Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-03-09
OTHERS VIEWS
DEFENDS COUGHLIN
To the Editor:

| that appeared IN the OlSPdlCA "
ruary 18th. Under Washington ~
c.. date line also of Feb. IL your reao-
ers were RECALLED with the news ina.
Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, of Royal
Oak. Michigan was roundly punished
| in the House of Representatives by
two outstanding Democrats because
| the Cleric the Sunday before had
charged that these two Congressman
| had been delinquent in their duties
| TO the farmers and working people of
our country I heard those charges
! as they flowed from the eloquent
lips of Father Coughlin and as he
smoke it seemed to me / could see
Jesus as he drove the money-chang-
ers from the temple, telling them
they had made Gods house den of
thieves. 1 firmly believe every one
who heard Father Coughlin's state
ments believe what he said was true,
and that Mr.. OConnor and Mr.. Bo-
land know they were true. 1 have
read the reply these two men tried
to make to the preacher. l read 1t IN
the Congressional Record just as they
made it; uncolored by any news re-
porter. They failed entirely to refute
the gist of Coughlin's statements. AS
these men O'Connor and Boland
friends of the money power, lambast-
ed Coughlin and peoples friends, ana
champion, they were applauded
nightly by their fellow enemies of
the toiling millions of our country.
North Carolina has eleven up there
who, if present, rejoiced as much as
any to know a real friend of the farm
G.
tised. AS I read these things in the
Record, l could not help but think
of another who drove the money
changers from the temple and was
brought into the House of Represen-
tative in Jerusalem. In my lmagl-
nation 1 could see Jesus as the strong
hands of the servants of the money
changers slapped Him in the face
and spit upon Him. Well could l
hear the hirelings of the money pow
er as they applauded such treatment.
No wonder they cried away with
Him; cruelty Him and deliver unto
us Barabbas the thief. The same as
| saving 1--WE are thieves and we want
| to save our partner in crime and want
| this just man killed because He hind
ers our work" My dear friends, that
condition exists today that prevailed
when the money power of old nail
| ed to the cross the greatest benefact-
or the world will ever have. They
sent Him to His death because He
was in the way of the money-chang-
| ers of His day. He taught that men
| should know the truth and be free,
| and the plutocrats of Jerusalem
| knew; as the rich of our time know
| that such teaching will defeat their
nefarious plans. So what was done
in the House of Representatives Feb.
-, 1886 at Washington, D. c., when
| Charles E. Coughlin' was castigated
| for trying to lift, those who work, up
from their rags and dirty poverty to
a higher life, while his defamers were
| roundly applauded, was only proto-
! type of what went on at the trial of
| Jesus. These same henchmen of the
money power who drove Jesus to Cal
varys brow had their prototypes in
Washington last Tuesday trying to de
stroy Coughlin for the very same rea
son their kind killed Jesus.
1 have followed Coughlin very close
ly, over the air and in his writings,
| for several years and / am satisfied
he is doing a great work. / am abso-
lutely confident that if what he stands
for is not carried out in great part
the farmers and workers of our coun-
| try had as well hurry their ambition
to be more than slaves, and 1 can con-
ceive of nothing I had not rather
come to pass than that. What hell
hole this world would be with the
toiling millions reckless, as to their
future or that of their children. But
we are being rapidly driven to that
extremity by majority of our Rep
resentatives in Congress. Fy Ill from
North Carolina.
Tie President and every right
thinking person in the land know it is
a dirty cruel shame the way our
money is turned over to the rich bank
! ers to do almost as they please with
it. They certainly do enough with it
to get richer every year while the
people who produce it continue in
want Of the very necessities of life.
! The President and every member of
the Congress know they have no right
to pay the soldiers bonus by plan
that will give the bankers about sew
enty-five cents every time the sol
der is paid one dollar But dollars
to doughnuts it will be paid that way
and sad to say every Congressman
from our State will vote for it,
Our dear President and all our pre-
| ciOus Congressman and CongreSsWo-
men know it was wrong for them to
pass a law in 1888 to lend money to
farmers that would give ninety cents
to the rich money man every time the
farmer paid two dollars on his debt
They knew the Frazier-Lemke bill
was pending in Congress, and they
knew that if it was made the law
the farmer could get his money to pay
his debts at one and one hall percent
interest instead of five and one half
per cent that he pays now. They also
knew, and here is the rub, that when
the farmer paid his debt under this
law that the bankers would not get
a cent. They knew that under the
t'razier-Lemke law when the debts
were paid billions of dollars would
go into the govc Tnments treo- dry that
under their law Of 1888 &c .lto the
Golfers Of the rich.
Charles E. Coughlin stands for the
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