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Supporters of the popular
radio priest Father Charles Coughlin are organizing to resist what he
and they call a "Socialist takeover" of the U.S. government
Hacky Sez:
The
Voice of the
People Will Be Heard
By Hacky Carp
Ace
Columnist There's one thing that
Frank
and Esther Rooseveltsky forgot about on their march to Soviet Style
Communism
right here in Old Sludgebury: the people. Maybe
the "New Deal" cabal can pull the wool over the eyes of Ivy League
eggheads, immigrant-owned newspapers, and New York social and religious
deviants, if you catch my drift, but the recent spontaneous rise of
the Coughlinites proves that real Americans won't stand idly by while
their precious liberties are under assault. Maybe
they don't spell as well as graduates of fancy private schools and
colleges, and maybe they don't speak in the quiet lisp of a Roosevelt
adviser, but they represent the flower of white Christian America. These independent-minded patriots have
independently come to the conclusion that, as Father Coughlin states
each and every week, the
New Deal is really "Satan's Deal" and independently heeded the radio
priest's call to resistance "by any means necessary." And don't think I'm expressing my support for
this grass-roots movement merely because my Sunday radio show follows
that of the good father's and I'm trying to boost my Crosby ratings by
holding onto His Eminence's audiences. Like
Paul Revere, I'm sounding the alarm about another foreign
invasion of America. And, unless they are repulsed at the
ballot box this fall, true patriots like me will have no
recourse but
to follow in the proud footsteps of the Minutemen and arm ourselves to
oppose the Roosevelt dictatorship by force if necessary.
[Didn't you pawn your
rifle last year? –
Ed.]
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| | By David Bloviator
Political
Editor
In what the Democrats must surely regard
as an ominous development for the fall elections, thousands if not
hundreds of thousands of loyal followers of radio priest Charles
Coughlin
have vowed to turn the Democrats and what they refer to as their
"Jewish moneylenders" out of office. The
grass-roots activists say they are motivated by a desire to free
America from the clutches of "big government," which they say is
threatening to destroy the fundamental liberties that Americans take
for granted. The Coughlinites
claim that the mass media have failed to cover them fairly, a claim
reiterated by Father Coughlin himself in last Sunday's ratio address,
broadcast nationwide and heard locally each and every Sunday
on WMS, the 50,000-watt
broadcasting service of the Spy Publishing Company. According to the charismatic radio
personality, the New
York Times and other "Jew-owned" newspapers are engaged in
a "perfidious conspiracy" to suppress the truth about Franklin
Roosevelt's Socialist crusade to strip away basic American liberties. Coughlin said that the New Deal represented a
"Satanic interference" with the rights of business and servants to
freely negotiate the terms of their own labor. The sage of
the Little Flower Shrine warned his listeners that unless Roosevelt and
the Democrats are defeated in November, they will continue to
advance their Red plot. He said
that a Democratic victory in the 1934 elections would lead to big
government setting the minimum wages that employers could pay and an
unconstitutional scheme to force all working Americans to buy unneeded
"Social Security" old-age insurance whether they wanted it or
not. The
radio cleric's call to "hang the Democrats from the old oak tree" has
apparently struck a responsive chord with many in the Greater Sludge
River Valley. "We can't afford Roosevelt's reckless and
irresponsible spending," said James X. Burke of Sludge Heights. who
said he feared higher taxes on his veterans' benefits. His mother, Kathleen M. Burke said:
"Roosevelt bailed out the Wall Street banks. What
about us?" Asked if she planned to turn down her forthcoming
Social Security check, she replied: "Roosevelt bailed out the Wall
Street banks. What about us?" Her
sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary K. Burke, expressed the frustration that
motivates many of Father Coughlin's followers: "We feel as if
our country is being taken away from us by Roosevelt and his
foreign Socialist advisers. We need a real American like
Herbert Hoover to restore traditional American values." She repeated Father Coughlin's claims that a
cabal of foreign Jewish advisers had taken charge of the U.S.
Government bent on America into a Soviet-style Communist dictatorship.
"Can you imagine allowing Jews run the Executive Branch of
our government?" Mrs. Burke asked. "At this rate, by 1940 the
Democratic candidate for President will be a ni-" (continued on back page)
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