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Show NOT AI.WAVS FOOLED The American people may be a bu.sy, .s' lf-centcred rac". Thty may not be world-miiided when it comes to world politics, but they are not stupid and once arou.ied they are not easy to deceivr This fact is evidenced by the passage by congress of the fifteen fif-teen cruiser bill, an act which proves further that even the most subtle and persistent sort of propaganda will no prevail when the country is "at attention." For months the members of the senate and the country as a whole have been suffering with a veritable deluge of pacifist propaganda. Some of it was the merest piffle, but some was cunningly devised with its real menace carefully hidden beneath a sugar coating. Organizations in Washington Wash-ington and other parts of the country coun-try have sent out tons of pacifist and anti-preparedness literature. In spite of all this, however, the fifteen-cruiser bill passed by the senate sen-ate by an overwhelming majority in fact with only a handful of votes against it and it passed with the time limit included, thus assuring the actual construction of the cruisers not on paper, but in the shipyards. Surveys of the newspapers of the country, carefully taken, have indicated indi-cated that in spite of the flood of pacifist propaganda which reached them, the overwhelming majority of the papers of the United States, as evinced by their editorial columns, were for the cruiser bill. It Is only fair to believe that the policy of the newspapers of the country and the vote of the senate fairly represents the opinion of the great majority of the people of the United States. The passage of this bill proves that the senate, when a time of real crisis in American affairs arrives, is able to rise above all partisan considerations considera-tions and all business of a minor nature, na-ture, to vote for the best interests of the country. The passage of the bill is a big victory for sound Americanism and a blow to the pacifists, communists and internationalists who seemed to be arriving at the conclusion that a noisy minority could do anything if it only made enough noise and put out enough propaganda. It will be interesting to note in what direction the anti-American propaganda will take next. |
