The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-01

things bureaucrat, demo
crat or whatever other kind of "crat
you want
People Must Have Fresh Ideas
"Americanism VS.. Foreignism" WE
are all foreigners, you know. The peo
pie whose pictures appear on this
postcard are foreigners. So far as
know the only native Americans are
the Indians which you have in Mon.
tana and Colorado and elsewhere. Our
forefathers all came here. 1t is blan-
dishment and a slur ON American in
telligence to call people foreigners and
accuse them of foreignism because
they have some ideas. l don't know
how democracy is going to function
If people do not have fresh ideas and
fresh thinking once in a while. And
for the Status Quo" boys who want
to maintain yesterday to call people
who have some fresh ideas and some
dynamic thinking foreigners" is only
fitting their own Technology because
they think in such narrow terms and
III ouCh oCOiuQCQ CCllSy SUCH
cells that of course fresh ideas are
foreign ideas to them.
Pocketbook Lethargy
g.. In the legislative field, it's been
heavy go. This is not Farmers Union
weather. This is time when we have
too much pocket-book lethargy which
eventually will lead to economic arth-
ritis. Organizations like ours have to
keep right on fighting regardless of
whether or not people do have pocket
book listlessness and lethargy and
whether or not they are determined
in spite of anything anybody can say,
to go down and have economic arth-
ritis again. We still have to make the
fight. And we did make the fight for
Farmers Home Corporation which is
the former Farm Security Admins
tration. 1t isn't good bill / wouldn't
say that it does the job But you know.
there are too many people who still
think that the New Deal is new. But
as matter of fact it has now become
an Old Deal and as deeply as l revere
President Roosevelt, think if he was
living today, he, himself would say
it's old, it's out of date it has to be
something bigger and better. But
there are those in government, and in
governmental agencies who have
tendency to think that there is a con-
stancy about things and that what was
once new and fresh and dynamic and
hard hitting is still new and fresh and
dynamic and hard hitting. Usually
that kind of person develops more
girth around their middle than they
do at their upper extremity.
We have fought for a world food |
board. It's basic concept which ties
in with the National program, a con-
cept in which nutrition and food for
all is basic concept and the farmers
responsibility to do it.
Power-The Issue Of CoIoniaIism
49,. We didn't authorize this coun-
~ to go daft with Taft on initiation
ry rout. 1t wasn't by our consent that
aft and his daft cohorts did the job
hey did on the people of this country
nd legalized initiation 1t wasn't the
armers Unions fault that we didn't
ave an MVA. There were Just too
lany people like Overton who believ-
d in the power companies and too
lany people who belonged to the rail
bad farmers reclamation association,
Tho didn't want to see a genuine
lovement of power made. The power
'sue, of course, is the issue of colon
ilism. If we can ever break the power
rust, begin to bring a balance be-
ween industry and agriculture, then
re will have broken colonialism in
America. And until we do, we will not
70 very effective in attacking freight
ates and other things because we
aust have industry out here, industry
elonging out here.
The most significant thing
bout the Farmers Union has been
hat all through the war it has become
1ore and more progressive and it's
ecause of people like you and people
f many other states. We have become
lore progressive, more dynamic. be
ONE "a little harder hitting and of
curse we've been called more names
nd we'll probably be called more in
le future than we have in the past,
ecause this is period of reaction.
1t is one world physically,
nd in communication and in trans
unfortunately in ideologyl )
nd philosophy and culture, it isn't one \