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THE PRODUCERS NEWS
Paper of the People, By the People. For the People
By the Peoples Publishing Company, Publishers.
.CONTINUING:—The Outlook Promoter. The Out
look Optomlst, The Dooley Sun. the Antelope Inde
pendent, The Sheridan County News. The Pioneer
Press and the Sheridan County Farmer.
CHARLES E. TAYLOR, Manager.
P. J. WALLACE, Editor.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1928
By CHARLES E. TAYLOR
JUICE TOO HIGH
The rates that the people of Plentywood
paying for electric light current are too high, al
together too high.
When the Montana-Dakota power people bought
out the Plentywood Electric Company, it was given
out that the rates would come down.
The rates were adjusted downward on
are
paper.
The light rates were lowered by the Public Utilities
A meter man came here
Commission of Montana,
and adjusted the meters. Since that time the costs
have gone up until now the people are
paying more when they pay their bills than they
did under the old regime.
The rates have been lowered, but the discounts
have been discontinued; on paper juice is cheaper,
hut on the bills which you pay are higher than
actually
they ever have been before.
The people asked for bread and they got a stone.
The rates here for juice are an outrage.
There is only one thing to do, and that is to peti
tion the Public Utility Commission for a hearing
in the premises and a lowering of rates—at the
time the Commission should send a man here
to inspect and test the meters.
The rates in Plentywood—they should be cut by
at least one-third.
same
The way to rectify this condition is to act, and
there is no better time to aett than right now.
j
TIME TO TAX POWER
News comes from Great Falls that a number of
citizens and taxpayers of Montana met a few
days ago to formulate plans for inflating laws to
be submitted to the taxpayers of Montana at the
next general election, providing for the proper
taxing of the power companies of this state, and j
other public utilities, which are notorious tax j
dodgers.
The proposed laws would take the rate fixing
power from the Public Utilities Commission and
place that power in the hands of the City Coun
cils and Commissions, with right of appeal to the
Public Utilities Commission for review.
The proposed measures also provide that the
valuation of the Utility used for rate making pur
poses, shall be the valuation of the property for
taxation purposes. It also provides for the limita
tion of annual earning dividends to stockholders to
8 per cent.
This is legislation that should have been on the
statutes of Montana long ago.
A lot of noise has been made about the mine
taxes, but there has been a suspicious silence on
power tax at all times.
And while the taxation of Public Utilities are
being considered it would be well to look into tele
phone company and railroad taxation at the same
time.
Congressman Hull, former chairman of the De
mocratic committee, rose in his seat the other day
and demanded that President Coolidge and other
republican leaders, "throw the full power of their
co-operation" behind the efforts to uncover bondi
transactions involving the Continental Trading)
This outburst of Congressman Hull was inspired;
by a recent remark by Sen. Nye, Nonpartisan, re
publican, of North Dakota, chairman of the Tea-1
pot Dome committee, that it would be interesting
to know whether any of the Continental Trading!
Company bonds were appropriated to reduce the
Democratic National Committee debt from $600,000
that any donations to the democratic committee had
Wonder if theres' any connection between the
automobile price war and leap year.
TELL FACTS OF OIL
Company.
to $200,000 between 1920 and 1922. Hull denied
been received from that source. Hull screamed,
"The publication broadcasted throughout the coun-1
try this week, unsupported by a scintilla of fact,
intimating that a portion of the Sinclair Continent
al Trading Company oil bonds was received in
1922, or thereabouts and applied on the deficit of
the democratic National Committee, constitutes as
fais»' and foul a libel as was ever perpetrated."
These stage dramatics are very amusing to
thote who are informed as to how both of the old
parties are financed. Con. Hull, as ex-chairman
of the democratic national committee is well aware
of the contributors to the democratic
funds. He knows that the money comes from
Wall Street, from the railroads, the public utili
ties, the great industrial combinations, and others,
who give this money in exchange for favors. The
great interests of this country finance both old
parties, for exactly the same reason that the Con
tinental Trading Company donated, without
doubt, to both parties. Any one knows that a po
litical party constituting a minority party as pow
erful as the democratic party, with
campaign
a
as many men
In the Senate and House of Representatives
that party has cannot be neglected during the
campaign years. If it were, it would raise hob by
ways of exposure when the legislative bodies met,
Hull is sore, no doubt, because the republicans
got 2 millions while the democrats got only 200
thousands. The disclosure of that fact would be
what Hull calls a
crime lies in the partiality.
