The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-12-11

"Our National Economic and Military Defenses Must be
Strengthened Not Raced
4 MERICA needs and for its safety, MUST HAVE AN
n AWAKENING! We fortunate beyond any nation
of all time in that have all the elements of prosperity and
stability within ourselves We have the opportunity to pul
unique experiment in such guidance of the machine
age that its rapid additions to the human wealth may bel
and dfused among the Masses esSenng poverty
and constantly increasing the general life.
But cannot carry that experiment successfully by
merging property ideals with those of nations
travelling the road disaster through loyalty to barbara
conceptions of government under which liberty prosperity
and stability are impossible.
Our total exports are but eight percent our total trade
and trade figures take of that vast share of curl
production which does not enter into the channels of barter
and little of this export volume due to financial manpua
ton rather than foreign necessity. That international
fnancers and ndustrass have invested five percent OF
national wealth in foreign adventures of dubious merit
and demand that standards of and living be
exposed to the destructive competition of lower foreign STAN
dards of enabling them to make good their
investments is sufficient for sacrificing Amer
lean prosperity stability to foreign demands necessities
The ncessant propaganda in hundred forms, which
ceeds from this commercial quarter for the breaking down
of American natonalsm, is a national menace.
Let permit American radicals and psuedo-berals
mentally polluted with European conceptions of the master
state and the slave citizen partnership with international
nancer and ndusraists who subsdze their propaganda
that the work Of exploiting European cheap labor and bank
rupt governments profaby in the of world
brotherhood lead this nation down the dark bloody road
Europe is taking Let not permit the adopts and dupes
of sociasc and capitastc nernationaism to break
down the morale Of America that must the end like
Germany be compelled to confront choice between two
tagonstc forms Of despotism which threaten all that
has been achieved for freedom the of centuries
Indifference in the face Of formidable subversive
movement is treason The past peTanency of form of
government is guaranty of future peranency In the
insdOus persistent and aoosuccesfu assault upon Am
theology may the absence of awakening find
fufment of the dctum of Lenn that the destruction of a
nations theology prepares the way for the destruction of
its institutions Half the effort given this program
of destruction applied in intelligent opposition by those
who American in their hearts well in birth
dence would suffice to render mpotent this whole propa-
2anda of spurious internationalism.
AS of national self preservation must keep
house in order We be unwilling surrender
control to the control either of private political des
pots. Private despotism, eXerted through undue
nomc control by few be curbed by people alive tC
their responsibilities voters acting through their
ment political despotsm cannot be controlled because
is the government. Enrenched in concentrated power i
cannot be overthrown except by force
Combinations of capital employed for honest productive
purposes not of themselves danger Deagogues hav
assaled bgness of corporate enterprises they
essential to the doing of big tasks But when capital is
cenrated not for the purpose of developing production blu
of Sitting competition, cornering and manipulating credit
destroying independent enterprise and exploiting the
Stunning public through unfair welding of the power
sesse then it becomes ant-socal and calls the
training hand of government.
There is point beyond which the concentration of cap
tai places power in the hands of few and not necessar
wisely periodically directed hands, and where may
employed almost UNANIMOUSLY and desructvey as powe
concentrated in the hands of politicians in control of gov
ernment and animated by the selfish lust for powe
for powers sake.
The situation in Germany has been made acute chief
because the financial system of Germany has fallen into
hands of small group of men whose credit control has e
troyed practically all competitive enterprise in that republic
and whose giant cares dominate both the internal and inter
national affairs of economic Germany
Combinations of capital must not be permitted to deveo