Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-30
How To Keep Out OF War
Judge Robert Winston Urges People To Fight Neutrality
Changes

Furthermore, if America stays out
this war may be localized, confined
to Europe alone, with England and
France on one side and Germany on
the other But the moment America
enters hell will break loose! War will
rage on every land and on ever sea!
Italy, Russia and Japan may join
in with Germany. Dictator nations
will stand together in the lineup
will be Germany, Russia, Italy, ia
pan and the resources OF Poland,
! Austria, Danzig, and CZechosloVakla
| on the one side, and only England,
| France and the United States on the
other And your Uncle Sam doing
the fighting and paying the bills as
, usual Four long years OF lighting
and thousands, yes hundreds OF thou
sands, of our sons cold and dead on
Flanders field.
Once before, at England's cry for
help, we pulled her chestnuts out OF
the fire and got terribly burnt! Are
we going to be guilty of the same
folly again? If so, l submit, we need
guardian, or better, we need ac-
commodation on Dix Hill! When the
World War ended, as | once heard
Will Rogers declare, and the spolls
were divided out, England got her
slice and France and Japan got
them" ~.... haCrica got the gold
pen which signed the treaty of peace.
One more word. We are told that
it is our duty to go to war and crush
the dictator, Hitler Now that is quite
a large order. Russia, Italy and ia
pan also have dictatOrs, do we pro-
pose to crush them as well as Ger
many? Do we seek to make those ma
tions change their form of govern
ment? Assuredly not. We cannot do
this. Every nation is entitled to It's
own form of gOVernment-tO live its
own life Moreover, as you and |
know, force accomplished absolutely
nothing; neither democracy nor the
Kingdom of heaven is taken by VlOl-
ence Dictatorships and other illegal,
bastard governments will finally fall
of their own weight and WickedneSS.
They will crumble within, not from
without God will see to that. God
is not asleep. And if we would dis
cover how He moves to work His will
and to accomplish His purposes, let
us turn to the Bible and read with
care the third chapter of Habakllk.
Let America stay out of this war.
After all it is but a conflict between
two ancient and embittered enemies
Britain and Germany-a fight over
boundary lines, fight to preserve
the balance of power in Europe and
to keep Germany from growing as
powerful as England, as was evil
denced by the recent attempt OF
democratic Britain to form an al
lance with autocratic Russia. All, my
friends, unless you get busy and
make your wishes known TO con-
gress, you may be led by the nose
into a holocaust beyond the power
of words to describe America can
not save Europe, nor can Europe
save America Each nation must save
itself. If America repeals the present
wise and safe embargo law she may
spread the fires of war from pole
to pole She will be engaged in the
quixotic task of destroying the pre-
sent form of government in more
than half of the civilized world. Oh,
that l could get upon the hOuSetOp
and, with a trumpet of some prophet
of old blow a blast to be heard by
the mothers of America warning
them of the dangers of repeating the
present Well-tried neutrality law and
of taking sides in this age-old pc
riodical European squabble.
Gentlemen of the congress, a word
with you, if you please. Your resopn-
sibility is great. The people are unin-
formed. They look to you for guild
ance Be wise Be prudent. Put
Water-tight embargo on the ship
ment of arms. Keep America out of
war. Do these things and it is not
improbable that England and Ger
many will compose their differences
and the war come to a sudden end.
In truth, there are many who hold
that there would have been no war
but for England's confident expecta-
ton of Americas assistance l thank
you.