The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-01-05


Law should be enforced in Montana,
particularly against those employers
who can respond financially, and yet
the unlawfully employed child should
have some protection under the Com
pensatiOn Act
| hope / have made myself clear,
and I certainly hope that you agree
with the thought | have in mind.
Cordially yours,
A. G. SHONE.
Dear Editor,
| have been trying to get the people
to see our greatest menace is the
kind of men we have been electing
to office in Montana. Selfish groups
put up the kind of men they want
and they have to for some offices,
Legislature and governor) put up can
didates who will work for the benefit
of the liquor and gambling interests,
and the politicians and 9Th columnists
boosts for thir candidates and when
elected the moral and temperance
people then get men in office who are
against them and immoral conditions
get worse, by voters being deceived
and electing men who will serve the
interests and are against the peo-
pie, which was done at the November
election and the same has been done
for years Prohibition years when
officers were elected who did not en-
force the laws.
In the early twenties, a federal pro-
hibition law enforcement officer told
me our town was the most rotten
town of its size in his district, which
took in part of the state of Idaho.
He told me the sheriffs officers in
Miles City tipped him off to the boot
leggers when he was coming in to
raid them, so he had to slip in when
he made a raid without letting sher-
ifs officers know he was coming. l
was well acquainted with this man, so
many of our church people helped
elect and re-elect these officers (sher-
iff). | opposed this machine for years
but being a democrat and just COM
mon stockman in county where the
republicans had between 500 and 800
vote, l could not do a thing
as so many of our prominent repub-
licans knocked me to cover up be-
cause | stood against such conditions
and still stand that way.
The kind of government we get de-
ponds on how the people vote, in the
November election the majority voted
groups into power to run our
state for their own selfish interests,
and it was a fright the way they
served Judge Erickson, the phone was
used lot telling voters to look out
Tor Judge Erickson as he was not
honest, and other stories.
The campaign was dirty and very
init Christian-the same means have
been used time and again, but the
people will never learn. These dirty
politicians always have to smear the
pest man and liberal, in order to elect
he weakest and poorest man, why is
t Christian have tao vote to elect the
ype of men that the Christians
heed?
The people must stand together for
~ SOiOi eil WClldIC dIu uOt DIS DIT LIE
asst election to vote for the benefit
# the corporations and Chambers of
Commerce. To free our churches
rom control by vicious politicians,
md then use the church vote to over
ome the forces of evil at work in our
owns, state, and nation also to over
ONE this paganism that is being
creed on us. We can overcome these
'IANS as OFFICIALS in our church
Kings, by putting in more Christians
S officials in our churches
We cannot serve two masters, God
nd Mammon. We must serve God,
+ lose our freedom and democracy.
christians must stand for truth JUS
ice and charity, how many voted that
ray in the November election? Why
o we have Scoutmasters who are
fficials in churches and employed by
Operations who during an election
ear work so hard to elect the can
idates this capitalist system machine
! backing? 1t is said the nazi youth
ill be menace to Germany for
lany years to come.
The main reason the republicans
orked so hard to re-elect Governor
ord was the OPA setup in Montana
hich is absolutely controlled by these
hambers of Commerce All demo
ats employed on this setup from
,utheastern Montana have for years
zen working with the republicans
Id the consumer is badly deceived.
e-electing Governor Ford means
ese business men in Montana, will
} able to take an extra profit of
illions from the consumer, while the
ar lasts which means the consumers
i'll have a million dollars or more,
SIS invested in war bonds than they
ould have had if Judge Erickson had
zen elected and would have had
t-up fairer to the consumer. The