The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-01
Bv WEsTBROOK PEGLER

by WESIBROOk PEGLER
NEW YORK-The Southern domecrat finds
himself in a CHASTITY fix this year, bound, as
he is, by habit and tradition, to vote for a
party nominee who rteady has fouted his
ancient ways and beliefs and subordinated
him to men of the East steepeo in European
revolutionary thought, who have patience
with the American way.
The Southern democrat is regular because
he can't help himself, ard, the1 efore, deserves
no reward and has been getting only tae
most perfunctory recognition. The revolution
aries of the CLIO, mostly Marxians of one
shade another, the other hand, are
braWling noisily in the areas of the Northern
tier where the campaign is really a contest
and, should Mr. Roosevelt be elected for
fourth term, will claim further rewards in
political power.
The hereditary Southern democrat has dis
trust and dislike of Foreigners mis- forefa-
theirs having been pushed around by the car
petbaggers. He is hyper sensitive to coercion,
especially by strangers and, in some instances,
has conducted carpetbaggers of the new order
down to the depot at train time, put them
aboard and sent them away with warning
that the local climate was very .unhygienic.
This may have been highhanded but that is
how he has been for several generations and
he hasn't changed, much.
The CLIO, on the other hand believes in
, coercion and stoutly maintains its right TO
coerce and with tire irons and chains, meat
hooks and bats and has been upheld by the
national government in areas outside the
South. 1t wants to invade the South and ex-
poets the national government to help as a
reward for its labors and expenditures if Pres
ident Roosevelt is reelected. the South being
a great unexpected field for compulsory union
ism.
In that event, inevitably, there will be a
conflict of wills between the native southerner
and the foreign carpetbagger but under the
laws of the new deal and the precedents of
Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania the CLIO will
have the support of the government
That the CLIO is communistic is too broad
a charge. However, John L. Lewis who should
know and who tells the truth when it serves
him, has recently said that it is dominated
by the communists. And David Dubinsky of
the garment workers, and other politicians of
the new Liberal party have accused Sidney
Hillman Of forming and leading a new COM
munist front. Mr.. Hillman is one of Presi-
dent Roosevelts favorite coercionists having
been selected early in the armament program
| to manage the labor effort and he is the
| bag-man who collects and distributes the mon
ey for the CLIO behalf of the fourth term
campaign. But even Mr.. Dubinsky's wing Of
the Democratic party is not a right wing
1t is only the right wing of the left wing. It's
traditions also are those of continental Europe
and particularly of revolutionary Russia.
1t represents mainly naturalized but unas-
simulated aliens who came here to escape
persecution but didn't like the American way,
either, and, for half century, off and on
have tried to remake America to the liking
of few million garrulous, quarrelsone, and
vtuperatve immigrants settled mostly in a
few Eastern cities and preoccupied with con-
spiracles, arguments and personal rivalres.
The purpose of both wings of the left wing
of the Democratic party is to impose on all
100 million Americans way of life and gov
eminent on which they have never been able
to agree in details among Themselves How
ever, they do agree socialism, as mini
mum, coercion, confiscation, state authority
and discipline and submergence of the lndl-
, vidual into the mass.
They have made considerable progress al
ready under President Roosevelt and further
progress toward the liquidation OF the native
American kulak and the native American en-
ployer will be shown when the new taxes be-
gin to register their effects These tax meas
ures are not American but European, having
for their purpose not the raising of the revenue
but the suppression of the thrifty, the diligent
and the ingenious to the level of all the rest
| They have won the power to collect Jop-taxeS
! and to keep Americans out of jobs tor non
payment, nonmembership and even for per-
sonal disrespect to union officials or dsloyalty
to unions now recognized as form OF treason
The Southerner, including the worker as
well as the boss and the politician does not
like any of this but he has been helpless oe-
cause he couldn't leave his party although ne
is still the party's main strength
Thus today, Sidney Hillman, Dublnsky, Vlto
Marcantonio and the carpetba ggers OIL 'Le
AFL individually, receive move FAVOR unan
Jesse Jones or Tom Connally of Texas BaHey
of North Carolina or Byrd of Virginia lnese
Southern American democrats are hostages
of their own party and their people the oeS-
tined prey of the new carpetbagsers'
Recent weather renorts from sunny Italy
suggest that nation may have, come to the
end of the war; tough time selling ltseA w
World War II veterans as an ideal Winter
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