The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-10-07
By LOWNDEs MAURY, Butte

what experience and history
teach is this: That people and gov
ernments never have learned any
thing from history, or acted on prin
ciples deduced from it.
Hegel, Philosophy of History.
sPride cometh before a fall, 6
naughty spirit before destruction.
In assuming that we are Gods
chosen pepole and should guide the
thoughts and destinies of all man.
kind; that we can buy our way to
world hegemony, we forget that
''genius, talent, moral virtues and
sentiments are found in every zone,
under all political constitutions and
conditions"
Our native common sense is gone.
Washington has forgotten that "a
fool and his money are soon parted
and never meet again.
After casting 81 billion into the
Chinese Chang Nationalist rathole
and seeing our very weapons bought
or captured by the Communists and
used against our crooked, dirty allies,
the Soong family, we have learned
nothing. We are following at larger
cost in Europe the same plan that
our local Chinese savant now in con-
gress advised and voted that we exc
cute in China. True to the Hegelian
formula he has learned nothing from
the Chinese debacle that he so ear
nestly promoted against the warning
of the Peoples Voice.
His friends, the Nationalists, are
now turned pirates, are holding three
merchant ships. Our weak
State Department permits this insult
to our flag. Thus, it will drive the
owners to the usual means of rescue
from bandits and pirates, i.e., brides
and ransoms for the freedom of the
seas, or right to trade on land with
whom we please. From the Halls
of Monteuma to the Shores of Trip
oli."
We are even yet backing these
yangsters before the United Nations,
in their complaint that Russia aided
the Chinese Communists. General
Marshal, after visiting China, said
there was no evidence of this. Nc
Arthur concurs.
In the United States, during War
II, there were men in power so base
hat they cheated the Nation and
we're sending phony communication
wire to help destroy our boys fight
ng in the jungles of the South Pa
,ific. Four months after Pearl Har- /
,or, the President of one of the |
Standard Oil units admitted before |
| Congressional committee that his |
with his knowledge, was +
till sending oil to a South American
,ort for redelivery to the Axis.
When it comes to making money,
re the French, or Dutch, or Bel
,ians, or British, or Italians more
than our own patriotic
americans?
Congress is voting $1.3 billion for
rming France, Italy, and other At
antic Pact signers. 1t is nonsense.
hey will sell it to Russia. Sixteen
nonths ago the Soviet Union stabil-
zed it's currency. Poland, a Com
nunist nation, last year could afford
o, and did, sell Britain $500 million
f grain american farmers taxes
ctually paid for it). Russia is sell
1g England more grain this year
han she bought from Poland last S
ear. We pay the bill. When war
closed, the national debt of the {
oviet Union was less than $40 bill {
on; ours was 25 times that much.
still is.
Ours is still going concern. In {
ne Atlantic Pact we have agreed to
AIRY nine bankrupt concerns and {
oined our business up with theirs. {
weden and the Irish Republic are I
olvent and prosperous. Both had
20 much brains to join the bank !
1pts, or enter the Atlantic Pact. v
luxembourg, one of our active part c
ers, is about the size of Silver Bow, S
he smallest county in Montana. t
Dung men do not go West and grow /