The producers news., 1936-02-28
BY H. L, Man..

ms nome town, local
the N. P. or G. N T D Counsel =,
through the countrv UalISay;; ~
who once in five wears !. Physical
aid job from a railwaSy gets a finn
to these are cIergymssnr Analogous
church of which am n (Of Ss
as well as all the rest, st Member
tadf,.o nalf or no fares on railronadSlla nSlag @
teachers are manhandIedV Also
recognition and the tbre1otg r og social
ost;ana1 Sosentee masters that pu5iSS o. I th'
off. Also 12O weekly will viii be cut
that for advertising , NEWSPAPERS
gde, get $500 the month SlSa SEIZED,
Then the poor stranded sns ~ less
whose VINO s.e only hope is a Job 'ffgn'es fgon
aus aSustry and the abenteess -1Un ovDn n, n
the industries. Many Of ' tS0 own al
yers and engineers are "a tas ne. law.
by the American Dream. afflicted
themselves, will some i doI CraE they
to the master class bv @ seI IN,
fortunes wheel. Then we e fiu5 ;utn . q
local managers of power. ~ Caa rlaa the
oline stations, centurionsS '%s' y Gas. 8.
business. OA Ng
Everyone of the forepoir..
ses of hangers-On rnlIy, S as =, C.aS
economic status is concerned NJ i't "a as
ly belong to the Farmers s' 'lu, ~;
Workers class here. But mon. SlG
them have not the sense to ra5rc. VI
it. " realize
Five years ago, l hailed Il,
Grand Alliance of Absentee IoU3 s1'
lords os consisting Of the Gnaena nal,u'
da Company, Montana Uu. po~a,
Company, Northern Pacific, Grsst SSS
Northern, Milwaukee, OREGON Sr'
Short Line, Telephone ComOsSOv SSvp
Telegraph Company, merger bsnP, y
and the company subsidized new,' rs
papers, Montana Standard, Bnts
Post, Billings Gazette, Livingston "S
Enterprise, Missoula Sentinel, . M.
sultan, Helena Independent, Psc.
ord Herald. l then said the Crsst I
Falls Tribune was hybrid. t Nat
subsidized but too grateful for ar
old loan of several hundred tbm.
sand dollars it once had of tbe
Hill family of the Great Northern,
There should be added in the fore.
going, the Royal Milling Company
owned in Minneapolis, the Mon.
tana-Dakota Power Company, taD.
ping a natural gas field in Wibaax
county and piping the gas to Min.
neapolis and the Great Western
Sugar Company. These three are
quite obvious to all. The most per-
nlcious pests of absentees in our
midst are the Insurance COmpan.
les.
The most harmful, best organ.
lied whispering dinner club, lob.
bying, campaigners for evil in this
state are 7197 licensed insurance
solicitors here. For thirty years
they have bled Montana white.
Competition arising for the first
time, four years ago, against the
Fire Insurance Monopoly, styling
itself Pacific Board of Fire In
derwriters, has reduced the cost d
fire insurance for the city Of
Butte from above six thousand to
below one thousand dollars for a
three year period. Last year, pe.Ss
pie in this state paid out above j.
million dollars in premiums and
were paid back less than 5 million
dollars in losses and the same
game has gone on for 80 yess
If so years ago, the pioneers nSl
met the first insurance agelS
with shot guns at the state DnS
they would have saved for tnsn tns
selves and their successors ng
hundred million dollars. The Sa
thing about six thousand Of .tas ms
7197 insurance brokers is tnaE ". ~,
are too ignorant to realize ..tals ss'
thei side lines of law, real eSs~ s..'
would increase enough from V'n !,
eraI upIift to more than make Y
for their petty commission. .3.i1s
they would only all quit SOnSi.r. ;aalT.
dupes to buy life or fire IaSs1 LSr1
ance, and if the state lGu' J, II
Massachusetts or Virginia ID lrS& IN
lecting $1,000 a year Tor pisr f.n.
liability insurance on every e,.T5d II
ily automobile and Solls'i Es sri
smaller sum on farm trucks ,'r. ii
slightly larger amounts Oh '"
cabs and through trucks psris
George Washington am. ana noiiti. Di
min Franklin were clever ,pOin5or pg
ians. In working up a. a .l,Itiss rT4o i
they avoided the dittloal1i ~ cissd
trying to get the masses asIs,ioI y Sts stste
fly themselves by indussllsf1 ind,arfv had'
or social castes or proper" Tbg
ings or earning capacl'!ji ned9