Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-17
MIR. SpeIvin,
American.
Takes Floor
He c ant Understand
Giving Away Money
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER


~ can, being summoned to
Washington TO give his views on
the state of the nation. took the
stand and spoke as follows:
A. tBy Mr.. Spelvin). Well.
now. / certainly am glad you
asked me. because the way
look at il as a 100 per cent
American citizen. why, the most
of us, all we want to take and
do is live and let live, but you
have to be on your guard all the
time these days. because, for in
stance, like my wife always
trades at the cash-and-carry
store. because l feel sorry for
the little fellow who can't meet
their prices, but, still and all. il
you can get can of soup for IL
cents in a chain store and 1t
costs 13 cents at the independ-
.ent, well. l notice if the govern
ment wants TO buy a new battle
ship they don't pick the highest
bidder. and il is the same way
with the workingman when he
can get two dollars an hour you
don't see them working for
dollar. and he would be fool If
he did
But I can't see why we can't
work il out so we can just live
in our own country and. If you
will pardon the expression. why,
to hell with all those foreign ma
tions, and why should / pay
taxes so we can practically give
that money away to all kinds OF
foreigners, whether'i il is TO make
ii so they can buy our goods
with our money or fight war,
because if you mind your own
business and keep in good shape
we don't need their trade. and l
get sick and tired of all this
talk how you have 10 look out
for the foreign vote or the diff
ferent religions.
4 FTER all. this isn't a foreign
"A country and everybody
ought to be an American or a
foreigner. and no two ways
about II. but all you hear is this
and that about foreign groups
and ismS. and all the time we
keep on letting in more foreign
erS 10 tear down American
ideals. and the first thing you
know you have 10 apologize for
being an American or somebody
will start a ruuor that you are
an appeaSer or a fifth columniSt.
But what burns me up is the
way Hitler squawked about the
Versailles Treaty when YOU see
what he did 10 the Poles after
he licked them. and compare
that with how we sent all that
food over TO the Germans after
the last war. and there again
money away 10 foreign nations.
because. like President Roose-
welt said. taxes are the sweat OF
the American workingman. but
we gave the Germans hundreds
of millions 10 build new roads
and swell apartment houses for
the German people. and now
they call US a bunch of dirty
warmongcrs when they used our
money TO build all those tanks
and planes and We didn't even
have a division of soldiers in the
whole American army and just
a lot of old farm implements for
tanks. and now Hitler is saying
we were looking for a fight.
GO If you want my candid
~ opinion, as a 100 per cent
American. we'll. il seems to me
like there ought 10 be some way
10 stamp out all these foreign
iSmS. and | want 10 tell you,
gentlemen. a good wife is every
thing in mans life. and if you
have a good, sensible wife and
not a gadabout gadding about
Ike gadhy all the time and
bothering their heads with lee
lures and ail-thiS and that, why.
| there Is where you get your
answer 10 the youth problem.
because an old-fashioned mother
doesn't need the government 10
tell her how to raise their chill
dren when you cant tell who
the government selects for this
work. and some Communist will
be telling them God is fake.
and il Just stands to reason the
parents ought to take care OF
them so they will know what
they are up TO.
And | want to say TO you.
gentlemen. II certainly makes
my collar boil when a man works
hard for years trying TO raise a
family TO be decent, Godfearing
Americans. If you save some
money and a banker steals it we
all agree nc is a crook and prob
ably goes TO prison, but then the
government grabs your money
to give it away to foreign ma
tions and pay some people relief
so they can turn up their nose
at a Job. and when election time
comes, why. naturally they are
going to vote for the one who
is giving them money, so all 1
say is let the people work if they
want to work and never mind
whether they belong to some
union, and why don't the govern
ment ever have any sympathy
for the ones who do have a job