Now over here in Montana the Anaconda Copper
Mines and other interests in this state contribute
to the campaign fund of both old parties, more to
one probably than the other, and which the most
depending on the year and for the same purpose.
The Copper company is a part of the Standard Oil
Company.
Of course Walsh and Wheeler are in the senate
thank to lavish contributions and support of this
same company. They would not be in the senate
as
disgraceful scandal.
99
The
today if oil had not agreed to it, as well the sapi
ent know*.
Wheeler and Walsh have become famous in the
Teapot Dome case, and the Fall-Sinclair-Doheny
exposure and the part they played in the same.
But they had to be very careful of the channels
through which they have carried their inveatiga
lions. Nobody but those marked for destruction
have been hurt. Many more scoundrally than Fall
Sinclair and Doheny have never been touched even
though the case against the Sinclair crowd has
been weakened in order not to uncover them.
There is John D. Ryan of the Anaconda Copper
Mines for instance, who was the one dollar a year
patriot, who spent a billion dollars logging spruce
and building airplanes, producing one or two
"flaming coffins", not a word has been uncovered
about him, a disclosure that in comparison would
make Sinclair look like a' Sheridan county ant hill
compared with Mount Hood. There is Attor
ney General Palmer, who stole his millions while
the odoriferous "Ohio Gang" have gotten their
thousands. There is the whole rotten corrupt Wil
son administration with whose doings Sen. Walsh
. , ... „ „ T¥ ,. . . . , ..
is familiar, as well as the Harding administration.
What has Wheeler and Walsh said or done about
the crooks, and the crookedness, of the Wilson ad
ministration.
It makes one sick to read of the rank and brazen
hypocracy of these smerk apostles of rightousness
who are righteous for the profit of Standard Oil
and indignant at the corruption of the republicans
in behalf of the rottenness of the democrats.
How long, oh, how long, will the people follow
the lead of either one of these old parties, the
parties of corruption and privilege, the only dif
ference between which is that one is out while the
other is in?
How long will farmers and workers continue
either or both of these fakirs in office before they
will organize themselves into a political party of
their own—a mass class farmer-labor party, and
take the power over in behalf of their own inter
ests ?
Let Wheeler and Walsh represent the Copper
company and the Standard Oil interests. They
can do it as well as any one else—only let us not
allow them to serve those interests while pretend
mg to serve the people—the farmers and workers,
-1
Many people these days are presenting their
views of the modern girl, yet that doesn't stop
the rest from wanting their views, too.
CLEMENTS' DILEMMA
The Butte Bar Association held its regular an
nual meeting on the date provided for that event
in its by-laws, and elected officers, transacted the
regular business coming before the Association, and
incidentally passed resolutions, unanimously it is
said, addressed to Governor Erickson, preferring
certain charges against Burke Clements, erstwhile
reporter on the odiferous and scandalous Helena
Independent, owned and edited by one wild Bill
Campbell whom Senator B. K. Wheeler once used !
to delight in comparing with the devil himself, but
now chairman of the State Industrial Accident
Board, asking the governor to request the resig
nation of said Burke Clements.
time, by the same unanimous vote, a committee
of prominent and outstanding lawyers
by the Association to take the resolutions to the
! Governor at the capitol at Helena, present them to
j him and ask for a day when the said committee
! could appear and present their evidence in support
of their charges on which they asked the Governor
to justify his acts in asking for Clements resigna
tion.
At the same
were named
The resolutions were presented to the
governor,
a day was set for the committee of the Bar Asso
ciation to appear.
On the day set the committee
appeared. The committee was composed of Lownes
■ Mr.
