February 3rd, 1916.
Dear Mr. Kent:
I am obliged to you for sending me with your kind favor of the 1st the little book entitled "Women at The Hague" which I am glad to see. I think you have stated well my own views about Miss Addams. One must recognize the purity of her purposes, the force and effectiveness of her fine influence, and yet one need not follow her into every direction in which her kindly impulses have of late led her. I am for peace and I hope also for righteousness, but the righteous man must fight against sin in himself and the world outside of himself and where the power of wrong takes actual form in oppression, it must be resisted, -- peaceably, indeed, if we can, but forcibly if we must. Were Miss Addams in personal danger, you and I would fight in her defense and she would not think us wrong.
With kind regards, I am
Yours very truly,
William C. Redfield [signed]
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