Evening star., 1937-07-11

, was something dishonorable, mean and
sordid.
One day it was held that we en-
tered the wan at the dictation of
wicked armament makers that wanted
us to fight, that they might sell more
munitions at greater profit This
satisfactory thesis, unluckily, did not
hold up we'll in a senatorial investi-
cation. Next, it appeared that We
went to war solely TO safeguard Mr..
Morgan's investments, found to be i'm
periled. Investigation likewise failed
to make this seem plausible. Then
came the final flood of light from
inspired genius and in its effulgence
We saw plainly the whole dastardly
business
The Plot Uncovered.
Thus: In April, 1917, we perceived
that the war was about to end, and we
wished to prolong it. We were making
much money from it, and If peace
were to come, we should lose our pros
perity. So we went into the fight to
keep it going and make business good.
This, Of course, seemed instantly
| clear to all reasoning minds. But
some persons are so foolish they must
still be asking questions. So I am
happy to announce that, fortified with
the New Wisdom, imbbed at its fount.
I am ready to meet all comers on the
| field of inquiry. For example:
You may say: Admitting Woodrow
Wilson to have been utterly depraved
and limb of Satan, how did he OBJ
tain those overwhelming majorities
in both Houses of Congress in favor
| Of the declaration of war? All those
members could hardly have been in
the pay of the designing scoundrels
| that wanted war for the sake of divi-
| dendS.
To this I answer, "Of course they
| were not all knaves, but those that
7 %ert not knaves were imbeciles and
knew not at any time what they were
doing about anything"
But the masses of people. unn1is-
takably approving Of the declaration
how about them?
idiots, you know, all idiots. This
country is peopled with idiots"
| How about the experienced Wash
| ington correspondents. none of whom
discovered all this deviltry? Any such
observer can infallibly detect pressure
upon legislators. Some are still alive
that were then on the ground and
|
dence of anything but action in ac-
| cordance with the will of a people
wearied Of insult, injury and the
threatening topping of the towers Of
| civilization.
Sly Prof1teers Triumph.
"All fooled. OutWitted by the SUI
perior intelligence of the cunning
profit 1t-makers."
How about the fact, obvious to all
observers, that if the United States
| were to remain aloof, Germany was
certain eventually to win, Belgium to
be annexed, the monstrous banditry
Of her invasion standardized for the
powerful everywhere. France to be
| stripped of her northern ports and
| reduced to the potency of San Marino
and in the end an aggressive, reaction
ary. imperialistic Germany planted
upon this continent as our near neigh
Dor?
"Ah, but that is where again we
| blundered Germany should have been
| allowed to win SO that the sweet. gen.
tie, benevolent spirit that supports
| Adolf Hitler might become the domi-
mating influence Of the world"
How about the sinking of the Lusi-
tania. Sussex and WilliamSP P. Frye?
Those incidents were the work OF
the horrible financiers and sin-soaked
agents of the Allies. They hired a
submarine and went over there and
blew up those ships so as to get us
into the war. You see, their credits
were in danger"
| Any evidence Of this?
"Yes, sir. Secret documents re-
| Gently discovered in the State Depart
ment show that this was the fact
Evidence Disclosed.
What Is the nature of those docu-
| ments?
We'll, there is a letter from Willie
Duphunny to Johnny Dumbledee that
tells the whole story. 1t shows that
the bankers were afraid that their
loans were in danger and so We want
ed to safeguard their loans And to
have plenty of war. We just love war. "
Anything else?
There is sentence in a letter from
Ambassador Page to President Wilson
in which he speaks Of the doubtful
future of the Allies borrowing if Ger
many should win"
Any evidence that this sentence was
ever in any way related to the action
of Congress or the resentments of the
people?
Eve do not need any such evidence.
The sentence was there, even If no.
body ever read it, and it proves that
We went into the war for the sake
of those loans"
Have you any reason to think that
when Germany should have won on
the Continent, where her victory was
then assured, England would sur
render? For it is true, is it not, that
plans had been made there to fight a
| defensive warfare, If necessary, for
the next 10 years? And while that
should be in process the world would
| continue to be in state of mad tur-
mol, would 1t not? And such being
the fact, the profiteers we're wrong in
their diagnosis that the entry Of the
United States was needed to keep the
war afoot. were they not2
l. ~Th&t u hnmeter1sl. We went In