The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-02-17

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not consider publishing in one install
ment letter as long as the following
by Edmund Freeman of Missoula. How
ever, Mr.. Freeman does not too often
avail himself of this column, and the
content of this letter is such that, if
published at all, it should be published
all in one piece.
am sure it is both generous and
wise always to give the Devil his due,
but it seems to me that Mr.. Maury has
overdone it in his recent letter on the
influence of the French and the Com
munist Manifesto on Capitalist coun-
tries OF the Manifesto he writes
"Ellhu root opposing the Income
tax in the Supreme Court called it a
Communist Measure. 1t was formu-
lated first in the Communist Mani
festo of 1S48 From the same docu-
ment comes Theodore RooseVelt's Ma
tional Forestry Act: Also public free
schools; shorter hours for labor; the
Export Import Bank; anti-child la
Dor laws. In fact about all the pro-
gressive legislation of the last 107
years"
To this he adds:
"The English Socialized Medical
Care Law does not spring from the
writings of Marx. That plan arose In
Russia after the Bolshevik Revolu-
ton, whence England copied it,
I believe the following are facts:
Socialized medical care began in Eng
land several years before the Russian
Revolution. Popular education in Eng
land was very backward, but the Amer
lean Revolutionary mind was full of
the idea of free public education and
the mighty voice of Carlyle was lifted
in it's favor long before Karl Marx
proposed it in the Manifesto. And as
much goes for child labor.
The income tax had been very
practical reality in England for fifty
years before the Manifesto was writ
ten. ct is a trick-not of Mr.. Maury
of the enemies of the income tax to
credit the Communists with inventing
it. The friends of the income tax ought
to learn it's true origin.)
1 do not know the exact significance
of the Manifesto of 1S4S in modern
date effect in England where Socialist
ideas were already developing out of
long English roots. 1t certainly did
cry up the bitter idea of class-Warfare
and very definitely proclaimed that
Communist ends can be attained only
by the forcible overthrow of all exist
ing social conditions" Instead, English
radicalism, working through reason
and for cooperation, has made a Com
Evolution unnecessary, and un-
feared, in England.
Mr.. Maury opens his letter by stat |
ing that the Communists are now the |
strongest political party in FRANCE
having five and a half million votes, |
and goes on to say "The French have
been tutors of the world and ends
his letter, French ideas permeate the
world" 1t is so, but the five and half
million Communist votes are to me
sign of Frances relative failure with
her own ideas of democracy. This is
not to disrespect many brave spirits
who have struggled for human values
n the name of Marxism.
Mr.. Maury sings the political praises
If the French in several questionable
ways. 1t is true, believe, as Mr.. Maury
SAYS, that "Montesquieu G74S) first
advocated our present division of
powers Legislative, Judicial, Execu
i've" But isn't it agreed that he made
. very faulty analysis of the division
IF powers in England Che was some
hing of an Anglomaniac) and is some
what responsible thereby for our hav-
ng a Republican President and Dem /