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THE PRODUCERS NEWS
A Paper of the People, by tbe People
and for the People
By the Peoples Publishing Company, Publishers
CONTINUING — The Outlook Promotor, The
Outlook Optimist. The Dooley Sun, The Antelope
Independent, The Sheridan County News, The
Pioneer Press and toe Sheridan County Farmer.
CHARL.ES E TAYLOR. Editor
HANS RASMUSSEN. Manager
Friday, August 28, 1931.
FREE PRESS
44/VUR LIBERTY DEPENDS on the freedom of
il the press, and that cannot be limited without
being lost."
Thomas Jefferson wrote those words in 1786.
Jefferson was the first American staetesman who
recognized the fact that a people cannot govern
themselves without absolute freedom to speak,
write and print their comments on and criticism of
those to whom governmental authority is delegat
ed for the time being. He wrote to President
Washington in 1792:
"No government ought to be without censors;
and where the press is free, nc one ever will."
Censorship of the government by the press and
not of toe press by the government was Jefferson's
sound theory. He was unceasing in his insistence
upon the freedom of the press. In his first inau
gural address on March 4, 1801, he termed free
dom of the press one of the essential principles
of our government which ought to shape its ad
ministration. Writing to his friend, Thomas Sey
mour, in February 1807, reviewing the first six
years of his presidency, he said:
"Conscious that there was not a truth on
earth which I feared should be known, I have
lent myself willingly as the subject of a
.
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in state politics, Enckson aa gov
emor soon exhibited an amazing
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KanV 'rtp me a fire . r '
abse ^ tee lajldk>rd *» " d , m
building up a machine to further
thp mranH virior f th twv
of the Rocke
fellers and Morgans in Montana
and in pretending to care for -he
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FORTY THOUSAND IN
NEED OF CHARITY—
When Erickson, with crocodile
tears, publicly bemoans the fact
that 8,000 (his usual number) of
people will need charity this
winter nobody who has studied
Eyck son tninks for an instant that
he is unaware that due to high in
terest rates, high power and light,
rates, high railroad rates, high tel
of by
BLAME HIM?
By H. LOWNDES MAURY
(Continued from First Rage)
in Helena, (and Washington), by
the large corporations, of the
large corporations, for the large
Corporations.
During the six and one-half
years that Erickson has been gov
ernor every important measure
suggested by him to the legislature
has been answered favorably by
the assembly slavish
houses have been.)
both
as
GRAND VIZIER OF MORGANS
AND ROCKEFELLERS—
From an obscure lawyer in
section not theretofore aggressive
.
our
ephone rates, evasion of taxes by
all utilities for many years, unfair in
taxes on farms, there is a delin
quency of taxes amounting among
farmers and small city property
SLinZZen ZL 1,^1.
teen njlUon dollar,, and that 40.
000-1-12 of our people will be in
need of charity this winter. He is
astute- enough.' He is wise to the
wreck he has wrought He often
feigns ignorance of unpleasant ef
fects of his malignant efforts for
the corporations and the upbuild
ing of his political machines.
"PROFESSIONAL
SCANDINAVIAN—
In politics are found "profes
sional" free masons, "profession
al" Irishmen, "professional* war
heroes, "professional" rotarians.
