The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-07-13

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Livingston, Mont, July TO- 1915
Mr. H. S. Bruce
Dear Sir:
| The press is now complaining that
Russia stripped the Ford plants OF
tools and machinery. Those plants
according to these same papers were
destroyed, and U.S.S.R. in doing this
| is really disarming Germany as the
allies pretended they were going to
do. FDR's plan was to let U.S.S.R.
restock with equipment and tools des-
troyed or taken by the nazis when
they Invaded U.S.S.R. We now learn
that the Germans used Ford plants
for air raid shelters (In Fact July p.
Regarding the meat shortage. The
World Almanac says the ranchers and
farmers increased their herds 4,000,-
900 head last year.
Since our annual slaughter is some
| 22,000,000 head there would have been
some 1870 more meat if the farmer
had not held those 100000 cattle to
get another years growth on them.
Also some 2O,OO0,O0O people who ordi-
narily can not afford meat are now
eating it. And lend-lease is taking
some So this and not OPA bungling
is causing the meat shortage.
A government bulletin says that an
old SOW raises only fraction of a
pig more than a gilt. So if farmers
a,.lxa (d00
to 700 lbs) and replace them with
200 lb gifts that would eat only one
half as much and the gilt would grow
200 lbs in year, this would add
thousands of tons of meat to the
market Sincerely yours,
FLOYD V. KENNEY.
Editor, The Peoples Voice,
In my brief experience as youth
full merchant, trading empty pop bot
ties for ice cream and all-day-suckers,
caveat emptor was expressed in the
horse"
But call me Elliott, and give me
$200,000i Congress has disregarded
the axiom of commerce l have just
mentioned, and gone back SO years
to pay for the bones and carcasses
of a lot of cayuses, l am informed by
the reliable mot mentioning Edward
Kennedy Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, July 4-(AP)-
Sioux Indians are going to receive
more than 100000 from Uncle Sam
for ponies taken by the Army after
the Custer massacre on the banks
of the Little Big Horn river in
southeastern Montana, in June, 1876.
after the battle, in which 231 of
Lieut.. Col. George A. Clusters Sew
enth Cavalry died, the Army confis
Gated Indians horses in the area to
prevent them from riding into battle
again.
President Truman Tuesday sign
ed bill, introduced by Rep. Chase
(R., S. Dak.) to pay the Indians or
their heirs, now spread into North
and South Dakota and Montana
$101,63 for the horses and arms
taken"
This governmental action stirs my
usual lassitude to speculation. How
many horses are we paying for and
did the appraiser take OPA ceilings
into consideration? One of two things
is true-our soldiers either stole a
lot Of mavericks, or the appraiser has
put value on them that Alexander
the Great would have set on Buce
phalus, his battle steed, or Colonel
Bradley would have placed on Ken
lucky Derby winner. l have been told
by old settlers in these western dig
gings that they acquired many nag
from an Indian in exchange for pint
of whiskey, when that stuff sold at
four bits a pint, with nary drop of
neutral spirits in it,
If | know Indians like l think
know Indians, until that S100,000.00 is |
distributed, every Redskin will be a |
Sioux, looking for a sou. That same |
thought will occur to most anybody |
who has observed that most of our
sessions of federal court here in Mon
tana usually resemble an Indian pow
WOW.
Congress has set very dangerous
precedent One of these days the
descendants of the Indian chiefs, who
sold Manhattan Island, will come for
ward with a deficiency claim. 1t is
4 matter of history that Peter Minuet
instituted a swindle that endures to
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