The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-03-17

sage to Congress calling the United
States ga constitutional republic, or
a democracy-a government of the
people, by the same people,
AS you can plainly see, the Presi-
dent deliberately confuses the two
ideas together, thereby helping Us
along on the march toward Bolshe-
vism Later, growing bolder, this same
Executive brazeniy declares: s'Labor
is the superior of capital, and de-
serves much the higher considera-
ton" Zone can see the Hammer and
Sickle swapping in the breeze above
the White House).
Still later, he pooh-poohs the GUS
tom and tradition that are so essen
tial for the preservation of constitu-
past are inadequate to the stormy
present" CA far cry from the Right
Wingers' Lets keep it that way.")
And when one looks into this Execu-
tive's campaign statement, the evil
dence grows still more ominous; one
finds him declaring that if his poll
tical views do not prevail in America
he threatens to move to Russiai
This would be damning and con-
firming evidence for the John Birch
Society's thesis-were these the
words of Franklin Roosevelt or Harry
Truman or Dwight Eisenhower or
Jack Kennedy. But they were said
by Abraham Lincoln. The quotes may
be found in Lincoln's Message to
Congress of July 18th, 1861; Deem
Der 3rd, 1861; and December 1st,
1862. The crack about Russia, which
appears in letter dating from 1855,
may be found in Paul M. Angle, ed,
The Lincoln Reader, p. 230. Paper
back, fifty cents; every American
should read it.
Now let us look at that other en-
CINE of terror. the judicial Depart
ment. Here is one of those sinister
judges-the Chief Justice, no less
caught in the very act of changing
the Constitution by fiat: ''It is en-
phatically the province and duty of
the judicial department to say what
the law isl Lest there be no doubt
about the matter, he declares in a
later opinion that 'the government
proceeds directly from the people"
rather than from the states Tor from
the Founding Fathers) Ssits powers
are granted by them, and are to be
exercised directly on them, and for
their benefit And how is this power
to be exercised? s'The government
which has a right to do an act, and
has imposed ON it the duty 0of per-
forming that act, must, according to
the dictates of reason, be allowed to
select the means.' The dictates of
no lessl Not law, custom,
precedent, or time-honored sanction
Wasn't this what the French Revolu-
ton, with its self-proclaimed cage
Of Reason was all about?
And what sneaking Communist
wrote these unpatriotic words? He
turns out to be Mr.. Chief Justice John
who occupied the bench
from 1901 to 1885. (The first quote
s from Marbury v. Madison, 1903;
he remainder are from McCulloch ".
1919 Incidentally, persons
who imagine that all of our Founding
Fathers were states Fighters would
10 well to read the latter opinion in
is entirety.)
We are confronted with two posi-
Utilities here, it seems to me. One is
hat the Russians have secretly in
rented the time-machine and made
he Russian Revolution retroactive
W recruiting Lincoln and Marshall
nto the Communist Party. The other
5 that our nation has been democ-
acy during most of its history after
IL, and furthermore has been proud
f the fact. But if this is true, then
ur democratic republic is not nearly
o much in danger of becoming more
emocratic, which is what the John
'irch Society fears, as it is of be-.
oming less SO, which is what would
appen if sympathizers with the aims
f the John Birch Society had their
-ay.