Erick?on rode into office twice as
a "professional" Scandinavian. He
is carrying toe same horse for a
toml race ; His treatment of the
Scandinavian element when m of
fice is a lesson m building up ma
chloes , _ . _the
' Erickson figures, ^
so far, that he has the Scandmavi
an vote in hi. ;poclxet anyway by
reason of his being a profession
al Scandinavian. He cares noth
bromrht toe th Swedes ^Norweirians
brought the Swedes. Norwegians
and Danes who are mostly farm
ers and small businessmen. Squal
•bro^ht'X Kl ÄS
commonwealth. A headline story
'.hout^Th^ 01d°M^ .SSCn
Î * t «Tv e 0 d Ma v att * T ) din ^. a
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k th onçet - he
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SHINING EXAMPLE—
When it comes to appointing
Scandinavians to office. Erickson
has always discriminated against
his own people. Brandjord, the
Land Commissioner is the only
man of Scandinavian extraction
that Erickson has ever appointed
to any important office, and no
raan in this office could ever hurt
Grand Alliance. Thê cxpêri*
ment with Scandinavian? in Brand
^° rd J 8 8 bould not have discour
aged Erickson. Brandjord has
b#^*n a shining example of a superb
portant office that Erickson has
r*Äi SÄT S
rui are leaness in oruce, as
may bee seen from the lashing they
are beginning to give th corpora
tion.-v in Minnsota^ (Enckson Kim
self is fearless but only m pitewH r
ing slavery. There is another good
reason why Enckson has discnm
mated viciously against his own
C P their votes a alTè^dy en By fe
warding scrub political ringsters
from other nationalities he adds
cunninsrlv bo his machine He nev
llHïîâ to DlaciT^t Scandinavian
. aare 9L. ° Pr® 6 a öcanainavian
in an office where a fearless man
could hurt the "utUiti^."
Thousands of men. women and
children among the working class
es in Butte and elsewhere will need
Char î y tl ï < Winter be "" se s » me
merT 'her of the family has been de
" e^ "h compensation for industri
°th 8 law h7ha e d1»m
what, under the law, he had com
courts of the rulings of the Indus
tria l Accident Board hostile to
widows, orphans and cripples plac
^ the blame for this 3>rm of cor
P° rate despotism directly at Erick
son't door. He appointed to that
board, Stafford, formerly in the
service of the Colorado Fuel and
Tr ° n Co ;, and J - Burke Clements -
n u W W , eU .^ OWI1 to 1)6 tbe L most
Shamefaced corporate tnol that ev
er J beld such a ®° 81 t 10n m the Unit
ad „ Sta \ ea SU1CC workmen s compen
Ration laws were enacted. His sor
Î did cruelty in denying to the help
less what the law says they shouTd
bave st i nks ^ ° ver _, tbe nortb *
• ® €cau?e Clements and
^^t9 rd .™ an . y merchant who can
afford it m R u tte is carrying*
families that should be supported
b > the 1 ^ acond ^.^ ) " I>any ' 4t , Lr ^„[
t ^ L t
od °r that the work of Clements is
spreading but he has not asked
Clements for his resignation.
On June 1st, 1930, rourteen
public servant. In fact he aad
some highway commissioners are
the only decent appointees to im
months ago, the delinquent taxes
in the state amountel to $11,332,-; on
643. Nobody knows how much
this had grown to by June lai,
1931. but a fair estimates would be
present delmqu«c of fifteen
milUon doUara. These torrifiymg
figures meant nothir.g to the gov
ernor of Montana when delivering
his message to the legislature last
winter. A word from his that the
utilities should be taxed more, the
farmers and other small household
ers less, would have aided and pos- 1
sibly brought success to the gallant
efforts of a few to reduce farms
and improved realty to a lawer
classification. Socialism partly in
vo i ves state ownership. Under the
p resen t classification silently a
8 reed to by Erickson—he has never
tried to change it—the lands and
bouses wd ] ^ forced into govern
ment ownership.
Prudent lawyers do not guaran
^ The ^ physicians
d<} ^^tee to cure. Boldly.
friend when see]dnR office
first time promised that he
could get the state out of debt in,
four never considered
why ^ state was in ^bt and he
bas i a tei y no t mentioned how deep
j we are jn debt debts are
not due extravagance in any
branch of government. The debts
are cauaed by failure of the
leRislature to require a just meas
ure of taxes from the Montana
Pow * r company, toe four great
rail systems, the telephone
com P aiiy . or th * n atural gas com
panics. In ne me?sage has the
Roveroor advi^d the
legislature to raise the classifies
tion on utilities. The Montana
Power Company has grown from
' an investment of fourteen million j
dollar» of outside money to a rat
ing of one hundred twenty million
dollars on the New York Stock Ex- ;
change. If it was taxed like the
farmers of Fergus, Wibaux or
Flathead it would pay about five,
million dollars the year to the state
and counties, school districts and
citi .n it.
