The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-06

fIrm OF Maury and Shone i oaa
OF the best known in Butte Cor
ment by these distinguishes Ia1x
yers carries weight everywhere
not only because of their promi.
nence but because both men have
long engaged in the great battIe
Tor Human Right against Prem
erty Rights.
On August Goth the front DaOe
OF the Montana Standard 1aSS
probably other kept newsnanarc
alSol carried a headline, "Soakino
the Insurance Companies. I" T. Ms
a quotation from propaganda he
ing mailed out by the Butte Cb.n,
Der OF Commerce. Its purpose was
70 deceive and irtimidate the mem
oerS OF the state and federal court
jury panels which will be summon
ed for service early this fail
here is one truthful statement IN
the article, that it will profit ever,
Juror to remember. That is. that
the law forbids airy evidence tn ba
given Of it. lawyers cannot men
ton 1t, the court cannot Comment
On 1t, yet no lawyers will waste bis
tlnle prosecuting a negligent coll
hslon case unless the defendant
IS quite wealthy person, a going
corporation, or is known to be in
Sured on public liability, in which
latter case the actual defendan+
does rot usually stand to lose a
cent. no matter how big a verdict
the jury gives the plaintiff. No
matter what defendant is before
the court, the jury is only decid-
! ing whether foreign corporations.
organized for the purpose of
gambling in this state. should ac-
tually pay losses for which thew
take immense premiums in adj
vance to enable them to paw what
few struggling losses they cannot
browbeat people out of, in court,
or by trick death bed settlements
for trivial sums.
Insurance Companies Should Paw
ALI Losses
The Butte Chamber of Commerce
seems to think that it is not lust
that these insurance companies
should pay losses which they agree
fer high premiums, to actually paw
wheT these losses do occur. The
average juror in Butte thinks that
when John Jackson bets on Car
nera and he himself bets on Joe
Louis, that if Joe Louis wins John
Jackson should pay him the bet, as
he would have paid John Jackson
II Camera had won. And our Butte
jurors carry the same line of
thought into the box with refer
ence to corporations into which
rich men put their surplus money
Tor the purpose of getting more
money from the common people by
means of underwriting future con-
tingencies at high premiums, with
the percentages all figured out in
advance, and so that in the long
run the insurance company will
win, the public lose.
Why not try out by arithemetic,
( whether the everage juror is right
that all insurance companies
should pay all losses in full, which
they get high premiums to cover,
or whether the Butte Chamber of
Commerce is right in thinking that
these aggregations of surplus pro-
fits of wealthy men in the East
and London, incorporated into in
Surance companies should not be
/ called on to pay what they lose.
On many questions a fundamental
analysis will show that an ordi-
nary mans common sense, intui-
ton, rough size-up, so to speak, is
more accurate than the argument
of slicker, or a Chamber of Com
MERGE full of slickers.
1 Absentee Landlords Have Second
Line of Defense
By the way folks, did you know
that since you have found out that
the daily press in Montana is kept
for the purpose of making you
continue to be good natured dogs
in this statewide treadmin of the
absentee landlords, these same alb
sentee landlords have planted in a
! second line of trenches new pro-
paganda guns?
The fellows who live by doles
from the absentee landlords to
fleece the people here have been
sent into the dinner clubs, the
Chambers Of Commerce, the chur-
ches, the societies such as the Elks
the American Legion, the Masons,
the Knights of Columbus. The p1r-
pose Of many men and women in
joining and gaining influence in
these once grand humanitarian or
CARNATIONS is to use the organi-
cation In future befuddlement of
and enSlavement of the people. The
fight In Washington over the utili-
ty bill has done one good thing. 1t
has convinced the American peo-
pie that Lobbyist is as vile har-
Ply as a jury fxer, or a ballot box
suffer. Did you ever know a pro-
fessional lobbyist for corporations
who was not prominent member
Of some imposing secret society ?
To return to the question whe-
ther the ordinary man in the jury
box is right in thinking the insur-
ance companies should be made 70
keep their contracts or the Butte
Chamber Of Commerce is right in
asserting that they should get
plenty of premiums but not pay
any losses unless the particular
loss is suffered by a member Of
the said chamber.)
Insurance Agents Take Vast Sums
A lawyer is always a little en-
barassed when he accuses another
profession of being unproductive.
However. there are only 8SS law
yers in this state and according to