[774] Kendig-Gill, Isabel, “War and Peace in United States History Text-Books,” National Council for Prevention of War, Washington, p. 10. The author quotes passages to prove her contention from Mace’s Beginner’s History, Muzzey’s An American History, and Guitteau’s Our United States. Also “Drugging the Young Idea,” The Freeman, Vol. VII (August 22, 1923), pp. 556-557.
[775] The [Ottumwa, Iowa] Daily Courier, March 2, 1919, “With the persistency of a fanatic and the illogical deduction of a demagogue, Professor Muzzey makes the tariff and the trusts the principal defendants in the case which he brings against the United States of America.... His book is a clearly conceived and a closely written argument for socialism treating the various steps in the country’s history from the standpoint of the socialist instead of the unbiased historian....” As a result of this opposition, Muzzey’s textbook was excluded from the Ottumwa schools. For the same reason the use of this history was discontinued in Leonia, New Jersey.
[776] Iowa Legionnaire, April 15, 1921.
[777] A pamphlet entitled Muzzey’s School History written by Wallace McCamant, Chairman of the Committee on Patriotic Education of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, July 27, 1922. See also Official Bulletin of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Vol. XVII (October, 1922), Washington, D. C.
[778] Ibid., p. 1. An examination of the textbook reveals the distasteful quotation marks in the following passage: “Letters, pamphlets, petitions, came in an uninterrupted stream from the Massachusetts ‘patriots,’ Hancock, Warren, Otis, and the Adamses.”
[779] Pamphlet, op. cit., p. 2. See Muzzey, op. cit., p. 115.
[780] Pamphlet, op. cit.
[781] Ibid., pp. 5-16.
[782] Ibid., p. 13.
[783] Pamphlet entitled “The Sons of the American Revolution and the Histories in Use in Our Schools,” p. 8.