The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-13

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Circle, Mont, Feb 2, 1874:
Editor, Peoples Voice:
AS my subscription to The Voice
has expired please discontinue send
ing it as | am unable to pay for same
thanks to the operation of the AAA
as my little crop of wheat is hot
wheat and | refuse to pay any pen
atty. All l have asked Is to be al
lowed privilege to make my own liv.
ing and no little handouts from the
government. While l am almost 80
years old l can still make my own
way If allowed to do So l accept no
pension, WPA or other form Of relief.
was among the first to subscribe
for your paper around here and hate
to have to give 1t up.
Yours truly,
E. S. McKEAN.
P.S.: l am a REAL small dirt
farmer, not banker, county official
or business man, many of whom are
in the farming deal big, expecting us
fellows to patronize or vote them into
office, pay the taxes allowing them
the profit, and they all vote for the
quota as real farmers.
Creston, Mont, Feb. 10, 1912
Editor, The Peoples Voice:
Some time ago you stated in The
Voice that under the new income tax
law man making $4,000 year would
have to pay $500 in income tax. Is
that not a mistake? You must have
meant $4,000 year.
During the darkest year of the de-
preston some of us small diversified
farmers on an income often less than
81 900 paid more than ten times Sc
twice a year. In fact all we could |
scrape together and often some more |
went for taxes and interest. That |
is of course the main reason why so |
many farmers lost their homes. l be-
ieve that tax on income is the most
Just tax system and tax ON homes
the most unjust even more unjust
han the sales tax.
| wish some Of the able writer's in
The Voice would answer these ques-
ions: How could the war we now are
in be financed without bor-
owing the money?
Should U. S. bonds bear interest?
Could the pile of gold, 20 billions
n more now in cold storage be made
o help finance the war?
Information on these subjects would '
10 much appreciated by farmers and
Their workers in this community |
specially all of us that know what Y
means to pay interest. {
K. ODEGARD.
P. S.: l wish The Voice would give c
S the truth about the so-called "Pen- i
ion Grab" 2
st. Ignatius, Mont. v
ditor, The Peoples Voice: h
Just listened to a discourse by AL u
ert Warner on the serious question
INITIATION. Now as an old man
nd with memories of past crowding
inward, l fail to see the position D
cling taken by congress and big bust r
sss as fair or just to primary pro-
lcers and middle class and poor
nsumers. =
In the last so years, professors in :.
Early every commodity formed trusts =
moving the law of competition as =
ell as the law of supply and demand -
ID inflated prices on such processed :.
mmodities to highest point bust y. ~
So could possibly stand" Now such -
flation created a corresponding de- :"
.tion in prices Of labor and primary :"
oducts, hence, the purchasing power
labor and farm products could bare
pay inflated prices and taxes and
ist -
~ .,, On HI
m machinery was made and. sold
der competitive system, the price =
consumer was less than one third
present price notwithstanding i'm 81
)ved methods of manufacture has -
wonderfully yet the farmer e.
yanced wonderfully, yet the farmers 10
We been forced to accept the price
ing by the farm machinery trust. W.
low fear of initiation leads our gov ~ ~.
ment to start anti-inflation on the =
or and primary producers and not .os
word of consideration Is given the ~
eady inflated trust protected indus 'oi
IS. If our congress is really look
to the welfare of the masses, why .aA
they not take steps to first DE- -
ATE trust fixed prices long since une
'osed, when such initiation has al -
1y Debated prices and brought :,
at part Of the common people to WI
point of financial ruin? iia'
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