The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-10-21
Pretenseb by Administration Of Containing
Communism Is a Hoax and Humbug
To Soften TAXPAYERS
By LOWNDES ,MAURY, Butte

By LOWNDES MAURY, Butte
The real purpose of spending all o,
the $50 thousand million in Truman
Marshal Plans, Atlantic Pacts, Chi
Inese ratholes, the $50 thousand mil
lion for military might at home is MOI
to contain Communism as the Press
Pulpit, Radio, Administration anC
some labor leaders propagandize.
The insiders, like Tydings, Byrd
Vandenberg well know that the bill
lions have all been wasted to sustain
a dying form of Capitalism; instead OF
using all that money to repair ou1
system. This, if patched up, as the
| Liberals demand, would probably
function better in the United States
than Communism, i. e.: AS Jefferson
wished, it would provide "The great
est good for the greatest number"
The historical background and
growth of International Communism
and review of its infiltration by
piecemeal in the economy of great
nations, even our own, viii convince
that it cannot be contained by any
means now in the power of this coun-
try, or of the nine bankrupt partners
with US in the Atlantic Pact.
When | was 'majoring' in history
and economics, $3.50 years ago,
three names, three schools of philos-
ophy, were being discussed the world
over: Charles Darwin's Theory of Ev-
olution, Herbert Spencer's Theory of
Survival of the Fittest, Rugged In
dividualism of Hoover) and Karl
Marx Theorem of collective produc-
ton and distribution of wealth, i.e.:
In short half century,
Darwin's name is not mentioned, be-
cause like Copernicus, the world ac-
,epts his theory of evolution as
proven. Spencer's name is not men
Toned on radio or in press in years.
It is seldom that one reads paper |
II opens radio without mention made
If Karl Marx, or some of his doctrines. |
Russia was first great nation to !
embrace the MARKHAM philosophy as
| system of government. Forthwith |
Ia capitalist nations (including our
,wn) for no other cause invaded Rus
ia with vast armies. While Wood |
'ow Wilson withdrew ours on recon- !
after we had killed a good /
many Russians, the armies of Ger
many, France, Britain, Poland, etc.,
we're driven from all of Russian soil
Except 225,000 square miles which
russia regained at the end of the Hit
er war. That attempt to contain
when Russia stood
lone, failed. | cannot recall single
alton that was friendly to Russia ;
hen. She stood alone against an en-
attled world in arms.
Today the Soviet Union is thanked
y $50 million friends in Estonia, {
.ativia, Lithuania, Poland, Czecho- {
lovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bull
aria, Albania. | think the Yugo-
avs would stand by the Soviet Slavs. +
n the Orient there are 462 million {
hinese who have driven our planes, c
Ulcers, navy from China, and pro- f
aimed a Communist government.
he $50 million sent South Korea S
Y Mr.. Truman this week is a pop gun I
Or bear hunting. Before the Sow @
is got the Atom bomb it was folly
} think that any arms we could send il
yainst the Soviets could change
leir system. Now it is insanity. v
There are dozen different pro- C
,sses for making synthetic rubber; t.
any ways of making sugar. We do n