The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-10
FALSE GODS
By ]. B. BENTLEY


to wear its fanciest dress of glarine
headlines: Farm Relief Funds Slashed
Relief Money To Be Scarce Mex
Year - Public Works Also To Fee
Knife-Money To Be Saved For Wan
Machine Well, folks, it doesn't look
as though our rich and aristocratic
Uncle Sam is going to have much con
sideration for his poor relations, the
busted farmers and destitute laborers
but is going to force them to play a
nice little game of war with the fav-
orite son, Capital, using the poor re-
lations as pawns on the checkerboard
of life.
! There has been tightening up and
a restriction in this last year of the
freedom and rights of the common
man that is more than noticeable.
Each political move has a definite
meaning and leads in well planned
direction to finally dovetail into the
scheme or plot of the system, to build
and strengthen it, for the protection
and welfare of private property and
its minority few. Flour and apples
may become a Sunday diet for the
underprivileged in this game of greed.
Empty bellies, poor housing and UNI
group get scant consideration from
the monied class that is in the saddle
of our government today and is riding
over and tramping down the people
alarmingly. 1t has always seemed to
me the heighth of insanity for one
human being to fight another with
SANDER and stink bombs for chance
to work There is so much work to
be done if they were but given the
right to do it. Men and women OF the
underprivileged class must work to
eat and are clamoring for the chance,
but they are denied the right and
must sit by and watch their families
go through a process of slow starva-
ton. There has never been but one
fight in this old world all down
through the ages. Whether it was
political skirmish or battle in war
they have all had the same conclusion
the control of the majority for the
benefit of the few. To stop the great
mass of people from rising to higher
standard of living so that it will be
impossible for them to rise to
higher plane of intelligence and
health, and to keep them in a low
bracket of ignorance, disease and pri-
walton for the purpose of controlling
them for the minority's benefit is the
goal which is striven for.
The sad part of the whole affair is
the peoples apathy to the situation
that confronts them. haven't been
able to decide if it is true, as the
powers claim, that the peo-
pie are a spineless lot due to the gem
erations of servitude that they have
been forced to accept, coupled with
their ignorance through starvation
and disease, that keep them from de-
their rights as human beings,
or if they have just been chanted to
sleep with lullaby song and bottle
of paragoric which will wear off i'll
time and leave them sensitive to the
cracking of a dilapidated and worn
out system.
1910 will go down in history as
year of many startling political events.
There will be much back slapping as
well as coersion by the big interests
to gain complete political control
Political timber for the presidency is
now being picked that is able to strad-
die the fence to some degree of salts
faction to both sides with a fair labor
record and. a guaranty to the big in
Lerests of his dependability to them
These Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde mon
strosities are having a true picture OF
their nature drawn to be sent out to
the business world for their approval
and backing while the common man
gets a very vague promise of what
they might do in the future, not guar
to do anything. Whenever a
candidate or anyone else tells you
hat they are going to balance the
budget, or that it can be done and at
he same time feed and clothe the
people in any degree of decency and
health under this system, then he is
/ liar or else is too ignorant of the
of this system to be the
head of this government even for the
money trusts. 1t would be rather |
amusing if it wasn't pitiful to hear |
he line of chatter the people get |
lbout private business having conf
lence that if they wouldn't be mo-
ested by the government or have any |
opposition by the government that |
hey would bring back prosperity and
nut all the people to work. 1t is |
lothing but propaganda of the vilest !
ype and anyone who went through
he third grade in mathematics can
igure it out for themselves in a few
minutes time. Or go back in history
IN the economics of this country and
your brethren in industry and ca
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