Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-10-08

PATTERSON England faced fol-
lowing the defeat
of Germany. The great mass of
English workers did not realize that
it would take vast sums for the gov
eminent to take over the banks,
the mines, transportation and COM
municationS systems and heavy in
duStrieS.
TO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY
financed such revolutionary
transactions under normal con-
ditiOns would have put England
on the rocks financially. To do
so when England was already
broke-when commodities were
non existent, when such as
could be produced must, of ne
cessity, be sold abroad that
sOcialistic government might
have funds with which to buy
raw materials and foOd-was
simply impossible undertaking.
A loan of several billions of
American dollars helped for a year,
but that is long since gone, and
England is not as near solution Of
the great experiment.
Her workers are not better paid,
better fed or working fewer hours.
Socialism has not brought to them
greater opportunities than they had
under private ownership. They, in
dividually, want the opportunities
that are to be found in captalistic
America. Our private enterprise. a
capitalistic system, makes ever in
creasing opportunities possible.
THOUSANDS, MANY THOU
SANDS, of the English people who
can produce the price of transpor-
tation are leaving for other lands,
that will admit them, that they may
again enjoy the opportunities a pri-
waite enterprise system provides for
those who are willing to strive for
self advancement.
Socialism has failed in Eng
land. A conservative govern
ment will take over in the COM
paratively near future. A sturdy,
industrious people have been
fooled by theorists who blithly
promised something for moth
"S. 4hOSC IuShSh thCoAASto
could not deliver.
The same type of theorists in this
country could not for long deliver
the something for nothing" mi
nority is demanding. The political
leaders of both major parties are
doing the American people an in
justice when such leaders vaguely
intimate they favor any part of such
a socialistic course.
Room for Ability
AMERICA is THE ONE great
land of opportunity in all the world
today. 1t is a land where there is a
chance for all in proportion to the
ability and energy of each; where
there is big white home on the top
of the hill for all who have ability
and a willingness to work for such
a home.
No government ever will be
able to provide such homes, and
all that goes with them, for all
of its citizens. Socialism has
not and cannot equaliZe those
with ability and energy and
the laggards. America, with its
economic system, can and does
offer to all an opportunity to
own the big house on the top of
the hill that socialism could not
provide.
THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND
have found, to their sorrow, that
socialism is a phantasy; that in
place of providing more it provides
less for the energetic. We Ameri-
cans who enjoy the opportunities
offered by our American way of life
want none of it. Our political lead
ers should realize that and stop
making vague and false promises
as a means of attracting the votes
of minority.
WE ARE TOLD a considerable
group of Democratic leaders is
proposing tc ditch the party's can
didate for president and to devote
its efforts toward electing a Demo-
cratic senate. Could be, and it has
been tried before. In 1882 a group
of Republican senators proposed to
ditch Herbert Hoover and save
themselves. They succeeded only
partially. Hoover was defeated, and
also the group of Republican sena-
tors who aided in the Hoover de-
feat. What failed in 1882 could fail
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