The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-01


 than you or I. It hurts them to be repudiated by certain cowardly constituents ''back home" who fear that their senatorial or con- gressional district will suffer from discrimination at the hands of Washington when the money for defense projects" is being ladled out. But these courageous few, like those whom Woodrow Wilson called the obstinate dozen" re- fuse to run and bay with the hounds like Wendell Willkie, and they will not seek comfort in ig- noble oblivion like Mir. Joseph Kennedy who came back from London first to make a sycophantic speech in favor of the election of the man who had appointed him ambassador, and then to declare that he would spend his fortune and If need be his life to keep America out of a foreign war (like Mir. Roosevelt of that date he called 1t a foreign war"), but who then retired to the sands of Flor Ida to bask in the sun and never from that day forth to emit a peep against war.
 William Lloyd Garrison
 When was a boy in Boston I learned from American history what learned at the same time from the New Testament, that there is seldom If ever true hero who has not incurred hatred and libel. 1n church I heard the text Blessed are ye when men shall revile ye and speak all naner of evil against you: Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice sake and in school I heard of William Lloyd Garrison who was scourged through the streets of Boston with halter around his neck, smeared with mud and offal from the streets, and all but mur- dered because he opposed slavery. And that in Boston, Now If you walk In the middle of the park way on Commonwealth avenue you will see a monument to Will liam Lloyd Garrison and graven into the stone the splendid chal- lenge, T am in earnest. I will not equivocate (Do you hear that, ye spokesmen for this shifty, double talking administration7): I will not equivocate: and I will be heardl"
 predict that the day will come when there will be Q monument to Wheeler in Montana, to Nye in North Dakota and to Lindbergh in Washington. Absurd7 No more absurd than if some Bostonian seeing Garrison Smeared with horse dung and rotten eggs and decayed vegetables had predicted, "The day will come when they will raise a monument to that man here in Boston" You kill the prophets" said Jesus, but your children build their monuments"
 It cannot be denied that the war mongers are articulate. Vo- ciferous would be better word. Our Lord warned the PhariseeS not to sound 6 trumpet before them when they were about to do what they called Q good deed. The Peppers and the KnoxeS don't sound a trumpet, they sound q whole brass band. As for Ickes, he sounds a calliope. They bang the tom- tom; they clash the cymbals; they toot the horn, but above the din of the instruments you may hear their piercing cries, "To armsl To armsl MT. President! Say the word Make the Declara- ton! Unleash the dogs of war! Why delay? What are you waiting for? Congress2 Congress does not count. Ignore Congress. Circum- vent Congressl Beat around the bush and play a trick on Con- gress. Congress alone can declare war, but, Mir. President, you can wage war without declaring war, Side-step the Constitution. Do you remember, MT. President, the fs- nous declaration of a skilfull law yer of a century ago who said ne could drive a coach and four through any law of Parliament? You, MT. President, can do better. You can send a battleship, yes, you can send the whole American Navy full speed ahead through that provision of the Constitution which says that only Congress can declare war.
 Fellow Citizens"
 AS for the people: you need not wait upon the will of the people, MT. President. A little lip service of the people will do. When you address them, say Fellow Amer icans.' Fellow citizens Pay them a few compliments; tell them how much you love the people. How you admire the people; how you value the good will of the people. Every Fourth of July orator says nice words of "the people" the people" But when 1t comes to wag- ing war you needn't pay any att tention to the desire of the peo- pie. It would complicate matters; 1t would delay the game: it would interrupt the smooth action of the machinery. Tell the people one day that "Conyoys mean shooting and shooting means war; tell them another day that any one who says we are sending conveys with British merchantmen across the Atlantic is a liar: and on third day declare not in person but through your mouth.pleee Secretary Knox that conveys arc in use and had been in use from some unspecified date"
 Such supreme contempt Of the people think VIC have not seen in all our previous history. The spokesmen for the Administration do not say "T'he people. Sir, is ( great beast" but they do seem .o think that the public is e great boob. They expect the people 10 forget and the people do forget too quickly.
 But some of uS do not forget