Bourquin was sick abed on the day and could not
appear, the other two did.
Now Governor Flathead Erickson was in a di
lemma The hearing was not a trial nor was it
j intended to be such. A resolution had been passed
! by a body of lawyers making certain charges for
! the purpose of calling the attention of the govern
or to certain facts. Burke Clements was embar
rassed, the Governor was embarrassed, the Ana
j conda Copper Company was embarrassed. A very
respectable and influential body like the Butte Bar
■ Association had passed resolutions accusing this
servile mendicant of the big interests of the State
with malfeasance in office, has filed them and
l asked for a chance to present their case.
What did Flathead John do? Did he receive
j this committee and give them a respectful hear
mg as was anticipated? No! What did he do?
He called a meeting of the State Accident Board.
What for no one knows. No such thing had been
contemplated. No purpose could be served. The
maneuver was a bad out for Gov. Erickson.
Then with the Accident Board in session and
the Governor present as a sort of a spectator, he
asked the committee to proceed with their proof,
The committee proceeded.
ru Pted with wild howls, and danced about like
whirling dervish, interrupting and hurling
accusations, preventing an orderly procedure, with
tbe docile executive not so much as calling the
irate Clements to order. Finally the
once
Mr. Clements inter
a 1
counter i
presented its evidence in support of the charges
set forth in the resolutions, whereupon the Gov
ernor who calls himself a lawyer, and who
on the district bench before the Copper Com
pany made him governor, resolved the whole affair
in some sort of a court—a Kangaroo court of some
sort, and assumed that these chargse were indict
ments brought by a grand jury, then himself at
tacked these presumed pleadings i
wa.s
in a quixotic
manner, asserted they had no place in court be
cause they were not signed, and then profoundly
concluded that he had no jurisdiction in the mat
ter because he did not have
ments, and with dramatic gusto dismissed
case.
power to remove Cle
the
The Governor, in what was supposed to be
private hearing to hear evidence in support of an
unanimous resolution from
a
a very dignified body,
called in Mr. Clements to publicly insult and brow
beat the committee designated to present the reso
lutions, and evidence in support of the charges
contained therein. Then he hid behind a subter
fuge set up by himself in dismissing the whole af
fair. Now, of course the committee knew that his
excellency could not remove Burke Clements. They
knew the law no doubt a great deal better than
the Governor himself. They presented the
lutions of the Butte Bar Association: they
stantiated the charges contained therein^ they ask
ed the Governor to ask Clements to resign because
of his wilful violation of the law and contempt of
the explicit directions of the State Supreme Court
in his servile catering to the employing interests.
There is no law preventing Gov. Erickson's ask
ing Clements to resign—even the Governor knows
reso
sub
N
this. And if the Governor had asked Clements to
resign that gentleman would no doubt have done
so—at least he would have remained in office m
face of very embarrassing circumstances. -
Company of course does not wish to lose the ser-1
vice of Mr. Clements, consequently the Governor,
does not. . I
The interest of the injured working people is
and never will be of any consequence with ei tber
the Governor or Mr. Clements.
After this hearing, Mr. Clements, a professional
reporter, sent out reports, without a doubt, writ
ten by himself, misreprseenting and confusing the
whole proceedings, maligning the committee and
the resolutions, charging the members of the com
mittee with malpractice and self serving, without
reporting a line of the resolutions or the evidence
j n support of the charges made: it being an ex
parte report in toto. This story was printed in
all of the copper press. The Producers News and
the Great Falls Town Topics being the only papers
in the state that printed the resolutions, in full and
the statements made by Messrs. Maury and
p ea se. '
, . , ,, „ •
l,ong editorials on the matter, written aga.n,
n o doubt, by Mr. Clements, appeared in the Hcl
ena Independent, which threw several fits about
the resolutions and charges, attacking both Pease
and Maury calling them "Lump Sumers," etc-, ami
insinuating that they instead of Clements had vi
olated the law and had charges preferred against
them. The Independent also alleged that there
were only fourteen lawyers present at the meeting,
and gives the impression that the meeting was a
rump affair, instead of the regular annual meet
ing.
the Association were present, insinuating that "if"
the entire membership had been present, no such
! a resolution would ever have been passed,
j Of course, these are the self-serving contentions
of Mr. Clements.
