The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-03-23
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INVESTIGATIONS

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The first paragraph of an Associated dispatch with
Washington dateline Montana given clean bill
of health by the senae special elections committee today
March 1872.
The story then Celebrates on
Investigators of the main purposes stated being that
daily newspaper had refused democratic advertising"
The committees this phase of the investigation
apparently report by its wonderful investi-
gators that they had interviewed Ward Tanning advertising
and Butte Post who had denied
advertising had been refused by either of those pub
catons which may may not be true Apparently these
investigators of the committee had not heard that
there daily in other city OF Montana be-
sides Butte.
not have been give the Anaconda Copper Mining
pany the clean bill of health which they apparently wanted
to do as the story tell of except officers
employees of the being questioned The indie
pendenRecord of Helena Of the propaganda sheets Of
the ACM DID REFUSE DEMOCRATIC ADVERTISING
Perhaps the investigators did not consider this publication
daily newspaper" in which might have to
privileges so newspaper from legal stand
point presumably cannot be questioned and this the nves
Standard of the stripe the Helena In
dependenRecord how the investigators reached the
cuon that the Butte propaganda sheets were the only daily
papers in the state must remain mystery.
story that the advertising of the
Butte papers denied that 1.-THE Anaconda mining interests die
tated the policy the papers and Law Rsken the
said to have agreed that this Dan Kelly little
circumspec his statements according to the story and
admitted that the Anaconda the Standard Publishing
Company land would dictate policies if it saw fit
1t has been clearly enough evident that the Anaconda
Copper Mining Company perhaps the Montana Twins
control most of the daily newspapers OF the state
maintained and local people the boards of directors
to be representative of the interests of the
copper company the board.
The corporation reports filed by these publishing
organizations indicate clearly enough for with
that they would be closed down
their "ange" At time according to
corporation reports the Standard Publishing Company
owed than million dollars For the past few years.
there has been an apparent their Indebtedness but
many still bankrupt secontainng corporations
summary the important parts of their reports
for 1914:
Montana Record Publishing Company, publishers of the
Montana Record-Herald now combined with the
Helena Independent:
Paid in capital $685. 945.O Debts $344151.13
Independent Publishing Company, publishing the
combined Helena Record-Herald and Helena indie
pendent:
Paid in capital $75 OOo Debts S215,O95.58
Muscular Publishing Company, publisher of The Mis-
soulan:
Paid in capital $50, OOO Debts $40,3O3.58
Livingston Enterprise:
Paid in capital $25, OOO Debts $12,O58.41.
Billings Gazette:
Paid in capital S92,25O. Debts $35, 1915
Post Publishing Company publishers Butte Daily Post
Paid in capital $1245OO. Debts 1914 1023O.
Standard Publishing Company publishers Of the Montana
Standard:
Paid in capital $780, OOO Debts S34361172
Now Just what do the people of the state in for
deficits paid by the orporaons They get
favong every instance the
plotting policies of these corporations They get political
troll the state legislative assemblies In short they get
everything responsible information from the stand
welfare the public Isn't time that
the people of the state something conditions?
And it's about time that real investigators be employed
bv the senate committees We informed that the nves
gators from Washington to Butte by air They would
accomplished much actual investigation if they had