Evening star., 1935-03-12
Rer. Father COughlin
Says Chocolate Soldier
Is Tool of Wall Street.
DEFENDS CAMPAIGN
Foresees Effort to Drive
Him From, Air-Netu ,
Deal Break Denied.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, March 12.-Picturing
Hugh S. johnson as a Chocolate
soldier" playing the role of Man Fri
day" to Bernard Baruch, Rev. Charles
E. Coughlin replied last night to the
former N. r. A. administrators
pied piper" speech.
THE money changers whom the
priest of priests drove out Of the
Temple of Jerusalem" said Father
Coughlin, {" have marshaled
their forces behind the leadership Of
chocolate soldier for the purpose Of
driving priest out of public affairs"
Father Coughlin's reply was made
in a 45-minute radio speech over the
same network johnson used at New
York last week to call him and Sem
ator Huey Long two mad pied pipers"
appealing to 1.-The lunatic fringe Of the
people"
Lashes at Baruch.
Father Coughlin expanded his re-
buttal to take in Baruch, the War
burgS. the Morgans, the Kuhn-Loebs
and the rest of that wrecking crew Of
internationalistS whose god is gold
ana whose emblem is the red seal of
exploitation.
He declared he would "oppose these
men until my dying days"
Baruch. he said, was the "un-
crowned prince of Wall Street." the
unofficial acting President of the
United States"
After declaring johnson was
political corpse"-the first great
casualty of the New Deal"-Father
Coughlin answered one phase Of
Johnson's speech Of week ago ques-
tioning his citizenship.
More American Than YOU"
"My dear general" he said, Il am
as much If not more an American
citizen as you are or ever will be.
Your parents are but one generation
removed from Ireland. My paternal
grandfather's bones are buried in
Lackawanna, N. Y. I was
always an American citizen" He ex-
planned that he was born of American
parents on Canadian soil.
In asserting his right to speak on
political and economic topics, Father
Coughlin declared: Some one. ire
spective of his Catholicity, or of his
Professionalism, or of his Jewish faith,
m raicn hiS UniPn ~
for no other reason than to condemn
those who, refusing to leave this land
of sorrow, obstructed our passage to
the land of prosperity In ac-
cepting the dignities which my re-
ligion conferred upon me. sacrificed
in no respect the rights identified
with my citizenship
Appeals to SANITY"
In aSsailing the former N. r. A.
chief for classifying him with
Talleyrand of France and Judas
Iscariot, Father Coughlin said: Gen
eral, what insanity possessed you to
say such things? What desperation
forced you to utter such exaggera-
tion?"
Admitting that his Radio League
of the Little Flower gained $4,000
by an investment in silver futures.
Father Coughlin said it had brought
him no personal profit.
Gen. Johnson" he said, "some Of
your fair weather friends have heaped
upon my desk the fulsome record of
your personal life. disdain
to refer to it.
Il am not important, nor are you,
but the doctrines I preach are i'm
portant. While you were content to
vomit your venom upon my person
and attack my character. the Ameri-
can public is fully cognizant that not
once did you dare attack the truths
which I teach. need not
condemn you. You have condemned
yourself by omitting this.
"Your Wall Streeters."
"* - These cry babies which you
so inadvertently called them, these
cry babies of yours whose tears have
welled to their eyes because you and
your kind have lashed them at the
pillar of poverty will never
forget you end your Wall Streeters.'''
MY friends, appeal to you -
to bear no i'll will against Gen.
johnson. Today he appears
before us as a figure to be pitied
and not condemned. He has been
cast out by an administration be-
cause he and his plans were failure.
Remember that he Is to be
regarded as a cracked gramaphone'
record ="
Father Coughlin said he anticipated |
that Johnson's speech was 1.-The open
ing gun in a well-organized attack
against me-"
Il fear it not because am pro-
tected," he said, by the support Of
these cry babies to whom you referred
and those rats, as you called our peo-
pie, whom you have forced into the
ranks of the National Union for Social
Justice"
"Cream PufY General"