The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-02
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
By GRETCHEN G. BILLINGS

In the next legislature labor and
farmers are going to have to fight
for or against legislation that is go
ing to affect every one of their mem
bers.
However, these groups consider
government not only from their own
memberships standpoint, they con-
slider legislation that can have rami-
fications in the entire human rela-
tions field. They consider old peo-
pie, welfare people, institutions and
government services and the taxes
of all the people.
ate it.
Corporate groups have thus become
the masters of deceit. They operate
under the ancient philosophy that if
you strike the shepherd the sheep
will scatter. 1t wouldn't matter who
lead the organizations of working
people and farmers, if they spoke
up in behalf of their people and all
people against carnal political and
economic greed they would receive
the same reception at the hands of
the conservative and selfish interests.
Well, this is an eternal discussion,
and finally I guess, the weak link to
progress in America is the small bust
ness man who has delusions of gran
deur, who imagines himself a cousin
of Dupont, who allows himself to be
sucked into his own coffin for the
paltry satisfaction of sitting for a
short moment in the reflected glory
of the tyrant. He is dead and doesn't
know it, the minute he became a
patsy.
Liberals offer the only road out
of our dilemma that will avoid what
mas been called "belly levep politics.
When things reach the "belly levep'
type of thinking there is no rhyme
Or reason to what happens. Liberals
ioggedly stick to the cumbersome,
objective that informed
progress is the only profitable prog
'ess.
When the "suburbanites" of the
L960's as did the Rabbits of the
zoos awake to the hallowness of
he cries of the masters of deceit
America can look for salvation. If
he liberals have their way the awak-
ming will come through knowledge
md education. If the corporate in
erests have their way it will come
It the belly level. But America will
hange to meet the new world of
attenuation and the human needs it
an provide, one way or another.
So maybe the liberals are not good
or the Democrats, but they are good
or America, and if America sur
ives as democracy it will survive
ecause of the dedication of liberals,
nd for no other reason.
One of the biggest ''yokes" of the
ast campaign may be when Governor
lect Nutter tries to Consolidate"
ne egg.
His appearances on TV with the
gg and carton of milk may come
ack to haunt him, because our pre-
,g1slatlve inquiry as to what steps
an be taken to consolidate the diff
srent departments of state govern
ent handling the egg. reveals one
apartment is presently responsible.
That is, if in truth an egg is an
yg is an egg.
II he attempts to keep his prom
e to consolidate the egg he may
Id up the first humpty-dumptyG Gov
nor in history.
If Nutter is truly interastad in
installation he will take on the
yestock industry, the prima donnas
Montana agriculture, and put them
the Department of Agriculture
here they belong. But the bets are
at the additionally conservative
,estock industry will not be pro-
ked or excited by the incoming
epublican Governor, for obvious
asons.