The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-03-02

claliSm in Russia, but on the way II
inspired such counteracting but i'm
itative systems of single-headed ma
terialism as Fascism in Italy and
Nazism in Germany. Our occupation
of Sicily and Italy has brought us
straight up against the historic fact
that the unspeakable Mussolihi came
into power originally to save Italy
from Communism. The news from
Bulgaria, Rumania, Yugoslavia, and
even France, daily has shown us
lately that the political forces we
are liberating in those countries are
not Roosevelt democrats or Church
i'll followers but the revolutionists
who are the predominant anti-Fas-
cists in every corner of Europe
from Archangel to Spain-socialists,
syndicalists, communists, or what
ever you call them or they call
themselves They are not of US.
There can be no compromise with
Faecism or Nazism, despicable.
hated way of life antagonistic to
ours, which could not live in peace
in the world alongside ours. It will
be stamped out or chased under
ground as hunted minority. Rus
STA is art to come out Of this war
the dominant nation of Europe and
Asia, and in the following years. in
my opinion, she is apt to become the
greatest nation on earth. She is
winning great battles. She has done
much to help us, incidentally,
while saving herseldf. But Russia
would be the last nation on earth
to be swayed in her policies by
emotionalism or by sentiment; SO
we must look at these things coldly
and as straight as she does. And
we must get our people to look at
them the same way
This is the greatest revolu-
ton in the history of the world.
/ and its PHILOSOPHERS have en-
croached upon this hemisphere
and even into this country, this
! city, into your minds and mine.
We kave borrowed greatly from
the totalitarianism this rcvolu-
ton breaches as its first COM
m2ndment We have inched our
Democratic way closer and
closer toward centralized fed
eral government controls in var
ious ways. even toward Social
/ ism a little; and certainly we,
by our new laws and federal
actions, are far down the road
toward establishing that the
state is no longer the creature
OF man but man is the creature
Of the state.
Now, what does our government
plan to do about this encroaching
revolution? It will do whatever the
majority of the people Of this coun-
try are led to believe or themselves
decide we should do. We can ADOPT
the principles of this revolution ir
practice without ever changing 8
dot in the Constitution If doclle
Congress and people, and willing
leader, want it. sySg.s@.s.7.
Hopkins to Tax All
| do not mean to suggest the New
Deal or Mr.. Roosevelt intend to 81
SO far. AS near as | can make it out
they have primarily in mind some
kind OF a new social-Workers' ant
labor-union democracy for post
war. The social workers side of !
you can see in the counterpart 0
Britain's Beveridge report, which
Mr.. Roosevelt's planning board ha
; presented to Congress, and which j
! to be begun by the pending Wayne
, bill, a plan too well discussed al
. ready to warrant us spending extr
time on it now. In essence, it is
, system Of vast, heavy taxation o.
! payrolls-some want 10 to 20 pc
cent instead of per cent in re
! turn for promise that the fedora
j. government may care in the futur
: for all citizens from the cradle t
) the grave" It would make this ma
: ton something of a social worker
] paradise.
! I think | understood it best Whe
! I read a recent New Yorker articl
Ga profile) on Harry Hopkins, tn
! Presidents truest and best frient
The social half of what the govern
e ment is planning for us is best reI
resented in the character, hopes, an
plans Of Mr.. Hopkins soci;
6 worker himself with long an
Y earnest career devoted to under
: standing the lowest strata in Amel
: lean life, the unfortunates at tt
e bottom of the ladder-the problem
: for example, of the American c
q New York's East Side.
Mr.. Hopkins wants to tax all tt
people tremendously from payroll
to furnish doctors, hospitalizatio
/ prenatal care, cradle assistance, b.
S rial insurance and a helping har
a against all the hazards of life, ar
i drain the pot from which the So
y aries and savings of the Workir
e class Cup higher in the unions al
k the middle classes) are drawn, ar
IS syphon this money into hui
is federal reservoir, which the POI
. ticians will manage, sequesterlr
<. these billions of dollars for spen
It ing purposes in the treasury.
IS would turn and drive our who
n economic system toward aiding Il
st least fortunate instead Of givil
l. him job and wage to aid himse
al The cure for unemployment
4 employment--not insurance. I.
Of cure for old age need is a go
id wage and stable country in viii
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