The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-10

views of Mr.. Pegler, and often disagree
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OF making people Think
BY WEsTBRooK PEGLER
Copyright, 1945. by King Features Syndicate)
NEW YORK, July 9-shortlv after Presi-
dent Roosevelt fired Jesse Jones from the
Cabinet position of Secretary of Commerce
and the Craftsmanship OF the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation Henry Wallace came to
New York to make speech before left
wing gathering in support of his own cand-
dacy for these responsibilities. In that adj
dress, on Jan. 20, Wallace reiterated the shib-
boleth Of the 1914 campaign, sixty million
Ijobs,,' which would mean the daily employ
ment according to the Determining Russian
system, of most of the American women who,
under the ideal operation of the American
plan, would guard the moral education of the
children and remain in their homes support
ed by their husbands.
Wallace was fighting for control of the RFC
which would have given him power to spend
about forty billion dollars on government
works as an auxil airy to private enter
prise but in competition against private en-
terprise. in creating those jobs.
THE RFC," Wallace said, lis the most
TREMENDOUS financial power the world has
ever SEEM and he then argued that this
power, left in the hands of Jesse Jones, would
be concentration of despotic economic DOM
nation in the hands of a few. These few
would grasp in their hands the very soul of
production so that no one would dare breathe
against their will.
In this passage he quoted in his own favor
from Pope Plus KITS encyclical on labor of
May, 1881, assuming that the Pope would
have approved this concentration of power in
the hands of Henry Wallace and condemned
nncoNtr finn in the hands Of Mr.
Jones.
After suitable interval, the present Pope
on March II, uttered a message which ef-
fectively repudiated Wallace's self-serving ap.
preparation of the previous declaration as an
endorsement of himself and his following. To
this end, Pope Plus XII said that there was
danger in "the overwhelming strength of or
ganized masses, ready to Use their power to
the detriment of justice and the rights OF
others
One week later, in St. Patrick's Cathedral
in New York, Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, the
most distinguished Catholic orator of his time,
voiced warning against manipulation of the
masses" who are personified by Wallace as
1.-The common man. He said that all the
good in the world now was threatened by
'the Masses" manipulated by constituencies
officials of the absolute state.
That the Pope and Monsignor Sheen had
taken notice Of Wallace's assumption of an
implied endorsement of the concentration of
power for which he was striving, is ques-
ton for personal Interpretation. He was not
mentioned, but it suits me to regard these
statements as a rebuke to few more or
less American opportunists of the Political Ac.
ton Committee and kindred communist Or
CARNATIONS who have degraded American hui
man beings to an aggregation of faceless non
entities.
Having manipulated them to their purposes
in the campaign of 1914 through the efficient
bigotry, emotionalism and deception organized
by the PAC, they now rallied in New York
to clamor for the delivery into their hands
Of 'the most tremendous financial power the
world has ever SEEM and Wallace had the
effrontery to suggest that he could claim the
approval of the Vatican for his aspirations
reference to Roosevelt's letter dismiss rg
Jesse Jones bears out the contention that he,
too, approved this concentration because he
wrote Jones that Wallace deserved any serv.
ice (which he believes he can satisfactorily
perform because of his work for the sue.
cess of the ticket done in cooperation with
the Political Action Committee.
He has told me- the President wrote
| Jones, chat he thought he could do the great.
est amount of good in the Department OF
Commerce, for which he is fully suited. And
feel, therefore, that the vice president should
have this post in the new administration.
Mr. Roosevelt thus believed that Wallace
the favorite of the PAC for the highly prob.
able succession at the 1914 convention in Chi
cago, and the PAC's candidate for the pres-
dental nomination in 1913, should have the
powers of the RFC to augment the political
power to manipulate 1.-The masses which was
demonstrated last fall. So he too was look
ing toward development which would have
fulfilled the description soon to be uttered as
a warning by the Pope, when he spoke against
the overwhelming strength of organized
masses, ready to use their power to the detr-
ment OF justice and the rights of others"
The abuse Of that power TO that detriment
has been felt in the outrageous conduct of a
comparative handful of reckless political adj
venturers OF the Union movement under the
patronage OF the Roosevelt regime. This pow.
er was exercised in the arbitrary theft of
millions of dollars for the Roosevelt campaign
fund by means of an income tax on wages
OF the masses who then were vict.mized
with propaganda paid for with their own in
voluntary contributions.
Not content with this, Wallace still yearned
for the power of the RFC and did not hest
tate to claim by Interpretation the endorse
nent of the Vatican and was quickly repudi.
| ated and rebuked.
QUOTATIONS
American world policy can no longer be