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country, or whether we are to be
launched into another foreign war.
THAT is what the American people
are thinking about, rich and poor, hum
BILE and prosperous, throughout the
day They want to know what the
attitude is of these great parties-the
republican party and the democratic
party. They want to know in crystal
clear terms what the position of the
democratic candidate for president
and the republican candidate for pres
ident will be before election day.
"All Trojan horse candidates of the
interventionists, no matter what ticket
they are on, should be defeated. The
Congress alone can declare war, and
it is essential that the Congress elect,
in November those who are against
Intervention in European or Asiatic
wars We want no Trojan horse OF
war in America or that war is newt
able. The Trojan horses of commun-
ism and naziism need investigation,
but they are as nothing compared to
the dangers and menace of the Trojan
horse of the interventionists and inter-
nationalists, who by intrigue and sec
ret diplomacy would involve us in war.
"It. is a far more powerful and de-
structive force than the communists
and the nazis. We are even now being
f,,t1 hn bloody @ q hi &c
of war We are in the midst of an
artificially inspired war hysteria that
pervades the land. The dogs of war
are barking and yelping and pulling at
their leash, and there are those in
high places who are ready to let them
go. We can almost hear the beating
of the wings of the Angel of Death
as she hovers over England and France
and Japan and China, and now over
America.
Avoid Foreign Wars
1--WE must elect candidates who are
pledged to keep us out OF foreign
wars. Generalities, platitudes and lip
service to peace must not be permitted
to soft-soap and fool the American
people. Another war would mean the
blackout of all our liberty and the
bankruptcy of the country, and die
tatorship along the lines of the nazis
and fascists.
81 am, however unalterably opposed
to universal military CONSUMPTION of
the American people. If we have, as
we have, the greatest navy in the
world, and in addition to which we
appropriated only two weeks ago, four
billion dollars more to make our navy
twice as great as the British navy,
and larger than all other navies COM
bined, we are now producing some
thing like 1000 airplanes a week, and
shipping them abroad. Therefore we
hope with such a navy, and with this
output of new airplanes, to have one
of the greatest air forces in the world.
"If we have a great air fleet and a
great navy we do not need universal
military service in America. We need
a larger army, modern army
equipped with all the new weapons
of warfare, larger national guard
also equipped with all the new me-
chanized weapons of modern warfare.
But l am opposed, and | want to tell
this group why, | am opposed to uni
versal military conscription because
when you bring that system over here,
that old European war system, you
are doing nothing but bringing the
same war system of Europe over to
free America. And once you do that,
and we have a dictatorship in our
midst, whether he be republican
or democrat, all he has got to do
is to press button, and millions of
the youth of America march forth
to war to find foreign countries to
conquer.
I'VE become a military machine.
Peace goes out the window. War
psychology is substituted, and this
great Frankenstein is created. And
il congress should balk and refuse to
declare war, they will be ousted as
other congresses have been by the
bayonetts of this huge war machine
that we would be creating in Amer
lea.
81 am very glad to come here to
you as the only republican to appear
before this convention. l approve
heartily of some of these resolutions
that you have adopted. l want to
commend you, Dr. Townsend, for the
way you handled your resolutions
am ashamed to say that the two old