After the legislature adjourns
Enckson mildly insinuates that a
two per cent license (income?) tax
ought to be levied on this concern,
great experiment, which was to prove that an
administration, conducting itself with integ
rity and common understanding, cannot be
battered down, even by the falsehoods of a
licentious press, and consequently still less
by the press, as restrained within the legal
and wholesome limits o truth. This experi
ment was wanting for the world to demon
strate the falsehood of the pretext that free
dom of the press is incompatible with order
ly government. I have never, therefore, even
contradicted the thousands of calumnies so
industriously propagated against myself. But
the fact being once established, that the
press is impotent when it abandons itself to
falsehood. I leave to others to restore it to
its strength, by recalling it within the pale
of truth. Within that, it is a noble institu
tion, equally the friend oqf science and of
civil liberty.
It was Thomas Jefferson who was responsible
for the first amendment to the Constitution, the
keynote of the Bill of Rights: "Congress shall
make no law respecting an establishment of re
ligion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.
And in his letter te> Marquis Lafayette in 1823,
throe years before his death, he reiterated the
principle in these words:
"The only security of all is in a free press. The
force of public opinion cannot be resisted, when
permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it
produces must be submitted to. It is necessary to
keep the waters pure."
It is hardly straining the facts to say that but
for Thomas Jefferson the American Ideal of a
free press would never have been achieved. It
was a distinctly American ideal. In Jefferson's
day no such thing as a free press existed any
where else in the world. Indeed, there is nowhere
else in the world today a newspaper press as free
from governmental control and censorship as is
that of the United States. And the Supreme Court
of the United States has so far held the bars firm
ly against those who would impose governmental
regulation upon newspapers.
ff
state's debts are paid this concern
should pay, besides raising its clas
sification from 40 per cent of true
value to ^ cent of true vaJue
' liMnSe taX of 'i K «"* of *
i ncom e. Enckson never
whispered anything about his two
^ csnt tax when it would
^iven the two dozen unowned men
in the legislature a rallying cry|
for their efforta to make ^ con '
ceni its due? . The state is !
run for the ^ ^nefit of the util
l tie *. Th f y . mi > fb i at ,east P a ^ for
ke ^ pm J thei r milk cow.
Enckson knows that the rail
wa >* 8 P a 3 r Iess taxes per mile in
than in any state throurt
.. . . „ . that
^, mcn tney ^ run. ne knows that
the accumulated surplus of the
Great Northern last January was
above 125 million dollars and of
the Northern Pacific was above 1
193 million dollars He knows that
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these roads la'in Montana. He
not yet said a word about raisiné
!? e '<%*"**'
from 40 per cent of true value to!',
*** Cent A ^ InterS } ate
Commerce Commission can reduce
their cruel rates but Montana
could get a fair tax from them. If
he ever knew wrhat caused the pub
He debt here and ever wanted the
state not to repudiate (any state
can repudiate—there is no legal
power to coerce a sovereign state
i to pay- a debt) *.e would ha-, 8 rec
ommended an increase of railroad '
taxes. ;
Erickson cannot plead ignorance
( of the telephone game that has out
raged every subscriber in Montais
j fo f 14 ye Ss. Th* account of U.i*
ba5 been in public print often. The
great Bell System in 1917 wished
to buy out a competitor that de
man ded eighteen hundred thousand
rtoHars. The plan was to raise the
rates 50 per cent all over the state
and lay tb * blan;e on war prices
of wire - »wen:y s.v cents
the ^d. This raise would bring
in Slx Hundred Thousand Dollar
a year . They theught they could
get by with it for three years and
Everyone knows that until the
get even. The gar.e ha? -»een going'.
on row for 14 years. The railroad
commission (Lee Dennis, Dan
Doyle, Leonard Young) could have
brought this rate to normal at any
meelfag. Hi. legUIntor. ««Id
supped over the head of the com
mission and fixed .the rate. Erick
son has never mentioned this cut
rage in any message. The Ameri
can Telephone and Telegraph Co.
has a surplus as of date January
1st, 1931, of seven hundred and
one million dollars. It owns the
Montana Company. It is a member
in good standing of the Grand Al
liance and has a standing member
of the Third House—Alex Rem
meas.
