The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-03-16
ONLY A BLOOD TRANSMISSION
CAN SAVE MONTANA

tangible assets, and never was. TIL
president of the Anaconda testifie
that there was fair value for thi
stuffing. Whatever credence tn
hometown crowd give such testimony
the people of the outside believe j
false. The long buried facts whel
brought to light caused nationa
scandal
This makes our young folks abroad
ashamed to confess their native state
This also make them averse to return
ing to live where valuation for taxa
ton of this company is S50,000,00l
less than valuation for rate-fixing
They see no prospect of change.
The average young American as
pires to hold public office, to be gov
ernor perhaps, or congressman or sen
ator indeed. These offices in Mon
tana are often purchasable, but the
price is so high that only the Ana
conda, and its allies, can pay the
price. The last gubernatorial election
has become the type, and the c. |. O.
now publishes to the nation what our
type is-hush, hush, prevails no long
er. The election expense of Sam C.
Ford was acknowledged to be $4,000,
contributed ostensibly by professions
al gamblers and corporation lawyers.
If the newspaper publicity were ac-
counted for, the sheet would show
100000 additional.
This is known through C. |. o. chan
nels, as well, where Sam was raised
Southern Democrat, as in Montana,
where his politics are unknown be-
yond his alliance with the Power
crowd to oppose the M. V. A
Our corrupt elections now a by-word
elsewhere make our young folks
abroad ashamed to confess their ma
tive state.
Long an undercover man, finally
Anaconda owned daily newspapers
were told in the technical phrase,
stuff Wheeler's Shirt" His doings
down to fight of Wheeler's dog at
Bolton became front page news.
Senator Wheeler's rocket bomb ca
reer, unguided for five years, save in
a general way aimed to sling mud at
the President is another item that
makes our young folks abroad
ashamed to confess their native state.
The usual comment elsewhere on
Wheeler opens and ends with the re-
mark: HE sings mud to Churchill,
at Stain, even at Roosevelt, but he
has no unkind word for Hitler" In
formed citizens elsewhere know why
this has been so, and throw it in the
faces Of young people who go out
side
They know that when the F. B. l.
invaded the quarters of Viereck, now
serving twenty years for espionage,
large mail sacks of Viereck's trea-
sonable propaganda were found con-
Lained ready for mailing-in envelopes
with the free mailing frank of Sena-
or Burton K. Wheeler.
When state pride prompts our
young folks to defend Wheeler,
strangers say: when the Atlantic
vas full of U-boats, sinking our ships,
gave the Germans informa-
ion that our Marines were on voyage
o Iceland. He cared more for his
,wn publicity than for the lives of
,ur young men. Outsiders class him
sometimes chatterbox, but when
month ago he spoke three hours
against the Allies demand for uncon- |
litional surrender, public opinion di-
-ided-some thought him buffoon,
this may have been caused by a |
'ress photograph of him while talk
ng)-some thought him crazy, others
ust thought he was paid for making
pro-German talk.
He voted recently against the ST. |
lawrence Waterway development. In
ne campaign he advocated that in
and waterway eloquently to Montana
oters. (He got some data on it |
rom me to prepare his speech). The
It. Lawrence Waterway would gene
ate electric power and compete with
ailroads. Wheeler is quite adroit-
the M. V. A. comes up, and Wheeler
ees it cannot carry, Che will, with
onsent of Montana Power Company
ote for it, but if it looks close he
ill fight it hard.
That old stunt Is a favorite politi-
al gesture of Supreme Court Judges
bout election time. They file long
opinions which they know
l advance cannot change the result
But Wheeler is strongly entrenched
10 helped elect Ford. Turn about is
lir play. If the company was willing
, collect for Ford $4,000, and give
i'm 100000 more in advertising, they
i'll spend twice that to prevent pro-
lily man from succeeding to Wheel
rs place in the senate. And knowl-
ige of this is another reason why
lr young folks once gone do not
illingly return to live in this state.
All these evils are but symptoms
[ a false economic system here. That I
ystem must be changed To elsewise
lange the symptoms is hopeless. The
lrmers at Townsend were powerless !
refute the claims of the Power Co.
the Missouri River, and its {
ranches, until the Federal Power !
helped before the Circuit
curt of Appeals.
If the Federal Government installs ;
lie Missouri Valley Authority, {