The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01
As Pegler Sees 1t
By WEsTBROOK PEGLER
light, by King Features Syndicate, Inc.)

Fields thing. l may mean that / am going
to get rid OF a lot of hypocritical postulates,
but l amt going to use that word because
it is jargon, like submarginal and sanction,
for kick il the pants, intellectual indignation,
implementation and a whole dialect of roliti-
co-double-dome slang that the bleeding hearts
have been using TO confuse and bedevl1 us
later hoeing, baby-having, home-loving, God
fearing 100 per cent Americans
Well, that brings UP the first hypocritica1,
not postulate, but hypocrisy, yes hypocritical
hypocrisy, about how it is un-American and
fascist to be Hooper cent American. 1t is
supposed to mean that you keep a lynching
rope handy behind the kitchen door and you
are ignorant about the peoples Of other coun-
tries and never have Travelled beyond The
county seat and hate Jews just because the
Klux also claimed to be 10O-per cent. And t
might have been, at that, because when we
get into wars the highest percentage of volun-
teers come from. the Klux country. Some of
OR most patriotic people are awful ornery,
but that doesn't mean that patriotism is ex-
cluslvely a refuge of scoundrels or that all
patriots are bigots.
Anyway. yes, l am 100-per cent ana one
reason why l am against immigration, at
least until we get ourselves untangled here
in our own country, is that l have travelled
quite a lot and have seen the peoples OF
other countries and never have admired that
invitation to the "wretched refuse" OF the
eSSiiiAllS VIC " GulOPS, vel luOuSH IL 10
on the Statue of Liberty. That doesn't make
it Holy Writ, does it? That doesn't make it
official. Congress never resolutioned us any
law that you have got to welcome everybody
that wants to come here, and, even il there
was a time when that was a good idea, well
times and conditions change and so do my
opinions with them. Ask me again in 10 years.
Maybe, then, under new conditions, l will
think it would be all right to let in some
immigrants, but through a turnstile, not in
a tumbling scramble through a wide-open
gate.
Another hypocritical hypocrisy that goes out
is the one that you are un-Amerlcan if you
stand up and say a good word for the Anglo
Saxons. 1t is supposed to mean you hate all
Latins and Slavs and Negroes. and that is
just a damned lie. It doesn't mean anything
OF the kind. 1t is getting to be so that if
you think sensibly you hate somebody.
I think the Anglo-Saxons are all right. Not
entirely all right but as good as the next,
but that doesn't mean 1 am busting with pride
over my own Anglo-Saxonism because I
wasn't personally there when they made the
old guy sign the Magma Charta and l had
no hand in writing Shakespeare's work or in
Edison's inventions or the development of the
steamboat, the railroad and the telephone and
telegraph. All l know about electricity is that
if I Flip a switch the light goes on. AL I
know about steamboats, is that the foreign
ships give you fine service, whereas, under
the Bolshevik union conditions, on American
ships if the waiter brings you chocolate and
you say II asked for vanilla" the burn will
call you a liar and you take chocolate and
like it. All I know about railroading is that
I buy a ticket and the train takes me there
provided some crazy fool up in the engine
doesn't slew the whole thing into a river hit
ting a curve at rs when the instructions call
for 40. Railroads better do something about
that. 1t is getting terrible. I can dial a phone
number but I don't know what makes it work,
and about telegraphing l just know it is 10
words straight tariff, so words delayed.
There are some important Anglo-Saxon de-
v~elopments, and you will notice that don't
call them contributions because all concerned
expected to get paid, but l personally had
nothing to do with them, so I am entitled
to no pride in them. If I should start blowing
about how proud I was to be an Anglo-Saxon
On account Of our achievements I would have
to take my share of blame for the nazis,
who are members of the same tribe, and |
had absolutely no part in that either, and
disclaim all responsibility.
l am friendlier to the Negroes than Mrs.
Roosevelt because I don't try to kid them.
| say We are equals under God but anyone
who tries to make out that we are equals in
achievement as races is either a liar or a
fool and the discussion is dishonest from the
start. From Greece on down to now, the white
people have been way ahead in science, art,
Philosophy, government, invention and Itera-
ture and the Negroes are just getting started
and they have made more progress in our
country than anywhere else in the world. And
I will say this, too, that this progress has
been largely due to the help Of the American
white people, because if they had wanted to,
they could have kept the colored man down.
1t is hypocritical to say that Americans
don't hate, because we have been proficient
haters from way back and our hatreds have
risen over some ridiculous myths and shame
full prejudices. Hatred is deplorable, but not
un-American, and the way to do is to play
it down, quit talking about it and get along
quietly together instead of printing corny pub
licity about a lot of dirty-joke hams in the
night-clubs with the mating habits OF pigs and
no more religion, who actually emphasize a
sense of difference by bawling how much they
loved Jimmy Walker, as though their high
regard could be a boost for anyone.
I declare, I have never seen and heard so
much b~labbing about tolerance in all my life
and it only proves that they are liars in their
hearts, because if you do respect your fellow
man you don't add that you love him even
though he is different somehow, and make
yourself out to be a wonderful fellow FOR not
hating him instead. That tolerance is another
hypocrisy that goes out. It is a snobbisil word
itself, denoting condescension and a sense of
superiority. l am not tolerant. l am respect
full. l respect the other mans rights and his
dignity.
Not many human beings really love their
sellow-men and those who really do we sell
dom hear of. But we do hear of some who
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