The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-05-25
Letters TO THE EDITOR


there anything else l can do?"
a l told him his hand had been forced
: by Germany; we could not keep out.
Wilson: Yes, but do you know what
= war means? War will overturn the
world wa have known. We shall lose
= our heads along with the rest, and stop
! weighing right and wrong. A majority
of the people in this hemisphere will
go war mad, quit thinking, and devote
their energies to destruction
After victory it will mean an at
! tempt to reconstruct peacetime civil
. ization with war standards Then there
will be no bystanders with enough
power to influence the terms. There
won't be any peace standards left to
work with There will be only war
! standards
MONTANA JUNE 1, A CASE IN POINT
once lead this people into war, and
they'll forget there ever was such a
thing as tolerance. The spirit of bru-
tally will enter into the very fibre of
our National Life. injecting Congress,
the Courts, the policeman on the beat, !
the man in the street"
The Constitution will not survive it. |
Free Speech and the Right of Assembly |
will CO.
We entered World War I the next
day.
Frederick Howe, Commissioner of
| Immigra ton at Ellis Island, 191S-1919,
|
years.
The hysteria against Germans in
the United States was finally diverted
against the Reds" 1t started in the
lumber camps in Washington against
the L w. w. Organiza lions which had
superseded the more conservative craft
unions of the a. F. L. The employers
determined to break the power of or
ganized labor and reduce wages to pre-
war level"
The movement against alien labor
leaders had the support of the Depart :
ment of Justice" (This was % years :
before Harry Bridges trial)
Private detective agencies and :
strike-breakers acted with the assur
ance that in any outrages they COM
mitted. they would be supported by the :
Government itself. The press Joined in
the cry of red revolution, and fright
ened the country with scare headlines :
that there was an army of organized
terroristS determined to usher in revo- :
luton by force. The government used :
agents prOvOcateur from Czarist Rus
STA; it turned loose innumerable pri- :
vate spies. For two years we were in :
a panic of fear of red revolutionists, .
anarchists and enemies of the Re
public" :
Members of Congress were swept =
from their moorings by an organized
business propaganda" The bureaucra- :
=
Ply in the Furnishing power which all :
jailers enjoy" -
PRESENT PREVALENT HYSTERIA :
One outspoken, wise intellectual who =
believes in change of an existing order =
and opposes deficiencies, and unconsti- :
acts of arrogance to the hum 50
BILE, subservience to the wealthy, is =
more dangerous than a thousand un- :
learned, though earnest agitators. This =
is well known to the managers for en- =
orders. :
Sir Thomas More wrote, in Latin -
'or a few intimate friends, Utopia. His -
head was cut off. Scott Nearing wrote :
book outlining the New Deal before 49,
Franklin Roosevelt was elected. Near =
ng was fired from his professorship -
n Pennsylvania University. Thorstein =
Teblen changed architecture from the =
Id gargoyles, spires and front frills =
n buildings antedating his book to =
he unadorned, simple strong buildings :.
f the present day. He laughed at the 80
ollies of the rich. He was fired from 500
he Chicago University Faculty. =
Sixty years ago IN Butte a big build =:
~ was constructed with a big round. -
eavy tower from the second story -
p, and no foundation under it; sup :
orted by steel beams from the inside. -
still stands But due to Veblen's =
arcasm, no man would now erect =
lch a monstrosity -
Three able professors in Washington =
tate University were kicked out be- -
tuse they had so-called Communist -
anings (Our graduated income tax =
as first advocated in the Communist -
anifesto in 1913; so also the Export -
nport Bank, Scientific Forestation, -
rec Trade, good highways, public -.
zee schools labor unions, and preven- =
on of child labor. Any citizen with go
It some Communist leanings" should -
in the home for the Feeble Minded, =
in Jail with Parnell Thomas, the -
cent head Of the Un-American Com -
ittee of Congress.) -
The ablest, most intriguing book ====
lblished in 20 years on social history -
America is "The Hidden Heritage" -
John Howard Lawson. Lawson is in -
il for years term for Contempt of -
lngress. No wonderl He quoted in =
e book from Walt Whitman. the poet -
the common man: 1.-The destiny of -
e Nation is in the hands of deformed =
ediocre, sniveling. unreliable, false -
sarted men," Lawson was one of the =
n Hollywood writer's brought to =
ashington, condemned by Federal -
Try. "a commissioner and the clerk -
Il the jury boxes with such names -
they choose in the Federal Courts) =
However, governments are growing -