'll
stick this in it & let it off to you. First
I want to let you know how tickled
was my self-conceit when reading last
night the last to hand Leader, where as
I thought Moran, & says only in other words
let us have initiative etc. what I have
repeatedly said to you, til it can be
ended, let go on the Govt's & Plunkett's
& all the others tomfooling, and do
the the right thing without them, 2 or 3
or more gather together, I may without
irreverance say in God's name, and
act as if educated & governmented in
Hungary, stocking rivers, testing
seed, buying in sufficient quantity
wrappers for butter, & so on & on. Confound
it, cannot any man with an idea
or 2, and - what no rightly sober man Todays dispatch says that at a S D R James meeting tomorrow the main addressance be by
Plunkett. He's likely on another junket across the continent at public expense. 2 can lack, a 1/2 crown to hire deleted text
a typewriters' time & carbon sheets for
an hour, get his thought & proposal
before a score of the most likeminded
neighbors or contemporaries? Vivida vis
animi! Veritas prevalebit! That priest whose howls the Doyle book so tickled Moran,
has taken 3 or 4 issues of the L. and maybe on
all 3 pages to say with Irish generosity
of word-flux and hullaballooing
what I believe will effect no more than
even I could with one Leader column in
which to condense & put before all the
people the boiled-down offensiveness of
the wretched work. But with true
constructive genius I should keep enough
of my column free to name & boast the
book that ought to replace Doyle's, that
is Cobbett's Advice to Young Men. By the way
only this afternoon a young woman who while
staying with me here this Summer, had read the
book, almost began, & certainly wound up her
call, by requesting me to get her Cobbett's Grammer.
How often have you seen the Advice, or even the Mentor
yet? Regards to Mrs S.
Yours very Sincerely
Martin Mahoney. 3 Mr John Sweetman
Kells,
Ireland
4 Censor
586.