Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-13
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Observation-Disclosures j. Boom
boom McWhorter, friend of the peo-
pie, sterling patriot and foe of all
foreign nations except Liberia, has
welcomed the opportunity to associ-
ate himself with that other friend OF
the people, sterling patriot and foe
of all nations except Liberia, Mayor
William Hale Thompson of Chicago
While Mayor Thompson bombards
the ramparts of Chicago's public Ii
brary, Senator McWhorter will under
take to clean out the library of con-
gress.
The senator, like all other senators
and congressman, recently received
Mayor Thompson's collect telegram
: inviting all hands to join the Amer
lea First foundation at $40 a head.
, He is willing to overlook the charges
on the message, but feels that it is
not necessary for man of his record
to pay $40 to prove his patriotism
and that no doubt when he has gone
into action Mayor Thompson will
loosen up with some honorarium for
the senator if not definite cut-in
on each $40.
Such news as this, of course, is
bound to have an effect on the po-
litical gilly-pot, for it is known that
both McWhorter and Thompson have
presidential ambitions Already there
has been some mention of a Thomp-
SON -McWhorter ticket, but Senator
McWhorter assures us in confidence
that this was typographical error
which placed him on the wrong side
If the hyphen.
"It will readily be Seen," says Sen
ator McWhorter, "that Mayor Thomp
sons activities must of necessity be
limited because his authority does not
extend outside his city limits and
there is no library in Chicago or any
where else that offers such field
for patriotic operations as the library
Of congress, where everybody has to
send free copies of his book when he
copyrights it, so that there is hardly
any book in the world that we can
not burn on the capitol grounds If
we so desire.
"I propose that the congressional
branch Of the America First founda-
ton start right off collecting all the
books in the library printed in for
eign languages, because nobody can
read them and there is no way OF
knowing whether there is British
propaganda, bolsheviki propaganda or
other seditious material concealed in
those books and what can we hope
for in this country if even the library
of congress isn't 100 per cent Amerl-
can?
"That will be our first bonfire and
we will have the marine band play
ing on the capitol steps and perhaps
President Coolidge will recognize the
overwhelming sentiment of the Amer
ican people and come up and make
brief conflagatory address. am
sure we can depend on Tom Heflln
and a few other noble patriots to
participate in the official ceremonies,
especially our so-called isolationists
and irreconcilables Something prob
ably will have to be done to keep
Congressman Tom Blanton from grab
bing books and throwing them at
people and Borah probably will try
to swipe some of the Spanish books,
but those are minor details.
after that we will go after the
traitorous books written by English
men and half f-of-one per cent Amerl-
cans. I read a history book once
1t was in grammar school. And I
am personally willing to take the re-
sponsibility for burning the history
books which traduce our forefathers.
GAS you must realize, I do not be-
lieve Mayor Thompson's campaign is
comprehensive enough. will give
this campaign scope as well as dig
nifty. Why does he declare war on
King George III and King George V
and leave out King George Nv, who
was as bad as any of them? And
why does he yell only at the British
when the French, Germans, Chinese,
South Americans, Russians and other
nations are as bad as any OF them
and all anxious to overthrow our
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