The
The Independent also thinks that the resolutions
have no merit because only fourteen members of
The fact remains that all of the members could
have been present—the meeting was the regular
; annual meeting, the date of which all members
j were well aware, and the resolutions were propos
ed and after consideration passed. How? Unani
mously.
The committee made a case against Mr. Clem
ents that the dust kicked up by that gentleman,
the Governor, the Helena Independent, and the
Copper Interest will not obscure.
The question seems to be—Is Burke Clements 1
above the laws and courts of Montana!
arn Y aml kitchen P oli ce may not be such a bad
Joh in that arm y
The French are trying women cooks in their i
(Teagarden's Recorder)
The Recorder is of the decided conviction that
an issue can be successfully raised in the election
of the next state legislature upon the unfair and)
hurtful disposition of the proceeds of the 3-cent j
gasoline tax.
This weekly believes that at /teast one-third of
these proceeds should be returned by the state to
the counties in the same proportions as are the
proceeds from the vehicle tax, and that the funds
from both sources should be devoted to the devel
opment and upkeep of production roads_that is
roads for getting land products to points of salè^ '
at seasonal times. '
What Other Editors Say
Clipped From Our Exchanges
A PLEA FOR FAIR PLAY
In the first place, the autoists of the larger i
® or P° r Rted cities anti towns pay no property tax
building and maintenance of country roads.
farmers who are taxed for them. In no other way
than nby taking a part of the gasoline tax they
Fu* Can f bese ci ^' f , olks be made to contribute to
are VITALLY^NECESSARY To ^he^busIïess^eL
fare of town and city.
Tbis weekly unhesitatingly challenges the wis
(lom ? f P ut )i n £ all of the gasoline tax money into
si^ beTm oÄ^toSrÄs^f
Against the extravagant claim of $lo?000 000 left
in tbe state last year by outside tourists, Teagar
den ' s Reorder puts the $275,000,000 of new wealth
turaMndust < * UC ^ i p* ),0< ' uce ^ FY, ^ be state's agricuul
twenty-seven dollars^f^farmers' money !* 4 And*vet
& is called "state building" to spend all the gaso
bne , * ax 1 J 10ne y °n the tourists' roads, to the utter
vohim^ °f road '^.^ or Kitting the vastly greater
state. 6 ° ° eW WGa 1 to t e mar ket places in the
.It isn't "state building." It is state strangula
! ^ on — s t r angulation of merchandising everywhere
ln -yj le s t a t e > as well as crusifixion of the farmers!
I flow ofTSnd piïdict^moïev into®
they to rely upon tourist money, they would quick
^ WITHER and DIE, every one of them!
in
same
WHEELER AND WALSH FOR LEASE
(From Great Falls Labor Topics)
at pe 9Pl e Montana have no senator. The
Montana ï.°. wer Com P an y has two. The effort to
secure a fifty year lease of the Flathead Indian
reservation by the Montana Power Company has
the support of both senators from Montana. John
Collier, secretary of the American Indian Defense
Association, says: The bid of the Montana Power
Company is.$228,000 a year too low." When one
considers this extra profit from the transaction is
to run fifty years, and will amount to more than
eleven, millions besides the normal rate to be exact
ed,. it is enough to turn the head of a hungry poli
wn! an i m d ^ rec ^i°n of an electric meter.
Wheeler is reported to fa vor the lease because
the Indians have been robbed of most of the land
by Congress, and the Indians wanted the lease to
be given so they could get the one dollar per horse
power promised by the Montana Power Company.
The logic (?) of such a proposition can be readily
Since Congress has robbed the Indians of
their land, why not allow the Montana Power Com
pany to loot the potential wealth of Flathead res
ervation.
