The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-15
1851

history and again read the remarks
of Patrick Henry speaking IT'S years
ago in Colonial Virginia, we will find
that he pretty well summarized our
condition today Speaking to con-
vention of citizens in Richmond Va,
on March %, 1875, he said:
Mr.. President, it is natural for
man to indulge in the illusions of
hope We are apt to shut our eyes
against a painful truth .. Is this the
part of wise men engaged in a great
arduous struggle for liberty?
For my part, whatever anguish of
spirit it may cost, | am willing to now
know the entire truth. To know
the worst and provide for it. have
but one lamp by which my feet arc
guided and that is the lamp of expert
ence. l know of no other way of
Judging the future but by the past.
Let us not, beseech you, Sir, de-
ceive ourselves longer.
Il know not what course others
may take. But as for me, Give me
Liberty or Give me death"
We, at this time, are facing life
and death struggle, the most serious
threat that we as a nation have eN-
perienced. We are threatened by Com
munism at home and abroad, and eco
nomic collapse.
1t is our opinion that all of these
things could have been avoided if our
leadership in the past had been wise.
Now we must honestly and sincerely
| face the facts.
In 1915 we had the greatest army in
the world, were the most respected ma
ton, and our troops were standing at
the gates of Berlin. At this time Will
liam Bullitt, our ambassador to
France, and formerly to Soviet
Russia, went to the then President,
Franklin d. Roosevelt, and, according
to Mr.. Bullitt's published statement,
begged the President to accept the
surrender of Berlin and Germany,
march our troops through to the
Russian-German border as quickly as
possible and never let a Russian come
out of Russia. He pointed out that
! through his experience, he had
learned that the Communists were set
to destroy us and all of the free
world, and that they had only used us
momentarily to gain their ends, in ac-
cordance with their records. He said
! they would turn upon US Immediately
these ends were gained.
President Roosevelt's pitiful reply
was: "Well, Bill, you may be right,
but l have a bunch that they will do
the right thing"
destiny Of the free peoples of the
world. They were sacrificed on a
"hunch".
Immediately following the peoples
who had escaped from behind the So
called Iron Curtain, from Poland,
Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania
and Czechoslovakia, were turned back
by us to the Soviets to be murdered
and enslaved.
We gave Russia ,000000,000 of
our peoples money, without any
strings attached to it.
/ We set up Russia as the strongest
power in the world, outside of the
United States, and then turned over
to her the Far East, with our conccs-
sions in Manchuria, Port Arthur,
Korea and then China.
1t is our opinion that through politi
cal dishonesty our nation has been
brought to the dreadful situation that
we now face.
In the last five years the greatest
prosperity ever known to any nation
was squandered and our debt in
creased. The largest peacetime mill
tary appropriations in history have
left the nation unprepared.
| The billions spent on foreign aid
have left the nation without one
countable ally in all Europe. The ma
ton, at the present time, is fighting
losing fight.-It is not Officially re-
cognized as at wal with Red China.
| The United Nations debates the ques
ton.
Consider the contrast. Six per cent
of the people of the world live in the
United States. This six per cent of the
worlds population has contracted to
support as wards, or be prepared to
fight, the other "a percent of the
people of the world.
In our own nation, through political
maneuvering, class has been set
against class; race against race, the
have nots" against the 'haves;" re
ligion against religion, with the delib
crate intention of gaining momentary
advantage for one political party.
Pressure groups have been given
privileges and the Treasury of the
| United States has been used to make
political advantage in elections.
American Free Enterprise, which
has saved the world and developed our
/ GREAT nation has been attacked bV