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J une 22, 1935 Ooag. Hamilton Fish, Speaking at Annual Meeting of Citizens’ Alli ance, Delivers Scathing Denunciation of Both Communism and Fascism. Attempt of Labor Review to Portray Fish as Fascist Propaganda, Repeated by Words of That Speech. Be Fair Enough to Read the Congressman's Plea for Americanism (Continued from last week) I do not propose to speak on any of the political issues in Con gress with the exception of refer ring to two of the recent bills, one that passed the other day, and one now pending for the conscription of wealth and indus try in time of war. I will just men tion this $4,800,000,000 bill, be cause there is a principle in . volved. I consider the granting of this money to the President to be a rape of our legislative pow ers in the Congress and a be trayal of our representative form of government. It makes no dif ference whether the president is good, bad, or indifferent, wheth er he is a Republican or a Demo crat, it amounts to the destruc tion of the legislative power handing over to the President the control of the purse strings the very reason for the existence of Congress itself. Here, for the first time in all these years of our his tory, Congress by its own act supinely surrenders and abro gates those powers and turns them over to the Chief Execu tive, with the result that the Con gress is left almost naked and de li fenseless, as far as its control • • _ _ over appropriations is concerned, r" It practically has no more power left than Gandhi has clothing. (Laughter.) If it was not this kind of a meeting I could speak at length on that particular principle, not questioning the need of relief it self, because I am for relief, but questioning the principle in volved, the changing of our rep resentative form of government and our constitutional form of government without the consent or approval of the American peo ' pie. (Applause.) There is likewise pending in the Congress a bill to take the profit out of war, to conscript wealth and industry, man power, and soldiers alike. We are a great peaceful and peace-loving people. There is absolutely no reason for America to go to war. The only possible way that we can ever get into war again is by & insisting on selling and shipping munition of war and weapons of war to belligerent nations with whom we are at peace to destroy people with whom we are at peace. That is what got us into the World War. We did not seek to enter the World War, and it is well to remember now that we did not start the World War either. We went into the war merely because our ships, flying the American flag, were attacked on the high seas by German sub marines, without warning and our ships were sunk; with the result that we were forced into the war against our own desire and against our own will. It is also well to remember that A DOCTRINE OF AMERICANISM when we went into the war we did our part. We sent 2,000,000 soldiers to the other side and turned the tide of defeat into vic tory. After the armistice was signed and the victory won we brought our troops home. We asked for nothing and we got ex actly what we asked for, nothing at all (laughter and applause) ; no reparations, no indemnities, no conquered territory, no plun der of any kind. We haven’t any thing to apologize for. But soon after the war was over our Allies, whom we had saved, even re fused to pay the interest on their war debts, and they now refuse to pay back any of the money that we loaned them even after the armistice. So I say, as far as I’m con cerned, as a member of the Com mittee on Foreign Affairs, if the European nations insist on going mad, insist on arming to the teeth, insist on making war, it is their war and not ours. (Ap plause.) The policy of the United States should be to, keep out of all foreign entanglements and intrigues, to stop passing moral judgments on other nations, to cease trying to police the world, to stop pulling the chestnuts out of the fire for foreign nations, and, above all, to mind our own business because we have plenty of problems to mind at home. (Applause.) Although I believe in our prof it system and in our industrial system, based upon private ini tiative and reasonable profits, if it comes to the question of sell ing munitions and arms to belig erent nations for the sake of prof it, I urge the strictest regulation over those munitions of war. And if that does not stop it, 1 would vote for Government ownership of the munitions factories. (Ap plause.) As a veteran, I want to tell you that the time must never come again when the United States of America will be forced into war because of the sale of munitions of war. If we are to have an other war, it must be in defense of the United States and not in defense of war profits or the munition makers of America. (Applause.) There is no reason ■for this country of ours to be the potential slaughterhouse of the world or the symbol for arms or munitions of war backed by the dollar sign. If I had been pres ent in Congress today I would have voted to support the pro gram of the American Legion, to conscript all wealth, all labor, all industry, all man power, and all soldiers in case of any future war. (Applause.) I used the word “wealth” and by that I am reminded of the dis tribution of wealth. I do not pro pose to enter into any argument THE SATURDAY PRESS with Huey Long , but I would point out the fact that wealth has been more distributed in the last five years, since 1929, than in the entire history of the United States. Rich men have lost from a half to two-thirds of their for tunes, some have lost all, and some former millionaires are now penniless. I am not so concerned about the distribution of wealth as I am about the distribution of poverty. I am not concerned about the distribution of wealth because, if things continue the way they are going for another two years, you won’t have any wealth to distribute. I have been asked to speak to you tonight on communism. I do so with some reluctance. Some 5 years ago I was appointed chairman of a House committee to investigate Communist activi ties and propaganda in the Unit ed States. At that time I was attacked from all sides by the radicals, socialists, and Commu nists naturally, but also by the conservatives, because they thought I was interfering with their God-given right to make an almighty dollar through trade with Soviet Russia. I do not suppose anybody was more at tacked or more maligned. In re cent years I have not spoken very Hazel’s ‘Wonder Tablets Why Suffer With Stomach Trouble? Why Not Enjoy Your Meals Instead of Dreading Them? Nature Intended You to “Eat, Drink and Be Merry** Not “Eat, Sip and Be in Agony’' TRY||HAZEL’S WONDER TABLETS A Quick and Positive Relief For Stomaeh Ailments Caused by Hyper-Acidity, Which in Turn Causes Indigestion A Bottle Containing a 30 Day Treatment lOO Tablets Sent To Any Address in the U. S. For Only TWO DOLLARS! Send Money Order or Draft (No Stamps) Address BELLA HAZEL’S LABORATORIES 948 So. Arizona Ave. Los Angeles, California often on this subject, but I will do so tonight by special request. I am no alarmist. I do not anticipate any revolution from the Communists tomorrow morn ing at dawn, or the next day, or the next year, because the Com munists are far too intelligent. They know if they started a rev olution by armed force, using a Russian word, they would be liq uidated in 2 weeks’ time by the Regular Army, the National Guard, the American Legion, and other forces for good gov ernment in the United States (applause), and that is why we will have no revolution from the Communists. But it is a very important is sue, because the Communists are fanatics. They will do 100 per cent more to tear down and des troy our Government than we will to uphold it and defend it. Furthermore, they are w’ell or ganized, although few in num ber. There are probably not more than a million Communists and Communist sympathizers in the United States at the present time. The reason I abhor Commu nism, perhaps more than most, is that I am naturally somewhat of a liberal. I believe in the right of the people to govern them selves and in the preservation and extension of democracy, whereas communism is the most despotic form of government in the world, backed by force and terror and the bread ticket in Soviet Russia, where the people have no rights and no liberties of any kind, such as we know them in this country of ours. We have no right to pass judgment on for eign nations. We have no right really to question the kind of government that exists in Soviet Russia, only so far as it inter feres with our own Government in the United States. . Now, what are the aims and purposes of the Communists? There are some things commend able about the Communists, be cause we know exactly where they stand and w f hat principles they advocate. It is entirely dif ferent. I am ashamed to say, with the Republicans and Demo crats, who make their platforms one day and begin to forget about it the next —especially the Dem ocratic Party. (Laughter and applause.) All Communists, no matter where they are, whether they are in Soviet Russia, Berlin, Paris, New York. Los Angeles, or Pe kin, advocate identically the same principles. Therefore, it is very easy to describe what they are, and I believe that merely stating those principles is the best way to combat communism in the United States. They can not appeal to intelligent free American citizens, whose rights and liberties are guaranteed by the Constitution. (To be continued next week)