Montana labor news., 1938-05-05
BILLINGS WOMAN
REBUkE MIDLAND
REVIEW N H0FER
Billings. Montana

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Mr.. R. NJ. Hofer,
co Midland Review,
Billings, Mont.
Dear Sir:
Having read your astonishing and
fantastic article in the Midland Re-
view dated Billings, April 8, entitled
Things One Remembers, also other
sneers and iibes at the hungry, I'M
employed of this community, ap-
pearing in your publication, I feel
that it is timely to call your hand.
l quote from the above mentioned
article:
Quote: For those who wish to
learn a lesson, there is a deadly
parallel between the financial fail
ure of Richard Whitney, prominent
New York stock broker and a for
mer head of the New York stock
exchange, and our national program
of spending the nation into the pres
ent prosperity. The depression over
took Mr.. Whitney, as it did the ma
ton. After exhausting all his re-
sources he misappropriated funds to
try to save his business. The result
is an indictment for grand larceny,
to which he has pleaded guilty" In
quote.
Just where is the parallel, Mr..
Hofer, between this crooked Wall
st. parasite, caught with the goods in
going south with the funds of his
friends and fellow parasites of Wall
St, and the action of President
Roosevelt in trying to provide the
hungry unemployed of our country
with a way to maintain an existence.
For that is precisely what you are
driving at.
The billions shelled out to the
Liberty League owners of big
business, by the administration, OF
course is Ok with you. And para
doxically, a large part of it through
the RFC founded by Mr. Hoover,
who has just returned from shaking
hands with the Nazi Butcher and
forming plans no doubt for the estab-
ishment of Fascism in the land Of
ragged individualism.
It is plainly apparent, Mr.. Hofer
that your ignorance is exceeded only
by your cast iron gall. Attempting
at the instance of your masters, the
A. c. M. and the alleged American
Planners of Billings, to compare the
spending of national funds for the
tragically inadequate amount of re.
lief to the slowly starving unem.
ployed, with the actions of this crook
Whitney, who incidentally has beer
one Of the loudest yappers about the
alleged waste of public funds spen.
on relief.
Get some proper understanding o.
the trend of the times and then i
will become apparent to you anC
your kind that the present system
Capitalism has been MIXED dry by
just such thieving parasites as Whit
ney, both within and without the
law. Instead of needing the warning
of President Roosevelt and helping
him in his desperate effort to saw,
a dying out-worn system, they con
tinue to pluck the golden goose RICH.
down to his tail feathers.
This is precisely the meaning O
the words of Congressman Maury
Maverick which you quote in a mis-
leading manner. 1 suggest, Mr.. Ho
fer, for your social and economic
education that you Immediately reaC
Sinclair Lewis book entitled Bah
bit" l am sure Mr. Lewis had il
mind Billings, Mont, U. S. A., whel
he wrote Rabbit" and Main St.
for this town certainly has its full
quota of Main %Streeters" and Bah
bits"
In conclusion will say, I am goinl
to thoroughly expose in any name.
possible from now on, any furthe.
sneers r~eflecting on the unemployeC
of this community, which have beer
appearing Of late in the MIDLAND
Review"
| challenge you to public debat,
on these issues.
MAC A. WRITTEN.
Following is the article in the Mid
land Review referred to in the articl
by Mac A. Written: