Montana labor news., 1932-11-24
TIMELY AND UNTIMELY

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grew before. During the admin
istration Of my distinguished prede-
cessor, grass grew only in Central
Park. That grass is gone. What was
not smothered out by the horde of
unemployed who used to sit and sleep
on it was eaten by the ~liquidated
nurse maids of Central Park West.
%Liquidated policemen subsequently
devoured the keep-off-the-gras signs.
Liquidated members of the Stock
Exchange even licked the grass off
the landscapes in the adjacent Metro
politan Museum of Art.
However, while Central Park is
again the barren rock that emerged
from the Atlantic in the long ago,
green grass grows all around Fifth
Avenue and the avenues paralleling
and intersecting Fifth Avenue. The
Biblical injunction, Lead us into
green pastures is fulfilled at last.
| point with pride to the Democratic
party which fulfilled it."
Blah, blah, blah-two stuffed shirts
minus heart and brain calling each
other names; this was the presiden-
tial campaign of 1882. Oh democracy,
what atrocities are committed in thy
namel >
Well, the shouting is over. The
pouting and knouting is yet to come,
for R~oosevelt's election will change
exactly nothing. The victorious Dem
ocrat and the defeated Republican
working men (f they still have jobs)
will go to work the day after at the
usual hours and the usual starvation
pay. The victorious unemployed will
be as footsore hunting a job the day
after the election as he was the day
before the election, and so will his
vanquished brother in joblessness.
Whether Kansas went Republican or
Democratic will not change a penny
on 30-cent wheat. Nor would cotton
have jumped from five to six cents
had Texas gone Republican.
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What a naive people we arel
Tens of millions hardly know where
their next meal is to come from.
Industrial equipment worth tens
of billions is rotting and rusting
in idleness. Food to support mill
lions is eaten by maggots, weevils,
and rodents, while children go
hungry. Millions of bales of wool
and cotton glut warehouses, while
patched 0veralls are becoming the
fashion for both men and ONE
Side tracks are crowded with idle
engines and cars while every high
way is crowded with f00tsOre hitch
mixers. The whole thing is an in
suit to intelligence, a challenge to
civilization, an affront to ordinary
hOrse-sense ard common decency,
and We get excited over what par
ticular nonentity will broadcast the
customary inanities from the White
House during the coming four
years. = y +
When the history of this epoch is
written it will be found that we are
living in the very midst of the
GREATEST REVOLUTION OF ALL
AGES. Since the beginning of the
World war, which very likely was
but the overture of the revolution,
the world has little more than riot,
eruption, explosion and turmoil. Gov
ernments come and go. Century-old
monarchies become democracies, or
sink into relationships. Kings and
ministers are bowled over like so
many nine-pins. Laborites chase
Tories; Social Democrats chase
Junkers; and are chased in return.
However, irrespective of the most
violent changes in the heads and
character Of government, the only
change in the condition of the under
lying population is that from bad to
worse.
The reasons for this non-change-
ability in a rapidly changing world
are easy enough to see. Every ex-
listing government, be it called
monarchy, republic, democracy, or
dictatorship, is a capitalist govern
ment, whose chief function is to
prolong the present economic or
der-that is, the very system re-
sponsible for the deplorable condi-
ton of the masses. In other words,
we have new firm names on the
show windows, but the goods on
the inside are the same.
The capitalist nations of the world
are bankrupt, not because they have
the wrong governments, but because
Capitalism is bankrupt. Putting new
shingles on the roof of a structure
whose foundation is crumbling will
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