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The above Pamphlet sharply criticized the FDR administration for dealing with the nation's unemployment problem by putting the unemployed to work for the government in a dizzying new array of agencies which had never existed before. The publisher of the pamphlet, Houston print shop owner E. M. Biggers, who clearly felt that the explosion of "Alphabet Agencies" not only soaked up tax revenues, but portended greater government intrusion into the lives of Americans.

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An unknown third party sent a copy of the top pamphlet to Congressmen H. P. Fulmer, then the Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. Congressmen Fulmer, assuming that Biggers had sent him the pamphlet, wrote a rather rude reply, which Biggers promptly turned into the front page of a new pamphlet (immediately above) followed by three pages of reply.

This little treasure from the past should serve as a reminder that neither dissent, nor Congressional rudeness and disdain in response, is new, and that even in the days before the internet, those with differing viewpoints and no access to the media got the word out using any means possible.