The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-07-10

among the readers and several
whom I have recently met at two
conventions have requested me to
give the readers more of the low
GOWN on the battle now being
waged on the political front In
which the Holt-Morgan Insurance
company forces are conducting The
commandment from one front line
trench with the Western Progress
sive cap pistol, while the Wheeler
MURRAY. Ayers, Rockefeller troops
are laying down barrage from
the opposing trench with the MOI
tana Review "Ayer gun"
In nv previous article by an III
advertlseemnt slip of the typewrl-
ter / placed the A.C.M. group IN
the Holt-Morgan camp. This was
an error which I hasten to correct
before someone calls me. The A. Z.
M. is a Rockefeller corporation.
To properly understand the pat
tie of BULL HURLING now going
on. ON the political front it is nee
essarv for the reader to know that
there are two powerful financial
groups that are fighting each 0tn-
er nationally. These groups are the
Morgan interests on one hand' ana
the Rockefeller interest on the
other. This battle has been waged
for wears on a national scale ana
extends to almost every state III
the union. Since Montana is one OF
the richest states in natural re-
sources in the union and her
wealth is almost equally divided
BETW ZEN H r 5 Il 1 W y
GROUPS with the people of Mon
tana owning practically nothing
and most of them dependent on
the paupers dole, election years al
WAYS find Montana the principal
NO MANS LAND in which this
heavy fighting is carried on.
In Montana the. Morgan inter
ests consist of the N. p. and Great
Northern railways, the Banks, IN
surance companies and farm mort
gage groups, Standard Brands, a
food products company is also
Morgan owned. The Rockefeller
grogp is represented by the Mil
WauKee Railway, the A. G. M, the
Montana Power, Oil, timberlands
and newspapers, with the excep-
ton of the Western ProresslVe( J.
} When one realizes these facts 1t
is easy to understand why the
Western Progressive, a Morgan
organ, objected so strenuously TO
/ the government lease OF the tlat-
head power site to the Rockefeller
interests and why our own CD
Senator Wheeler did not raise any
violent objections to the said lease
Now that the reader has been
informed regarding the makeup OF
the two groups he will be better
able to glimpse the true facts be-
hind the smoke screen laid down
by the Cap Pistol and the Aver
Gun. Let me add here, tho it is
hardly necessary that Holt is the
! candidate of the Morgan group
= while Rockefeller has placed his
: money on Ayers to win.
: Now to retrace my steps anC
! show the control of the Western
Progressive? came into the
hands of the Morgan-Holt group
it will be necessary to go back tC
the setting up of that paper.
| have indicated in a previous
article how Penwell started the
paper for the purpose of splitting
the progressive vote in 1892 to al
low Erickson to be nominated. Blu
. have not yet explained the whole
! of the proceedings and to do this
! will require that l go back again
to the beginning. These facts arr
)" important and have not been sec
ured without considerable study
o and the use of the grapevine" ov
) er quite a long period of years
There was at one time a resi-
/ dent of Great Falls who had I
brilliant idea for new way FOL
the mililonaires to beat the income
Il tax. This idea preyed on his minS
q to such an extent that, being ;
2 lawyer, he decided to take it t.
i New York where there is a short
age of ideas and therefore a ready
market. He did so, showed the fl
z nanciers how it worked, saved the
1. group that he contacted five mil
, lion dollars and got two and on,
$ half million for himself. So sue
, cessful has this man been in sho y
ing the millionaires new ways 0.
sknnlng Uncle Sam on the incom,
= tax that he has about one hund
= red other lawyers working in hi,
= establishment. 1t was this man.,
e money that Originally financed III,