Statement on Clement Pfuetzner, October 20, 1901 (excerpts)

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"Mr. Pfuetzner used to come to our meetings, but I had not seen him for some time until tonight," said Miss Addams. "He is perfectly harmless, despite his talk, I am sure, otherwise we would not permit him to come here at all. His remarks tonight fell perfectly flat. I wish, though, he hadn't made them.

"We are opposed to all political discussions here. The socialistic lectures are purely educational, not at all like the interruption tonight."

"I didn't mean that the workmen should take up arms, but meant to convey the idea that it would be easier to gain what a workingman needs by force rather than by those paper ballots that Socialists are always talking," said Pfeutzner later. "Then, too, that man Simon is filling those poor people with wrong ideas and I couldn't sit any longer and hear him lie to the would-be rescuers of the workingmen."

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