Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-04-11
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Dear Sir:
The article printed in your pape
of March 2Sth, regarding what too
place at the stockholders meeting II
the Dagmar store, is nothing shor
of being an outright insult to tn
people of the Dagmar community.
In regard to the protest mad'
against Alfred Miller's deportation
you are stating: MANY walked out
No debate or discussion occurred
chiefly because the majority Of thu
meeting did not care to start 6
wrangle on matter entirely different
from what the session was originally
called for"
BY this statement you are trying
TO give the impression that tie
majority Of the Dagmar people would
be in favor of having foreign born
people deported, but did not care TO
start a wrangle." If a wrangle was
what they wanted to avoid they
could at least had voted against the
motion, which they did not do.
Your article is nothing short OF
being a lowdown dirty attempt to
misrepresent the fact and an insult
to the Dag1nar people. | was present
at the meeting and expect you to
print this letter.
(Signed) HANS RASMUSSEN
The above letter is one of five re-
ceived by The Herald last week. All
the letters run along the same train
Of thought and We're the result of
MASS action Of five men after they
had met in Plentywood at the griev-
ance meeting last Wednesday. Thorn
as Sundstedt, Gonius Laursen. Peter
Madsen of Reserve and Carl Tyson,
together with Mr.. Rasmussen are
noted for their Communistic activi-
ties.
1t would seem to us that Mr.. Ras-
mussen wrote out Of turn in his COM
munication when he spoke of the
Herald's story as being an outright
insult to the people of the Dagmar
community. If he would read more
carefully he would see that The
Herald was commencing the stock
holders Of the Dagmar oncern when
they refused to start a wrangle over
something entirely outside of the
business OF the association. A report
er of The Herald was at the meeting
and sent the story to this newspaper.
1t was printed with entire faith in
the reporter, which we still possess.
Later several men from the Dagmar
community called at the Herald Of
flee, verified the account and compli-
mented our policy in printing the
story.
The men were stockholders Of the
Dagmar Cooperative Store and said
that they did not know why either
Hans Rasmussen or Charley Taylor
were there other than to wrangle.
Mr.. Taylor, it is understood, had
made arrangements with the chair
man to have himself injected" into
the meeting. 1t was said that Ras-
mussen entered on a TRADE of damn
ing The Herald, accusing it of chisel-
ing on the printing and supplies for
the Dagmar Coop. OF course The
Herald did all of the printing for the
association this year. That in itself
is enough to rifle amy person of Mr..
RasmuSsen's ilk. The work was done
and charged at a fair margin OF pro-
fit. If the Producers News would do
the work any cheaper, they are the
ones who 81 trying to chisel; and
II they wanted to charge an exhorbi-
tant price they were not entitled to
the work.
The Herald did not try to give the
that the majority of the
people would be in favor OF
foreign-born people deported.
We made 1t clear that many OF the
people didn't car to have anything
to do with the case OF Miller. They
are, in all probability, fed up with
the bunk Of Communism and mass
and tearing down of the gov
eminent by force. They appreciate
that government which has gone q
long ways the past several years in
maintaining a living for people who
might otherwise have gone hungry.
We learn from a reliable source
that at the conclusion of Taylors
address and plea for a resolution pro-
the investigation OF Miller,
it was getting late and many farm
desired to get home to attend to
their chores. That is undoubtedly
why they left and did not care to
wrangle. One correspondent said that
many had left and that the resolution
was not adopted unanimously, even
by those remaining. There was moth
ing said in this paper regarding
deportation of Miller at that time.
The statement was merely that he
was being investigated. The Consti-
tuition guarantees a man security
against any unreasonable searches or
seizures of his home or his person,
but it does not necessarily follow
he cannot be asked to answer q
few questions. Then when 1t develops
that he is not a citizen of the United
1t becomes the duty of the
immigration department to determine
why not.
AS far as the protest Is concerned,
1t seems like a childish gesture to