The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-10-16
THOUGHTS ON THE WAR
AND POSTWAR

the laborer and the farmer, to the con-
suming public generally, over and
above the bare essentials for living
or existing until after the war. This
trickle of income above essential
needs must all be garnered without
fail into a great reserve, to supply
the purchasing power to keep the
Free Enterprisers in business after
the war. You see in that they get
two swings at the same war business.
That is the meaning of the tax bill
that reaches down for the sacrifices"
of the man who earns but $12 per
week. That is the meaning Of the tax
bill that the congress is now prepar-
ing to saddle upon you. That some Of
| it is to be returned to you after the
war is only part of the scheme of the
above-stated proposition.
So long as we live and operate un-
der this system it is essential for the
people to save out of present income
what they can spare toward providing
themselves with purchasing power for
the postwar time when this system
of production for profit will again in
eyitably fail us. 1t is necessary and
we gladly assume the responsibility
to finance through savings this, our
peoples war; in order that we may
win better world to live in as a re-
suit of the tremendous sacrifices the
people are now making. This is not
the issue here. Here we are merely
pointing out how taxes are unevenly
levied to bolster a faltering Free En-
terprise System, and how and why
the Free Enterprisers like that kind
of system for themselves.
Mr.. Wilson's other proposition Is
that his Free Enterprise System is
the only system which provides, or
the system which most effectively
and desirably stimulates the neces-
sary initiative and motive force for
providing society with a maximum of
goods and life's satisfactions, and
with the energy to get the job done.
It would be only tiresome to quote
facts, authorities and statistics In re-
futation of that old saw once more.
We need only invite the attention Of
the reader to our immediate past, on
the one hand, and on the other to
what is going on in the world about
us at the present time.
The second front issue In this war
is illustrative Of our point. The hest
tations and confusions of the pro-
posed second front are the hesitations
and confusions of capitalism In crisis
and decay. The world body of capt.
Lalism is so palsied with contradict
ing motives and interests today that
It cannot bestir itself sufficiently to
lake the one necessary action to save
Itself. 1t is paraylzed in the crisis of
having to fight for democratic objec-
ives with democratic allies, with an
essentially undemocratic will and
mechanism.
Contrast with that the eastern
'front.', the Russian front, the peoples
ront. Who today would dispute initi-
alive there, motivating force, courage,
will, resourcefulness? Verify the peo-
Pies system, where the people them
selves are master, undertake the i'm
possible and make it succeed to the
wonderment of the world.
That is an earnest of the future. The
chinese in the Far East of many
ronts have built war industries CO.
peratively with their bare hands, and
ut of that industry a military ma
hine that has stalled in stale-mate
he Wanted industrial military ma
hine of Free Enterprise Japan, for
1ore than five years. This too is an
bsolute refutation of Mr.. Wilson's
hesis, and Photographic and illumi-
ating flash of the future in the dark
resent of World Free Enterprise.