The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-03-12
COUGHLIN REPLIES
T0RECENr ATTACK
BY HUGH JOHNSON
Chocolate Soldier Sneers Ra.
do Priest In Comment on
Former MRA Head
ASSAlLS MONEY CHANGERS
Brands 1aruch Unofficial Act
ing President But 70 Still
for Roosevelt

Detroit, March l2.-(R-Picturing
Hugh 8. johnson % q chocolate
soldier" playing the role Of Man FRI
day" to Bernard Baruch, the Rev.
Charles e. Coughlin replied Monday
night to the former NRA administra-
tors pied Piper" speech.
1.-THE money changers whom the
priest Of priests drove out Of the
Temple Of Jerusalem" said Father
Coughlin, %, have marshalled
their forces behind the Leadership OF
. chocolate soldier for the purpose
Of driving . priest out Of public At
fairs"
Father Coughlin's reply was made
in Z 45.minute radio speech over the
same network johnson used ut New
York last week TO call him and Sen
ator Huey Long two mad pied pi-
pers" appealing to "the lunatic fringe
Of the people,"
After hearing the speech In Wash
ington, johnson replied that 1t was
all 'pious flubdub." He said Father
Coughlin and Senator Long were
economic shysters" and promised m
early reply to the priests attack.
Father Coughlin expanded his re-
buttal to take in Baruch, the WAR
burgs, the Morgans, the Kuhn-Loehs
and the rest Of that wrecking crew Of
internationalists whose God IL gold
and whose emblem Is the red seal Of
exploitation"
He declared he would "oppose these
men until my dying days"
Baruch, he said. was the "uncrown-
ed prince Of Wall Street" the "unof-
ficial acting president Of the United
States"
First Great Casualty
After declaring that Johnson was
q political corpse"-the first great
casualty Of the New Deal" Father
Coughlin answered one phase Of
Johnson,s speech Of q week ago ques-
tioning his citizenship.
my dear general" he said, Il am
q much II not more an American
citizen rs you are or ever will be-" He
explained that he was born Of Amer
lean parents on Canadian soil.
In assailing the former NRA chief
for classifying him with Talleyrand
OF France and Judas Iscariot, Father
Coughlin said: General, what in
sanity possessed you to say such
things? What desperation forced you
to utter such exaggeration?"
General Johnson" he said. "some
Of your fair weather friends have
heaped upon my desk the fulsome
record Of your personal life.
I disdain to refer to 1t.
Men Not Important
II am not important, nor are you,
but the doctrines I preach are Inn
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 teach. Il need not con-
denim you. You have condemned
yourself by emitting this.
MY friends. ! appeal to you j.
to bear no III will against General
johnson Today he appears be-
fore US Is . figure to be pitied and
not condemned. He has been cast out
BY On administration because he and
his plans were failures. re-
member that he Is to be regarded -
. cracked gramaphoue record !"
Father Coughlin denied that he
had broken with the Roosevelt i'd
miuistration.
II stu proclaim that It y either
Roosevelt or ruin. I support him to-
day and viii support him tomorrow
dare not be diverted from
my course BY . red herring, even
though II chances to be dead one.
Americas destiny Is In the process
az fulfillment."