The Montana Power Company
bas invested of original capital not
J? exce * d fourteen million dollars,
Electric power and light rates here
®f* 88 ^ » not higher, than
those of any state in the Union.
Thla concern has one set of figure 8
aa J? *ts values for taxation and
a ?, oth f^ v 8e t for fl «ng a reason
ab * (?) return m rate*. Its real
va } u * 15 best ascertained by the
prices paid for ita stock when the
Electric Bond and Share Company
*°- control two years ago. Thus
measured it was then worth above
on€ hundred million dollars. And
ther * be added the Flathead
*r s.te, a donation from the
federal government and iu "Indi
Thi* is probably worth
a hundred million more when they
d«*« " <*"dop it There i. not
f, far ™« r or petty home owner in
, he "tote who is not taxed higher
m proportion to his holdings than
j Moota ® a Power Company or
J 0 * natural gas companies. The
now , enter ® K
; , eld *° farther exploit the
P*°P * with unreasonable rates and
small taxes. These things Erlck
800 anows and appreciates,
qiçij INTEREST RATES—
; Only three states permit as high
_ ratD of intppMt Qe Allfe q*.—
te say a usurious rate of interet
a while it küla the farmer first bv
driving men off their holdings, it
finally empties the bank of eus
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last year's turkey-eating festival, it is |
disclosed in a bulletin just made pub-1
lie here by P A Bunte, of Bunte 1
Brothers. Chicago cand., manufactur
•The average American breadwinner
trill part with approximately $6.64 to
wt k Thanksgiving dinner on the
table sufficient to satisfy a family of
rbanxs
CHICAGO—Oncle Sam s
giving dinner thla year will cost ap
proximately *158.240,000. a decline ot
several million dollars compared with
era.
nve." the bulletin states. •
"Here is whst the principal items of
the nation's dinner will cost this year,
*>***<1 on current prices; turkey, *40.
ooo.ooo; potatoes. *8.000.000; oysters,
•«•OOO.OOO; celery, olive., and pickles, i
tomers and kill, the bank in .h. I
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end - Enckson is wise enough to
realize this ruthless law of usury..
He could always see what it would
finally , ead to M over the .täte
ina "y ' ead to aU over the . täte. ,
J« 8 "»® a " ^1
tl0ned t0 the assemb, y
CRIMINAL IF TRUE
banking corpor
«uldne^er h^vegot"^
°® u ' a r r . l . n }"
<f tho .staU tf Enckson had in
formed his bank examiner to meet
tK ^ w ; f ), -w at tVw> line The
™k Stock Co wiSÎ n and '
J? 1 "* öa " „ CK wrporawm ano
Northwest Bancorporation have
1 doubtless already ruined more
^mers than the drouth of the
- In the f r. h of
ha.,!""» examiner one of these
coma advertises that it owns 1 ' | C )
BS .*?
to!', ms 18 criminal u true, avery (
ffÂ'Âîwî
®5 ock - Th* so-called spread be
tw ^ en
and , w hat the public bought stock
*9 tb ^*Jl ir ^ ® ank St0C K,. C °^ I ^I
^ 4 ' 50 to the public,
mto tb ® treasury) was enough to,
P" 1 an y ol1 promoter m Jail for
«f** the mails to defraud The
Marl ° w * b ank owne d by this con
' has the first nght bo use all
; the state money. This bank is no
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USELESS EXPENSE— i
:
Erickson knows that the state
board of tax equalization ia
worse than useless expense.
