Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-08-05

"AAs a0
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 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 1872 Has the
timeless. the immortal, and the
divine changed? Has truth. in
tegrity, and your own self re-
spectT Has the fortress OF your
soul distintcgrated and the ram
parts OF your conscience been in
vaded by the untruth OF propa.
ganda and the high citadel OF our
ethical witness succumbcd to the
cheap political pressures OF the
few?
Where stand you therefore in
the American dream today?
Have you decided Ia squandcr
the birthright of America for n
mess Of Pentagon pottage and
partisan patronage
All this ! do not believe ] be-
lieve you are the same American
men and women who stood here
on May rs and 10 and gave
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
cnslaved. the voiceless, the I'M
regarded and the Goddess puppets
inin the Soviet Union.
This IL a surEinE world and
demands soaring spirits.
This IL . hopeless world un-
less the voice Of prophecy IL
heard In the land.
This In Grass world, turning
ever more into the paths OF tho
material and the shoddy unless
here today and every day we con-
tinue TO hold higher than ever.
higher the American dream.
Who therefore In for this a
mendment7 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 10 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 10 Geneva 10 the
Big -Four Conference with God on
his side Let him 20 10 the sum
NIT talk with right and right
cousness and truth We are told
that he must go there 10 nego-
tate from strength What
strength IL the Pentagon talking
about DO they mean a Pr,IEsian-
lied army and a hypocritical
America Of loud pretsnses7 The
greatest strength that an Ameri-
can has IL the strength of God on
his side and the strength 81 the
idea Of democracy pure and I'M
defiIed
The Soviet masters will laugh
at the United states IN Geneva
this summer II we come waving
the flag Of n free world when they
know we are being backed up by n
Jim Crow Army whose core is q
Jim Grow National Guard Let us
send General Eisenhower 20 &c
nsva as a spcarhead for peace,
backed up by the mighty phal-
anHss Of the American people,
black and white and brown and
yellow and unJergirded with the
strength 81 the idea % democracy,
the moral fiber 81 our Founding
Fathers the spirit Of God in
cAruAts.
This week end marks another
anniversary in the freedom 81
America. the Fourth ~ July The |
first man TO die. 10 law down his |
life that America might be free
was a black man, Crtspus Attucks
walking across Boston Common In |
defiance % the British rsdCOats.
How shall you pass that statue AZ
you ~alk down Beacon Street this |
week end. Mr. Martin and Mr. |