The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-08
CCo.opti9g'al:s
F.U.C.T.A..
What of the Night?
Morning of Peace.
Think of Tomorrow.
He Speaks for Labor.
Made Him a Fugitive.

In these days of increasing taxes
and of industrial commodities, not a
few people, and particularly those on
the farms, are asking with Isaiah OF
old: "Watchman, what of the night?'
The ancient prophet had vision of
terrible warfare, so fearful that he
declared: ut makes me writhe in
anguish; | cannot hear for pain;
cannot see for shock; my brain is
Keeling, the horror appalls me; the
twilight | love is turned to shudder-
ing" The earth looked black with
destruction and the Waterman an
swered: 1.-THE morning comes = and
the night; if you would know more,
come again"
He was not looking at war in his
own land. He was looking across it's
borders to Edom, to Arabia, to Persia
and the great empires of his era. So
might the farmers of this country
look out on a blazing world and ask:
Waterman, what of the night?" For
the day of war is here and destruction
walks abroad, consuming the lives of
millions and the habitations of many
more. To that question the answer
should be even as was made to Isaiah
Morning comes - and the night"
Morning can mean cessation of armed
conflict But the night that followsi
That is the dreadful depression, the
collapse that has always been the
postlude of war. 1t is toward that
night which follows the morning of
peace TO which the producers eyes
must be directed. He must be made |
aware that he is doomed to lose his |
land, his home and his possessions |
unless provision now is made to pro- |
tect him against that seemingly in
evitable night.
1911, the words from the Sermon |
on the Mount were translated to read:
Take no thought for the morrow"
That was inexact and, in the 1881
revised addition, the sentence ap-
pears: BE not anxious for the NOR
row." which carries the real meaning
Of the Greek text. So we are not
nhibated from taking thought for the
Thatcher did, in his radio broadcast,
September 81. He took thought for
he coming time, when, war had
passed and the work of rehabilitation
became necessary. He asked the
armers to get behind a program of
and preparation now, so
hat when the morning had gone, the
light would be illumined with the
light of justice and equity for the
armer. S
He was not the only man with that {
onward view. Here is Senator Wag- q
er of New York, father of the federal I
avs giving justice and equity to la i
or, who is thinking along the same
ines. He has been i'll for some d
lonths at his home in New York
nable to attend the sessions of the
ongress. In his illness he has had S
me for meditation and deep thought. 9
When he had thought 1t through he a
'rote a brief article for New York q
aper This is part of what he wrote: I
The solution must be sought and Il
ound in the intelligent cooperation Il
labor, industry and government :
nder our system of free enterprise, p
} keep our men and resources at d
ork producing for the peacetime il
eeds of the American people and of Ia
reconstructed world. Can this be d
one? The answer is-it must be ii
one, or else our free way of life will n
OF survive. The treasury could not a
the drain on public funds Il
nd our social system could not with h