The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-01

mitted for this department should
cussed to some degree at least, OBJ
THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN
RUSSIA, AMERICA AND ENGLAND
WAS INEVITABLE AND
WILL BEAT HITLER
For a year before Hitler invaded
Russia, such students of changes in
national ideologies as played that
knowledge upon military analysis as
serted that the only plan to defeat
the Axis Powers was an offensive and
defensive alliance of the three largest
nations having democratic ideals-the
United States, the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics, and Great Britain.
This alliance was inevitable, part of
Providential Evolution. | purposely
do not use the word "democracies. !"
There has never been in the world
a pure democracy in practice. All ma
lions at all times have had some dem
ocratic customs. Where these pro-
dominate we call it democracy. The
form of government does not control.
| Before the rise of Hitler, Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, each with king,
were as near democracies as our own
government with president. China,
before the Japanese invasion, called
Itself a democracy. Two hundred
years of trying to put the ideals of
democracy into practice may bring
China as near to being democratic as
Holland with her queen lately was
France, posing as a democracy, was
her betrayal by her leaders and alb
sorption by Hitler.
1t is quite hard for a casual reader
to distinguish between institutions
that are purely democratic or purely
socialist or purely communistic. For
a definition of democracy l leave it
to 20 or 80 millions of voters at the
last election, any of whom might re-
ject or modify any definition of mine.
A socialistic institution is one paid for
and maintained and controlled by the
public which any person can use for
the same price, near the cost of pro-
duction. These embrace the Postal
department. Municipal water and
electric and street car services are all
socialistic. Here the patrons all pay
for use of the public service. 1t
would surprise whole lot of editors
communism" to find out what they
are decrying and to realize how many
communistic institutions prosper in
our midst. Wherever the public pays
for the establishment and upkeep of |
any institution and any member of the |
body polite can use it for nothing, |
the institution is communistic.
Highways, streets, parks, play |
grounds, libraries, art galleries, fire |
police departments, free
public schools, highway patrols, health
forest conservation de-
partments, government research de-
partments, Gree seed distribution),
fruit inspections, bug killers, river and
harbor improvements (where no dock
age fees are added to pay for the
are all purely commun-
istic. Then there are hybrid class
of government partly COM
partly socialistic. For in
Fort Peck Dam: as part of
flood control, it is communistic; if
electric power or irrigating water are
sold from it, that feature is socialistic
Then there are communistic meth
DDS as there are communistic works
Or plants. Many political scientists
announce that all taxation is COM
munistic. This is not so. Taxing all
proportional to it's value is
democratic. 1t treats every property ]
owner alike. But the moment a grad
lated income tax is levied, ie taxing
IN income of a million dollars, rs