Senator Frazier of North Dakota comes to the
rescue of the citizens of Montana and the Flathead
Indians in opposing the lease,
of the North Dakota senator that the public should
develop the power site, and no rake off given to
the Montana Power Company. It is said that
Walsh is somewhat embarrassed by the persisten
cy of the Power Company. Walsh has led the
fight against the competitors of the Standard Oil
Company and ~ained the reputation of being for
the people. Just at this time to be exposed as a
friend of the Montana Power Company causes the
copper collar to pinch. Senator Wheeler favors
public development of Muscle Shoals, but he is in
favor of giving the lease on Flathead reservation
to one of the most unprincipled corporations in
America. Wheeler appears to think that he can
adoveate public ownership of an industry located
in another section of the United States and there
by blind the voters of Montana while he delivers
th heads of his own citizens to the Montana Power
Company. Shylock must have his pound of flesh
if the people of Montana and the Flathead. Indians
bleed when it is extracted. This is election year
and the people of Montana should elect a Senator
who would give at least half his time to the inter
est of those who elect him.
seen.
It is the position
Pan-American Dis-Union
B The Pan-American Union is also a
statement of United States policy..
How long will the Latin American re
publics accept it?
The question arose at the Havana
conference on the subject of interven
tion. During the past 20 years, the
United States has sent gunboats and
marines to Cuba, Haiti, Honduras,
Santo Domingo, Mexico, Nicaragua;
has forcibly dominated the internal,
affairs of these countries, and in sev
eral cases, (notably in Haiti, Mexico
and Nicaragua) has shed much blood
before it could impose its will upon
the local populations. In certain cases
—Cuba for example—provision for in-1
tervention is made by treaty.
Is this right? Should the United,
States, with a population of 120,000,
000 and a big army and navy inter-j
vene in Nicaragua, with its 050,000
defenseless citizens?
Whether right or not, it is done,
While the Pan-Arnerican conference
was meeting in Havana, United
States marines on Nicaraguan terri
tory were shooting Nicaragifan citi
By Scott Nearing, Federated I ress
'ihe Pan-American Union re P*f 8
ïhe ïeadlu^eS'of the uïion " an
i mpos i n g building in the city of Wash
i n ^ on> The director of the union
Was a professor of political science in
one United"Itates^w^in 6 the
ei ^ s pl " y of e the United States treasury
j € p ar t me nt and has held other re
sponsible positions under the United
States government,
CQn ^ e ^ p 0We r to'make™ ami
en f orce decisions, but conferences at
which administrative details are elab
orated and fundamentals are avoided
The
j njçg the p an „American union. As
0 ne of the United States repre.senta
lives put the matter:
doctrine is not an agreement between
the various American governments,
but a sta t e ment of United States poli
The Monroe
cy.
f. ens W A°. ' dar f} 1 . the int ?™ en
forces in ^he internal affairs™/ the
countr".
Young Rockefeller s Only Virtue
By Leland Olds, Federated Press |
Why did the junior Rockefeller
come forward with such sudden moral
fervor to help the senate investigating
committee? Because they had struck
trail leading right back to the
throne on which he sits a prime regent
of the oil dynasty. As a sanctimoni
ous despot in a country not yet^en
tirely hardened to depravity in high
places, he must wash his hands puo
holy. The oil industry, the business
structure, the economic monarchy
111 .? fu 11 * 1 », u
1 J t I ? aUstl ,y» t .°'. d î" e !
T'îîf 8 » U8 k^ IC, ° n iJ )e '
if. 1rt "J hat have
brou Kut to light and more particu
L ar,y u ° f u, / a ? t8 . h Y e . not
. n brou K*l t J® h K ht - rh « business
stru< | tare of * hc country is under
8U *PWon. The cynic is staying: 'Is
tber ® an y 8Uc k thing as basic in
tegnty in business?"
