The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-19
An Analysis


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be admitted, puts out much useful in.
formation. But there is much more
he might give which he never gives
such as explaining the anomaly of a
public utility having one valuation for
rate-fixing purposes and much lower
valuation for tax-fixing purposes. Per-
haps Mr.. Bennion's membership on
the reorganization committee is for
the purpose Of correcting that seeming
contradiction and others of like i'm
port where his employers interests
are affected. Do you suppose that
could be it?
The letters to the editor in your
last issue are of more than ordinary
interest. They recall line of Ella
Wheeler Wilcox's of forty or more
years ago: $50 many Gods, so many
creeds, so many ways that wind and
wind" as well as Hitler's statement
that mental confusion, contradiction
of feeling, indecisiveness, panic; these
are our weapons" His weapons
against the minds of those he would
conquer as much as are his tanks,
machine guns and submarines weap-
ons against their bodies and, in the
light of European experience of the
past few years, just as effective or
more so.
Then Mr.. Maury directs attention
to the editorial inconsistencies and
inaccuracies of that chief organ of
fascism in Montana, The Montana
Standard. Those for whom the Stand
ard speaks would do well to read
and ponder the article by Raoul de
Roussy de Sales in the November
Atlantic on 1.-THE Conflict Between
Capitalism and Democracy" 1t con-
Germs the fate Of France and how it
came about. The same trends are OBJ
servable here in the contest between
capital and labor and between the
quarreling factions of labor itself.
Capital would take advantage of such
conditions to curb or destroy organ
lied labor, while labor seeks to take
advantage of the same conditions to
press it's demands beyond reason, or
so it appears to those who try to be
neutral and balance the equities. The
federal office of production manage
ment urges the Anaconda Copper Min
ing Company to increase its output
of copper The company asserts it's
willingness and readiness to comply
but points to union rule in Butte,
where there is shortage of man.
power, which restricts labor to five
days a week under penalty of a $40
fine for each infraction. What is the
answer to that?
Then, in the light of past events,
grave doubts as to the sincerity of
the tory government of Great Britain
in its avowed friendship for Russia
are undoubtedly justified. If all the
members of the British cabinet were
of the Sir Stafford Grips type, the
British ambassador to Russia, (see
Golfers Nov. 15) that doubt would
be considerably mitigated, but they
are not. Even so, in our aid to Great |
Britain and to Russia and to China |
and to all enemies of Hitlerism, we |
light our own battle. Those who ina. |
CINE that Hitler, triumphant in Eur
,pe, would let us alone, delude them
selves. Even though he would we |
could not live in the same world with |
him and his new order" unless we
should be willing to abandon all Amer
can ideas Of liberty and what it
means.
The fundamental principle of Presi-
lent Roosevelt's policies, domestic
md foreign, is that human life, liberty |