The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-11
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS
Zone War at a Time

from the Bible Belt His name was Abraham Lincoln; his
job the preservation of the Union Over England Her Maj
esy Victoria by the Cod Queen England
beyond the recognized the Confederacy bel
geren and such entitled all the rights and privileges
enjoyed by the dueected of the United States
of America
The recognition government
panied by neutrality proclamation which may well have
model for the neutrality which President Roose
welt pushed through Congress at the outbreak of the Second
World War.
Under the provisions of this neutrality proclamation British
subjects not to extend financial military aid to
either of the ombatant supply them with the wherewhs of
enlist in their forces
These formaites to- the government Her Maj
es headed by Prime Minister Palmerston got busy doing
everything its power eternal hell
the of the United States of Amer
lea.
1t prevented the sale of federal securities in England
while the purchase of Confederate securities
1t provided the Confederacy with munitions, raiders
and blockade to the commerce of the u
S. and facilitate the exchange of southern for the
kind of British hardware customary employed punch
ing and shooting holes in people
Ii denied u ships coaing rights in the harbors of its
West Indies possessions while gracefully supplying Con-
federate ships with all the coal they needed.
Then the so-caed Trent affair sloop of
war had stopped British merchant ship and taken from two
of the Confederacy bound for England The
mother country denounced the act of unmgated
piracy Excitement high both countries The Tory
government of Her Majesty itching to show the RaiSp
Washington where to head in or get off What stop
and search British ship the msy of carrying
tlemen guilty of nothing serious than seeking
throw the of the United States by force and vo
lence?
this side the pond plenty
both and of the Administration who clamored for
against John Bull and in answer to of them that
Lincoln uttered his classic Zone at time!" Poor har
assed old Abe had trouble enough right here at home without
taking Jeff Davis chief supporter Imperial England
However Abraham Lncolns few and far between and
nigh eighty years later his successor D. r.
gagged in three wars at the time to-wit:
l. The against in the midst of untold wealth
preserve the lootngs of British Empire
all the world.
3. he civil war nOnp
War No 1 good war, for country exist nor
deserves exist that permits onehrd of its people to i'll
fed cothed and housed surrounded by mountains of rot
ting food decayng wool and cotton and millions of idle
begging for work.
In this President
support not only of the overwhelming majority of the Amer
people, but important STILL the support of every
thinking feeling and who places the webeng of
the whole above their interests.
When in 1885, forysix out of fortyegh states cast their
electoral votes for Roosevelt the rising of the whole
nation trying to shake off the only had then the only
has the only capable of destroying it
want the midst of plenty And that that 100
patriotic war is already lost lost the
minute when President Roosevelt without consulting either
nation Congress- took his second for the
ton of the British Empire. a
For rich this is-or Woodrow
Wilson, Wall Street and the intellectual whoredom of the
House of Morgan employed rake the chest
nuts of the British Tories out of the fret longer rich
enough to fight poverty at home and the ootng OF
the British Empire abroad :
And along with War No. 2 War No. 8, that is
civil Indeed, may said the war among
people already full blast by the time lords and
celebrated the reunion of eng daughter Columbia with
at certain hot dog dinner on the banks of
the Hudson 1t well be that the President abors
The deusion that War No. like World War is solely
erned in saving democracy In fact have utter
from the great Father in the White House that would in
1cae that he read that masterul of his
predecessor Wilson when he said in his Kansas City speech
is there and child in this audience who does
know that this he first World War; caused by
Industrial and commercial rvay?" And again he drove home
he point The seeds of modern industrial and
nercial rivalry
However, President Roosevelt has forgotten that his
and than gosperue although painfully belated
terance of his usrous predecessor there millions of
God Americans who have not and consequently evnce de-
be made suckers of the time for the benefit of
highlands expoterdom Some of these people have read
of the hundreds of books exposing the methods by which
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lie good Scottish doctrine: ~
"When a cheats once blame him; ef
When cheats twice, / blame myself. b,
WE'LL the American people cheated into the first World III
They that Tn