St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-08-05

have spoken up against this bill.
Women's American Baptist Home
Mission Society, Division Of
Christian Life OF the Council OF
Churches, Baptist Fellowship,
Mothers of the World, great
leaders like DR.. Harry Emerson
Fosdick, humble American men
like a white southerner from
Athens, Ga, all pouring into my
office day after day - Don't
bulge. don't retreat, stand up and
fight for the best for America.
SO / come back and ask the
question again, What has changed
since May Is and 1877 Has the
timeless, the immortal, and the
divine changed? Has truth, in
tegrity, and your own self re-
spect? Has the fortress of your
soul distintegrated and the ram
parts of your conscience been in
vaded by the untruth of propa-
ganda and the high citadel of our
ethical witness succumbed to the
cheap political pressures Of the
few?
Where stand you therefore in
the American dream today?
Have you decided to squander
the blrthright Of America for a
mess Of Pentagon pottage and
partisan patronages
All this ! do not believe. i be-
lieve you are the same American
men and women who stood here
on May IS and 10 and gave a
great witness TO the power of God
and your individual conscience. !
do not believe that we here in
this Congress are nothing more
than cheap counterparts of the
enslaved. the voiceless, the I'M
regarded and the Goddess puppets
inin the Soviet Union.
This il surging world and
demands soaring spirits.
This Is q hopeless world un-
less the voice Of prophecy Ii
heard In the land.
This is a Grass world, turning
ever more into the paths OF the
material and the shoddy unless
here today and every day we con-
tinue to hold higher than ever.
higher the American dream.
Who therefore Is for this a.
mendment? The people. Abe Lin
coin once said the only govern
ment that would not perish from
the earth" would be a government
"of the people. by the oepple, and
for the people" So here today let
us restore integrity to this House.
Let us lift the arms of our Presi-
dent, arms that are being weigh
ed down by the whispered conf
dences OF men who would not let
America be America.
Let us send the President of the
United States to Geneva to the
Big Four Conference with God on
his side. Let him go to the sum-
nit talk with right and right
eousness and truth. We are told
that he must go there 10 nego-
tate from strength. What
strength is the Pentagon talking
about? Do they mean a Prussian-
lied army and a hypocritical
America of loud pretenses? The
greatest strength that an Ameri-
can has is the strength OF God on
his side and the strength Of the
idea Of democracy pure and I'M
defiled.
The Soviet masters will laugh
at the United States In Geneva
this summer II we come waving
the flag Of a free world when they
know we are being backed up by a
Jim Grow Army whose core is a
Jim Crow National Guard. Let us
send General Eisenhower to &C.
neva as a spearhead for peace.
backed up by the mighty phal-
anxes Of the American people,
black and white and brown and
yellow and undergirded with the
strength of the idea of democracy.
the moral fiber Of our Founding
Fathers, the spirit of God In
carnate.
This week end marks another
anniversary in the freedom of
America, the Fourth of July. The
first man 10 die. 70 law down his
life that America might be free
was a black man, Crispus Attacks
walking across Boston Common in
defiance Of the British redcoats.
How shall you pass that statue as
you walk down Beacon Street this
week end. Mr.. Martin and Mr..