0n this account Rockefeller was
keenly anxious to bring to light the
facts. At least so he asserted, but
his eagerness to assure the commit
tee that he could really do nothing
further to unravel the plot casts
doubt on his sincerity. For Rocke
feller has the power to bring all the
facts to light. Instead he chooses to]^
administer a public rebuke to one of
velvet nateS Wh ° Wa& direCt,y in '
Rockefeller testified that his voice
in Standard Oil of Indiana represent
ed about 15% of the outstanding
stock. His personal holdings amour!
to 402,280 shares; the Rockefeller
Foundation, of which he is chairman
holds 463,760 shares; and there is a
Rockefeller trust holding over 500 000
shares. This is sufficient to make his
voice a weighty one with the manaire
ment. *
But he testified this was just one
of hundreds of companies in which the
Rockefeller interests were investment
stockholders and he said: "It would be
utterly impossible for us to follow
the transactions of
»»
any company^
The implication is that while Rocke
feller wasn't looking, one of his big
oil trusts combined with another
provide the funds to purchase the
publican administration at Washing
ton,
<o
re
Rockefellers' tremendous power in
■
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z
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
By LAURENCE TODD. Fed. Press.
0IIIIIIIIHNIIIIIIIHI
BILL HUMPHREY DOMINATES
TRADE COMMISSION.
Wassington—Bill Humphrey of Se
attle »former congressman, redbaiter,
lame duck lobbyist and now Coolidge's
kingpin on the federal trade
sion is one of the best reasons why
the progressives *
commis
congress resist
every move toward having the feder
al trade commission make investiga
tions of vital economic matters.
Sen. Carter Glass, former chairman
or the house committee on banking
and currency, and later secretary of
î be . treasury, during debate on the
Walsh power trust investigation
measure, confessed his opinion: "I
would vote right now to abolish the
commission because of Mr. Humph
rey s membership on it. ... I have
known him for 26 years; I served in
the house with him; and it is because
u r° w b ^ m that I would vote to
abolish the commission because he is
a member of it."
in
SENATORS DEMAND
COOLIDGE APPOINTEE.
Sen. Harris, Georgia, a member of
the commission under the Wilson re
gime, seconded this view. He said
thought most of the real friends
of the commission would like to see
it returned to its original purpose, by
securing a membership loyal to its
legal duty.
Walsh of Montana then explained
bow Humphreys had been placed by
» ° v .1 » e .* n this commission as though
to block its work; how Humphrey im
mediately sealed up the evidence
against Mellon's Aluminum Co., of
Amenca, just in time to prevent fed
#
The complete United States domm
ation of the Havana conference is
shown by the fact that delegates did
not even mention the Nicaragua mur
ders when they discussed intervention,
but talked generally of outlawing in
tervention under international law.
Everyone was thinking of Nicaragua,
Not a delegate mentioned it.
'There is a suspicion that underly
ing the reorganization of the Pan
American Union is a revival of the
suggestion that there may ultimately
develop an arrangement for the form
ation of a Latin American Union
which wouIU not include the United
States," cabled the N. Y. Times cor
respondent. He adds that Mexicans
and Argentine delegates at the con
ference actively champion the cause
of the weaker Latin American states
against intervention by the United
States.
That is the heart of the matter,
The Pan-American Union is made of |
two unmixable elements. j
One member, the United States, is
richer and better armed than all the
other members of the union combined,
Furthermore United States business 1
interests have $1,500,000,000 invested 1
in Cuba, $1,400,000,000 invested in
Mexico; $4,500,000,000 in the whole of
Latin America. The other 20 mem
bers of the union are relatively poor
! and unarmed. With their resources
and public utilities mortgaged to the
business interests of the United
j States, they always lie under the guns
1 of United States battleships.
j For the moment the Pan-American
Union may continue, at least in form.
i Rut in the long run, the United States
will line up on one side, with the debt
j or countries of Latin America rang
ing themselves on the other in an
anti-United States Pan-American Al-!
liance. If this can not be done o^en
ly, for fear of the United States, it
j will be organized secretly, like any!
j other suppressed movement.
> Pan-American relations are un
j stable. Almost any critical event may
; divide them into two classes: on the
north the Yankee peril, as it is de
scribed in Latin America; on the
south the territories and peoples that
are being exploited and absorbed by
the American Empire.
