The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-03-15

been king of England. with sympa-
thies not confined to London, the
American revolution need not have
taken place"
But we're not so greatly con-
cerned with a paragraph or two of
history. The great Caesar was muir
dered on the Ides of March. One
who believes in law and order can
not condone murder. But unques-
tionably the world would greet with
great relief the news that again
the Ides of March had been given
significance If today someone would
put away Hitler and all his murder
ing gang. suppose that's too much
to hope for.
/ recommend that you read
America Unlimited" by Eric
Johnston of Spokane, president OF
the U. S. Chamber of Commerce.
It's a small volume crowded full
with thought prevokers. One among
many excellent statements is that
there is today a fateful duel in
progress between two conceptions
Of human existence, two ways Of
life, that may be summed up in the
formula. individualism versus stat
ism. | quote:
THE history of our epoch makes
no sense without this key to its
mystery. The age-old struggle. be-
tween Authority and Liberty seems
to have come to a head. In country
after country the principle of Au-
thority has triumphed; in others
particularly in America, Liberty is
still in the ascendant, though ha-
raised and on the defensive as never
before in our national career.
Everywhere, it would seem, ar
answer is being sought to the rid
die whether the people own the
state or the state owns the people
whether the Individual human be-
ing or the abstract aggregation oil
human beings government, society
the state) is the central element
whether the fullest embodiment 81
man or the glory and power of his
state is the paramount purpose ol
existence
1t is well for us in America tc
remember that communism must
by its very nature, be opposed te
religion. Because communism and
religion are based on two diametri-
cally opposed PHILOSOPHERS of life
Religion magnifies the Importance
Of the individual man and woman
1t holds that every person, because
of the fact that he is a person, has
certain rights that cannot be taken
from him. 1t then follows that il
the individual is supreme, the state
IS nothing but an agent created by
the individual solely for his good
and advancement.
Opposed to this is the communis-
tic belief that the state is all SUI
preme; that the individual has no
rights except those conferred on
him by the state and such rights
can be taken from him whenever
lit wishes to do so.
Those two conflicting conceptions
can never be reconciled.
Here's one for the Iadiesl. How
you like to have husband who
would drive you into town from
your ranch home. leave you at a
hotel and then later in the day
drive home without you, forgetting
that he had taken you to town?
Well, that actually happened
but quite some time ago. The Incl
dent was told to us by Libby man
this past week. He had hand in
the incident - but he wasn't the
man who forgot the wife.
The Libby man was operating a
livery stable at the time in Sheri-
dan, Wyo. A number of English re-
mittance men had settled in and
around Sheridan. Many of them
were worthless, some Of them were
not SO bad. One day the man who
is now Libby resident was called
to the phone by one of those Brit
ishers talking from his ranch some
miles from town Said he. 1--WE
done something that's a rather good
joke-haW, haW haW! Took my
wife to town, left her at the hotel
and then came on home and forgot
her. | wish you'd pick her up al
the hotel and bring her out home
Later when the Libby man tolc
the woman that her husband hac
forgotten her and had gone home
her response was, why, Teal
l-y!"
This was at about the time of the
Boer war and A. L. Morris wa:
the man telling the story. He say:
that in one year the British gov
eminent bought at Sheridan from
10000 to 10000 horses and shipped
them to Africa. Some Of those re
mittance men had contracts witt
the British government to blu,
horses and made Wad of money.
| didn't know until this converse
ton that Morris had had close con
tact with the West when it was
real pioneer country-of the will
and Woolly sort. As a young man h
was cowboy around Rapid City
South Dakota He rode the rang
during the summer, broke bronco
| during the winter; all for the prince
/ ~ wage Of $500 month. He say
some of the huge herds of cattl
| that were driven from Texas int
Montana and the Dakotas. Late
years found him around Miles Cit