The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-11-02

A silver standard is better than no
standard at all For ordinary folks,
it is better than the gold Standard
there is more silver.
But the mercantile world believes in
the stability of gold. Any nation that
wishes command and choice of the
natural resources of the others achieves
this by paying in gold.
Thus, the few Soviet bonds stand
high in New York Banks. The interest
is always paid in gold. Poland has
been on the gold standard for a year.
Polish trade with Scandinavia is three
times it's volume of 194S. The Soviet
Union, heavy producer of gold, pays
it's international balances in gold.
Economic strength in the present
world is more potent than ornaments
The steadily growing economic
strength of Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Hungary, and others, enables them to
bid more for Iranian oil than London
or New York can; and in gold, not
currency. These nations can buy
Egyptian cotton and dates for more
than the Western Nations. They can
buy Indonesian rubber for a higher
price.
Racial and religious propaganda is
just propaganda to move the multi
tules. Just like our propaganda against
Communism. The real motif is econom-
ic gain, and the power is mercantile
strength.
Even the Iranians cry that Russia
shall not buy Persian oil. This is a
joke. The Soviets are buying of us,
through Belgian and Dutch merchants
We pay silly handling charge.
The religious intolerance of the Mos
lens is famed to get the common peo
pie stirred up from Morocco, North
Africa, to Pakistan and Indonesia. The |
intellectuals do this to Nationalist the
Suez Canal to get better price for |
Egyptian cotton. Persian oil, Indones- |
ian rubber, from the Communist econ
omies than Britain or ourselves can
pay. There are far more followers of
Mahomet than Christians in this world,
and the MuezzinS, who call them to
prayer, think there are more in Hea-
ven. There are 80 million in Pakistan.
We have vast superiority in factory
power over the rest of the world. The
American ability to produce goods,
ETC., is the greatest ever
known. If we were using that gift of
God to benefit ourselves and the rest
of the world by decent trade, our power
would grow from year to year.
1t is wrongly diverted to making
things that serve no useful purposes.
nobody will buy, that are a curse to
i.e., munitions. Just to en-
rich the munitioneers, at the expense
of, and to the greatest despair and
final destruction of the people who
pay the taxes.
The Battleship Forrestal was launch
ed yesterday. 1t is named for one who,
seeing our country headed for a preci-
pice, killed himself in despair. 1t cost
S20S million Gin paper money!. Our
blithe Brass Hats who never made
any useful things say we must have
$50 like it,
Just how much oil will Persia give
us for 10 Forrestals? Can we trade a
dozen of them to Malaga for rubber
on to Burma for mahogany and teak
wood, or to the Persians for some
rugs? We might trade them to China
just now, for tea and tin. They would
be turned against our boys in Korea
Our trade restrictions forbidding our
merchants to ship to Communist coun-
tries simply further weaken ourselves.
We are building for the French (who
laugh at us), Valley Authority of
the River Rhone,-but none in the
Missouri Basin.
AS our currency falls, as our bulk
Of useful, saleable goods dwindle, {
our power in the world dwindles. Any !
Brass Hat or Bone Head may dis
agree with me that wishes to, but if .
anybody thinks that the highest bidder {
n the world market does not get ]
he goods (and the friends), 1 will
emind him, though a Legionnaire,
II her, D. A. r., that four months .
,fter we declared war on Japan and
Germany, Standard Oil was shipping ,
Ill to a South American port, for re-
to the Axis Powers for Germ
n gold.
TIE be a power in this world, we r
must make things that people want
mot things they would like to des- y
roy I
We tried to buy some millions of +
ons of beef in Argentina lately. We
lid not offer gold. Our farmer boys
n Korea would rather be at home S
elping to raise cattle. S
[ see bill posters advising people +
o buy Gold Savings Stamps. Are they
ny better than a gold certificate?