The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-06-16

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POLITICS
An article in National Union Farm
er, Denver, Colo, about the water of
the Missouri river which shows Sen
ator Wheeler led the move by which
| the navigation or lower-river interests
"stole the river" from the Montana,
North Dakota and South Dakota farm
ers in 1885. 1t looks as if Montana
members in congress had sold the
farmers and people down the river"
| in place of making the FIT. Peck dam
a IVA project for the benefit of the
farmers, congress has fixed it so Mon
tana Power Company gets what power
they want, and transmission line is
being built to allow power being sold
to the Montana Dakota Power Co.,
a private utility to sell at a profit.
We should get the records Of our
men in congress. l hope we have a
good progressive democrat to run
against James F. OConnor who has
stood with Senator Wheeler too long
We have elected too many men to Of
flee that help the big fellow and hurt
the little fellow. Another isolationist
U. S. Senator Gerald P Nye should
be defeated by the voters of North
Dakota by an overwhelming vote.
During George Washington's admins
tration Thomas Jefferson was secre-
tary of state, Alexander Hamilton was
secretary of the treasury. Hamilton
being from the manufacturing north
wanted laws just for the benefit of
the manufacturer. Jefferson being
from Virginia stood more for the peo-
pie, for the farmer and landed gentry
and Jefferson and Hamilton clashed
a great deal.
Down through the years the manu-
facturer and the business interests
worked together under different po-
litical parties, until the republican
party was born before the Civil war.
Today the republican party is COM
pletely controlled by big business and
all business interests. In Montana
the chambers of commerce is the
of the republican party. |
Today we are confronted with ruth
less interests who seem to have con-
troll over a good many men in con-
gress.
The business interests succeeded |
in getting congress to cut out more
than one half of the appropriation
asked for to use to control prices,
price control lacked funds to proper
y control. Consequently the business
men have been able to profiteer and
billions have been taken from the con-
sumner above a fair profit. This is in
llation that the democrats have been
hard to keep down. In Mon
ana the OPA is controlled by the
chambers of commerce of the state,
which is rather unfair to the con-
sumner having such a setup.
We are paying for our carelessness
n voting in listening to so much :
Republican business interests (all h
business the U. S. over vote the re- [
publican ticket and are doing every {
hing in there power to cripple the
emocratic administration, they have c
often their men in everywhere and Y
abotage just measures and deliberate {
y substituted measures that are I'M l
air to the people and give the bust {
ess interests the advantage. I
This cannot be Americanism, de- S
locracy, or Christianity, it is fascism, e
r nazism, the distroyers of democ- c
acy, either one when strong enough t
ill destroy democracy