The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-19
An Open Letter to
Tom Stout

MI. rom stout.
Your editorial statement recently
that, if mothers had never raised their
| boys to be soldiers there would have
been no America, requires some ex-
planning. l would really like to know
how much more liberty, self-govern-
ment, democracy if you please, we
have than Canada? We are being
urged to help Great Britain save de-
mocracy We must go to her help
whenever her (our) brand of democ-
racy is in danger We are doing as
much or more than Canada does to
help. We haven't sent soldiers yet
but they are training in camps, appar-
emily for that purpose. How many
soldiers has Canada conscripted and
sent across? Did the soldier sons of
the colonial mothers shed their blood
in vain?
Your comparison of our great coun-
try with the small unprepared coun-
tries of Norway, Denmark and Poland
is unfair. Besides being close neigh
bors Of Germany every one Of them
had smaller population than the
aggressor. Our states of Missouri,
Georgia and Pennsylvania have more
people than Norway, Denmark and
The Netherlands Four eastern states
have more than Poland. Even Great
Britain has to count the blacks of
Africa to total larger population
than Germany. Would Hitler be so
a tO oil oh ovod
country possessing twice their popula-
ton, sixteen times their area, many
times their wealth and located 5000
miles across the sea? If we go into
this war it will be for no other pur-
pose than to help England retain her
supremacy.
AS you say, America cannot boast
of being peaceful nation. Yet how
many of our wars might have been
avoided, if we had had a William
Penn at the helm? 1t has always
been easier for heads of families,
states or countries to use corporal
capital or military punishments for
wrongdoing rather than seek the
causes of wrongdoing and eliminate
them. Too many rulers use the old
fashioned easy way Of using mothers
strongest finest sons instead Of their
own brain-power with which to work
out solutions to their problems. use
brain-power not man-poweri" should
be the slogan Of the mothers who are
going to strike and strike hard at this
despoiler of homes. l call upon all
the church organizations and peace
societies to join with us, the small
band of mothers who are now engi-
neering this strike against war.
The Red Cross is doing great and
noble work in taking care of the
wrecks that war leaves in it's path
but the Mothers Legion is going to
do much greater work by prevent
ing these wrecks and thus relieve the
Red Cross of half it's duties. In addi-
lion it will save the billions of dollars
now spent on war and war prepare
ions, for the hungry people of the
We rid.
AS this is the wrong sort of prop
Uganda, Mr.. Stout, you will probably
The Peoples Voice. For the benefit
If those who wish to join the Mothers
legion l wish to state here it's imme-
late aims:
To oppose the CONSUMPTION of Amer
can troops for service overseas.
To support a program for strong
rational defense.
To support the appointment Of a
permanent congressional committee
or the investigation of un-American
Ictivities.
And to support any resolutions that
nay become necessary to oppose leg
station which might involve the
rmed forces of the United States in
he affairs of Europe.
Information gladly sent to all who
nclose stamp with request-Mrs. Ella
2. Archer, Grass Range, Mont.