Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
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ington and the truck factories would
be working overtime. Well, Herbert
didn't listen to me, and now he's 60
ing back to engineering.
1t beats all how little attention the
great mes of this earth pay to my
suggestion. No man of my age has
broadcast more world-saving ideas
than | have, but the %dumbbells never
take my advice and see where the
world is getting to.
It's a pity, too, because this is the
best world / ever got into. But gosh,
what peoplel How the Good Lord
ever turned out a botched job like
that is beyond me. Take the Ameri-
can people for illustration. Here we
are living in the richest country on
earth. According to our own admis-
sion, we are the most intelligent peo-
pie on earth. In addition, we have
the best government ever conceived
by the minds of mortal man, and what
are we doing with it?
Well, if you want to know the cold
truth about the matter, we put our
government in the hands of people
that any self-respecting imbecile
asylum would recommend for promo
tion-to a safer place. Oh, I'm not
thinking of poor Herbert alone. Of
course the man is an ignoramus as
far as his present job is concerned.
But so is the Teller that will take his
place. In fact, just throw a brick
anywhere near a government building,
and if you miss a taxi driver, you're
pretty certain to hit an ignoramus IS
fas as fitness for governing is con-
cerned. And why?
Because-because .. a people we
know nothing of government, nothing
of history, yea, not even our own
short history, and still less do we
know of economics. In this broad
land of ours, with its 120 million So
called souls, there are perhaps not
more than a few hundred thousand
men and women who have given an
hours serious study to the only sub
ject that offers any guidance through
the intransigences of modern society.
Now please don't get mad. Pm
not saying that we are a 100 per cent
nation of morons. Nor do l claim
that ignorance is confined to the So
called lower classes. ANYONE who's
read the moronic gibberish that has
fallen from the lips of the master
minds during the last three years will
tearfully bear out my contention. No,
there are plenty of first class brains
in this country, plenty of strength and
character. What / do claim, how
ever, is that the bottomless ignorance
of the overwhelming majority of our
people precludes the election of the
very kind of people best qualified to
govern.
No man of brain, character, and
self-respect will stoop to the dema-
gogueries, clowneries, and mendacities
of the successful vote-getter. No
man of profound learning and the sem
%sitiveness hat goes with it will sub
ject himself to the indignities of the
typical political kilkenny fight. I'M
agine Jesus Christ running against a
Len Small or Big Bill Thompson, and
you have the answer why we are gov
erned by morons in rhinoceros hides
Sure there are decent politicians.
just as there are white crows and two
headed calves. However, ours is moi
a government of rare exceptions, but
of %majorities. And what | have saic
here in regards to the majority Of
both voters and politicians, to that
stick.
Water does not rise higher than
its source. Therefore, any move
ment seeking the elevation of
government above the mental and
moral swine-sty it has become
must start at its source-the
voters, which, incidentally, is one
of the reasons why ! have stuck
to the Socialist movement all
these weary years. II alone
sought and seeks the enlighten-
ment of the mass from which, in
a democracy, all blessings-and
curses-flow.
There, now, | almost got mad. Blu
when a fellow sees his country go t.
hell because it has too much Of every
thing that makes life livable and Sc