instead of helping to equalize the
burden of taxes between farmer, j
home ewner, laborer and profe»
sional man on the one side and
mining, railroad, power, gas, ele
phone, merger bank (absentee land
lord) corporation* on the other,
this board since it* organization
has been merely the cloak for hid
ing from the people, th« evasions
by members of the Grand Alliance
of taxes that should be paid under
the present classification, rotten,
cruel, as it is. He knows that this
He has
board costa the state In salaries
and expense of eperation above 60
thousand dollars the year; that it
merely provides salaries for mem
bers (republican and democratic)
of Erickson's machine
known since he ha* been first in
augurated that these figure heads
are only useful to induce the com
pany tax agents to spend enter
tainment money in Helena. He haa
known for many year that this
board should be abolished; its cre
ation was a mistake; its duties
better done for nothing by the old
board consisting of governor, at
torney general, secretary of state.
He haa never recommended to a
legislature its abolition. He know 8
the same work was once done for
less than $15,000.00 the year by
clerks aiding the board as once
constituted. As long as this board
exists Erickson can add a "pro
fessional" free mason and his
blind following to the good people
•who heretofore have followed him
as a "professional* Scandinavian,
make up the remainder."
Eight pounds of turkey, ene quart
of oysters, one bunch of celery, one
bottle each of olives and pickles, one- i
half peck of potatoes, one pound of
chocolates, and one pumpkin pie will
suffice the appetites of the average
family of five
"Candy for Thanksgiving la becoas
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*13.400.000; chocolates or bon oona.
*18,000.000; pumpkin pie. *12.400 000.
and tr.Ilk *3.800,000. Incidentals in
Ing as much a ritual aa turkey," Mr.
Bunte's bulletin concludes. "To the j
loved ones at home, or as a remem
branee to the hostess for Thankaglv
mg dinner, a box of chocolatée le al- :
ways a welcome gift." j
-tkm.
DESIRES A
THIRD TERM_ i
This latter following of his own,
[ ie .r^ candmavia fl s * ar ^
dw T? hn *.****■ ***
tbe arc being driven out of the
^ by - ïu *? ten ' f0ve ™ ment '!
Ma ^ of hav f a *> od f"f
"oke^ pîayedÂ^elï» by
Noting for Erickson for a second
te rm after they tried him once,
These are mostly of Danish or
g^iah blood Some "N^ceian
oiooa. t-orae moiyegian
Americans are quitting him; but
are stil1 8 ° me Norwegi^s,,
, beintr made into tram ns
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A n think that "Tho^nw u^h*■
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terrn Âs the ^ surrender theD
fsrma and cattle to the mercer
Sd SSVmSS^TSR
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(kouse and t gome absent ballot
papers Next year these will be
b w ^ n frei ht ridea jn ' warme r
climate, mail back^aJlots i^favor
0 f «The Old Man" John E Erick
^ * ' k
TEACHERS GAGGED- j
Erickson faiU to keep abreast of
the times ^ the universities. A
recent ^ that
president of Turkey refuses to
let Ws cabinet oppress an opposi
tion newspaper; that freedom of
the P re88 ^ a ««^ty in Turkey.
| Erickson by appointing to the
1 hoard of education cheap poiiti
cianfl wbo themselves never
seen the inside of the liberal arts
branches of any university and
therefore cannot see the use of
teacher8 " forming correct inde
P° litical thou ^ ht *« tb *
> x>un ^' has driven b° th fr ** *****
and freedom of the press from tho
colle ^ 8 ' The t^b*" d <> »«t da «
express opinions on the simplest
issues in print or from their rostra,
They might lose their jobs. Any
P«P'l m the class might be a com
P»ny stool pigeon,
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,»S™ CIAI '
DEtlS,0N -
A governor is elected and paid
f° T something. If Erick
80n ' a u wyer. a former judge, did
not know that the election on the
tb ree million dollar bond issue for
IIbe state institutions would be un
constitutional, he should have pro
cured an opinion from the attorney
general The corporations, who
were dodging taxes and did not
want the legislature to make them
aipay decently for the state institu
That;tions* upkeep, raised a slush fund
to carry the bond election. It
could not have carried even with
the slush fund, if Erickson had op
posed it. (The most beneficial do
i cision rendered by the supreme
court in 10 year» was the one an
J nulling this bond issue. It drives
Erickson and all his associate
porate crowd right against decent
taxes from the absentee landlord»
or shutting down the state.)
