The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-03-03
CAPITALISM ON the Defensive
BY LOWNDES MAURY, Butte

than any system ever did before. L
is opposed by Communism in tn,
world. Twenty months ago, to es
innate roughly, the score stood o.
the Communists, Russia 200 million
allies of Russia in Europe, $50 mil
lion in nations, excluding party ad
herents in Italy and France, etc,
Macs hold in North China 90 mil
lion, in all about 470 million. To-
day should be added $50 million Chi
nese, 10 million North Koreans,
bringing the figures up to 100 mil
hon people. To this figure should be
added 10 million more people, scatter
ed disciples in countries still adher-
ing to our system.
Certainly there are 500 million
people in the world, who, if visited
by DR.. Gallup, would answer that
their preference was for Communism
over capitalism.
There are $50 million people in
India and Pakistan; Nehru, India's
voice would answer eve have so
many Socialist institutions, such as
the state owned railways, telegraph
and telephone systems, the vast irri-
cation systems, that if and as we de-
sire, we can spread public owner |
ship, and gradually through the well
fare state adopt as much of the Com
munist theology as seems beneficial
We are not ready for Communism.
But we have no fear of it. Nor have
we any fear of the Soviet Union, our
neighbor above the Khyber Pass"
Southeast Asia has large number
of Chinese. The 200 million people
of that area will follow Mao to Com
munism, in about a year.
The japanese are not racially in
clined to collectivism. But if sa-
trap of Hirohito were ruling us from .
We would welcome Com
or any one else who would
promise to get him out The longer
we stay in Japan, in the nature of
a proud nation, the more of them
Will embrace Communism for the only 9
reason that Americans are hostile :.
70 1t. We are on powder key in ia :
pan. Similar to our Monroe Doc !
-rine is the cry in the Orient "Asia
for Asiatics." We are tanning that
lame by trying to exclude from the ::
United Nations $50 million Chinese
Inder Mao. I,
Capitalism is under attack from :
socialism as well as from Commu-
ism. The attack by Communism is =
rontal, all along the line. Social q
SIN is boring from within every coun- =
ry, in every city, where capitalism = =
till controls. When Socialism gets a =,
such as over electric power =
l Seattle and Tacoma, or the Ten X
essee Valley Authority, or the city
wned water works of Bozeman, il
reat Falls, Billings, it never re- tt
eats. Co-operatives have, in their ST
fancy, broken down, but no COOP e.
'ative ever fails after it has become Ell
4 established going concern. Many st
rye, long established private en- W
rprises do go bankrupt. Without it
overnment aid, every railway in the ke
nited States would have been bank o.
lpt in 1882. The French and Ital- tn
n railways publicly owned did not la
} broke in 1929, 1880, 1881, 1882. u,
The nucleus of World Capitalism
in the United States. Argentina in
light be classed as the next strong al,
t home of it, though Argentina en-
Gently bought for public owner fo
lip the British owned railways there. or
eally but for Amsterdam, Canada 81,
ID the United States, Capitalism 90
public system of economy has WA
en- eliminated from world praxis. no
nth America, outside of Argentina I'm
d Uruguay and Chile and Venez- aol
la, is Feudalistic. Of the four, Uru- IN
ay has, without much noise, be- To-,
me about as near to Communism TO;
the Soviet Union. Venezuela is ah1
home for Standard Oil, Chile for +ro
laconda. There is more fertile +a1
Id in Brazil than in any other onI
ton. But for the snakes, insects, -,
rers, all the people of the world we
I'D make living in the Valley of =
Amazon, but only savages can "h
ell in those jungles. CA Harvard get
iversity Exploration party went Cle