The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-09-17

abiding friendship they still
hope for my redemption
Of course, it's just little possible that
their fears have some oundation-but-Ive
feeling that such apprehensions are mis-
directed. Particularly is this when [ look
back over the Roosevelt years and recall that
these same people were even then expressing
alarm over my sanity for my being an en-
thusiastic advocate of Rooseveltian policies.
Should I all of sudden like find consider
able merit in either Harry Truman or Tom
Dewey, then without doubt, a sizeable per-
centage of these more conservative friends
would nod approvingly, exchange a few
knowing winks, and then sagely conclude
that had found salvation.
However, is it so simple? Is political sal
walton and conventional Responsibility to
be found by narrowing down my choice for
president to either hypocritical Pendergast
politician or one who is frankly an arch con-
servative. Political honesty is certainly
more on the side of the latter than the
former.
Cognizant of the possibilities of being la
belled, tagged, and tarred, of even losing my
responsibility let me affirm once again
that | want none of either Truman or Dewey
Why should | have to choose between one
candidate who would draft striking workers
the Taft-Hartley law is good for labor? Of
the two certainly Dewey is more honest in his
Htterances than Truman who now lays claim
to the labor vote because he found it eXpedi-
ent to veto the Taft-Hartley bill To coal
miners and others who have felt the sharp
edge of presidentially- invoked injunctions,
such political veto is hypocritical in the
extreme.
Why should | be forced to choose between
one candidate who now finds it convenient to
espouse the cause of price controls, and an
other who has at no time expressed an opin-
ion at variance with the NAM in the latter's
successful effort to loot the country? I can't
seem to forget that it was none other than
Harry Truman who, on October II, 1947,
publicly stated price controls are the meth
DDS of a police state''
Why should | find my choice limited to one
who, although now condemnng the antics of
the Thomas committee, set off the witch
hunt fad which is sweeping the country, and
a Dewey whose party's only stock in trade
offer to the American people has been a
bankrupt cry of ''two commies under each
bed for the past two years?
Would a choice of Truman over Dewey be
any sweeter so far as my kids are concerned
when it comes their time to march up and
register for forced peacetime military serv-
ice? Both candidates are committed to a
doctrine of "Prussianism' from which our
forefathers fled Europe during the past two
hundred years.
What choice do | have between Truman
and Dewey, so far as medding in the affairs
OF other nations are concerned? Who are
both committed to saddling American mo-
nopoly capitalism on the unfortunate backs
Of destitute, war-torn countries of Europe
and Asia through the Marshall plan? Who
are both in accord that Greek workers should
De murdered in cold blood because they
strike to gain a bare subsistence living?
Wherein lies the difference between Tru-
nan who has, for three years made possible
through supplying materials, the con-
lnued enslavement Of Dutch East Indian
colonial peoples, and Dewey who publicly
advocates the return of Italian colonies to
Italian financial and industrial interests for
continued exploitation?
How can there be a choice between the