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DIDNT KNOW THE LAW—
Erickson, however, shining his
talents as a political machine or
ganizer and milkman for the ab
sentee landlords was never much
of a lawyer. In 1924, he was sit
ting for Winston at Deer Lodge.
I applied to him by habeas corpus
for the release of seven labor un
ion men incarcerated in toe peni
tentiary tor terms running from
two to 10 years by a crazy Major
Roote without jury trial during a
military invasion of Butte. Erick
son denied these men their liberty.
He did not even know that no man
could be convicted of felony in
Montana without a trial by jury.
(Of course, the men were shortly
released by the supreme court.
This lesfened the noise but not the
cruel stupidity of Erickson's rul
ing.)
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' A CONATION
He ia now borrowing ideas from
the medical profession. Vaccina
tion is said to be a method of giv
ing one smallpox in an insignifl
cant degree to immunize from the
disease^ in^nore serious form. The
Montana Power Company has pro
cured Erickson to publicly ann
ounce that there should be a two
per cent power licence tax. He 1»
trying to vaccinate the power com
pany so it wiU not catch a ten or
per cent tax which would
the state institutions and the coun
poor funds some good and which
the*power and gas interests can
well afford to pay.
Erickson has recently become an
advocate of a state income tax. He
well knows that we must have an
amendment to our etat. con.titu-|der»n
tion before the legislature can pass
an income tax law. This will take
several years. It is a long ways
off.
A full crew railroad act, a li
cense tax on power and gas and
telephone service could be passed
at special session. Hewill not call
one. These needed acts right now
could fumLsh money for county
commissions to feed the sufferers
and put some more men in useful
labor this winter.
SUBJECT FOR DEBATE—
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gating clubs usually choose a
question with only two sides, an
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should not the modern spirit of im-i
Fff."*
hFft? &
ils the Erickson administration,
from its start to the present, a
failure a farce a fake or a freak?
1allure, a tarcc. a take or a irea*.
situation, unless avoided ? Cover
™>r Erickson and the members of
the legislature have a duty and a
responsibility, that they cannot,
P ass on to P rivate P arties *
legislature^ff called in spe-,
d i cession could nass:
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1. An income tax bill providing
fp r an amendment to the conslitu
the
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constitution provides that not mort 1
than three amendments may be
submitted at the same time. The
last legislature submitted only two
amendments for next year's elec- ^
Hence, a special session mw
hSLSSZ ^
amendment.
2. A chain store and chain gaso
line fillinR station JaWf that W(>l ,i d
give better protection to our inde- 0
pendent merchants, borne manufac
and Montana's own oil in- :
dustry.
3 ^ law p rovidinjr that „art of
the ^.-olinetax should bo paid to
the counties and part to the cities
-thereby reducing the taxes m the
counties and in the cities—or for
the purpose of providing local cm
, '''17: ftn d in the
ployment in the counties and in the
«Les ^ in improving roads
streets, possibly oiling them, thus
creating a demand for our Mon
tana-maderoad oil and ceratingem
Dlovn^^t in our oü refineries Ind
ä°ou7oii Mdf Z «1 «"*.*„ uS
county roads and city streets.
Many lines of emnlovment could
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h officials with a will to serve
wSreinlX^
sion
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e iwf m °/ fK W< L ir ^ S w°^ 1^5
m + e "î^ r . 3 f the . hou f c « _ whovoted
at the last session of the legislat
? re for a constitutional amendment
Jr an income ta£ The following
Z ^ ^ the 8enate ° n S B '
No. 66: , ^ ^
_ AYES: Angjjck Burr, Corwin,
Cowan Crawford, Delaney. Dono
Gustafson, Hams,
Holt. Himsl Holton. Jergensen,
» E^ulbach, KemnLU, Laröon,
McCormidc, Parkin,Pauline, Plank,
^ nt 7' am > R«ffcorn, Smith (Custer),
Smith (Beaverhead). Sparling,
Staggs, Stoutenburg, Sunrant, To
wer, Thien, Wheeler. Total 33.
