| Show Louisiana's Deplorable Shooting LONG Louis Louisiana's nas na's swashbuckling HUEY Pooh-Bah Pooh invited the fate him Sunday night Even those who like some anti anti- Long henchmen thought it a good Idea upon second thought hought must deplore it Upon no moral ground may it be condoned The shooting was the premeditated act of a a man whose mind was at least temporarily unhinged Perhaps upon that at ground he earns pity It is not a difficult to believe that there are thousands of of Louisiana's citizens not far from borderline classification driven there thereby by hate or fear of the eg theis ic po political dictator r. r Apart from all moral considerations as a apr pr practical means of overthrowing g a political l. l system system tem tern rotten throughout it is thoroughly unsatisfactory unsatisfactory unsatisfactory perhaps utterly futile Those who al already al- al ready predict the crumpling of the astounding Long empire may have cause shortly to revise their assumptions Another leader among tho those e who have tasted the unholy profits of political corruption may spring up to carry carryon on the most astounding movement ever everto to sprout from American merican soil Long deluded his followers who have bave be become become be- be come amazingly numerous by dem demagoguery gog- gog ery un unmatched fl m matched i by any other fuer rabble rouser living Hying or dead His abominable lusts for gain and power were were l thinly veiled by c carefully r f calculated prOmises promse prom promises prom prom- se to lift t from suffering humanity b burdens real or fancied which he knew he lie could not lighten Pathologically Hue Huey and Hitler ap appeared appeared appeared ap ap- almost almos to be twins Bot Both had the gift of brilliance mesmeric leadership and oratory oratory- urr- urr erring perception of th the time tim and the place for their antics and capacity for self-delusion self to the point of belief in their own fal fait fantastic t st c b brain a chil c dren drOn The earnestness of appeal r froth from this tr transport from rom reality to unreality conceals once ls the sinister lusts which underlie it All this had made it p possible ss ble for him to become the Pied ie d Piper leading e ding the way to Utopia that is said to be three and one half one leagues from the ther r A. A vanishing point The mental state t of the the- chief henchmen of the Kingfish is Ao to J be measured by the he order is sued Monday by Colonel E. E P P. P Roy that t state i highway hw police were e ere e to o shoot loot down an any lI r dr at azid t rid th the thesta sta state C capitol OK oJ the tha b where e Huey lay fighting for hi his li life e Ruler Rule by g gunfire was iras th the alpha and omega of f th the Long pg dictatorship His own bodyguard of a n. n men en armed to the teeth was wa's his substitute f or r moral mora or or physical p cou courage age but it failed hUn him in the hour of f. f peril A b. b bulletproof vest would have served him i in bet better cr stead but it would re not have been as Satis Satisfying S to his ego 1 4 What the Kingfish has nas created created- in ina a a state state where he mixed go good with with- evil is a politic political l volcano vol vol- cano ano The outbreak of of- violence r which cost st hi his life holds the po b lity of l later te ez eruption t of far more serious consequences It wo would ld not be a r i from u tuI shooting in th the capitol S Sunday nd y night t to th open warfare between betYe factions arr arrayed red against each other in this strange range throwback cK to feudalism By i long ng od odds s a majority o of the p people would people would have hav wished for the political death of Senator Long achieved through app appeals als to re reason reason on Few outside de of f Louisiana will disagree with the ut utterance utterance ut- ut te terance terance- a ce of President nt Roosevelt target target for for Longs Long's most thrusts who the venomous deplored at attack attack attack at- at tack by r Dr W Weiss iss 41 The Tle spirit of of x violence is ispA American un-American p-A p erica and has no place in consideration a of public affairs least of all when calm and dispassionate dis dis- l passionate lOnate approach h. h to to- the difficult problems of Pt o the he day is so essential he said at Hyde Park Utah's bs b's Senator Thomas with wit first hand knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge dge o of the troubles of Lou Louisiana and regarding th the attacker as irresponsible and thoughtless said of the hi shooting It cannot bring better conditions ns The American system of recall is ii isto t to use ballots and not bullets |
