The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-03-10

cuSSed to some degree dI iedSl, W
ceive no consideration for publ1catic
We are getting long way toward
losing our form of government wher
we vote for the interests of selfish
groups instead Of voting for the gen
eral welfare which would preserve ouI
democracy.
We have plenty of citizens who dc
not stand for democracy or the
church Because they interfere with
their gangster methods (like in nazi
land).
Z think the women in every county
of our state especially church women
should organize on a non-partisan
basis, like the League of Women Vot-
ers At this time we cannot tie our
selves to either political parties. For
a long time there has been broad
cast to vote for the imam" and not
just for a party and that is the right
system today. We know in this state
the soulless corporations are affiliated
with the liquor and gambling interests
politically. And often they have
working for them sometimes church
men who may be officials in the
church, and these men are expected
to work for these political candidates
and to help to discredit those Chris
tians and others that are opposed to
such a machine. A number of citi-
zens came to me within the past two
/ nd ,1oi, hoI n
so much gambling everywhere in our
town. | was told about two months
ago that rancher had been fleeced
of thousand dollars one night, and
the man needed the money badly. The
women of our state have done ire
mendous damage by their voting. I'm
not studying politics, and listening to
machine politicians. These machine
politicians put up the candidates and
| then get the women to vote for them.
The candidates are selected for some
of the offices as legislature and men
for congress so as to get the support
of the liquor and gambling interests
consequently when we elect men of
that kind they vote for the corpora
ton interests and the liquor and gam
ing on for years. The church and all
moral people haven't gotten anything
for years. In the 18th session of the
legislature Custer county had three
men in the house and one man in the
senate. The three members Of the
nj ~,
saloon league program. One of our
number, a churchman went over to
the vets and voted with them all
through the session. Our senator
stood with the vets through the en-
tire session. / was the only democrat
of the four. The one house member
who belonged to another church than
the one l belonged was reelected in
1918 got the largest vote of all be-
cause he got the church vote and the
saloon vote. Myself having stood |
1909 with the drys was defeated. AT |
that time Custer county had between
500 and 800 republican majority. Our
senator was reelected in 1920.
A Sunday closing bill came up
passed the house and the wet member
voted against it. When the bill got to
the senate our senator voted against
it as the vets had a majority in the
senate the bill was defeated
The women's club jumped on to our
senator when we came home and
wanted to know why he voted against
the Sunday saloon closing bill. He
told them it would have cut down the
time limit of the prohibition law. 1t
would not have done that as the time
limit had been set for closing up all
saloons December 81, 1917.
l could have told the women the
reason he voted against the bill was
because he was working with the wet
machine. The drys never relinquished
their right to regulate the liquor traf-
tic. l am not against the use of liquor
even though l haven't drank a drop
'or years. But l am against the mis-
use or abuse of liquor, and should be
regulated. 1 think now that
prohibition was very serious mis-
.ook advantage and deliberately made :
most of the U. S. rotten politically
ind morally.
We have been told that the after I
nath of World War l is the cause
# terrible immoral conditions in the {
United States. l think that is an alb
olutely wrong reason. The real rea-
on is lack of law enforcement and /
elfish groups that are electing and
appointing anti-Christians, immoral
men those who have no regard for
,ood government.
History repeats itself some of the
most powerful nations became so rot
en- morally and politically that they
in the centuries that
AVE passed into oblivion murky :
eds"
| have noticed in The Peoples Voice =
o many are knocking law that they
all the Hitler law. If l remember
7hen that bill was passed, l thought 8
was a good law when we elected &
liberal for governor. Most of the Il
ppointive officers are filled with ma &
hine men and they would have to =
Q replaced by good governor in 3
rider to protect himself and have a 3
leaner government. 1t has been a 8
isgrace.
There is political machine in every &
ounty in the state, which is part of Z
le state machine. And l was told n