To Dan J. O’NEILL

Washington, December 24, 1919

My dear Dan,—­I am delighted to get your nice letter.  It is as charming a letter as I ever received, because you tell me of all the family and that they are doing well, and that you are in good health, and that you want me back with you—­all of which makes me love you more and more.  Give to the whole family my good holiday greetings.  Make them earnest and hearty.

I haven’t got money enough, Dan, to pay my fare back after living here so long, and I shall have to make some before coming back there, but I hope to do it some one of these days. ...

Dan, I know you have been a bad man, and I know you have been a good man; and there will be a place in Heaven for you, old fellow.  You have been an honest citizen, a credit to your country, and so have your children, and you will never know anyone who is fonder of you than I. Cordially yours,

FRANKLIN K. LANE

TO EAMLIN GARLAND

December 3l, 1919

My dear Garland,—­I am going up to New York on the eleventh to talk to the moving picture people at the Waldorf-Astoria.  I had them down here and had a resolution put through the Committees on Education of both House and Senate, asking the Moving Picture Industry to interest itself in Americanization, and I have been appointed at the head of a committee to take charge of this work.  I have some schemes myself that I want very much to talk to you about regarding Americanization.

I do not know how much time I will be able to give to this work because I have got to make some money, but I am going to use my spare time that way.  Suppose when I get to New York I telephone you and see if we can not get together.  Cordially yours,

FRANKLIN K. LANE

To one of the Moving Picture Weeklies, Lane contributed this paragraph on Americanizing the foreign born:—­“The one sure way to bring the foreign born to love this land of ours is to show our pride in its present, faith in its future, and interpret America to all in terms of fair play and square dealing.  America gives men nothing—­except a chance,”

TO HUGO K. ASHER

Rochester, Minnesota, January 3, 1920

My dear Hugo,—­I have not written you because my own plans must be determined by circumstances.  I think, however, that I shall leave very soon.  I hate to go because the work is so satisfactory. ...

Bryan has come back.  What strength he will develop, no one can tell.  He evidently has determined that he will not be pushed aside or disregarded.  He has been, and will continue to be as long as he lives, a great force in our politics.  People believe that he is honest and know he is sympathetic with the moral aspirations of the plain people.  They distrust his administrative ability, but on the moral question, they recognize no one as having greater authority.