The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-12
IN THE LMlEL1CHT
S3O,OOO,OOO, were alright and should
be left alone.
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S3O,OOO,O0O, were alright and should
be left alone.
The bankers puppets on the Code
Commission stated that there was
no demand for a Bank Guarantee
Law for the protection of depOsitOrs
in the State of Montana. They
reasoned thusly because a few indi-
viduals near LewistOwn tried to in
itiate a Bank Guarantee Law and
failed to get the necessary amount
of signatures to get ON the ballot.
They failed to mention the fact
that the Montana Federation of La
Dor at its last meeting at MissOuIa.
went on record in favor of a Bank
Guarantee Law and that Progress
sive Farmers will ask the next ses-
sion of the legislature to pass some
measure for the protection of the
people who are forced to do bust
ness with the money sharks. The
bankers are now feeling secure in
the belief that by delaying this
question they have killed it. But
they are living in a fools paradise.
A bill, similar to the Bank Guaran-
tee law in Nebraska, or a bill hav-
ing for its intention the compelling
of banks to put up surety bonds for
the purpose of indemnifying depOsi-
tors in failed banks, is sure to be
introduced in the next session. A
roll call Of how members vote on
these bills will be kept and the
smooth maneuvers of the lobbyists
of the Bankers Association will be
watched and recorded. Despite the
power of gold the people may yet
find a way to prevent the cOrrup-
ton of their selected representa-
tives and pass a law sOreIy needed
by the robbed people of Montana
whom the bankers are again get
ting ready to sandbag.
JUDGE ENGLISH of the eastern
Federal district of Illinois. resigned
his judgeship under fire. His i'm
parchment for corruption and fav-
Oritism had been ordered by Con-
gress and was to come to trial No
vember 10th. The resignation end
ed the impeachment proceedings.
Does anyone remember the famous
case of Judge Crum in 1918? The
old Judge sounded off too independ-
emily to please the witch-burners
that were keeping the Kaiser's ar
my out of Montana. He was against
the war and did not scruple to saw
so. Judge Crum was impeached by
the lower house at Helena. Seeing
that the State Senate-suppOsedIy
an impartial cOurt-was packed
with furious partisans, and being
too poor to pay for a defense
against the lengthy ARTICLES of inn
peachment," Judge Crum sent his
resignation to the governor. The
governor was Sam Stewart. The
manager of the prosecution was
Ronald Higgins. In all ordinary
decency, Crum's resignation should
have ended the impeachment pro-
ceedings. Out of mere economy,
that very bourgeois virtue, it should
have averted the expense of an i'm
parchment trial. But Sam Stewart
desired to show himself terrible to
the 'prO-Germans" and Ronald Hig-
gins had a great speech to make.
50, by agreement among the patri-
OTIS who did their fighting under the
dome of the State Capitol, Judge
Crum's resignation was refused by
Governor Sam V. Stewart, the State
Senate was convened in special ses-
sion. Judge Crum, the defendant,
did not appear) and the Hon. Rom
aid Higgins made his speech-aIl to
remove from office one who had al
ready resigned, and at a cost of up
ward of $4,000 to the taxpayers of
the state. (Many of those who
gleefully spent the $4,000 later put
in their time prosecuting people with
'Red Cross fines" for alleged waste
in time of warD
Sam Stewart trickIed out of sight
IN 1920, political corpse, as all
others who wear the copper collar
have or will become. And the Hon.
Ronald Higgins, who made the great
speech against no opposition but
with a great lack of public economy
he too passed from the scene on
November End as the defeated can
didate for Congress from the First
District of Montana.
Let US not forget two other men
Of wartime nOtOr1ety-One whose
rawlings for a national persecution
of minOrities filled the Senate cham
Der, the other whose patriotic
Glowing was staged on a County
Council of Defense-H. L. Myers
and c. E. Conner. Myers, retiring
from the Senate without daring to
seek reelection, moved from his
hometown of Hamilton to Billings.
Conner, retiring from the district
bench, retreated from his home town
to MissOula. This precious pair,
each refugee from his former
community, seek again the public
payroll, and fail miserably. 1t is
to the honor of Montana voters
that Judge Holloway, who led the
poll, is ne whose voice and vote on
the Supreme Court freed many a
victim of war fury in the court and
re-established the right of fair trial
in Montana. 1t was a bad year for
the witch-hunrers of 1918. There
are other heads nearly ripe for the
basket. We never forget!