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Show 1 WE'RE NOT ALWAYS ' FOOLED. The American people may be a busy, self-centered race. They may not be world minded when it comes to the world politics, but they are not stupid and once aroused they are not easy to deceive. This fact is evidenced evidenc-ed by the passage a few days ago by the United States Senate of the fif-on fif-on x-.t bill, and act which proves further that even the most subtle and persistent sort, of propaganda will not 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 of it was cunningly devised with its real menace carefully hidden beneath a sivrar coating. Organizations in Washington and in other parts of the country have sent out tons of pacifist paci-fist 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 construction of the cruisers in the near future. 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 newspapers in the United States, as evidenced by their editorial columns, col-umns, were for the cruiser bill. It is only fair to believe that the policy of; Pir nwr.rppr? of the country and 1 the vote of the Senate fairly represent repre-sent the opinion of the great major-itv major-itv of people of the United States. There has been a great deal of fun "o'-ed at the American Senate ,o late, but the vote on the cruiser bill proves that the Senate when a time of real crisis in American affairs prrives, is able to rise above all partisan par-tisan considerations and all business of a minor nature, 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 nd internationalists who seemed to be arriving ab the conclusion that noisy minority could do anything if it only made enough noise and put o"t enough propaganda. It will be interesting in-teresting to note what direction the anti-American propaganda will take next. |
