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Source: The Labor Call, 14 June, 1917, p. 3
Things of the Devil single work   poetry   "You may start your life with a conscience for censor;"
Issue Details: First known date: 1917... 1917 Things of the Devil
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  • Per the 'Answers to Correspondents' column, Labor Call, 21 June, 1917, p.7, this poem appears to have attracted the attention of the censor, who objected to McDougall's original line 'Yet to kill for a king is to kill for the devil' (stanza 5). For the poem to pass for publication, the Labor Call editor was obliged to substitute the word 'kaiser' for 'king', which significantly alters the nuance of meaning and tames the work's anti war sentiment.

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    y separately published work icon The Labor Call 14 June 1917 6810610 1917 newspaper issue 1917 pg. 3

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Answers to Correspondents 1917 single work column
— Appears in: The Labor Call , 21 June 1917; (p. 7)
Answers to Correspondents 1917 single work column
— Appears in: The Labor Call , 21 June 1917; (p. 7)
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