The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-04-18
Hardin, Montdnd
April IS, 1910
TO: John Q. Public
FROM: A. Businessmen
RE: We The People

We the People ore a funny lot. We're patient and trust
ing ond full OF hope: We're slow to anger ond quick 70 torgS'
We the People have had our name used in van by pom,
ticidns, stotsticions. historians and such. Just who we are ana
what we ore seems forever to tascinote many men IN many
ttudes and income have been churted and described by ten
thousand men called experts, including some who colled them
from home. Whot we think and how and why ore standard
subjects constantly under the microscope Of scientific scrutiny.
We the People really don't mind too much oil tins fussngg
and fereting, this polling and probing, although some Of it
does at times seem to pry into our privote life under the gulse
We the People as q group are tolerant OF being viewed as
guinea pigs in all this We the People" stuft-perhups because
titled at all with the moss. And perhaps therein can be found
q clue and guide for those experts who ore olternGteIY puz-
zed and ortiCulute about us. Perhaps what we Amerlcons
think and feel as individuals is more revealing thm the myth
ical consensus eternauY sought by the scientific searchers;
We the People as q group have proved our respect Tor low
and order, our Loyalty 10 government, our service TO human
iy, our will for progress, our desire to advance. But as q race
lance we have shown to Recommendation, to dictatorship: to un-
reasonable censorship. and to every other curb and check to
wholesome initiative, incentive and individuol free enterprise.
We the People as q group have participated in many Cou-
ses, crusudes, wars ard campaigns collateral to the develop
ment end preservation OF whot has come to be known as our
way Of life. But as q race OF individuals each OF US knows right
well thut the day by day and year by year inner core OF our
woY Of life, which the whole world views as tYpicully Amer
icon, is the tundomenta! business system and economic struc-
ture which has provided the wherewithul and heart pump for
the progress we hove made and the w~en-beng as q notion we
We the People hear q lot Of talking and we do q lot Of
tdlking-und some quiet thinking. As individuals we instnc-
lively understand the reason for the even beat Of our business
pulse-we intuitively recognize the relationship between the
American business system and the American way 0. ife-und
p ro ss"1 which ha pUi' mode Z bof R5e possbfe. NE principles o"o
We the People as q group know what America means to
us and we stand ready to demonstrate thot at ony time. As in
dividuols we know the port that American business plays
each doy in the lives Of each one of us. Knowing that. it is
not likely thut we will costly reinquish the tested business
principles OF the profit motive, free enterprise and individual
initiotive which hove brought us q measure of civilization and
its fruits unmatched elsewhere in the world.
We the People have had somewhat q tough time of it
lotely: Dolors certainly seem TO come q little slower and go
q little faster. But most of us have been through times before
when things were q little tough ond probably will know such
times again. Our fathers did, and according to the record ud
the rumor. SO also did their fathers. Deep down there seems
to be bred in each of us the certain knowledge that the tough
er the times the greater the challenge. Today we have to work
more, think more, and act more thun we did ten years ago.
But what reasonable American among us would consider that
unfortunate? If the past is ony index to the present, we surely
know thot tomorrow we thereby will become more fit, more
Stable, more tempered to the realities Of the world in which
we live.
YES. WE THE PEOPLE ARE A FUNNY LOT. WE'RE PAT
TENT AND TRUSTING AND FULL OF HOPE.
ob-pdp Signed: A. BUSINESSMAN.