The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-12-13
LETTERS FROM OUR READERS
An Open Letter to H. v. KaItenborn:
Circle, Montana
Dec. 4, 1916

MI. II. " IAdltCuDOIA
Dear Sir:
I listened to you tell about givin
your best bow to Fame during you
evening broadcast today. l was RI
minded of little verse that reads:
Fame is very sweet, yet we mus
careful be
That it is fame, not notoriety;
For SIS satisfaction small, none ca
deny,
To be cinder in the public eyel
I am only a sma1l-time farmer on
of that fast disappearing class re
ferred to SO long ago by oliver Gold
smith as ''bold peasantry, their coun
try's pride"
And men do decay, we see it al
about us. Those who are becoming af
fluent, have become proportionately
selfish and callous to the less unfor
tunate. They have found vindicatior
in assuming and asserting their super
iority, either as to brains or ambition
over the less fortunate
Paid Poison Purveyor
Our free enterprise system, for
which you have been, and rightly so
chosen as its most able spokesman, is
responsible for the "hastening ills" to
which our land has become the prey
You, as the Dean of American com
mentators, certainly hold an unenvi-
able position as the paid purveyor of
poisonous propaganda for the pre-
servation of this most unchristian and
inhuman system of slavery.
When fame, as well as wealth and
power, is achieved by mastery of the
art of insinuation and inuendo-steps
short of lies but achieving their end
what better proof is needed that,
Where wealth accumulates, men
decay?"
When the world and each human
component needs, most of all, to have
Love- Faith, Hope, Charity and Under
standing, you are proud of your posi-
ton as our best spokesman for hatred,
distrust and perversion and prostitu-
ton of truth.
Lincoln once said: 1.-THE money
power of the country will endeavor
to prolong its reign by working upon
the prejudices of the people, until all
the wealth is aggregated in few
hands and the republic is destroyed. I
feel at this moment more anxiety for
the safety of our country than ever
before, even in the midst of war God
mi hot L
groundless. Monarchy is sometimes
limited at as a refuge from the power
of the people. = = -
AS the best mouthpiece for the money
power, you are doing more than your
share toward bringing our republic |
to that pedicted end by preying upon
the prejudices of the people. You con-
stantly and increasingly appeal to the |
peoples baser motives, hatred, greed |
and fear. You do indeed, work upon
the prejudices of the people! 1t is
only through ignorance that hatred
exists. Either you are inexcusably
ignorant or inexpressibly vile.
A Subtle Advocate of Glass Hatred
Under the guise of protecting the
dear people from the tyranny of or
ganized labor, you use every artifice of
oratory and dramatics to foster and
inflame hatred against labor. You
leave no stone unturned to show that
labor has strengthened its
power until the effects of that power
can be felt all over the nation. When j
abor uses that power in the only way S
It can be used effectively, you con- ]
lemn labor as an enemy of our coun- S
.ry. You do not take sides openly in |
he class struggle between capital and i
ind far more effective method by I
lenying this struggle by our silence g
IT pretended Indignation at the idea 7
If so preposterous thing as a class
truggle. 4
You give lip service to the principle c
# democracy and therefore are always t
o be found breaking lance for the i
reat majority. You are first, last and O
ways on the side of democracy. You n
want nothing but the good of the ma a
Ority. +
Yet, under our so-called free system a
yhich permits private ownership and
Individual action, you contend that a
len supposed to be free, have no Il
light to stop working when they wish Il
D do so. You Historically denounce n
rganized labor as the enemy of our D
ociety because you place full blame
non tho mOrkarc yuba an nrod,,otio,, | 7.
tops. Here again you deny the part b
ership that furnishes us with all our u
reduction under capitalism W
Let me remind you that the very o.
'eedom of enterprise you loudly &C II
aim, permits either labor or capital =,
, seek it's own interest, without re-
ard to the public, or majority vel :,
re. 1t is not only the selfish interest =,
labor but the same selfish interest =.
owners, or capital, that stops pro- -
lotion of those things upon which the =,
alton is dependent. Under this free "
lterprise that you love so we'll, own =,
ship in all forms is, has been and
i'll continue to be put first of all to :,
e best interest of the owner. Any e.
snefit the majority ever derives is en- -
rely secondary and accidental to the y,
rst consideration.
"The Voice Is Theirs, But the to
Hands Are :" FIR
When ownership, exemplified as
pital, or the money power of which
ncoln spoke became enormously l.
werful through aggregation and
onopoly. il extended and enlarged