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Nile Kinnick correspondence, December 1942-March 1943
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the greed of other nations. We have a lot of gall trying to tell England how to run India when we can cope with the Negro problem here no better than we do. Although I have very little sympathy with the way southerners treat their colored folk I can understand the hesitancy with which they would abolish the poll tax. But it will have to come sometime, and if they would only educate the negroes how much better the problem could be handled. If I were an Englishman I would feel that America must be crazy to talk about freedom for all, plus a pint of milk a day, when in 1938 our highest legislative body coudn't (or wouldn't) even pass an anti-lynching law. Just think of that! In all this talk about world freedom and world economic security all too little is said about the necessity of earning it. That has been one of the sins of the New Deal in their social reforms. They have led the people to believe that high wages and good social conditions can be had as a matter of charity from a paternalistic gov't. Public psychology being what it is people will accept an hand out with little thought for future consequences. National leaders who mislead us this way, are to be condemned. You must earn & pay as you go or the final result is bankruptcy. Enclosed are two posted money orders--one for $100 & one for $25. Please buy three war bonds, or the equivalent and deposit the rest. Love, Nile
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the greed of other nations. We have a lot of gall trying to tell England how to run India when we can cope with the Negro problem here no better than we do. Although I have very little sympathy with the way southerners treat their colored folk I can understand the hesitancy with which they would abolish the poll tax. But it will have to come sometime, and if they would only educate the negroes how much better the problem could be handled. If I were an Englishman I would feel that America must be crazy to talk about freedom for all, plus a pint of milk a day, when in 1938 our highest legislative body coudn't (or wouldn't) even pass an anti-lynching law. Just think of that! In all this talk about world freedom and world economic security all too little is said about the necessity of earning it. That has been one of the sins of the New Deal in their social reforms. They have led the people to believe that high wages and good social conditions can be had as a matter of charity from a paternalistic gov't. Public psychology being what it is people will accept an hand out with little thought for future consequences. National leaders who mislead us this way, are to be condemned. You must earn & pay as you go or the final result is bankruptcy. Enclosed are two posted money orders--one for $100 & one for $25. Please buy three war bonds, or the equivalent and deposit the rest. Love, Nile
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