Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-18
Indy S Speech
Under Attack
By Senator
Special to THE DETROIT TINES


tention of the Senate toady in a
speech by Senator Lucas, Demo-
crat of Illinois.
Senator Lucas told the Senate
he wanted 10 read an editorial
from the Springfield, H., Journal,
a Republican newspaper founded
in 1891 which carries AT its mast
head this statement made on June
Is, 1864 by President Abraham
Lincoln:
"The JOURNAL paper was ~
ways my friend and, OF course,
its editors the same
READ INTO RECORD
This newspaper" said soma
tor Lucas. "has consistently dis
agreed with the domestic poll
cies Of the President 81 the
United States. This editorial,
which il entitled Give Him n
Soap Box il of such impor-
lance, coming from y newspaper
Of this kind In this national
emergency. that I prOnOse Ia
read IL into the record. II deals
with Colonel Lindbergh.
1.-THE editorial i have In my
hand il really worth while from
the standpoint OF telling the
American people just where
Llndbergh has always stood In
his heart and his mind and his
soul 80 far as the NaZi philos-
Ophy il concerned.
ANTI-ROOSENELT PAPER
This editorial. headed Give
His "A Soap Box comes from a
Republican paper. II you please,
OF central Illinois, which has
Aeen predominantly against
hything for which the Roose-
VeIt administration has stood In
connection with New Deal poll
cies and foreign policies.
IL wish 10 read this editorial
10 the senate. because II eN-
presses exactly what ! feel about
the matter. II II a. follows:
1.-THE practical wisdom Of
freedom Of speech has been
shown again by the case of
Charles Lindberg. Lindbergh has
spoken again and again. attack
ing the foreign policy Of the adj
ministration. These speeches
brought forth demands that he
he sllenced. hut the tolerance OF
the American people insisted he
had right TO be heard--until now
Llndbergh has gone on and as
Saulted that very tolerance.
"'Hls speech in Des Moines
lost all the ground he had ever
gained for the Neutrality-suspicious.
lat cause. In the past, Lind
bergh's critics charged him
with playing Hltler's game.
But although what he had tn
say may have given comfort To
Hitler. this WAS only incidental
10 his insistence that his first
concern was for the welfare OF
the United States. - =
STIRS Up HATRED
"rNow he has forfeited any
consideration on that gorund.
No man, concerned for the vel
fare of his country. could make
such "A deliberate effort 10 stir
up racial hatred.
Iindbergh has gone beyond
the reasonable doubt previously
allowed him. His own words
STAMP him A. a student Of NaZi
methods. He has nothing In
common with the great Ameri-
can tradition of tolerance and
aaedom.
FRANKLY. we don't know
What ought 60 he done with him.
We have an idea that gagging
him completely would he had
idea inasmuCh a. IL would per-
nit him 10 pose as phoney
martyr, hut We do not know
why he should he extended the
courtesy of anything larger than
a Soapbox to air his views.
SHOULD DISANOW HIM
Meanwhile the America
First Committee. under whose
auspices Lindbergh spoke, could
serve its own cause and that Of
the nation, by disaVOwing Lind
bergh Many sincere people do
not wish 10 see the United States
actively enter the war, hut they
cannot make common cause
with a man whose words prove
ne has more in common with the
NaEis than with the people of
the United states.
How true that IL. and will
he seen nv any one who takes
the palnS To read the speech
which Colonel Lindbergh made
In Des MoineS, Ia, few nights
ago.
when the people In okla
homa prohibited him from
speaking there i'm civic audi
torium "A great hue and cry was
raised all over this country he
cause. as they said, he was being
denied freedom Of speech. denied
one OF the rights which the bill
Of rights gives to every Ameri-
can. Yet. according 10 the edi-
torian which have read. he
himself IL now violently disturb