Before the United States entered the "Great War" many Americans voiced strong opposition to becoming involved in any type of military action. As the possibility of the United States entering the war became a reality, civil liberties organizations, such as the Civil Liberties Bureau of the American Union Against Militarism, began to fear that the constitutional rights of anti-war Americans would be violated. Hoping to meet the legal needs of these individuals the organization mailed letters, such as the one above, to solicit various United States lawyers, including Milwaukee Native Robert Wild, to fight on their behalf.
[Milwaukee Manuscript Collection CJ: Box 9, Volume 11]