NOES; Baker, Church, Cooper,
Duncan - Fenton ' Garber - Ha * erty '
Hi ^ ie ' Keelev ' Pa **' Reed ' Row *
land, Schnitzler, Shelver, Stewart,
Walker. Wfllis. Total. 17.
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The bill failed to receive the nec-,
essary two-thirdsyote.
„The following »the vote .n the
House on H.B.■ 11 "- ,o til i wa .
AYES: Adwr Arnold (Stillwa
do|ter), Benjamin, Brown j
Buck, Budas, Burrell, j
Coffee. Cranston. Curran, darling
ton, Dellwo, Dougherty Ekegren,
Erickson, Fairgrieve. Freed, Gor
don Grabow, Graff. Green Hag- l
stad, Haight Hamilton, (Mu. sei f
shell), Hanson, Havervield, Hen
Hodrt.ee.
I^ewis, McCormick, Mernman, mm >
nick, NeLstead, Nyquist, Parker,.
Pauly, Porter, Quamme, Rigg,
Rolph, Ross, Ryder, Sample, Shef
fer, Southmayd, Spangler, Stewart,
Swope, Troy, Ueland, A., Leland,
R. R., Vollmer, Waite, Vf&nng, ;
Watson (Missoula), Willard
son, Mr. Speaker. Total 62.
NOES: Arnold (Rosebud), Bech
tel, Blewett, Brown (Cascade>,|
Burke, Casey, Cooney Doran Fin-:
lien, Goodwin, Hamilton (Phillips),!
jJarrett, Kmfçjrt, Manning, Martin,
Mason, McDermott, McFarland,
' Meyer Miller. Morris, Mur
" 0'ConneU, O'Day. Pappin, -
Replogle, Salyerds. Schilling, Shan
P Sullivan, Tinsley, Watson
swesjawbut
two-'
<*. \° re f ,ve the nece " Sary tW
fniros vote* . ...
A ^ consider this hi
was defeated on third reading, all |
representatives voting as they had
above except:
Adair, Grabow, Roll, S ? '
Spangler, and Voll nier, c ' a ?£
ifrom Aye to No. Metlen and Rep
logic who remained No, were
ab^nt Miller. Shannon and Woe d
«»«*,' who had
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a y?* we, 5 "y—". „ who
ui w Li i ave. '
ha f Tnn both sides
, absent on ootn * J?' '
Did YOLR members of the Sen
at€ and H ouse REPRESENT you
as you WISH to be Represented.
^jy ^ a j r say
of the members did not vote ac
cord j n j» the dictates of their con
sc i eTlce aS the^e was terrific pres
^ b |. outr ht to bear on some of,
^ hem who * had ^Hs of their own
_ n(]in „ but in a ftp e C ial session,
where "they would not have their
pending, it is certain an
income tax bill would be passed.
At the recent gtate convention
0 f bankers, Gov. Erickson stated
that an income tax law was inev
[table
Why not a special session now?
It is the Govenmr's opportunity,
likewise it is HIS responsibility
and th « 0 PP®rtumty and respor.sb
hility of > every member of the
present legislature.
What are you waitinsr for' A
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cmnoox .
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»lance of all the people of this na
to said foreien people,
when said peoples accepted said
Portions as charity they became
doles.
Down through the ages, philan
thropy has praised, morality has
commended and humaneness ha?
exalted the generosity and hospi
taHtv of those who cared for tbe
sick fed the poor> e i ot hed the nak
^ and aheltered ' t he homeless, re
RardIeM of ^ raTlk . political
i advantage, or financial interests.
