Program upon Which All American Patriots Can UNITE for Direct Action against Alienism.”
His appeal “to American Gentiles with Any Money Left” is flanked by such revealing phrases as “Blame Roosevelt!” “Americans Tricked!” “Communistic Jew Deal” and “Jews and Communism.”
The candidate modestly brackets himself with “Our Great Americans: Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, McFadden.”
VOICES THREAT TO JEWS
Under the heading “Jewry Warned,” McFadden gives voice to-the following threat:
“Must there be an open mass-march of Patriots to “Purge” Washington of alien ‘invisible rule,’ to restore Representative Government and establish a politico-economic Code of Honor?”
In an attempt to forestall an accusation which he knows is bound to be made, the ex-Congressman declares, “The writer is neither a lunatic nor a racketeer. He merely has ears that hear the warning signals, eyes that visualize the fateful future, patriotism to dramatize the Deadly Peril.”
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