The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1946-10-24
ECt0n Pleads
For Return 10
Common Sense

power of bureaucracy and get bacl
to the American form of govern
ment-which in the last analyst!
would be going back to common
.sense-was the gist of the address.
given by Zales N Ecton at Repub.
lican rally in Moose hall last night
Mr. Ecton was the principal
speaker at the rally and is Republic
can candidate for the u. S. senate.
Mr.. Ecton is an easy speaker and
held the closely attentive interest of
a goodly sized audience.
The speaker insisted that the
nation must get rid of deficit spend
ing and the huge national debt if
it is to escape bankruptcy And
when bankruptcy comes, the life
savings, the insurance policies, the
investments for ones old age, every
thing goes and the nation becomes
PROSTATE. And then the time is
ripe, said Ecton, for a dictator to
appear and impose his will on the
nation. That is the direction in
which we are now travelling and
that is the inevitable end if deficit
spending is not stopped, he said.
Mr.. Ecton said the Democratic ad-
ministration had imposed upon the
country a smothering bureaucracy
and an extravaganza that is destroy
ing the liberties of the people and
that is placing a heavy burden of
taxation on everyone. This burden
of taxation will be around the necks
of the people for years to come, ,
he said. The speaker said that up
to the Roosevelt administration the
national debt was 20 billion dollars. /
Now it is 265 billion dollars. or an
increase of 1900 per cent in Is !,
years.
Mr.. Ecton called attention to the
extent to which Communism is
working its insidious way into our
national government and warned of
the danger to our liberties that such
penetration means. He quoted from
an address of J. Edgar Hoover, head
of the FIJI, before the recent Ameri-
can Legion convention in San Fran
cisco, in which Hoover said that
during the past five years. COM
munism has made its worst inroadsN
into our national life. Hoover further
said that to Destroy Communism's
inroads lis a Enatter of self-preser-
walton. The veterans who fought
for America will be among the first
to suffer if the Communists succeed
in carrying out their diabolical plots I
to wreck the American way of life" Z
Mr.. Ecton insisted that the Com r
munists and their fellow travellers =
are boring into the Democratic :,
party and constituted a real threat 2
and danger to the nation He re- =
called how Henry Wallace, one time G
vice president and recent secretary =
of commerce, had sabotaged the {
foreign policy of this nation in his y
to what Secretary Brynes ~
was attempting in Paris, and how +
Wallace's action received highest ~
from the Soviet press =
and government. ii
The speaker insisted that the I'll
planned economy" of the Demo- OF
ratio administration is leading the pj
lation straight into socialism with
trong communistic implications. w
And that 'the planning" of the VIC
asst 10 years had now resulted in ar
shortage of practically everything
he nation needs.
Ecton said that if he is elected
o the U. S. senate he will stand
opposed to creation of
Missouri Valley Authority and r
Columbia Valley Authority He
trongly favors complete develop IN
lent of those two great valleys ]
ut any authority" patterned on
VA would mean the turning over
} three men complete and absolute he
ontrol of the Columbia and Mis- at
ouri valley regions. He is OPP wi
osed to concentrating in the hands ca
any three men such extreme wi
over. Ecton went on to say that da
e very much favored development ,fie
the waterpower and irrigation FRI
of the Northwest under "a,
lie reclamation system and by army sio
1gineers and in cooperation with
ate and local governments. In ia
'eaking of his opposition to MVA Fr
nd eva, he referred to the pro- RI,
osed building of dam below Troy inf
lat would drown out Troy and put
libby under $50 feet of water. He
I'D his opponent had come out re-
'ntly with a written endorsement
both the MVA and eva. ne
Mr.. Ecton referred to the Hungry IN
orse project and said he is heartily =.
r it, as it will mean a great de- Br
elopment for this district He said ".
a farmer he had had to eat ~
t of Montana dirt and that now NE
a candidate he is having to eat !
lot of dirt of much worse charac- ne
T. Some of which is the report -
lat if Ecton is elected to the senate, nj
) will kill the Hungry Horse prof.
t. He classes that as utterly
)surd ma
G. c. Earle, Republican county ~
lairman, presided at the meeting IN
i'd introduced the speaker. At the
IcIus!on OF WI. Ecton aooress' SUI
ndidates, each of whom spoke :
'iefly. =
Mr.. Ecton was accompanied to ore