The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-03-16
BY LOWNDES MAURY

the Civil War. An accepted estimai
states that her population decline
only 70. per cent from 1861 to 1856
. When Grant took Richmond, the pc
: centage of vacant houses there wa
not as high as in Butte today. Arm
take a sad toll of human life. Diseas
pestilence takes heavier toll; bring
more serious population fall off. &c
has made Montana the healthies
state, of lowest average mortalit
rate Vile rulers herein have mad
her outstanding young men and won
en- flee as from the Black Death.
Count of ration cards tells the al
palling story. There are 10000 les
people here than when the war begaI
From about 100000 in 1910 to abou
! 100000 in 1915. Induction for arme
service accounts roughly for $4,000
| but of these, 5000 have been honor
ably discharged, and only 1000 hav
returned to this, their former home
There is more than a 10 per cent los
in less than four years. Georgia's los
Of people from 1861 to 1865 does no
equal Montana's in shorter period
no hostile shot has been heard here
Georgia's fields were scourged will
fire and sword.
| When the young people get away
in the words of Burns, (Bobbie, no
Jimmie), they see ourselves as Others
see u.s. While here they are used tt
the stencil in which they were borr
and raised. In better air outside fol
year or two, they come back OF
furlough, see the truth of outside crit
cism of our system and methods, de
eide not to live in such an un-Ameri
can atmosphere. They leave the glori
Gus mountains filled with treasure
the plains that feed millions of cattle
the rivers, the forests, the well-built
cities, the honest citizenry, to get
back to some state where govern.
mental corruption is not the rule
where the ordinary honest, hard-work-
ing young person has a chance to rise
on merit, and does not need to get his
bread by dishonest means, or in serf-
dom under the arrogant leaders OF
capitalism here who run the State
Capital as department.
Montana captains of industry have
done things that are tried by world
opinion and found so corrupt, so vile,
so arrogant, so filthy, that our young
folks are laughed at abroad, and even
suspected simply because they were
born here.
The Mikado of evil politics in this
state is the Anaconda Company An
affiliate is Anaconda Wire & Cable
a marketing agency for products of
the parent company. The world from
Saipan and Guadalcanal to Moscow
was shocked by the treason born of
greed and fraud of the adult child of
the Anaconda. Encouraged by the top
officials, button box" fooling Unit
ed States inspectors, Anaconda Wire
& Gable was supplying to our allies
in Russia, and for the use of our own
heroic boys in the Pacific jungles
spools of communication wire-1 900
feet of decent outside, 1000 feet of
worthless inside. There is no doubt
of this. These men have paid fines,
and are under sentence of the courts
for long prison terms. This is thrown
up to our young folks away, and
makes them ashamed to confess
where they were born.
The stranger in our Capital city
soon notes that the legislature is run
from a corporation bar room in the
hotel there, and he suspects who sup
plies the liquor, and pulls the wires
from it.
Lately the Federal Power Commits
sion suspected that our network pow
sr company had hands too unclean
20 enter commerce outside of this
state; that our methods should be
A searching trial fol-
owed The power of propaganda was
,xemplified before this trial COM
nenced. There were thousands of
honest investors in preferred stock of
he Montana Power Company. The
of these could be made per-
nanent by success of the Federal eff
ort. They had all to Withholding
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stock, induced these gulls to
lire lawyers, to fight against their
,est interests which the Federal au-
horities were trying to advance. The
preferred stockholders ttorneys
coached in every move by the com.
AMY, lost The clients won.
No honest investor can lose by the |
J e d era1 Governments demanding |
hat a corporation keep honest books
1arket price of Montana Power pre-
erred firmed after the decision, which |
Washed foul Montana linen in front |
f the nation. The gullible owners |
yho paid fat fees to the company to |
ire lawyers to weaken their own Sc
urities, must by now have as much |
aith in the integrity of the Federal |
'ower Commission as in the barons
Tho organized the company, or in the |
resent management that wheedled |
he gulls to pay fat fees to feryent |
arristers seeking a ruling against |
heir clients best interests.
Montana Power is capitalized for
100, 100000 dollars. The ruling is that |
100000 of this is not based on