The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-04-04
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only to those who have surrendered
everything else, to the will of the die
tator and his underlings.
Bill of Rights Threat To Every
Dictator
But the existence of land and
people, where the Bill of Rights is
openly known and accepted and prac
ticed, is a threat and a menace to
every dictator. 1t is therefore logical
that we find agents of all the dicta-
torships in free countries, engaged in
what is known as subversive activities.
They cannot be loyal to their dictator
masters and believe in liberty such as
Americans know. They cannot draw
their necessary rations from the die
tator's treasury if they become loyal
to our Bill Of Rights.
1t is out of this tangled pattern of
thought and motive and action that
we must lift the agent of the powers
who seek to control the whole world
by the use of their own pattern of
life. The Communist, the Fascist, the
Nazi, in America must cover up his
real purpose and objective. He must
lie about his faith and his loyalty.
And so he fits the meaning of the
word "insidious." He is a sneak.
But he hides behind the structure
of the very liberties at the destruction
of which he is aiming. He will de-
mand freedom of speech, freedom fol
his printing press, and freedom to as.
semble where and when he pleases
for the purpose of assassinating these
very things whose protecting cover ne
invokes for the purposes of his mis-,
chief.
Your subversive agent is not an i'm.
moral person; he is without morals
he is a-moral. He continues to live
because he is on payroll and has
not been "purged" for disloyalty tt
the source of his living.
Simple Method Used To End
Opposition
The method of the dictator will
those whom he thinks to be subver
sive is very simple; he purges, liqui
dates-in short, he kills them. Th'
method is not entirely effective. Ther'
are still some underground rebels il
Germany, Russia and Italy. But tn
method has the merit of being simple
and complete at the point where ap
piled. Short of actual war, however
it is doubtful whether the American
people care to use this method, as yet
Should it develop that our institution
are actually in danger from these in
sidious attacks, we may take then
more seriously. 1t may be that fo
some time at least, it will be enougl
to pin appropriate labels on those VIII
are caught in the act of practicin,
their sneak-thief tactics on a generou
nation.
Publishing and adopting appropriat
resolutions, in which the tactics of tn
! dictators' agents are dragged out in
to the open, may be enough But tn
, phraseology must not be silk-gloved
. it must be rough enough to get unde
l the skin of artists Of political sabo
4 tage. They must be branded so tina
t the general public may get in word
OF one syllable, the meaning OF ou
: liberties, and what is lost when the
are taken away.
e Subvcrsive Groups Deserve COntemE
= 1t will be much help, if every Amer
e lean who appreciates his privilege a
= such, will use every occasion to rails
e his voice in ridicule, denunciaton an
e open attack on any persons or publ
1 cations which come to his attention
= which are subversive.
S This will be assisted, if in meeting
: of members of the League there
frank and open discussion of the prat
tices of the agents Of un-America
powers. 1t may require some patienc
to master the technique of this attacl
1t should be borne in mind that rid
= cule is the strongest weapon. So ia
these agents are properly laughin
G stock in America. But don't make til
$ mistake of merely laughing at then
S Let them feel the sting of ridicule an
c contempt, such as they deserve. The
are international gangstcrs, who don
n deserve freedom.