Show t What Our Readers Think I i Editors Editor's S note note- Contributors to IV What Whet l Reader Think MIH must sign yn their 1111 frue faa names es and i addresses although these will not be published if the writer r r I quests Sho Short letters will be gi given en preference I Upbraids Telegram Sena Senator or 1 For Changing Their Views Views' j Editor Telegram For the past I few years I have been a subscriber subscriber subscriber sub sub- scriber to your paper and have followed your editorial comments comments com corn ments and have analyzed them very carefully but some of them themI I cant can't agree with When you were talking about America staying out of Europe and minding her own business and when you preached the neutrality neutrality neu neu- act all of ot those things I could heartily agree with Then when the international banking clique told you to change your policy you changed your policy and have been preaching war and nothing but war ever since You have been preaching and trying to train the American people to follow such a crackpot crackpot crackpot crack crack- pot as our president You have been louding now with big headlines everything that our crackpot Senator Thomas has had to say So now I am submitting another headline headline headline head head- line for you and ask you to p publish Rub pub blish b- b lish that and give it the s same me prominent space which it should have in your paper that his war speeches are having Of course it will be silly for forme forme forme me to expect you to do it because because because be be- cause this speech that the senator senator sen sen- ator made was as he said for peace and peace is against your your policy But it does show what a deceitful double-crossing double character character character char char- acter our senator is I note the comment in your editorial concerning the small business man Yes the small mall business man is going out of business and the reason for that thatis is our president and all of his supporters have so desired and designed that they should go out of business I say that Franklin D. D Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt should be charged with the crime of ot treason and treated accordingly and all of you warmongering warmongering war war- mongering editors belong in the same class Now Mr Editor I quote from the Congressional Record Mr Thomas' Thomas speech and dare you to print the contents of this letter and this speech Mr Thomas of Utah Utah- So far faras faras faras as I am ann concerned I stand exactly exactly exactly ex ex- ex- ex where I think the pending joint resolution stands I am an opposed to giving credit to any country on earth for war pur par poses Is that plain Mr Downey Is lB that a declaration declaration dec dec- l' l Mr Mr Thomas of Utah That Thatis is my stand and I think it is perfectly per understandable The United States of America should not extend credit should not a alow at al atlow low foreign nations to obtain credit should not allow foreign nations to sell bonds in our country coun cows try In other words the wars o of foreign nations should be t financed fi by foreign nations nation Mr Downey I am happy to have provoked that declaration which I take it is a commitment to the American people If I ui un an- understand the senator from Utah Uta he he now means means and and if I am in error I should like to be co cor cor- reeled that that if conditions should develop under which the allies allie still needed war supplies from J Jus us and could not pay for them then he would refuse to grant them credit with which to buy Is that what I am to understand l' l Mr Thomas of Utah Certainly Certainly Certainly I stand upon the primary thesis that the United States State should not finance the wars o of other nations We have quite t 8 task of our own Vol 85 pp 8 October t 1939 1935 Those who have thought only of one thing the lift lg of the embargo on the assumption assumption tion that England and France are in m need of airplanes and that thai thatis thatis is the whole issue fail fall to o see through the act which we ar are aref proposing to pass as a unit The Th proposed act can in no ense sense be deemed pro-German pro and aM anti anti- British It can in no sense be be deemed pro-British pro and anti anti- German Vol 85 p p. October 6 1939 This statement or speech w was WU made when you were all crying to keep America out of war Let Lct me just remind you once again that you were preaching at that i I time to keep America out 0 of war A. A E E. Blackner I |