The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-06-14

J was one of Hitler's favorite tricks, re-
{ member? This is how he persuaded the
German people to become the outcasts
, of civilization.
Russia does govern by dictatorship
of one party. Is the United States then
ruled by the will of the majority of
the people? Let us examine the rec
ords of congress for the current ses-
sion lest we allow ourselves to be
over-confident of the purity of our
own democracy.
Remember The Presidents Many
Pointed Program?
Immediately after W Day. the Pres
ident of the United States asked this
congress for the immediate passage
of vital legislation to implement re-
conversion from war to peacetime
economy What has happened to this
request during the past nine months?
How are we getting on with our re-
turn to peacetime living? Where is
the full employment bill? Where is the
fair employment practices bill? Where
| is the emergency housing bill? Where
! is the health insurance bill? Where is
the bill to conserve natural resources
by valley authorities? What measures
has congress taken to protect us from
initiation?
These bills seem to have been set
aside while the House acted with great
dispatch to pass bills:
1. To exempt fire insurance COM
panies from the antitrust laws.
2. To exempt railroads from the
antitrust laws
8. To prevent the collection by our
government of royalties from oil COM
panies extracting petroleum from tide
lands.
4. To kill price controls under pres
sure from Hobbies led by the NAM.
5. To threaten striking workers with
involuntary servitude.
Is this evidence of the proper work
ing of peoples government, or is it
evidence that we operate under the
dictatorship of Big Business?
Are We Dictatorship?
Can it be that we are dictatorship
after all? Can it be that our American
Dictator Big Business, through we'll
organized propaganda machines, the
controlled press and radio is working
overtime and in great haste to pre-
pare the American people to accept
the humiliation of the Russian peo-
pie as necessary measure of self
defense? Is the feverish quality of this ,
fear-Russia campaign somehow or 9TH
er related to the established fact that
this country will have the secret of
the bomb for very short time? Big
Business knows that war between two
armed with atom bombs /,
would be suicide. Has it occurred to :
Big Business that it would be a very !
simple business indeed to liquidate !,
Russia if we move fast, if we do it +
while she is defenseless? The atom
bomb is the 'know-how' for world dom ;,
nation. Is this why Ex-Governor Earle :
If Pennsylvania tells us that we must !,
safeguard American enterprise" by Z
he use of the bomb against Russia ;.
without delay? Is this why he tells us :,
hat we must wipe out every town, =
:ity and village in Russian" The Ger
mans couldn't do it because they did :,
1T have the 'know-how But we can! II
Why should Big Business desire the t,
liquidation of Russia? Is it because O
russia is the only country in the s.
world big enough to say mo" to Amer d
can enterprise" in China, for in D
lance? China, big and backward and t.
ull of undeveloped resources, is the %
lum in the pudding. The whole world rt
as never in the history of man been ts
o helpless or so ripe for exploitation. W
When did Big Business ever overlook
n opportunity to exploit? This is the
ndreamed of opportunity, but it is
pportunity With a time-clock attach ~
lent This opportunity will slip =,
trough the fingers of American en- -
srprise" if we are slow on the uptake. -
ur Opportunity To Succeed Where
AdoIph And Company Failed 10
All right what's in it for us, the us
merican people? The opportunity to OF
ecome the greatest monsters of all til
me so that few rich men can get th
cher? Are we supposed to make Hit b
+ and his gang look like small time pl
uff? History also writes that power di
as inevitably led to corruption. We II
re now the greatest power the world w
as ever known. Are we then to ac- b
eve the greatest corruption, the tn
reatest moral degradation the world si
rs ever known? da
Or arQ WI IN nj fpr 4 !,
i'd use this power for good? We can
, it, if we want to work at it. in
In August, 1871, the heads of the on
,vernments of Great Britain and the tn
nited States met off the coast of tn
Ova Scotia to sign a great human Wa
the Atlantic Charter. 1t is we
ne now to look into whether the tn
ord of the United States as stated in cel
e Charter is to be trusted Ru
1. Far from unarming in accordance uo
tn Article of the Atlantic Charter, ~
, are piling UP huge stock pile of o.
e one weapon which, at the moment az
the property of this government a u
me- Of we are intent on living in 10
ace with our neighbors why the ni'
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2. Far from abandoning the use of
rec article 81 or far from guaran-
cling that all men may traverse the riv
as and oceans without hindrance dri
rticle y, we are about to give the ne'
rid and Russia, particularly an ex- the
oition of what the atom bomb can do BILE
the high seas. of
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