The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-07-07
WHAT'S THE USE
r.
OF HAVING LAWS?
Irate Reserve Citizen Thinks Its Time
to Start Something in Regard to
the Resort Keepers Sentence
Wants Him in Jail for Six Years
Hits Officers Hard Wallops.
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Many Readers:
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Many Readers:
''Just Word Regarding High Taxes
I will say that can see things
| just as Rasmussen of Dagmar does
regarding schools and teachers anc
several other things. If the last re-
port We read in regard to our resort
man is true, and we have reason tc
believe it true, what is the use OF
having laws if we have no officials
to enforce them. Now this bird vi
olated both state and federal laws by
running an unlicensed distillery
From what the statement in the pa
per reported, he drew $3.50 fine and
six months in Jail, then the jail sent
ence was withdrawn. Tut, tut, such
mockery Of law and order. He should
have drawn six years in the Federal
prison instead
Now, lady voters Of Montana, you
and all the male voters and taxpay-
ers who voted booze out of Montana,
at the polls, get busy and see if
there is not some way of getting at
this thing and calling this bird back
to justice. There surely is. If not
your life and property isn't safe any
longer and anarchy is sure enough
close at hand. If the officials are as
slack as that, it may be that the bribe
looked good to them, and surely there
was. Now, how would it be to con-
suit Mr.. Rankin before election. He
is the high official, he and Gov. Dixon,
and the states attorney should take
the thing up and if there is any
crooked work on the part of our hon
orable judge, before. whom the case
was tried, he too should be handled
without gloves. We think surely the
Federal authorities would lend hand
if asked to do so. Now all together
let us go after them, Don't wait for
John or Bill to do it, or Martha or
Jane, for if you do, the thirsty lads
who are too lazy and trifling to earn
decent respectful living by actually
working for it will continue to boot
leg. Do you want any such debauch-
cry to continue? If so, lay still, if
not get busy and help rid the land
of such cattle. The only way to do
it is to elect clean men and women
to fill the offices who have real back
bones instead of just gristle for
same. There are good men all over
the land but they are not seeking of
flee. We have just about come to the
conclusion that anyone seeking office
is crook. At least from the action
Of some of them in the past one
would naturally think so. = We are
fearful that if the laws areaa11ot en-
forced pretty soon, that Hdrea1Rd Klu
Klux Klan that we read so much Of
in the dailies may be organized right
in our county to handle such cases.
If this ever finds it's way into print,
we would like to hear from someone
else on the subject.
Remember the article in the last
issue of the Producers News regardr
ing Huebner's fine still and the ,aW-
full punishment the Judge gave him.
a fine of hundred and fifty and a.
slap on the wrist, we suppose, and
possibly told him to go home and
make lot of it for the boys on the
Fourth of July. AS you are all aware,
this wasn't the first offense either,
there was one before, as the paper
stated, some one uncovered consider
able booze over there in the sand pit
while loading sand. From
A VOTER & TAXPAYER