The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-05
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS
Citizens of i. S. A. Will Build or
Block a Peoples Peace

Block Peoples Peace
month after the United States became full partner
this most shamelessy brutal destructive and depopuatng Of
all this small journal opinion was launched
Each issue has been addressed o Americans who desire
ment terms of world which will insure the advance
of justice democracy independent pot
cal action and freedom of religious expression among the
people of all nations In short PEACE NEWS dedicated
to the promotion of A PEOPLES PEACE
Commitments principles peoples peace to the
establishment of economic well political democracy in
the post period be made with the greatest of
In broad and general terms they written into the Atlantic
Charter and the Mutual Aid Agreements But the problem
of building such principles into the life and labor of the people
of all countries including far from simple. 1t will
require all the w.t. the toughmndednes the and the
hatred of the rank and file of the American people
muster to build in cooperation with other nations the sruc
ture of an internationally democratic economy.
The share of Americans needs must be large
United States is and has been for time past of the
strongest creditor nations of the world This that the
people of this country must be responsible for after the
for much of the reconstruction of industry and agriculture
in the the South extending
aid for this purpose the United States strategic
also dangerous position It's domestic policies will
condition the economic patterns the peoples of many nations
will follow possibly for generations Not ignoring the nfu
of the Soviet Union of Great Britain and of China
we'll as that of other of the United Nations we believe the
United States of it's financial position will determine
whether the lid will be kept the status the
of economic change peeded and the forces of social
released.
Will government this challenge with unwavering
adherence the principles and practice of democracy?
submit that the American people cannot be of this unless
at the same me ney take r steps 10 put tne own mouse
in order economically And there is mounting evidence that
better American Way is only imperative, already
taking form. The of peaceme unemployment
driving to economic change.
old order of private enterprise longer
competitive In the United States is nearly dead as
the The National Association of Manufacturers Cham
bers of Commerce. banker and other trade associations
defenders of economic ogarchyare not yet ready admit
its demise They know all too WELL however, that the COM
petve system has been slowly dying of nationwide unemplo
ment and frozen risk capital diseases brought on by excessive
greed for profit social responsibility and minor aiment
gallopng monopoly.
Economic democracy the United states-equaity of
opportunity through collective organizations the young but
rapidly growing Swashbuckng combination today
yield (Which at this very
international economic union OF nations because American
corporations are restrained from Joining cartes during
war; The immortality of wildcat speculation has to al
marked degree been superseded by the social control of
change and by the substitution of gtedge investments in pub
lie service Increasingly the nations wealth is distributed
equab through mounting scales of and of taxes
inherited otherwise uneaned personal and corporate
replaced apple and bread lines Slums giving
persistent for lowrent public housing which
modern standards health sanitation and safety
IVA Bonneville rural electrfcatlon pubic land ana water
conservaton demonstrating the efficiency and
omy of the peoples authority Let who will shout bureauc
racy The people know that at long last they beginning
get And the government will continue to yield to
this knowledge because of the threat OF mass unemployment
after the
Members of the congress we'll of increasing
the movement for broader based public control The
and conceed action of those who voted for the retro
gressive Smith Connay antabor bill demonstrate their fear
economic democracy Organized workers will of be
Joined by progressvemnded individuals IN the removal at
polls of the tmd At this critical period in the
worlds progress there place Capitol HILL in the
White House. for those who have nhbons about the peoples
right larger share of the fruits of their labor in their
ability collectively to control to plan the Of and eventually
to the God-given resources of this land u
Mussolini's bankrupt Fascismorganzed reaction,
he described twas invented shot in the for the
politically powerful monopoists By of they gathered
strength They moved bit to the right and became
Italian government with the King their sword Mussolin
their bucker Hitler borrowed the remedy and later Japan
The dose increased military incidents created and fl M
nay the Fascists plunged headong into this World
dragging nation, then another after them Despite the
pes and the failure of Fascm in Europe there those
United States who today endeavorng anchor
opoly in high position of world power Like Mussoin and
mtators they have faith in democracypo
economic They those good old words 'the American
way and ee private enterprise rather than the phrases
Fascism but hears them whistle Fascsm uneant ga
abor antociasm reaction In dread OF their
ver-powerng competitor, economic democracy they
United for the duration. p,
Make no mistake it, their aim economic mon