| Show Liberty League lit Hit By Senator Thomas At Fraternity Meet leet MeetA A denouncement of the American Americ Americ- an Liberty L League ague unique enough to be interesting was included in inan inan inan an address SS of Senator Elbert D. D Thomas Thoma CD D. D Utah before the open meeting sponsored by Phi Delta Kappa National honorary educational fraternity at Teachers Teach Teach- ers College Columbia University Frida Friday night February 14 1936 After a short introductory paragraph paragraph par par- Senator Thomas continued continued continued contin contin- As a politician there ther are three things I must talk about before I proceed with my theme or cl else e eyou you will not think you are h hearing ring ringa a political speech First is the Liberty Liberty Liberty Lib Lib- erty League There is a current word which falls faIls from the tongue of American slang artists and which is fast taking a real place in our business vocabulary and that word is jall py is a trade term for an auto automobile obile that is useless for anything but plain junk or ora ora ora a museum exhibit The Liberty League Leagus seems to me to be the best open corporation of junked political political political ical that our country has yet produced Whenever I hear the title American Liberty League I am reminded of a famous sentence sentence sentence sent sent- ence by an equally famous author Viscount Bryce who wrote a book on the Holy Roman Empire wherein where where- in he states that the Holy Roman Empire was not holy it was not ot i Roman and was not an empire The Amer American can Liberty League is only American in the same sense that a Chinese laundry aundry or a Gre Greek Gresk k restaurant may be called an American American American Am Am- laundry or an American restaurant It knows nothing of ot liberty and it is a league only in that sens sense that we might ight dignify a clique of high binders as a league of liberty loving gentlemen of the road The American Liberty League is therefore not American American American Amer Amer- ican it is not interested in liberty and it is not a league |
