Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-08-09
What's
New?
By
Edwdrd Duck
Representative
2-B
UAW,CIO
THE MORON SOUTH

OpllllOl. lIlGii again. may NC
not. I'm sure the subject isn't
debatable, so far as I'm con-
cerned. A thousand Lincolns
couldn't convince me other
wise.
Our country is in a bad
way. Chief among its ills you
may list the sad state of af-
fairs, politically, socially, and
economically, south of the
well known Mason-Dixon
line.
The ignorance, intolerance,
and bigotry of Americas
"shoeless, BATTLES wonders"
has long been a blight upon
the reputation of the United
States.
Anyone who believes the
civil war is over just doesn't
know what he's talking about.
Where, may | ask has any
one seen southern court
yards cannon turned facing
any direction but the north?
Don't think they don't mean 1t!
What serviceman dares to
deny that many a southern
hillbilly had a yen for cruelty
comparable to that of the enc
my? All the atrocities were
not committed by the enemy,
and you can take my word for
it that there were American
soldiers who delighted in
matching the Hitlerian SIS
troops when it came to pick
ing on individuals who found
themselves in an unfavorable
position. ! saw it!
PROUD SOUTH
The proud South! Phooeyi
An introduction TO a bathtub
and a date with a bar of soap
would set the stage for a be-
ginning of decency for many
a proud believer of white su-
premacy. There was lot of
hullabaloo about Hitler's mas
terrace theory, but hardly a
word about the same kind of
ranting by that leecherous old
coot from Mississippi, Herr
Bilbo, who was declared by
his colleagues as being unfit
to park his NANCY carcass in
the Mississippi State Senate,
to associate with decent peo-
pie.
Lousy as they are, many a
northern Republican of the
most vicious stripe revolts
against what has been, is, and
will continue to be taking
place in such states as Geor-
gia, Tennessee, and Bilbo's do
main, to name a few uncivil-
lied spots.
The only question in the
mind of a rational human be-
ing is whether these scrongy
inhabitants of the hill counry
are more to be pitied than
censored, or vice versa. They
hate Yankees, they hate Cath
olics, they hate Jews, they hate
Negroes, they hate Italians,
Polish, Hungarians, British
French and Russians. They
hate everybody but them
selves, and in their own stupid
ignorance they set themselves
up as the criterion of every
thing that is noble, wise, and
just.
GRIPERS
Nobody bothers them. They
have a grippe that dates back
TO the Emancipation Procla.
nation. Their chief regret Is
that they cannot hitch the Ne
gro to plow like a beast of the
field, make him dance when
they crack the whip, and use
him to enable themselves and
their offspring to live in their
idea of luxury.
Somebody ought to tell
them off, finally, just to ease
the northern conscience a bit.
We've been taking their YER
bal abuse wholesale with a
nary a whisper in return.
Some of them even have the
gall to come up here where
the union has made working
conditions tolerable, take
what the union offers, then of
fer nothing in return but that
same characteristics of narrow
minded bigotry for which
more than a few are quite
well known.
They don't want "out-
siders" particularly northern
ers, meddling in their affairs.
A demogogue screams about
states rights" and they're
off to the racesl Only in the
south could the Ku Klux Klan
prosper. 1t feeds upon their
intolerance, fans their fires of
prejudice and hate, and takes
advantage of their stupidity to
flatter their ego.
If anyone thinks that yours
truly is intolerant because of
these observations, let me say
in self-defense that | might be
guilty of being intolerant of
intolerance - the intolerance
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