Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-02
POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT

Saturday there appeared in the locci
press paid political advertisement ad-
dressed to "All Patriotic Americans Who
Object to Being Classified as Commun-
lists" 1t is my contention that no pa
triotic American wishes to be classified
as a Communist nor should anyone have
the effrontery to refer 20 a patriotic Am
ercan as a Communist patriotic Am
erican just simply could not be a Com
munist nor could he have anything in
common With Communism.
| have read and re-read the article which
I wrote, Mr. Mousseau, and to which you
refer in your TRADE. l have talked with
literally hundreds of others who have
read the article and neither they nor
have been able to find in that article any
thing that should lead any local person
to feel that there was any personal i'm
plication unless, of course, that person
wishes to uphold and support those to
whom I referred as being either Com
munists or communistic- minded No. Mr.
MousSeau, there was no ambiguity in that
article. It was plain and unvarnished
Every word was the truth. can, how
ever, appreciate the fact that resentment
might be displayed by those who are Of
distorted mentally or who do no have
the faculty TO recognize the. truth when
it is presented to them.
You state that my article was un-Ameri-
can, that endeavored to belittle and be-
smirch the President of the United States.
I did not say that Mr. Roosevelt is a
Communist I did say, however, that he
is surrounded by, or has surrounded him
self with, lot of foreign-born or foreign
minded Communists or communistically-
minded individuals. Many of these men
and women hold high office in the gov
ernment at Washington Many of them
have been appointed TO office despite the
protests and criticisms of right-minded
American groups and individuals. These
are facts, and only persons with one-track
minds disagree on this. A spade is still
q spade, Mr.. Mousseau, and always will
be, regardless of whether you admit it or
not
You refer to me as Republican and as
Agitator No. l. l wish to inform you that
I now am, and always have been, nom
partisan voter. I have supported many
Democratic candidates for office. 1t is
true that I am a registered Republican.
| believe that the fundamentals of both
the Democratic and the Republican
parties are the principles of democracy,
the principles which, during the past one
hundred and fifty years, have made Am
erica the greatest country on earth. I
never have, and never SHALL condemn any
political party that stands for the kind
of democracy which we have known in
the past I do, however, condemn many
of the actions and policies of the so-called
NEW DEAL. When the New Dealers
traded the entire Democratic platform,
donkey and all, for a set of socialistic
braintrusters. with impractical crackpot
theories, they laid themselves wide open
to criticism and condemnation. I must
admit that I expected to receive COM
plants from Communists, perhaps from
Mr. Browder himself, and l was not dis
appointed. I did receive them. I did not
expect however, to be condemned, as I
was, by one who claims to be so filled
with patriotism as you would nave US be-
lieve you are, Mr.. Mousseau.
You have accused me of writing "a most
scurrilous filthy and contemplate at
tack" on our President. Why did you
single me out, Mr.. Mousseau? I merely
stated a few of the things and reiterated
a few of the statements made in the past
months by some of the most honorable
Democrats in the United States today