The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-10-11

INIT, may reach the sky, "but sooner o.
later they will find their proper lever
The hell of it is. when prices have
reached their proper lever, only {
few at the top will have money left
with which to buy, as was demon
strated after World war I, when pre-
cisely the policy they now advocate
thanks to a republican congress, was
adopted. If you are not old enough to
remember what happened after World
war 1, when controls were quickly
abandoned, ask your parents, or any
one else who went through the trying
and difficult period which followed.
Every day you are being told in eff
| feet that unless republicans get con-
troll of congress, you will be governed
by orders from Moscow; that com
munism is a threat to your liberties,
etc. All that is pure unadulterated 100
per cent poppycock. 1t is a fact well
known to every student of social and
economic conditions in this country
that any proposal for social better
iiC'b iioO iCouittu III tiC lelloih6 Vi inc
Red scare of communism by reaction
aries. That, in many cases, is their
only argument against it. America has
nothing to fear from communism if we
maintain a social order that regards
man as "the beginning and the end of
life in human society. People who are
well fed, we'll clothed and well housed
are not interested in communism. If
we make American democracy work,
not only politically but economically
and socially as well, we can conquer
any false theology. Ideologies and doc
trines cannot be destroyed by force
but by truth and a better ideal trans
lated into social life and order Econo-
mic want fills men with fear and
causes stunted ideas, ideas which lead
them to accept any apparent better
ment of their condition, even commun-
ism. No man who has, or hopes to
have a farm, home or a business of
his own; or trade or profession by
which he can acquire competence is
apt to embrace communism
All fHSuil 10 lne tnIeli9tnCe
of Citizens
1t is an insult to the intelligence of
the great bulk of our people to at
tempt as the leadership of the repub-
lican party is now doing, to brighten
them into believing in and fearing
which does not now exist, |
and probably never will Abraham
Lincoln in his first inaugural address,
March 4, 1861 said: (quote) "This I
country, with its institutions, belongs |
to the people who inhabit it, When |
ever they shall grow weary of the ex-
listing government, they can exercise |
their constitutional right of amending |
it or their revolutionary right to dis
or overthrow it,. END of
quote). So, in Lincoln's opinion, if |
some future generation of Americans
should want socialism, communism or
even monarchist government, it is |
their right to have it.
This writer has the average Ameri-
cans contempt for communist ideo- !
ogy. He also shares the contempt of |
every liberal, progressive minded /
American for reactionism, and under !
present conditions considers it the (
most dangerous of the two isms, for
he reason that it has the billions of |
selfish, INSCRIPTIONS big business
back of it.
The republican high command and |
every political polliwog and jack snipe |
hey are supporting for a seat in con-
sress, Gncluding Ecton, D'Ewart and
Rankin in Montana) have adopted the
logan down with the bureaucrats",
whom they charge with unduly oppres-
ling the people. AS long as we have
! republican form of government, the
,ulk of the nations business, and the
tate's as well, will be conducted by
departments and commits
ions, each with head (bureaucrat).
t is a necessary condition, and has
Ilways existed, in both state and fed
raj governments. Do republicans tell
IS which bureaus, departments, ETC.
hey mean to abolish? They do not.
PRESIDENT Truman asked the last con-
a COD LII dutnOIily W TcOTSdulZe gov
agencies and 95 per cent of
he republicans voted to refuse his re-
uest. Why? God, Bob Taft and Joe
dartin are the only ones who know.
AS to price controls: The republi-
ans in congress, in collision with
Pappy" O'Daniel of Texas, and other
notorious falsely labelled democrats,
Mostly from the south, tore the OPA
0 shreds and brought on the present
onfusion and hardships.
Where Do They Stand
On Housing?
You do not hear Ecton, D'Ewart,
iankin or any other candidate or pro-
agandist for the republican party,
iscussing the housing shortage,
Thich republican leadership, in col
Ision with a few reactionary, self