The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-09-17

est gathering of crooks ever assembled
in the name of peace" said Morrow
Defends Hoover.
Morrow also took up a defense OF
Herbert Hoover, although he said he
held no brief for Hoover and that Hoo
yer was proving he was amply able
to take care of himself. This defense
consisted in showing that the depres-
sion was world wide and not caused
by Hoover as many insisted. He said
he had heard the news in the interior
of Africa. in tom-tom message
sounded over that land by the natives.
That message was to this effect THE
white trader is not coming to trade
with us any more. The white man has
lost all bis money" He also said he
of india and China, broadcasted by
those primitive peoples by their own
simple methods Everywhere it car
ried the same message. The white man
is not coming to trade with us any
mare He has lost all his money" In
this part of his discussion he said, I'VE
American people are the most sublime
damn fools on the face of the earth,
his statement being that in times of
stress and trouble we often seize with
avidity upon some false thing put out
by selfish and narrow minded interests.
But said he, the American people are
also the most just people on the face
Of the earth and when once they see
their mistake they demand that justice
be done.
Many Years In Russia
/ Morrow spent long years in Russia.
He lived there, travelled throughout
the length and breadth of that vast
land. He said he had been in every
nook and corner of that country, in all
their industrial centers, and - d also
visited with the peasants, sitting at
! their tables with them and talking their
, own language. And from what he
| learned there and what he had seen
with his own eyes, he condemned I'M
stintedly the soviet system.
Morrow ridiculed the reports brought
back to this country by Senator Bur-
ton K. Wheeler as to conditions in Rus
STA Wheeler, said he, was given
conducted tour" of Russia He saw
only what the governing class wanted
him to see and was naturally shown
only the more meritorious features OF
the soviet regime. Il have issued
standing challenge to Senator Wheeler"
said Morrow to debate the Russian
system with him at any time between
now and November 8, preferably in
Montana. ! am confident ! can change
Senator Wheeler's conception Of what
is being done in Russia"
Condemns the Soviets
Morrow went into the Russian ques-
ton at some length. He described he
hard, autocratic rule that now prevails
there. He told how the peasant farm
ers till the soil and how then thu gov
eminent takes all of the crop except
very small part left for the peasant
If one is so bold as to object, he is told
that he owns nothing, that everything
belongs to the state. If he still per-
sists. he runs the risk Of being exiled
to Siberia or of being committed to
the salt and coal mines in which the
life time of the hardest is only a year
and a half
He also spoke Of the youth movement
under the soviets The Russian mother
leaves her babe each morning at pub
lie nursery. There the chill ,ren are
taught that there is no such thing as
love of parents or Of family. Such
things are only the sloppy sentiments
of the. capitalistic system, they are
told As the result of such teaching,
he told of an instance in which young
girl gladly testified in court against
her own father and mother for some
slight infraction of soviet law. Nlter
they had been convicted and sentenced
to a deplorable fate she was made a
heroine for having testified against her
parents. The soviet rulers teach said
Morrow that only one thing should be
loved and that is the all-powerful
state.
Progressing Toward Communism
Some people say, oh, but those
things could never happen in Amer
ica,'" said Morrow, "but / tell you the
United States has made more progress
toward communism in the first three
years of the New Deal than the Rus
slams did in the first IL years under
the soviets."
Morrow interviewed Mussolini, and
he spoke of the Italian dictator as ar
rogant, egotistical, domineering, strut
ting Mussolini."
After spending these years through
out Europe and Asia and after seeing
the human misery and degradation that
is prevalent there. then it was that
there welled up from his heart the
thought, THANK God that am an
American"
Morrow touched only briefly on the
national ticket He did say, however,
that if American liberties are to be
preserved the new deal must be re
feated. He urged the election of the
republican ticket from top to bottom.
| Organizes Republican Volunteers
At the conclusion of his formal nd
dress, Morrow started the organizing
of branch of the Republican Volun-
teers, for the Winning OF the West