The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-09-10
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THE SADNESS OF sENILITY
| An apology for our Senior Senator.
Front PACED in the Montana Stand
ard Of August 26th, were two items
confirming the alienists. Mental old
age is a matter, not of years, but of
the minds having grown unable to
grasp new ideas or appreciate change
Of conditions" Memory Of events
long past with the aged, is keener
than of what occurred yesterday"
rectly or not matters little here) that
Mussolini is raving, Italy has won
the war;" ITALY has won the war"
Wheeler is insinuating Russia and
Germany are negotiating for a separ-
ate peace" Here Mussolini's aged
mind hanks back to when his tanks
and planes were slaughtering Ethio-
plans with spears and swords.
Likewise Wheeler's mind constant
ly reverts, by wishful thinking, to
when he was voting to sell helium
gas to Germany, to whom he was lend
ing his senatorial free postage en-
velopes to Viereck, the clever German
BOBBY Trapper, to flood America with
pro-Nazi and pro-Jap propaganda;
when with the audience usually given
United States Senator, he was
preaching that Japan was our best
customer in the Orient, that Lend
Lease was a failure; that we should
not have occupied Iceland ahead of
Hitler; that there was no need for us
to prepare for war, when, even after
Japan had sunk our ship, Panay, after
Germany had sunk our Robinhood, he
said we should not claim equal rights
with Germans to sail the Atlantic,
that we should not fortify Guam or
the Philippines, nor challenge Japan's
mastery in the Pacific
In time of war many get angry at
conduct which in calm periods would
be condoned, or passed with smiles of
In the last two weeks
in restaurant where | lunch, three
separate acquaintance have insisted
with angry and contemptuous words
against Senator Wheeler, that I read
copies of his record in
the senate for the last 10 years (as
if l, and most Montana folks do not
know it, to our shame and sorrow,
about as well as the person who pre-
pared the mimeograph). These cam
paigners were all well known once as
supporters of the senator. From the
number being pushed at me, l infer
that the same shots are being fired |
(out of season. against our senior |
senator all over the state.
These efforts to increase the al |
ready epidemic distrust of the loyal
y to America of our senior senator |
of course, from the patriot
SIN of the campaigners. They spring
rom the fear of continuation of the
oily of the immense majority of vot-
ers for the senator at his recent, and
doubtless his LAST election. l would
comfort these ardent workers Times
change; men change them. Musso-
mi three years ago was much strong
,r in Italy than Wheeler was in Mon
ana. Chamberlain's political umbrel-
a spread over the British Empire be-
ore he became a model for Wheeler
fish and others for appeasement
Mental old age afflicted Chamberlain
IS it does Senator Wheeler, but until
chamberlain was taken in by Hitler
It Munich, the entire British Empire
except India) was for him. The
Cliveden set" of Chamberlain were /
much stronger than Wheeler's Amer
ca Firsters, or his present press
gents who condone cartels with Ger t
many, and praise small fines, no i'm |
for robbing the United {
tates government and putting defec- h
i've weapons in the hands of our gal s
ant men on the battle fronts. i