The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-11-11
By LOWNDES MAURY

dusk, got out of my car carrying 6
banner advertising a speech that
President Wilson had requested made
in Butte. The Anaconda Company op-
posed Wilson's idea. A gunman hail
ed these unarmed miners with foul
language and threats, flourishing q
Luger Automatic. The cowed miners
went East on the North side of the
street; the gunman took the South
side. Harry Robinson, vice president,
slipped up in friends room, borrow
ed gun. At Main and Park, Robin
son was seeking protection from the
traffic officer in mid-intersection.
Monro, ignorant that there had been
a shift in the balance of power,
started toward Robinson, fired at
him, believing he was attacking an
unarmed man. Robinson drew, fired
once. Monro staggered, and as he
aimed again, Robinson fired and kill
ed him.
Monro's death was due to error
in failing to know quick shift in
the balance of power. Monro's Luger,
to the four unarmed miners, some
what resembled our Atom bomb mon
opoly to the rest of the world.
Our Foreign Policy since Mr.. Roose-
welt died has been built around the
idea that in the Atom bomb we had
the only pistol and another idea
which Ancient Rome showed Car
thage was a fallacy,-that we could
buy and keep world hegemony by
the adroit use of wealth.
Rome still stands. During War II
our youngest daughter drove a jeep
on a tesselated street of Ancient |
Carthage. She said the broken pave
ments were all that remained of the
once imperial, queen city of the An
Gent world.
Many Americans think that with
our hundreds of costly air bases,
our Far Flung Battle Line, in Japan
Germany, France, Turkey, Iran,-our
of world currency, we are the strong
est power on earth.
Gen. Sam Houston was mobbed in
the streets of Houston CD for tell
ing the Texas Hot Spurs that the
Southern Confederacy was not strong
enough to win war against the
Union. (By the way, the South ex-
pected help from BritainD In tell
ing the following simple facts, my
aim is surely not popularity, but
to do my bit towards saving our child
rem, by millions, from pestilence, fam
inc, battle, murder, and sudden death,
our magnificent cities from the fate
of Carthage Cor Berlin).
The Shift
When World War II ended, we
were the strongest nation, not only |
in the world, but that had ever been /
on this spinnings planet. Had Frank {
lin Roosevelt lived in good health, r
to serve out his fourth term, Ameri- r
"a would still be in the proud place. /
The shift actually came, about two
years ago when Soviet Scientists dis v
covered how to make the Atom bomb. t
We actually found out about the S
hift when Russia exploded one, and
t registered on Seismographs in Ii
many places about three months ago. d
This explosion was.for a useful pur- g
,ose, to move a mountain, not to s.
errify nations. Atom bombs may O
e cheaper then dynamite in Russia. O
Sweden probably knew the Soviets n
ad the bomb a year ago. She flatly E
efused to join the folly of the At ic
antic Pact. She regarded Russia as
non-aggressive nation, and did not
are to provoke her by lending en- VI
to an attack on the Sow g
Its by America. Switzerland and =,
reland followed Sweden. =,
Inferiority in the Air o.
By radar in Japan lately we meas n
red the speed of Soviet bomber b.
lying over Korea at 600 miles an p
our. This brings London, Paris, Rome a
-ithin go minutes of Russian Atom tt
omb. US News says Russian anti m
ircraft can discover and destroy I'll
n on-coming plane 36 miles away, b!