The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-24
FRIDAY, MAY "a, 1929
PRESS THRALDOM

PRESS IF1RALDOM
AS the Producers News has often observed Senators
Walsh and Wheeler are for anything and everything
outside of Montana: but in Montana they stand for
nothing-here they keep their hands off.
Outside of Montana, there is nothing too big too
sacred for that prince of investigators Sen Walsh to
tackle single handed but here in Montana there is
nothing too small profane to send the cold shvers
up and down his spine.
Outside of Montana there is nothing that that cham
pon of the people, that friend of the oppressed and
submerged Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, will not do for
suffering humanity-he will deplore and denounce and
condemn until the very welkns ring with the echoes
of his heroic voice: but here at home he views with
pride, he compliments, he condones, until his whis
pers make music in his masters ears: he is a lion
abroad but mouse at home.
Last year these "gold dust" twins" investigat
ing the power monopoly, taking great to in
manner involve the Montana tentaces of the octopus
the Montana Power trust-yea, they even voted to
ALLEVIATE resource of the people of fabulous and
measured wealth, for a song, and they render the
duet They Mortified at what they found in the
nations, but undisturbed about what they well knew
existed in Montana
In this political legerdemain act, these gentlemen
are perfect by it they pose champions of Virtue
abroad while sleeping with Vice at home, and are
able to keep the farmer and labor vote lined up in
Montana while faithfully serving those denounced in
r terests at Washington
Of course, as has been reported so often in these
columns the lines of the hstrionic artists of Montana
are merely the words of clever actorsthe realistic
gestures of the stage.
This year these gentlemen again in the limeight
doing their emotional stuff the enthraldom of
the press of the nation by the International Paper
Power Company by means of purchase and finance,
just if it something strange and novel in the
body polite when the intoerable example of the
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exists right here in Montana, and because of which
they where they are, doing their stuff; than
they two people in the state informed of
the facts yet in regard to it they dumb the
proverbal clam, and it is guess they will remain
just that way-for Sen. Walsh is a candidate for re-
election year from next autumn, and he cannot go
back to Washington unless the Anaconda and the
Montana Power Company, and the railroads say he
can-they the daily spapers in Montana outside
of the Clark papers. (Which defunct.)
In regard to newspaper domination by the power
octopus abroad and at home the editor of the Free
Press last week had the following to say:
"The Rocky Mountain News, one of the great
newspapers of the west, in the following state
ment indicates what it thinks of the enslavement
of the eastern press in its ownership and control
by great corporations and echoes sentiments
being expressed by free newspapers all over the
country:
Government revelations of rapid acquisition
of newspaper stock throughout the country by the
foundry shocked the nation
Democracy depends on a free press. A press
controlled by the power nterests-or any other
outside interests cannot be free.
If other power and pubic utility groups are
as widely implicated as the International Paper &
Power company, penetration of the press by spe-
clal interests has reached menacing proportions
The government investigation must be continued
The public must be on the guard
"The Montana press is enslaved 1t is not free
1t does not represent the public interest. Nine
of its chief daily papers in Butte Anaconda Hell
ena, Billings, Missoua and Livingston represent
other outside interests designated by the Denver
paper.
THE Denver paper demands continuation of
the investigation Other papers are doing the
same. Now is the time for the prince of inves-
tigators, Senator 7. j. Walsh, and his colleague,
friends of all the world, Senator Burton K
Wheeler, to turn the spotlight of investigation
upon their own state. The people of Montana
demand it."
Yes, the people of Montana demand it. but VIII,
cares for the people of Montana when "Con" Kelly an,
John D. Ryan thinks otherwise