Show STEWART LETTER WASHINGTON r lf r I POLITICAL M DEHS nEUS FEAlt is nui nUl nr Ily 1 1 STI STIV V NKA IA Service Writer WASHINGTON Aug AU 7 This This country is on tho the point of a II show show- down It will mean one of or two I things 1 Well We'll 1 0 settle down to funda funda- fundamentalist fundamentalist fundamentalist I mentalist rule with no more mote yowl yowl- yowling 1 Ins ing In about n It Or 2 Well We'll bo liberalized ra zed aplenty aplenty I tho the fundamental fundamental- fundamentalists over liberalized fists I ts say This Is tho the opinion of politicians I fundamental and liberal alike alike alike- who drift In and out of ot Washing Washing- Washington ash Ing- Ing Ington ton swapping reports concerning the conditions con they observe In their arlous various bailiwicks Politically the fundamentalists control the country not country not effective effective- effectively ly everywhere but more or less ices generally nationally speaking How they gained control nobody quite knows know Its It's It a n situation which Just kinds Before Defore anybody realized It here hereIt It was tens The Tho liberals dont don't like It That's to be bo seen on every hand Nor do the fundamentalists like the way tho the liberals thrash around picking against Il tho pricks Who really Is In a a. majority Its It's Impossible to tell There nevers never's been a n conclusive test te t of ot strength Tho The liberals have given ground bit by bit without actually putting up much of a a. fight tight This Is dono done I with with with-they're they're about to make mako n a stand stand more more to put every ounce Into a desperate effort to drive the fundamentalists back hack So lIst fundamentalist and liberal politicians agree In reading the signs They agree too that tho the fundamentalists wont won't be satisfied with a 1 mere defense defense they'll they'll do their utmost to finish liberalism off for tor good The struggle wont won't center about any single narrow Issue Issue prohibition tion lion evolution some one detail of ot public morals some particular so- so called blue law The campaign will open open has has opened In fact with fact with a II little de detached de- de detached skirmishing of or this sort but those skirmishes will Increase In number and spread and finally merge Into one big general en engagement en- en engagement over oyer the Hie question of or the relationship between religion and government It wont won't be a fight between de- de denominations nominations j. j It will be a 0 fight tight be be- between between tween twe n those who alto say religion meaning the fundamentalists Is Interfering In government be between be- be between between I tween them and the tho fundamental fundamental- Isis The Tho fundamentalists to bo be sure deny they're doing doln any such thing thinS but tho the liberals Insist they are arc and that they're trying to Interfere moro and more more getting getting away with It H too A religious fight Is tho the bitterest kind of or a 0 fight The Tho thought of or It makes makes' e the hl politicians ns shudder but g they see It coming I The Tho charge Is being more and more openly made every eve y day by liberal protagonists that religion Is Increasingly not only Influential Ual but dominant In congress In White House louse counsels and even en In tho courts Its It's an Issue the tho liberals Intend to push Its It's dangerous but If it itcan Itcan itcan can bo be made mado to stick stick Americans Americans traditionally dont don't like religion and government go mixed Let the liberals present It lt con con- convincingly convincingly convincingly enough and they believe bellevo they'll have a strong case But Dut can they do It That re remains re- re remains remains mains to be seen |