The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
NO7O Comes
the Hymn
OfHate
BY n. D. COCHRAN

THERE is a popular theory that
4 war means fighting with deadly
weapons and that wholesale murder
is the most important part of it.
Those leaders who bring on wars
know, however, that plenty of
hatred must be stirred up in the
human heart by way of preparation
for fighting.
Before we took a personal interest
in the late World War, American
boys and German boys didn't hate
American boys. But when we got
into the mess and began training
our boys in southern camps an inn
portant part of the training was to
teach our boys to hate the Ger
mans.
Some of the good patriotic
Christians, who prayed fervently to
God to take sides in the war be-
tween the various Christian coun-
tries would have been surprised, and
possibly shocked, if they had seen
some of the training-particularly
when their boys were being taught
to jab bayonets into dummies rep
presenting the enemy and at the
same time grit their teeth and then
swear viciously as they jabbed their
bayonets home.
Politics is something like that. 1t
is a game, like most other games,
war. The generals in a presidential
based on the theory Of contest or
war keep cool enough, but to get
the partisan voters stirred up to the
fighting and voting point they SUR
up hatred. .,....
That's what they are about when
thew attack the character OF can
didates of the opposition-or the
enemy.
TT isn't so bad as it used to be-
l but it still is bad enough. Accus-
ING Hoover of being more English
than American was intended to STIR
I'D animosity toward him, at least
whatever anti-English or anti
foreign sentiment there might be
to work upon.
Attacks on Smith as a member OF
Tammany has the same purpose
back OF it. The names Of Tweed
and Croker can be dragged in and
all the crookedness and wickedness
of Tammany under those bosses
coupled up with Smith. BY stirring
I'D hatred of Tammany it is hoped
to have it break on Smiths head
Early in the game political en-
enoies of Hoover in his own party
sought to make the farmers hate
Hoover by falsely charging him with
being their enemy and largely re-
sponsible for their woes by his
policy as food dictator during the
war.
The politicians who used that
argument knew it wasn't true, but
they wanted to make the farmers
hate Hoover and prevent his NOM
politicians, just as INSCRIPTIONS,
nation. Very likely Democratic
will empty the same tactics in this
campaign.
The point is that in this political
war the generals will try to be-
smirch the character of opposing
candidates to win votes for their
own candidates. They don't want
to kill the body, but would murder
the reputation.
If the people were to believe all
this stuff they would have to come
to the conclusion that two eminent
public men who were believed to be
highly respectable citizens and pa
triotic Americans before they were
nominated as presidential candi-
dates suddenly have become unfit
to occupy any public office.
Prize fighters may bloody noses
and beat each other to pulp, but
they don't try to destroy the char
acter or reputation of their oppon-
ents. Very seldom does one of them
Intentionally strike foul blow.
The rules Of the game in most
sports are cleaner and more manly
than the rules of the game we call
politics.
- EMERGENCY FIRST AID