Montana labor news., 1932-12-08

mouths, seven times more tax
than one mouth. So much per foot
Billionaire buys one pair of shoes
one tax. Billy de Pawper buys one
pair, one tax. Even!
OF course if Billy de Pawper has
a wife and six children, and Billion
aire has only himself, wife, anc
puppy to shoe, Billy de Pawper pays
four times more shoe tax than Bill
lionare. But as four-fifths of the
money both pay is used keeping up
the war machine of Billionare in
service Billy is shot, he has nc
kick coming. Leastways, not after
he's been shot.
How the anticipated government
economies are going to be brought
about deponent Locky sayeth not
But the way economies are usually
interpreted by the All-Highest,
assume it means adding a few thou
sand government employees to the
~ million unemployed private en-
ployes. If so, the government will
considerable money for all con-
cerned.
II will save the money formerly
~squandered on government en-
ployes. 1t will save the ex-em-
ployes from spending money on
merchandise. II will save the mer-
chants the salaries of the sales
people who used to wait on the
ex-government employees. If some
of them are compelled to close
their stores, it will save them
the rent on the stores also. 1t will
save manufacturers the wages of
the machine hands who used to
turn out goods for that particular
number of government employees.
1t will save the railroad companies
the wages of the railroaders who
would have hauled the goods had
they been turned out. 1t will save
the farmers, dairymen, and truck
gardeners the trouble of feeding
the former government employees,
and what is still better, the mer-
chants, sales people, manufacturers,
machine hands, and ~railr0aders
whose income has already been
saved.
Finally, and best of all, it will
save the chosen few who are still at
a loss what to do with their money
the pain of paying increased income
and inheritance taxes. Anyhow, the
sufferin' sovereigns voted for a
and THEY GOT IT. Swindle,
Inc, is out; Humbug & Co. is in.
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However, while it is rather easy to
fool all of us some of the time and
most Of us all of the time (Yep, ours
is a government of majorities) there
are some people who are difficult
to fool at any time. And foremost
among them are intelligent French
men. Says Louvre, Paris, comment
ing on the late change: Gone party
in the United States is called Re-
publican to distinguish it from the
Democrats, and the other calls itself
so as not to be confused
the Republican. That, in fine,
is the difference between the two
parties and all the significance of
their names"
Jules Sauerwein, in the "Paris
Soir" says that Wall Street waged
a good fight for Hoover, and adds
that prominent New Workers are
confirming his view that there will
be mo great change if Roosevelt was
elected" Some of them also ex-
pressed the opinion that unless a
Democratic administration succeeded
in %conjuring away the present crisis,
the present election would be the last
to be fought between the two ira
tional parties. and finally one bank
err interviewed by Mr.. Sauerwein
opines that if things are not put
right between now and 1886, the
next president will be a Socialist.
Well, the Democratic conjurors will
succeed no better than did the WOO
doc doctors Of. Republican persuasion,
the causes of the crisis are too
deep-rooted to yield to c~oniuring
tricks. At the same time, | have
my doubts that Mr.. Roosevelt will
be followed by a Socialist president.
FOR INDIGNATION is NOT EDU-
CATION, AS THE LATE ELEC-
TON AMPLY DEMONSTRATED.
FOR