Montana labor news., 1934-10-25
FICTION

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lie press have many times conceded
that without the progressive republic
can support accorded it two years ago,
the Democratic National Ticket would
have been doomed to certain failure.
Unwilling to longer follow the retreat
ing Hoover, around the corner, we
flocked to the support of Roosevelt's
liberal standard where today we stand
firmly ~entrenched. Hoover offered the
country nothing but fantasy, - Roose-
welt = his New Deal policy. There is
but one issue in this campaign for the
people of Montana to answer. Are
you with the President or against him
If the New Deal fails for want Of
support, there is nothing left to offer
in the Republican or Democratic plat
form, except more promises of imag-
mary good times. We must wander
into the realm of uncertainty IT pro-
badly a dictatorship, undoubtedly com
munism. Is not Roosevelt, the man,
exemplified when the National Repub-
lican Central Committee instructs its
orators drought the nation mot to at
tack him or the administration, but to
attack his farm loan policy, public
works, project, etc.?' If Roosevelt
were wrong, why not attack him and
his administration
Newspapers are flushed by the out
rageous spending Of public monies on
public projects and attempt to brighten
the laboring class into believing the
budget can never be balanced. How
many working men hold or own United
States Treasury bonds or pay a Fed
eral Income Tax? The budget can
and will be balanced by taxes on the
wealthy, else treasury bonds won't be
worth the paper written on.
All this oratory about the invasion
of the Constitution preached by old
reactionary republicans, as though the
laps were upon us, falls on deaf ears
Of the man compelled to support his
wife and family. When our gallant
forefathers in the preamble to the Con
stiution, used the words "To insure
domestic tranquility" - Promote the
general welfare - and, Secure the
blessings Of liberty to ourselves and
our posterity," they did not mean that
we should starve in the land Of plenty.
For lack Of just argument against
the New Deal they grab the Consti-
tuition, as though it were in danger,
and, in common disillusionment, tramp
up and down state, attempting to be-
fudd1e the voter into thinking his
country lost under the dictates Of the
present administration. Similar tactics,
for applause we're worked on audiences
by speakers Of intellectual puberty, by
waving the flag as the curtains went
down.
The fact that millionaire Liberty
Leagues are being formed Ito save
themselves, not the country is suffi-
cient credible evidence that the New
Deal should receive the unlimited sup
port Of every working man, and Wheel
er, Murray, Monaghan and Ayers
rightfully returned to Congress. We
cannot feed our families long on Con-
stiutions. Bourquin could well afford
to fight public works and public re-
lief measures, while enjoying a $780,
10000 the year salary and pension and
eating the assembled delicacies of a
thousand fields from every continent.
Why vote for a president to lead us
out OF chaos and almost destruction
and then support senators and con-
who are destined to thwart
his every move? There can be but
one logical answer and the voters of
Montana will undoubtedly follow in the
footsteps Of our neighboring citizens
by casting their ballots in the mega
tive.
Although a republican, l prefer to
follow the ideals of Norris, Pinchot
and the La Follettes than those ex-
pounded by the Honorable Bourquin.
A. G. SHONE.