Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-21

for irrigation from the channels Of the
streams to the surrounding bench lands,
and to move industrial and tr~anscontl-
neNtal trains across mountain passes.
ut is impossible to estimate the
value to the industrial development OF
the state of it's practically unlimited
water power unless one Is familiar
with the obstacles which are imposed
to such development, where power IS
expensive and water is scarce.
THE progress of industrial Montana
has not been a pathway Of uninter-
rupted success in any line, but what
page of human endeavor narrates no
disappointments? The past few years
have been of exceptional hardship to
the people of this state. U~nfavorable
climatic conditions, added to markets
undergoing readjustments after the
artificial stimulus of war demand,
have imposed a heavy burden upon the
livestock grower and the farmer, while
the chaos of European politics and the
violent fluctuations in exchanges of the
currencies of international trade,
~superadded to the excess production of
metals to meet the demand for War
purposes, has had a most serious eff
feet upon the metal industry, depend
ent largely upon the existence Of a
stable export demand.
Period of Testing
ut has been a time Of travail for
all, and one that has tested the cour-
age. patience and resources of the
community. Happily. it now appears
as though the darkest period was be-
hind us, and notwithstanding the
skies are not entirely clear, / cannot
help but feels that we are emerging
into the sunlight of a brighter indus
trial day. Some of our troubles have
been due to local causes, but the
greater part we have suffered in com
the peoples of the world. as a result
of the catastrophe misfortune that
occurred.
Through the period Of trial, Mon
tana's people have sustained them
selves with rare courage and exemplary
fortitude. Resolutely industrial Mon
ANA faces the future with undiminished
hope and unbroken faith in its ultimate
destiny. To help achieve the splendid
future that it liz my conviction was
preordained for this state should be
the patriotic duty and stimulating am
bition of it's citizenship. Without the
cooperative effort that can come only
from Il healthy body polite. united
upon constructive policies. rather than
a people divided by discord. following
the d~emagogic appeal to prejudice in
of an appeal to reason, progress
cannot be made.
Labor Entitled TO Share
Labor, which represents the intelli-
gent. directed effort of free men and
women, should receive every just pro-
from the state, and q fair share
Of the wealth produced by it. Capital,
in the aggregate is the accumu-
lated savings of those who do or have
worked, must be dealt with in an equit-
manner, or it disappears. Both
are essential to industrial progress
which society can make nc ad-
vance. The result of the experience
If the world, and the dictates of conn.,
non sense, are worth more than all the
ncoherent rawlings Of the shallow pated
crack Drained theorists whose
are as unsubstantial as the
which create them. or the heav-
N of freedom from the restriction of
economic laws. preached by the com
nunist which, when put into practical
operation, rapidly ~degenerates into a
vivid hell Of poverty, pestilence. law
essness and despair.
TO complete the structure of Mon
industrial future then, it is in
to maintain the edifice of
he states political organization in a
ound condition. Legislation must not
exc the form of oppression; taxation
or the support Of legitimate govern
expenditures must not be made
he instrument for penalizing industry E.,
nd thrift. nor of providing means for
tasteful extravaganza. Encourage