Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-29

INDIANAPOLIS. May %
Senator Burton X. Wheeler CD o.
Montana. leader Of the Senate
anti-interventionists. maintaining
that President Roosevelt did moi
tell the American people the
facts in his worldwide address
Tuesday night
IN formal reply 70 the Presi'
dents address. Senator Wheeler
speaking last night AT an lndianap-
oils rally sponsored by the Amer
lea First Committee. declared:
america il not at war, and
no senator or congressman will
vote for war over the opposition
Of IS 10 90 per cent Of this
nations people"
Addressing himself 20 the Presi-
dent. Wheeler went on:
AT this minute you are the
leader Of the Morgans, the
RockefellerS. the kuhn-Loehs
and the elder statesmen who
want war. but are too old TO
fight.
NEW FRIENDS
wendell WilIkie Is your leu
tenantfl These, your new-found
friends, Join In praising the war
program which YOU have raised
in the ashes of social and eco
nomic reform. Aren't you, Mr..
President, little chagrined by
your new-found friends?"
Senator Wheeler charged the
President with involving the
United States in foreign entangle-
ments and with arousing false
fears of a Nazi invasion OF the
Western Hemisphere.
He said in part:
This morning / read President
Roosevelt's fireside chat. 1t was
more than a chat--it echoed the
sentiments Of our warmakers-of
our Reckefellers, Morgans. Dor
othy Thompson, Stimsons, Knoxes,
othy Thompsons, Stimsons. knoxes,
who would sacrifice lives that are
not theirs TO give.
These international bankers
jingoistic journalists, fierce and
warlike statesmen--would plunge
this nation into war either be-
cause of their haste or fear OF
the little paperhanger from Berlin.
But I was informed over long
distance telephone that the Presi-
dent at his press conference today
said he was not going to ask for
a repeal of the Neutrality Act.
And when asked how he was
going TO enforce freedom of the
seas he stated:
One way is to keep American
ships out of places where they will
be sunk Which statement do you
stand on. Mr.. President, your war
like speech or your later state
ments to the press?
THE American people hope it
is the statement TO the press.
FEAR TACTICS
TN his fireside chat. the Presi-
dent said the thing we have most
TO fear is fear itself. With that
agree. But, Mr.. President, you
sought TO implant fear in the
minds of the American people.
Preaching fear has been the wea-
pom you have used so successfully
against your political adversaries.
Beginning on March 4, 1888,
you preached successfully a fear
OF money changers-a fear of the
royalists a fear Of
makers fear of lobby
ists-and a fear of the Supreme
Court.
"A year ago you began preach
ing physical fear-a fear that
New Orleans and ST. Louis and
Denver were in danger of bomb
ing raids. No man in all history
Mr.. President-has exploited fear
as you have exploited il.
To-day, Mr.. President, you have
forgotten your fear and hatred of
the economic royalists. You have
forgotten your fear of the NUM-
ton makers.
You have forgotten your fears
of reactionary Republicans, wlat97
you so fervently preached a few
years ago.
To-day - as of yesterday - by
preaching fear and hate, you,
President Roosevelt, are creating
intolerance and bigoty. You are
turning class against class, race
against race and sect against sect
In a country where all races.
classes and all religions have lived
together peacefully and tolerantly
for centuries.
During the past month or two
] have addressed public meetings
from one end Of this country to
the other.
PUBLIC VIEW
whether il was in Cincinnati.
in Denver, in Sioux Falls. in Butte.
in Boston-and everywhere. East
or WeSt-it was the same: The
American people are firmly re-
u