Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-17

TO assure Ine sd1cty Va Wy
e%ratives and passengers.
Farm Bloc Measures
We demand the enactment OF a law
to prevent gamblers and SPECTATORS
| from controlling in their own inter
ests the prices of the products or the
farm, and urge the speedy enactment
of legislation to promote cooperative
| farm marketing and to establish a
| rural credit system, measures adVo-
Gated by the farm block, which was
| called into being by the Indifferent, If
not hostile, attitude of the republican
| organization in congress toward legls-
lation to promote the interests or the
farmer.
A Great Achievement
The GROWING legislative achieve
ment of the democratic adminlstra-
ton, the federal reserve act, made
possible the financing Of the great
war and has enabled our banking sys-
tenn to withstand the test of wide
| spread and prolonged industrial de-
preston. Wisely administered, 1t
showers blessings but may be made
an instrument of incalculable harm,
as it was when the board superv1s-
ing it's operation entered upon its pol
lev of deflation in accordance with
the republican platform of l92O,
which demanded "a courageous and
intelligent deflation of credit and cur
rency"-the prime factor in the col
lapse Of the prices OF farm products.
The prevailing business depression
would have been attended by wide
spread ruin but for these measures
enacted during democratic ascend
.--- Al EnJa~nI raaawUa oaf thn 70 ru1
loan act and the war finance corpora
ton act; and the silver industry would
be extinct but for another democratic
measure, the Pittman act.
Disregard of Soldiers
We favor the speedy enactment of
a just and liberal national soldiers
| adjusted compensation bill
We denounce the fragrant disregard
by the republican administration of
| the spirit of the civil service law, and
particularly its disregard of the pro-
visions thereof giving to ex-service
men preference in appointments TO
postoffices and other places in the
public service.
We pledge the candidates Of the
democratic party to an economical,
businesslike administration of state
and county finances. and call to the
| earnest attention of the citizenship
Of Montana the following facts rela-
| tive to their OWE state government:
Dixon Extravaganza
First: That when the present re-
publican state administration came
into power. on January /. 1921. the
overdraft on the general fund of the
state was $1,257, S69.2, and after IS
months of the present administration,
June 80, 1922, the general fund over
draft amounted to 81, 762 $40. "a, m
increased indebtedness of over ST.
100000 in one and one-half years.
Jumps S2,443, 900 In Year
Second: That while taxes had in
creased during the period of the war
and increasing costs from 81 ,OO0,-
900 in 1912 to $50 600, 900 in 1920, or
an average of 81, 10000 per year. in
1921 this sum had grown TO S2T,443,-
900, or an increase of 50 90 in one
year.
Exceeding Total Income
Third: That the people of the
state, by their vote in thf election of
1920. magnanimously voted to raise
Nv ltNS IOl SAaAF pun BNcES ilOiI - n
to 81 mills, or an increase Of 40 per
cent. and in addition thereto voted
upon themselves a bond issue of
buildings at their state institutions
thereby relieving the general fund
from appropriations for that pur-
pose. That, notwithstanding a 40
per CEN increase of the levy for state
,,rr1En. a,I n e. D0n Anl ho,l .esY,n
for construction purposes, still the
present administration has not been
able to live within it's income, but
ness of $1,5O0,000, which must
eventually be met by the taxpayers.
How to Economic
Realizing that the true method TO
be applied for the reduction of taxes
in the state of Montana is the reduc-
tion of the expenses of government,
we pledge our legislators;
First: That it will reduce the
number OF bureaus. commissions
boards. clerks and employees to q
point where the expenses of govern
ment will not exceed its income.
Second: That it will create no ad-
ditional bureaus, commissions, boards
or other t~ax-eating agencies by which
tie of the state will be dis
1sipated.
Third: That the appropriation
made by such legislature will be lin
tied TO the anticipated revenues of
the state, and that the state will get
a dollars worth of service for every
dollar spent.
Fourth: To the enactment of a
budget law that will make 1t unlaw-
full to expend any fund appropriated
for a specific use to any other pur-
pose.
ConvIcts Get Jobs
We denounce the action of the re-
publican state administration in keep
ing upon the payroll Of the state o
horde of tax-eating state employees
who do no work for the state and
serve no useful purpose to society,
but travel about the state at public
expense on political errands, seeking
to advance the cause of the admins
t~ration. The severance of these
would-be patriots from the payrolls
would relieve the finances of the
state and make it more nearly pos