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Show I . 1 I" 1 , mA I II IFegleh Sees Et I tig Wea t brook Pegler j Released by WNU Features. "pHERE has been an ignoble note 1 of humility in most of the stated comment of the American press on the recent solemn referendum. The editorial remarks of the Hearst publications pub-lications are an honorable exception, excep-tion, and although Mr. Howard of the Scripps-Howard group seemed to be cheering the conqueror, I listened lis-tened closely and what he really said was something about suckers , reproducing their kind. ; There may be others who have stood to their convictions, but on mii , the whole there has I . been a tendency to : i . : throw in with Pres-j Pres-j j t 1 ldent Truman with '&yZ frightened and V , Ai jf.y trite observation i ; 1 V-? mZ j j that the people have ' 'i''m'f sPken and 11181 toe if vV'j people can't be wrong. There is a ' i i''l distinct impression ' iNv xJ that these election pegler refturn; by stimy- lating Mr. Truman s spirits and self-confidence, have also enlarged and fortified his char-t char-t acter and broadened his education and wisdom. Obviously, they have done no such thing. They couldn't, and only pol-troons pol-troons or sordid mercenaries who hope to propitiate the President and escape punishment for acting the part of Americans in campaign time would entertain this absurd proposition. propo-sition. Mr. Truman Is the same man today that he was the day before be-fore election, a more Ingratiating Ingratiat-ing man by far than Governor Dewey, a fighter who doesn't care if he does tear his pants and get his glasses busted and ' doesn't mind rolling among the gobboons; a man so truly of the people that be figures out what would fool him If he were In their place aud uses it to fool them. The idea that a man who so recently re-cently would play a pliant part in the inner villainies of an urban machine, ma-chine, which will live in history as a great corruption, could suddenly become a spiritual crusader for the right, cannot bear intelligent inspection. inspec-tion. . The fact Is. as Nor- Issues Inan xhomas puts it. Not that neither Mr. Tru- Discussed man nor Mr- DeweT discussed the Issues. As to whether Dewey should have corne down off his toes and slugged with the President, I am not a bigot As matters turned out. he had nothing noth-ing to lose by fighting head-to-head, but in 1944 he let Roosevelt pull him into a slugging match with his speech to the tosspots at the Teamster's Team-ster's dinner, and lost the decision. I thought he did very well at the Infighting that tfme but should have gouged old moose-Jaw moose-Jaw with dirty cracks about the family graft and the hcrcdl-tary hcrcdl-tary Roosevelt opium fortune. If a man is going to fight rough he shouldn't restrain himself. During this campaign I read several sev-eral speeches of both men. It Is tius that the President sounded like a split - week imitator of Milton Berle in a low-ceiling Joint in Newport, New-port, Ky., with his witty cracks and comical expressions, but Dewey wasn't even funny. His speech about Communists was souffle almost all the way and his actual remedies were not original and too briefly stated. Both men pretended Israel to discuss Palestine, fg which will be fateful Our Ward 'ut"re of independent western republic and already lays terrible burdens and responsibilities upon us. Israel is our ward and protege. But enslaved Poland, a nation with a history, only recently robbed of her integrity by consent of the United Unit-ed States, is forgotten, as an isolationist iso-lationist might plausibly argue that she could be. We do not know what proportion propor-tion of the Immigrants to Israel ever had any religion at all, but we do know that many of them arc absolute atheists ad Communists, Com-munists, claiming refuge from "religious" persecution. And anyone who has tried to consider consid-er the merits of the Arab case or even the true Interests of our own country has been damned out of hand as a Nazi. Truman and Dewey ignored every fact of m this problem, deliberately shunning intelligent discussion because be-cause both men knew that "the people" peo-ple" couldn't bs trusted to consider it without passion. The nominee! were right and there, I remind you, . proof that when the people speak, a. we are solemnly told the;' did al the polls, they often speak appall ing clap-trap. Those who believed that federal intrusion in the police problems ol the states is wrong, that the poll-tax poll-tax is a domestic problem for each state, that socialism- is a blight or progress and a curse on humanitj are not necessarily wrong becausi "the people" voted, as Mr. Trumai put it, "against the 75-cent lamb-chop." |