The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-07-12
A WOLF In ANY CLOTHING

automatically make Americans com
munists, the sovietizing of America
would be very simple indeed. The vast
proportion of all Americans would
gladly vote Wheeler out of office.
Somebody should tell the busy SEN
! ator that in New York state, where
there are undoubtedly more commun-
States, and where the population at
the last census was 13,479,142 people,
the communist party was not able to
muster the necessary $4,000 names to
petition place for their ticket on the
voting machines in the 1914 elections
Nobody doubts that what few com,
munists there are in New York would
like to see Senator Wheeler bite the
dust, but so would the rest of the re-
sidents of that state with the excep-
ton of the senator's old friends, the
ex-bundists in Yorkville, the Christian
Frontiers in Brooklyn and the tycoons
of Wall Street who have found the
senator handy fellow to have
around
Any timid voter who wants to vote
against Wheeler and still doesn't
think this should make him COM
munist can take heart at having such
staid, respectable organs as the Phila-
delphia Record and the New York
Herald Tribune in the same boat with
him Senator Wheeler, the country's
leading isolationist, who, far from
studying international relations. has
spent his considerable, if blind, en-
ergies muddying them, presumed to
stand up in the senate at the close
of the war and advise the government
on foreign policy. Commenting on this
speech, the Philadelphia Record said
in it's issue of Nov. 20, 1915:
Experts said that Rudolph Hess
was sane but suffering from amnesia. |
Experts might make similar report |
if they were to examine Senator Bur
ton K. Wheeler, of Montana. Certainly
Wheeler is sane. But he seems to suf
fer complete loss of memory where
his record-war and prevails con-
cerned.
"Of the two amnesia victims, Wheel
er is by far the more dangerous. Hess
is beyond much mischief Wheeler is
still in the United States senate. Such
a man presumes to recommend what
his country's foreign policy should be.
ut would be absurd for Americans
to take advice from Burton K Wheel
er as it would to take advice from
Rudolph Hess"
The New York Herald Tribune, Nov +,
49,, 1915, said:
"But who fought the war? Whose
was the liberation of captive peoples?
Certainly not Senator Wheeler's. 1t is a
that this man who did all in S
lis power to stop any effective action S
n time of crisis is now ready to issue T
orders to the Russians, to assert Z
American power and moral reponsi- v
)ility all over the globe and in gen g
,ral to inflame emotions to ends e
which would result only in an. Ameri- Y
an global Imperialism or (more prob L
bly, a final and even more gigantic c
var than that which we have just sur a
lived -" il
Senator Wheeler is a quick change G
rtist of no mean ability. Some people c
all this smart politics. A few weeks B
go the senator's henchmen were plas- A
ering the papers with political adj O
ertisement from PM, New Yorks S.
lighting liberal newspaper, PM, unlike .
Their newspapers one could easily B
lention, believes in fair play. 1t hasn't U
ny use for Senator Wheeler and his R
ind but it believes in giving credit F
here credit is due. The editors of PM F
elieved that Senator Wheeler de- 81
erved praise for his belated astonish-
tent at the rate making practices of
lie big railroads. PM took it's hat off
, the senator. The Wheelerites lost ~ ~
0 time using this FLATS Off as ~
olitical advertisement under the -
eading, LIBERAL Paper Lauds ~
1heeler." For once Senator Wheeler u
as telling the truth, PM is a liberal IL
Since then, however, the "
rickson forces have circulated quite a'
volume of criticism of Mr. Wheeler II
ON the pages of PM. The result is Cd
at Senator Wheeler is now telling 1t