The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-05-04

5 CTOl our SIdC0 Cash luuuS, anu Uu
1 with our own money, in such funds
2 such bond issues as we might b
r foolish enough to issue. The simpl
} fact that this proposed IL million dol
) lar issue is to bear 40 shows that tn
! chain bankers in Helena are behint
this referendum placed before the vot
ers by our dumb, docile, deceitful leg
} islature.
: These Minneapolis banksters have
by alliance with power and mining in
terests here, run things to suit them
selves for so long (19 years. that nov
their puppet Legislature asks us tt
vote on ourselves, and our grand chill
dren, IL million dollar bond issue al
40 per year, when the much bankster
ized,. bankrupt Milwaukee Railroad
can get 100 million dollars at q
per cent.
Regretful enough, while our young
men and women are at war, the reac
tionary element, worked up by Mon
tana Dwindlers, Inc, chambers OF
commerce, insurance agents, daily
press, may be supplemented enough
to vote for this bond issue. The navy
knows the depth of the Pacific ocean,
but nobody knows the depth of dull.
ness of Montana voters when hypno-
tized by Cartels, Inc, that dominate
this state.
Our governor, by coming out against
the M. V. A., shows that he at least
thinks the electorate is now m e
stupid than it has heretofore been
His own reelection forced many of us
to agree that the electorate is quite
uRintelligent; a demonstration ST.
lences argument, but hoping that
there is majority of sensible voters
left in the state after the rest of the
United States has so profited by fine
young refugees from Montana, it may
be well to call to the attention of the
voters some peculiarities of the pro-
posed bond issue:
First. Only taxpayers can vote on
it. This property-owning qualification
is worse than the poll-tax restriction
on voting in the far South. Personally,
it does not hit me. l pay taxes in
Beaverhead, Broadwater, Cascade,
Granite, Jefferson, Lewis and Clark,
Madison, Powell and Silver Bow coun-
ties, but any such restriction against
universal suffrage is un-American.
1t was proposed to put in the Unit
ed States Constitution the property
owning qualification of $780, Benjamin
Franklin asked James Wilson: "If a
man owns jackass worth $500, can
he vote?" Wilson said Eyes" Frank
lin asked: eff the jackass dies, can
the man then voter" Wilson said, "Of |
course not" Franklin then said: |
'Well, the vote belongs to the jackass,
and not to the man under your
theory" All property owning restric-
lions on suffrage were omitted after
that typical Franklin jest.
Our youngest daughter, a B. A. of |
Montana University, and M. A of |
Columbia University, is registered to
vote in Vutte, but now serving her
in Africa Sc could not, if
here, vote on this bond issue, but any
gambler, taxed on a roulette wheel,
can vote on it.
Second. This is an Anticipation
Debenture Act To explain: The peo-
pie are asked to give blank checks to
he highway commission to pay up to D
2 million dollars whenever that board L
wishes it. That means that whenever L
he Helena banks are flush with de-
,osits, bonds at 40 will be issued and 6
fought by these banks, and whenever |
ither of these banks have too much {
rozen assets, bonds will still be is S
ued, re-sold by these banks to New |
vork bankers, and the Helena bank
eserves brought up to federal re- a
a
Third. By basic law, appropriations S
state moneys must originate in the C
ouse - never even in the senate - u
ut by this law, for 10 years, up to r
2 million dollars appropriations orig s
late with the highway commission c
or my part | cannot name the mem
ers of the highway commission. do n
OF know who is chairman, and yet
70 are asked to turn over to that is
the right to appropriate s.
million dollars of state moneys. 1 il
link that the governor appoints the Il
ighway commission, and probably can a
,lease them.
Fourth Approaching that serious a
mes are ahead of us, due to our ar cl
ficial economy, that the sorrows of fC
employment are knocking at the z
lite, Montana Dwindlers, Inc, are W
rowing out this bond issue as sop G
labor to turn the thoughts of work te
G people away from a natural system Ell
economy - the building of a Mis-
uri Valley authority. tn
They do not realize that this is an
.rarian state; that our farmers pc
ould welcome back to the farms