The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-04-11
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authorities. IN IICeen months MT.
Truman will spend of our tax money
enough to build the seven valley
authorities. and the needed second
canal in the plans of Roosevelt. He
thinks that he is following the way
of Mr.. Roosevelt!
Mr. Truman talks of putting our
military power behind fair elections
in Poland, Romania, Hungary. The
recent elections there have been just
as free as any. election in the poll tax
states of America in 20 years. Jimmie
Byrnes was elected senator by seven
thousand votes in South Carolina with
over a million people, The elections
in France have not been influenced
by Russia, yet the Communists are
the largest political party in France.
And in the recent election in Russian
occupied Germany the Communists
were in third place. If the Kremlin
was able to force an election any
where, Berlin and Eastern Germany
was the place to do it.
For 40 years we were about to fight
Spain or France for the Port of New
Orleans. Napoleon sold us Louisiana
for a song, because we were going |
to take it anyway. Russia has asked |
for control of the Dardanelles i not |,
for herself alone, but for the Black |
Sea countries-Romania and Bulgaria.
The objection is really the wish of |
our big interests to bottle up Com
munism, and the Administration at
Washington is only the mouth-piece of
farmer in America, and against the
entire South and West in freight
rates, and against unpleasant ideolo-
gies abroad-and for the oil of Mes
opotamia.
The Long View on Communism
The line between the Socialism (of
George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells
Bevin) and the ends sought by Com
munists, is not easy to draw. Just as
the line is hard to draw between the
tenets of the FARMER Laborites, Single
Takers Henry George and either So
cialism or Communism. I venture an
embracive definition. The aims of
he old Populist party, the Fabian So
;ialists, the Communists, is to spread
he principles of Democracy from the
political field to the economic life of
/ country. All growth in "Co-opera-
ives" leads to economic democracy.
fence the big interests hate the Co. Z
peratives. All wage increases, short {
ming of hours, lettering of conditions 3
labor, in hours or health service, &
lads to economic democracy. Hence s
lie present Washington administra- Z
on is fighting labor as if the workers s
ere foreign enemies. Their courts, 3
leir congress, their radio, their press, ::
lin the hue and cry against workers. Z
Masses viii Be Driven To g
Communism 8
If our economy breaks down the g
arriving hosts of America will hate 3
lie wealthy who are now, in their 8
olish greed, driving this country on =
e rocks. They will turn to that po- g
teal party which is most abused by Is
10 venal press, congress, radio of Z
e wealthy. They will love the Com q
unist party, not because they under &
and much about it, but because of .
9 enemies it will have made" s
American ways have been mighty e
'od to mine and me. My life is 3
lppy, but / am not blind. Russia is g
tting to the bone her military ex- 8
'nse, using every resource to i'm 8
owe internal conditions; spending 8
thing outside. We are running our 8
orkers with high prices, throwing X
lions to the birds abroad, building g
valley authorities, underpaying our q
achers, exhausting our metals for Z
Our annual government q
penses, Mr.. Truman said at the JEFF 4
son dinner, will equal ~ billion q
llarsi x
Shades Of Herbert Hoover; in the q
1000 civilians at Hiroshima and 8
1000 at Nagasaki, we earned the q
hatred of every colored 8
IN on earth. We can never live it q
wn. And once we go broke, fail to 3
lid our nation up beat down our g
'or, drop millions in pot of hot &
eece, lose our industrial strength,
entire world will turn against q
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