' It remained to Herbert E. Hoov
er . chief executive of this cnlight
ened nation, in the Year of Oui
î»rd One Thousand Nine Hundred
' and Thirty-one. to discover and
startle the world by announcing
that the long established belief
that charity is a meritorious ser-,
vice could not be accepted without
reservations. For example, it Is
wrong in principle, unsound eoo
nomically and contrary to "DEM
' OCRATÎC IDEAUSM" for a gov
* tb * P*«Pl*' by the peo
pie and for the people to exercise
i
its law making prerogative and by
law draft a portion of the enor
Yakima Fruit Crop r,
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Yakima, Wash.— YaH
ley's fruit crop *
» heaviest P ^
lots of apricots already
jtoward mastem marked
ing of peaches and Dlur^***
pected to be well under*25*
fore the d f th " »a, ^
mont R
- -
g wealth of this
blameless vietim* n
drouth fr of JW, «>L
S h^r aöd'di " •
v " s e.
As Hoover sees it. to
Jaw the fabulously- rich to
der a trifling portion of w h«5
unfairly take away from th*. •
discerning fellow men would i*"?
beginning of the overthrow .
Wil-;de^tniction of DEMONS
11 EALISM in this nation .
long with it Hoover's tw ent
plan. But God forbid twenty 2
years of Hoover,
The "dole" that is >*0 distant.
to Hoover is used in conn*^
with the unemployed and
stricken farmers. ThUdot*
is a gift of charity to men «L^
men who have no moan» *
port except their daily iabo'.^
irJgs
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J And so, according to Hoov*.
»ooles may be divided into 'n
c i asses , viz: WICKED DOLES*
GOOD DOLES. 14
WICKED DOLES are lbo*u
paid to the unemployed and dwJ!
stricken farmers out of appr»»?
tions made by congress. Uf^
that in TOch cas , bi n io ^'2
p . Rockefeller Mat», *
M ^ n and multi ^ illio ° n r ^
Sct J wab * Raskob Barnes,
and Hoover would contribute tnr
ily by way of income taxes. An
in this a P pallinpf time of deprtiM,
can ^ one conceiv « a more
, table and humane way to n*
f unda ^ ve ^ be destitute of
nationfromstanraufn ^
, nnn nm vc
uuuu uuiito t«
according
sa, ™ i authority, are those t« n
P 4 *^. 9 U * °* raised by ®s
rnunities and charitable
turns together with such raoner,
™y ** savaged from the tlte»
ies , of b . ank ™P t sta ^ es • eoffitg
con ?f. D ~. aoi . :8 wnea . D * 1
multi-millionaires, mil I ionium «
near-millionaires are coeretd m
contributions to fundi t
the impovenshed of tUa »
ï 0n r the r™'™
burdens of money, food-every »
esaar y of hfe!
Words fail me when 1 atte,
î
rv of Hoover when ï t
rroniery oi noover when he#
fends the pnvrlege of thw
possess unnatural and ommonsiH
«»»••• tin«« nf wealth tn
^utive nrerovative fZ ®
r" f P re . m *
contributing to the relief of 4
.starving unemployed and 4
UquaUy unfortunate drouth-stnd
«>
Workmen and farmers thnr*
out this nation are charyirut Ite
an.rsenators and represent,,*. :
congress with playing politics aw
' making lit«e or no effort to pr
suade President Hoover to cotmi
congress in special session for 4
1 purpose of providing adequate a
timely relief for the poor to 4
end that this nation mav be ipc
ed the bloody riots and strife* t*
MUST come unless the jobless is
; fed, clothed and sheltered. Polit»
; at best is a rotten game, and *ta
republicans bet that the NEAll
POOR can keep the POOR ft«
starving, and democrats bet the!
I,can't, the game becomes Wm\
i^The republicans led by Hoover v.i
1 prevent .t all hazards the «**
ing of congress in extra sessionte
cause that would mean that wsi
would be drafted tohelp the poor
The democrats don't want an
tra session because they tree»
fident that conditions will r*
worse and thus insure their retm
to _ ower in 1932 mat ^
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F. L. WILLIAMS.
! August 20, 1931. Miles City. Mrc-