The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-07-06

rates similar TO JnOSe OF the state OF
Washington. Seven million dollars a
year tribute to foreign insurance com
panies Five million dollars excess
electric rates.
This top-heavy burden on produc-
ers is maintained by vicious false
press, devoted not to giving news,
but to propaganda, and by bribed and
dirty elections.
Forestry
There is advance in forestry A fine
school for that art is at Missoula.
But, if Theodore Roosevelt, against
the screams of the same corrupt Mon
tana press, had not, 81 years ago,
established our timber reserves, we
would have no need for the school
of forestry. The timber of the state
would, before this, have been slashed
away by the lumber company affili-
ate of the A. c. M. Co. Any general
ly beneficial broad legislation for
Montana, during the last 40 years, has
not come from the little Nepotic ring
of Helena denizens living on what the
lCot VI 10 pay Ill ldAcS. LtSlSldIlOu
good for Montana comes from Wash
ington, D. C.
Ed Norris was the gubernatorial
spokesman in Helena for Con Kelley
in Butte when the question came up
of forest conservation by federal con-
troll. Ed put out many preachments
against forest reservations, believing
about infringement of States rights"
They were almost as stupid as Ford's
present spouting of power, railroad;
Anaconda propaganda against the
MVA and eva, with this difference:
Ed was Southern Democrat; he may
have honestly believed his own
words; Ford, ayowedly Republican,
these days, is consciously a charla-
tan.
A comparison of the two incidents
gives a measure of increase in cul-
tural lag in 30 years. Eds folly
caused his retirement. Ford's char
latanry contributed to his reelection.
Lag in Mining
The lag in mining since Anaconda |
absorbed all rivals has been continu- |
Gus and severe. Since the Clarks sold |
out in 1926 no new quartz mine of
much note has been put into produc-
ton, except in the Butte district.
Many promising mining fields are
known to exist elsewhere in the state:
Camp Creek, Rimini Winston, Basin,
Argenta, Rochester, Sheridan, Mel
hart, Elkhorn, Granite County, and
others The electric power rates are
100 high for modern methods of min
ng. Perhaps only a government
owned smelling plant can overcome
his lag. Rates for power as low as
IVA rates would help.
A startling advance in metallurgy,
he age old hope of separating zinc
rom lead in milling, was perfected
n our state. 1t is noteworthy that
10 Anaconda employed engineer ac-
this epoch-making discov- ;
cry. Sheridan and Griswold were in
he employ of the Clarks. 1t could
lever have been done by Anaconda
employees. There would have been
10 incentive. Men working for that
company do not try to invent better
Methods, well knowing that the com
,any would squeeze from the invent {
n the profits of his high talent and {
'atient experiments by some greedy t
egal technicality. The successful in ]
-entor in employ of the Anaconda is /
nore apt to lose his job and be hunt {
d as an outcast than gain any royal
les. +
The Anaconda discourages the entry a
# Independent mining capital into [
he state. The deposits of gypsum, (
luminum, silica, scheelite must wait I
or the time when that company de-
ides to use them. n
The $4,000 square miles of coal in
EASTERN Montana will some day be Il
lade into fuel oils. That, also, must n
bide the wish of the Anaconda, I'M o
ess the MVA unlocks Eastern Mon n
ana with cheap power, and our f
hambers of commerce encourage, a
nd cease obstructing human enter e
rise.
Our school of mines is a great tech r
ical school under the present head,
nown from Chilli to India Som e n
ears ago, of 81 superbly equipped d
raduating mining and metallurgical e
ngineers, one got OBJ as truck driv- &
+, one in a filling station, 35 no
ork at all. G
ONE Chambers of Commerce is
bstruct Enterprise t.
Perhaps commercial clubs elsewhere Il
ct differently, but the Butte cham RI
er of commerce obstructs new enter 81
rise. In 1886, a government tannery fl
listed in Butte; 81 married men had b
cen trained to the work by an ex- W
ert from Milwaukee. 1t was a good, tt
ent 100000 to start Washington
as willing to give the plant to a CO. o.
)erative, if the men would organize p
he. The men organized By now, Il
ordinary human behavior, there 1.
ould be large business in sole to
ather and shoes in Butte perhaps N
thousand men employed in it. Our re-
lamber of commerce willed other p
Use. By the aid of B. K. Wheeler,
e proect was killed in Washington, M
Q plant sold to junk buyers for far ia
S. than it cost Cultural lag thus In
'came the norm of Butte. al
Lag Brings u
Their Lays
Economic lag destroys other forms 81
culture. What artists now in the Cd
ate carry on the wondrous works "
Charlie Russell, Ed Paxson, Walter IN
imp, (painter of the murals in the -
ate law library? Where is the sue II