-
thru
hi s
of
the industrial world, exercised
his abi j it / to or withdraw
support from the management
hundreds of corporations, is hinted in
bls testimony concerning the obliga
tlon of a stockholder. He said.
« As a stockholder in any company
i want no officer ih any company in
which I ow n stock, whether he be
high or low or an employe, to do
any thing that I would not myself
be willing to do. I tarn a stockhold
er in many corporations. I am de
sirous always of using my influ
ence in the 8U PP° rt of able ahd
trustworthy management and I am
prepared at any time to withdraw
my sup port from management that
no longer justifies the confidence
tha t has been put in it."
* P ls statement, coupled with his
closing word concerning the greatest
achievement of his father, should
prove of special interest to the mm
®f s , W ]? 0 T wen t through the Colorado
. ue *, ® strike which culminated
the Ludlow massacre of 1914, to
th< r rail **oad workers who were locked
out on the Western Maryland con
trolled by Rockefeller, or to the min
ers P ow O on . s * ri £ e in Colora do. Con
er nîng Rockefeller, Sr., he said:
"Perhans the irreales* mniriKi.
tion that^y'father hate" mte
f?™? hi l l if ? i8 not . his P hi,an -
f hrop,e8 ' but i n the mvestmg of
sums . °* ba8 i'ness
* #r ^ an 'f d that render useful
t pub,lc at fai . r profit '
„i* 1 wages to its em
fj° yes ' living and work
K cond, ti° I J 8 .* a,ld with the insist
emnlov^" Jh < SC l elat,0n8 hftween
• pb yer and ® a, P")ye which recog
mze one as a fellow man o.uite as
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With the Colorado strike against
the inhuman conditions in the Rocke
feller Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. still
dragging on in the face of organized
violence by Rockefeller minions, such
a statement must prove sickening ev
en to decnet conservatives. But to
those with eyes to see and ears t o
hear, it forecasts the eventual decay
of a ruling oligarchy of absentee
owners, spending the tribute their
agents collect.
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eral prosecution of the monopoly, and j
how Humphrey then got from the ma
jonty of the commission a ruling that !
henceforth its proceedings should be 1
almost wholly secret. Copeland of
1 amany Hall came quickly to the de
fen.se of Humphrey, but Walsh pro -1
ceeded to show that Humphrey had
then tried to prevent any action by
the commission against the Continent
al Bread Trust.
WALSH WAXES
WRATH.
At this point the Montana senator,
indignant at the desertion from his
side of southern and Tammany demo
crats alike, used words regarding the
power trust lobby which wls so fager
that his resolution be handed over to
Executioner Humphrey.
_ ta l k on newspaper
}^ a I sb > "that this résolu
tion will not be adopted by the sen
Q Hrt«fei a 'îf € neitb . er party wants it
adopted, because, it will dry up the
.soui ce of campaign funds, for the '
next election. Mr. President, if it
does anything of that kind, that is
another reason why it should be
adopted.
V ^. e ,^ rue that the course and
conduct of these companies has been
. lead i° th ® belief that they
fhp îïïjplymg ttie sinews of war for
the two great political parties, the
hPttPr r if he m U u try fcnws about it the
better it will be for all concerned.
I^IANA CONGRESSMAN
PROTECTS BYNUM.
Greenwood ôf Indiana rose in
his place in the House on Feb. 13 to
Pay tribute to the l a ,„ ,7
Pum, father of ,**'»», D
lican standpat nni;»: • ,n ent p:-'
Stevenson-Jackson S" * h «» 'S;
commissioner in *».«♦* i r*
years ago. The lha * s * ate a ^° r
tinguished Bvmiiv,
ligate, extent thr« by , faili ng to ^ ^
ficials, an explosion' 1 »!? stee l tin«
ber of workers in . n , that killed of '
at Gary. The elder D 6el tr M Sf 01 '
guished himself wh Bynun > dh»
the House by »min a ^
Democratic to the Uom,îI* r fr °m
way of the Palmer-R Î! Paiyl!
