The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-07-17

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uate from High School to some
Of the six branches of our Mon
tana University for four years
with free tuition, free board.
Tree lodging, and also told
You how the taxes should be low
cred n your parents and the biz
corporations who rob this state
should be made to pay for vour
Tree educatin. | know how to do
this for you, but / cannot do Il
without the votes Of your fathers
and mothers. There are plenty of
ways to get the money for you.
For instance, in 1864 q selfish
Congress, like some Of the officers.
Democrats as we'll as Republicans.
IN Helena now, voted to give
bunch Of land pirates, calling
themselves the Northern Pacific
Railway, a land grant. The Union
boys were fighting the Southern
boys for Virginia and West Virgin
Ia. The combined area of both
states was $4,000 square miles. Ev-
cry square mile a union and south
ern boy gave his life. While these
boys were fighting for those c.
600 square miles these crooks IN
Congress gave away to the Rail-
way crooks every odd section of
land 30 miles wide on each side
Of a 400 foot right of way from
Lake Superior to the Puget Sound.
This is 100, 40 times 100 is 6S.-
UOO square miles. So you see chat
congress gave away as much good
land as the boys were killing each |
other for. The railway agreed to |
sell this land to actual settlers !
for not to exceed $3.50 per acre |
and build the railroad with the
money. The railway charged rs |
high as $3.50 an acre for mil |
hons Of acres Of this land. The
railway issued three million dol
lars in bonds to build the road.
The shippers have paid interest on
the bonds for 65 years. The road
has paid 504 million dollars in di-
in the last 80 years. This
was ground out of the farmers and
business men of the Northwest.
}. r: Morgan controls the North
I'm Pacific. That Is why I saw
rom now on make Morgan nav
he freight on my cards.
Now in addition TO the hur.
ireds Of millions Of dollars in in
crest the farmers have paid this
abroad, the 504 million dollars
= dividends ground out of the peo-
lie Of the Northwest, that rail
Dad reported in February, 1886. 70
he New York Stock Exchan9e
hat it had a profit surplus re-
erve IN its treasury of 1872 mil.
,,on dollars. Our great President
roosevelt said over the radio last
that we must attack en-
renched greed. And your fathers
nd mothers said fine and GOOD
ven, lets attack the entrenchej
reed right here at home. There
stu q million, hundred thou
and acres of this land in Mon
ana. say levy a tax Of one dollar
er acre on this land and give 4
union dollars a year to send YOU
college. am a lawyer. nd
Use that IL the railroad fails a
ay in one county the state fore
o ,se in all counties so that the
ll,ro9d cannot keep the good land
40 abandon the poor land :
NOW my only real opponent in
rs primary Is Elmer Holt. am
ot afraid of anybody else. Rom
" and Ayers cut no figure. FL
er Holt for man years was IonJ
s ssl Tor the Northern Pacific
AWAY " The Ayers people saw
az the Railway is putting IN ten
Ousand dollars for Elmer Hollis
mpalgn and that other cornora-
9ns are putting up sixty thou
nd more to keep him In Office I
not know about Il, but 40
low that the Anaconda Company
helping both Holt and Ayers
q mat either one Is acecptabIe
the Grand Alliance of Absen.
Landlords Of Montana.
Doys and girls, have n FIGHT
my hands. One hundred wears
Q the same money cha1~ors
asnt the people who were for
e grade schools. Fifty wears aoo
same money changers fougbt
people Tor free high schools.
w entrenched greed Is fi0hting
because | am for free COLLEGE
t tcati0n Tor all high school grad
'es. MY opponents saw Il will
YOU no good. ! say some If
ore Just as smart and wiiI;nc,