The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-27

Jimmie Byrnes is from South Caro-
lima Thirty years before the Civil war
South Carolina tried to nullify an ac
of congress, threatened to secede
Andrew Jackson Informed her leader
in the senate, Calhoun, that he would
Invade South Carolina and hang Cal
houn Among Jackson's last words
were: 81 should have shot Clay and
hanged Calhoun" Perhaps the Civil
war might have been avoided if he
had done so.
The same backwoods, single minded
selfish, provincial policy that Calhoun
q hundred years ago, brought from
South Carolina into our national life
is now being brashly offered as a
world program by this new egoist from
the loud, but little state where fifty
per cent of the people can not read OF
write, and not 25 percent vote; where
there are counties without hospital;
where in answer to their reverence for
war, their leading (only) university is
named 1.-THE CITADEL. It's economic
system has not advanced much above
! feudalfsm.
What Mussolini dreamed, what Hit
Ter tried to do, Byrnes presuming on
our previous good repute as a peace
loving nation. is trying to do. And
Truman, surrounded by the worst
lobby ever in Washington-the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers,
Gadget Peddlers to a world market
is not stopping our Goerings. Sadly in
debt, we are spending 5000 million
dollars year for war.
Since May 26th, we have held by
force 16 ships of Yugoslavia idle, on
the Danube They need them. We hold
them Our flyers have flown, against
polite requests, over sovereign ma
ton until its natural resentment I'M
fortunately and wrongfully rose to
shooting them down Byrnes' blind ma
tionalism is a remote cause of the
death of these young folks.
In Hitleristic fashion on the Trieste
question we have deserted our gallant
allies under Tito to gain the brittle
friendship of our enemies of two years
ago. The Peace Conference proposes
permitting Italy to re-arm with large
navy and army against Yugoslavia).
But we spend millions to relieve star
walton there Why call it a Peace Con
ference?
kow-tow To Britain
Englands discriminatory tolls of
etc ndfn0 nf
war for fifty years. We are abetting
England in supporting Turkey, now
resisting the just claims of Bulgaria,
Romania, Russia, for joint control OF
the Dardanelles, and to throw this
channel of world commerce open to
all merchant vessels. We have marines
in Iceland We are holding far-flung
bases opposite subdued Europe.
For a year now, our marines, by
training Chang Kai Shek's fascist
hordes, and some times coming in ac-
tual combat, have prolonged a civil
war in China. This is no small rue
ton. An estimated 100 million people
are stubbornly arrayed on one side.
The Soviets absorbed western Mon
golia peacefully. Further education of
Chinese communists might make them
welcome as another Soviet state.
Byrnes is doing his best to force such
coalition against the western world.
The purpose of our war in China is
to make market for our harvesters,
automobiles, oil, planes, other gadgets,
among 300 million Chinese, though
there seems to be a boycott of our
manufacturers against us at home who
would like to buy an electric iron, or
some films British arms forced
Indian opium on the helpless Chinese
100 years ago. Higher wages, shorter
hours here might absorb all our pro
ducts. Irrigation, public utilities, inn
ported machinery, for 100 years in
India, elevates little the standard of
living. Then the biologic urge in
creases the population. The inevitable
end is more hungry people. Without
birth control, our already low reserves
OF oil and metal will do likewise in
China, and we will be short of both.
Mineral product in promoting civil
lization is a close second to farm pro-
duct. The farms may improve; re-
forestation may keep us in lumber;
ghost mining towns bear witness to
quick exhaustion of minerals.
An Historic High
Sweden has been a sovereign nation
500 years longer than we have. The
Soviet Union has 100 million people,
and one-sixth of the globe. Our ar
rogant upstairs there is no other
word for them) in Washington dared
to tell these sovereign nations how
they should trade, or not trade, with
each other. 1t marks an historic high
in fatuous presumption. Hitler would
have hesitated to tell Spain how to
trade with Portugal Our advice to
Sweden and Russia provokes ridicule