standard bridge. Presid ner golZ
appointed him to a <neei | bt ^ c Kiiik
to codify the laws. a C0l »mis<,i'
Washington has al
ing .of Wm. UmT"-®*«»
troller" under the P 1 hou ^ht
tration in the po^toffi ? a(| mink
As solicitor of the deni?» depar Wt
and after the war Pf rtrne nt, de
a peculiar pleasure in^
the mails hunndreds of !'!i r - nn * fron,
and magazines —' n .,i i- al Pat* rs
questioned the motiÄSfr %
and the war Party, „r tl»?. S N
discuss the term which h
cured in settlement of »b ° Ud ^ *
ar's attitude was one of t War ; W
radicals as traitors unfl atir '* *
reason or another, he cam f ° r 0| *
his mind in a particiiln* 16 *°
HnnV n R „ case -
ctihh Pirrrivc ^
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Herbert Hoover has the lare^
va \ e secret sendee that hag ever £
maintained by a presidential asm»
a(, cording to reports from his frWa'
! f. n< foes - m He has employed
*l on ( T f ' r since he entered ,v'
j 1 larding cabinet. Hence he knor
wbo » amon K Die politicians,
n ] rn and newspaper men. have mf
. cised. him or have praised him ^
D. as ,, a ' l on record, awaiting "fip
Uay *
iirncnv KIVr Lviww.n
i»<j\vi.-i j mimv ,X IIS|,S
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Washington—While the power lob.
by organized lor its last stand u
j prevent a ccngres.-ional investiwtim
a detailed s tali meut of its p.-hJjy
figures and of the ramification the
j *we seeking to hold from the lim^S
was made public by Judson K.ng of
| the National Popular Govcmwnt
; League,
f of
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Pits.
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The statement shows that the
er lobby, which has been
!« *■
the proposed
investigation m t'*»
ground that it would be political in
its nature, is composed of mn ^
themselves hold or have held 141
litical offices, and who have beer..
tained bj the power interests bciius»
|°f the political pressure it wa> thot
they could bring against an investi)»
tion.
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Among the 2-4 lawyers who sip*
Lenroot. of Wisclnsfn, whonowÏÏ
the legal staff representing tom
1er interests, there are two forw
governors of states, former jud»« of
state supreme courts, U. S. senators
and representatives, attorney Kenenls
of various states, mavors,^ delegates
to national and state conventions, ai
lesser political figures.
rpnHrp pnwpi .
vnin i v"
j ™ DAY , . .
^ en - Leorgo of Georgia, a dem
| lawyer who had formerly been op
ed to the grabbing of Muscle M
by the combine, is field marsUrf
the power trust forces. He Mnd
that the investigation resolution k
amended so that the federal tnfc
; commission, hostile to its purp«,
should make the inquiry. Sen. Wibk
of Massachusetts offered a proposée
amendment to the senate rule.«, wind
wen t over for action at a later dau,
requiring that all lobbyists before sa
a ^g committees be registered. At this
point a number of high-priced lobby
ists for the power trust left their
1 seats in tre senate gallery,
! DAWES I)EC L!NES TO
■ APPOINT COMMITTEE
j Vice-Pres. Dawes, who had pnvile
ly refused to agree to put Sen. 0*
, zens of Michigan on the power a
I vestigating committee in case on*
were authorized, has withdrawn fr* 1 »
the picture. He said he was inter
este«! in public utilities companies,a«
s0 he thought the senate should £
ask him to name a committee of •
quiry.
i Walsh of Montana then offer« «
i amendment that
eiert its own committee Upen^
d i 8 cu«sion he mentioned the •
scandal ° f ! 0R Ttta ürifl
! au ' se<l the house to expose
lobby maintained by the m Nal Jaine5 A
| Manufacturers. The same
Emery who fi-um! m that ^
! <™. n8e . ït.n ' .ctive in ^
f b ? ,ned ' ha< ' f ™.®î ÏÏLJb
i thls power UuA i"'™ 3110 "'
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