Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-08-16
WHY EVERY GOOD
AMERICAN SHOULD VOTE
FOR HERBERT HOOVER
By Thomas {. Angerstein,
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by lnOmas I. AngerSteln,
Pres. National Historical Society
The pre-convention days are past.
The conventions have been held. Her
bert Hoover of California and Curtis
of Kansas are the Republican candi-
dates. Alfred Emanuel Smith of
New York and Robinson of Arkansas
are the Democratic candidates.
The American people are coming
now seriously to consider which of
| the two-Herbert Hoover or Alfred
| Emanuel Smith-they desire for
President of the United States.
Serious consideration sometimes
| may not be given to the selection of
a man as mayor of a city or even as
| governor Of a state and there may
De in such elections purely local
| conditions that determine a choice,
| but the selection of a President of the
| United States always is and rightly
| should be a matter of more serious
| consideration, because it is at once
| the greatest honor that the Ameri-
| can people can confer on any of its
| citizens and it carries with it the
| greatest responsibility for the gen
aral welfare of the people of the en-
| tire nation. The American people, as
a rule, regardless of their creed or
ancestry and regardless of local or
| minor issues endeavor to the best of
| their solemn judgment to meet this
| responsibility and to confer this hon
| Or upon the man who in character and
| ability best measures up to the stat
| ure of their ideal of President of the
| United States, and who by reason of
| his qualifications car best promote
| the general welfare of the entire
United States.
Proceeding with this point of view
| we participated in an investigation
that was recently made. We were
/ actuated in part by letters from and
| conversations with members of the
National Historical Society and 9TH
ar prominent Americans from many
| sections of the country asking US to
make certain that Americans and
particularly those of German descent
we're not being misled by false and
insidious propaganda. We also were
| actuated in part because in fact
| here had been indications, by reason
| of the particular things circulated a.
| bout Herbert Hoover and the manner
in which they were circulated, that
| we and many other Americans, par
| ticularly those of German, Norweg-
| ian, Swedish and Danish descent,
were being misled by false, vicious
| and insidious propaganda in some
| what similar manner that practically
all American newspapers, maya
| zines and writer's (although few have
| the courage to admit it, and Ameri-
| cans generally were in recent years
misled, doped, drugged and poisoned
b ythe most vicious and false prop
uganda in history. Could it be that
the same foreign propagandists, aid
ed by those within our borders, who
got out the war propaganda, or 9TH
ers inspired by their former success
were again deceiving or misleading
and prejudicing the American peo-
pie?
Foremost of all Americans who to
their sorrow know the effects of
false and vicious propaganda in re-
cent years are the Americans of Ger
mar descent, and they above all 9TH
ers should and will make certain that
they in this campaign are not the
dupes and tools Of misleading prop
%agandists.
Americans of German descent con-
stitute approximately one-third of the
population of the entire United
States. In the entire Mississippi
Valley more than SO per cent of the
population have German blood in their
veins. In every community they con-
stitute a large, law abiding and truly
American element. They have stood
for liberty, law and order. industry
and progress. In every line of en-
deavor, service and sacrifice, they
have rendered full measure as pro-
t%ectors and builders of America.
From the earliest days of Ameri-
can history no obstacle, no danger,
no duty eve stayed the step OF
swerved the purpose or loyalty Of
Americans of German descent in the
onward progress of this great ma
ton. In the early days of the pion-
GERS, in the struggles for %indepen-
dence in the revolutionary period, in
the dark days of the Civil War for
the preservation OI Lne OllOll-ii
time of peace and war-Americans
of German descent have kept steI
with the flag. In the Civil War more
than $4,000 Americans of German de.
scent fought for the Union. The
cities and states in which there is {
very large vote of Americans of Ger
man descent will decide whether
Herbert Hoover or Alfred Emanue
Smith shall be the next president o.
the United States. This large ant
deciding vote does not follow alleged
leaders or societies or organizations
Americans of German descent follow
ideals, principles and causes. The,
obey the dictates of their own heart
and minds.
Just stop for a moment and con
slider, having in mind all the vicious
and false propaganda against every
thing of German origin or of Ger
man blood during the entire war pc
riod, what could more strongly affec
the heart and mind Of Americans o
German descent than statements tina
Herbert Hoover had been and still
was pro-British or pro-ally, anti
German and un-American and tina
during his food administration he ha,
told starving German women ant
children to go to hell and deniet
them food. What could be more vic
ions. poisonous and misleading prop