The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-01-25
Reactionaries Hold Forth In Newspapers

you look upon these things how or
earth we are going to help set up q
decent, democratic world that will fill
the needs of hungry, oppressed, down
trodden people everywhere.
If you sort over the newspaper dis
patches, the foreign cables, of the last
dozen days from the very territories
that we and the British control, you
will find the warnings of things to
come. Alexander Uhl, a correspondent
for the newspaper PM, points this out
very clearly from Washington Here
at home we can at least fight reac-
ton, tooth and nail. Abroad, it is
the people with the Taft mentality,
the General Motors complex, who are
building up world disaster for us at
home. Russell Nixon American mem
Der of the German External Property
commission, resigns and comes home
because of the dirty deals that are
brewing to help save German invest
ments in foreign countries In Italy,
under our control now for almost two
years. hunger rioters protest against
the high cost of living by machine
cunning dance hall. In Milan, thou
sands of demonstrators break into res
taurants, block traffic and insult
owners of expensive automobiles And
Ernest Hauser, writing in the far from
radical Saturday Evening Post, paints
a picture of things in Greece that
hold no better hope for the future
than revolution. 'Europes most fright
ened county is the title and as you
read the article, you know that when
Churchill interviewed in Greece, he
solved nothing and that the civil war
still looms. In the fact of what is go
ing on in such countries as Italy and
Greece, and the things that still are
to come to them, you wonder why we
complain about what is going on in
Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, China,
Indonesia, Iran, and Spain. These
are the parts of the world that come
heavily under our influence. Yet in
none of them have we been willing to
face the reality of change. Commu-
nism is the only cry we make in the
face of their obvious needs
"And here at home the same cry
goes up when the president of the
United States of America talks of
full-employment or federal health in
surance. What the fact is, is that full
employment and abundant production
here at home, or the destroying of
the feudal peasantry and serfs in
some European country, are all part
and parcel of the same struggle. Each
is different as the needs are different
Each is responding to the urges for
a decent life for their people, What
we are seeing in other countries
should teach us a lesson. The lesson
is this: How futile resistance to prog
ress has become. How basically I'M
healthy have become those lands |
where both we of the United States, |
and the British, have succeeded in |
stopping that progress (no, not stop
ping, merely delaying that progress). !
1t can be a warning to us here at |
home" This is the way one of the |
nations top correspondents summa-
rizes conditions of today.
Against this rather distressing pic |
ture of conditions, both here at home |
and abroad, there are certain things
that should give great encouragement |
to all people. One thing is the |
strength of progressive groups, of la
Dor organizations, and farm organiza-
tons and co-operatives. Another thing
is that the people are being made
aware of the problems that confront
them, are being made aware that they,
themselves, must do something about |
them. All of these things will help
you people, you farmers in particular,
to understand the Importance of a
man like Henry Wallace. Henry Wal
lace is no longer secretary of agricul-
ture, no longer vice president. He is
The secretary of commerce. And some
Of you farmers may wonder what COM
nerce has to do with agriculture
When Secretary Wallace was in st.
Paul last Thursday, he made a speech.
It turned out to be his most signifi-
can't farm speech in over two years
And there in st. Paul. Wallace told
he newspapermen why he took the
OBJ as secretary of commerce. Wal
ace said: Zone of the chief reasons
Why l took the job of being secretary
If commerce was because l learned
Is secretary of agriculture that the
arm problem could not be wholly
olved on the farm. Too much de-
bends upon what the businessmen
md workers do in the cities and