The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-11
Rep. Charles Coughlin Ready To Hit Johnson
n Ills Sunday Speech Yesterday He Gave Few Hints
 as to the Nature of His Attack

U1tf0Its March 11-(UP)-The HtV Charles E. Coughlin blasts the xadio waves tonight with his reply to General Hugh S. Johnson. N1iopdB expect a denunciatiOn of the former ". R. A. administrator fully as bitter and extensive as the one Johnson launched at the radio priest and Senator Huey P. Long last week.
 Father Coughlln gave advance ifitimations of the tone of his ad- l dIeea tn his regular Sunday broad 2 cast. Referring apparently to JohnBon, he declared a counter attack had been launched by ''the u,0ney-changers' to drive the priest out of public affairs.
 t:By appealing to ignorance. khOnghtleesness and religious big Otry the money changers, whom the. priest of priests drove from the temple, are instituting their counter-attack." hesaid.
 Fears No Biblical Quotation
 s'Social justice and economic llb- Drty belong to Protestant, Jew. frreligionist and Catholic. Social justice must be born in America Y gram shall not be-dfverted by any zhisapplied Biblical quotation rela- tive to render-unt0 Caesar the devil can quote Scripture for his purpose"
 The subject matter and content of Father Cough1in's eagerly await ' ed speech tonight was closely guarded. He was understood to be putting the finishing touches to the address which will take 45 min- utes of the network time of the National Broadcasting company. the organization that broadcast J0hnson's original attack on Cough lin and Long, in which he charged they were demogogues and "Pied Fipers," and already has afforded Long the opportunity of replying.
 Father Coughlin will be heard ak 10:15 p. m. (EST).
 Y Attack on Private Banks
 .Yesterday Father Coughlin did not mentian Johnson by name, but numerous references obviously fit. ted the ex-cavalry officer. His ad- dress chiefly was an attack on pri- v4te banking. z -sa.In accepting dignities of my re- lfgion I sacrificed none of the rights Identified with my citizen ship" the priest asserted.
 gOf late this Fundamental con- cept of citizenship has been ma- 7fciously called into question. It has been intimated a priests place 1s at his altar; that 8 priest should sacrifce his previleges, preroga- tiyes and rights as q democratic
 This heresay of classfsm--if pursued to its logical conclusion, teaches the surgeons place Is at { tfle-operating table only. the law ! yers within his office, that affairs Of good government must be sur rendered to professional politicians.
 sAs citizen, however, am de- termined to retain my interest in public affairs" Father Coughlia said. ''and, while always a priest, I speak not as a spokesman of the Catholic church but as American to American.
 Asks No Physical Force
 s"Restoration of America to Americans can be accomplished neacefullys If physical force must be resorted to, members of the Ma tional Union for Social Justice shall not, mus not initiate it."
 Father Coughlin traced the ef- forts'' produced by "tyrannical toryism" and declared that "fnan- cial toryism suppianted political toryism in America. Control or money and economic system was handed over to a small group who today. own the federal reserve banking system.
 s"The old system of economy. economies of scarcity, are still functioning while our civilization demands the economies of plenty of the zephy locomotive.
 "A barrier of money control pre- vented and impeded further prog ress. Despite progress in science and production such unbalanced distribution of wealth and poverty as exists today has not been seen for the last 150 years.
 Hits Central Banking System
 "Back of 1t all is the central banking system of a privately owned. privately controlled money system which must answer charges of regulating private banks, issu- ing currency money. Gaining un- told wealth through the printing press and fountain pen. expanding and contracting credit at will, Keeping in existence a dishonest dollar.
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