The people's voice., 1940-08-14
Horse Sense"


In yesterdays (Monday) news from Washington, in the
story of the debate the conscpon BILL Senator Wheeler
told statement said have been made by Secretary Slim
son that could 100000 this continent and
the the if this statement had been
made by Smson he wasn't fitted to be in the position he
cupes All sobermnded thinking people must agree with
Senator Wheeler
just consider thing realistically how
much there back all of these efforts develop
hystera Let inquire into the mmnence of the emer
gency said to confront
Let that Hitler accompshes his avowed objective
of destruction of the British the British Isles
What is the position he would then be in?
Under reasonable considerations be assumed that
conquest of all of the peoples of Europe by Hitler will
bring with that the immediate cooperation of the
quered acceptance by them without protest of the rule estab
lished by the conquerer.
SINNERS down" question policing of the
quered territory and peoples There be question that
AZ million Frenchmen 46 million British IL million Begans
Dutch together with other millions of Czech Poles Danes
and Norwegians going take it lying
down. If ruled all by Hitler it will have be by ruthless
force The naonasc feelings peoples go
ing be wiped overnight Admittedly Hitler will have
spread himself out pretty thin police the territory and
keep the people under subection and will be thoroughly
cuped with that instead of looking for further places
quer.
than the guns baeshp the threat
of starvation facing Eopes dsordered And that
danger is that cannot be by hate impanng
propaganda against some potential foe another
Once the have quit laundering all probability there
will soon follow the din of cries for bread The economic
must be put in kind of ORDER transition made
pure economy. Can this be done? The future
holds the but certainly its doing will be hampered by
millions of the whose lives have been uproted
and who have lost much of what they held dear These mil
lions start they start ALL to assist in the reconstruc
under ruershp which they hate and despse So Hitler
has of job than he do years. the Eur
opean continent
If there is emergency-and why the sovereign
American people told what it ?-t connection
with protection against economic encroahmen by foreign
outside of the territorial United Per-
haps Japan who with the blessing of the sister democ
rac Great Britain might take advantage of the present
world conditions and grab the Dutch Indies fabuously
rich natural with so million of fine cultured
natives ruhess exploited subugated for generations by
the Dutch Are insist that have right to establish
protecorate these islands and natives because few
large industries have chseed and have large
holdings in those islands? Are going to embark
program of Imperialism by of subdue
neghbors Mexico and the South American countries? that
the plan? Is that the emergency? If isn't then what it
by all build up defenses the point where
nation earth dare make attack But let do
this without any hystera and let us do with Oh
development of martial spirit Let about business
has be done in view of conditions prevailing in the
world factories employ watchmen of them con-
ruc electrically charged fences about their grounds to pre-
vent trespass.
Monroe Doctrine where is the
tremendous emergency? nation plan invad
ing this continent it would establish great mill
tary of the countries
would have to have the full cooperation of the particular
country which proposed to establish it, 1t would have to
establish lines of communications and supplies land hundreds
pitfalls and supply depos and have host of engineers and
avaable all thousands of miles waters
from the home base IS
An opinion of expert Major General Johnson Hagood
that there only five ports in the United States at
which could dsembark and military experts
orally agreed that our naval and apane forces could stop
enemy before he within sight of Shores with his
lighters piers barges and all of the special equip
ment of present day :
By all let make ourselves mpregnable to attack Iii
but become hystecal since admittedly
not know everything about international complications let
at least think and about them and wrong,
compel those that do know to "show u.s. Let's be missouri
ans" a
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