The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-03-16
By LOWNDES MAURY, Butte
(Stil Voting Progressive


Second In a Series of Three
Soviet Russia is not aggressive. This
is not because of any conscientious
scruples of the rulers in the Kremlin.
1t is because a communist economy has
no need for foreign markets to sus-
tain itself without periodical depres-
sions. If there should be any surplus
product, it would be distributed to the
workers and farmers; the producers.
Up TO date, while there is surplus prod
uct in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hunga-
ry, there is none in Russia
Woodrow Wilson was doubtless the
best informed president on economies
and history. For many years he taught
such a Princeton University He said
that the first World War was caused
by national competition or foreign
markets.
Under the Soviet rule. the area of
Russia is somewhat less than what it
was under the last Tsar The Tsars
ruled Finland and Poland. These are
now Independent nations. Poland, with
% million people. is friendly to the
Kremlin and is Communist. Finland is
and is democratic. Both
trade freely with the Sow
lets. OF course, not that Mongolia has
become Soviet of Russia at it's own
request.
1t was provided in the Constitution
of the Southern Confederacy that any |
state could leaves the Confederacy |
peacefully if she desired The Stain |
copied that provision. I'm
perialism does not speak that lang |
uage. The Stain Constitution provides
that every person wishing a job should |
be given one, and also. that every able
bodied person should earn his living
by the sweat of his brow" In other
the Stain Constitution (Which
have read) follows the u. S. Constitu-
ion, and some basic laws of Switzer-
and, from whence, by the way, we get
our Initiative and Referendum, and our
secret balloting system. We call this
after the Australian Ballot. 1t orig
mated in Switzerland.
Constitutions are only models for
behavior They sometimes guide the
conduct of rulers, but not always. The
ourts in Russia are not so firm in
folding the. rulers to the Constitution
IS ours are in holding Congress to
ur basic law.
But with us. Mr.. Truman is carry
ng on a war which Congress has not
eclared, and announces that as Mill
airy Commander in Chief, he is above
he Civil Authorities. He claims the i'm
erial right to involve us in World
Var by sending troops to Europe. Any {
rivate citizen, if drafted that refused
lights, would be tried by court mar
al, and punished as a deserter or trait /
r. BY our Constitution, Congress only
as the right to declare war. I
We must see world events as they :
re, not as we wish them, to be- Ex-
resident Hoover broadcast that we S
ave lost the War in Korea. Our fail 5
re so far against one-half of lit I
e nation, thought by our Commander
l Chief to be insignificant, should give Z
S pause as whether we have the power S
} take on war in Europe We should
Iso remember that outside of saw a
lg Europe from Fascism, we gained t
ON two wars in Europe and one in 1
STA, only a group of poor acquaint- Il
noes who have eaten at our table ever |
nee We have spent enough abroad as Z
lie sequel Of these wars to buy every i
orker in America two Cadillac cars,
nd array his wife in silk and dia- f
onds. With one-third the money vast r
in the ratholes of Europe and China, D
l the tributaries on the Mississippi f
'uld have been controlled so that Il
'ery one of them would enter as the 8
ennessee now enters the Ohio at f,
iiro. g.
Our Military Scientists said, before n
ussia got the "a" bomb, that one "a" ir
NIB would paralyze one city They
Nv guess that the Soviets have so 9,
ch weapons, and that we have $50 7
them. Well, while they know moth Il,
& about how many "a" bombs Russia W
49, yet if their guess is correct. 7 -,
ould not trade the destruction of 60 ~
nerican cities for the ruin Of $50 Sow al
cities a.
SENHOWERS VISIT TO EUROPE
with public men it is frequently nc
sler to read their minds by what thew 81
not say than by what the do saw. ~,
said: Language was in g.
nted to conceal thoughts" If Gen. -
senhower had found Western Europe