The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-01-11
]. o. BARNARD.
Clyde Park, Mont,
January 6, 1916.

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January 6, 1916.
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An open epistolary quiz plus sug-
gestions and warnings addressed to
the Honorables Governor Sam c.
Ford, Senator B. K. Wheeler, Con-
gressmen Mansfield, DEwart of Mon
tana and others whom the epistolary
shoe may fit.
Subject, The Missouri Valley Au-
thority, (MVA) plus the IVA. Other
papers please copy.
Gentlemen:
There comes a tide in the affairs
Of men taken at its flood leads on to
fortune, human development and hap
piness. Neglected the course of such
voyage, such enterprise may forever
thereafter be bound by shoals and
shadows, disappointment, misery and
Woe" Never was proverb more ap-
plicable to case in question; the tide
Of our opportunity is at flood, we, the
people, have but to stretch forth our
collective hands and the coveted bles-
sing is ours; therefore, any who mo-
lest, or attempt to make afraid are
of the economic tories and are stand
ing up to be counted with certain re-
dictionaries, which hang as millstones
about the neck of our public economy
in the development of Montanas ma
tural resources, such millstones, to be
specific are the Montana Power COM
pany, the several daily papers of the
Anaconda Copper Mining company.
The army engineers who seem to be
directed by back-seat drivers, and the
bureau of reclamation which have
been bivouacing too complacently on
the job assigned them for 43 years
By the adoption of the S555 meas
ure (MVA) we shall be relieved of
all these millstones except one, the
Copper Mining companies
sheets which blanket the
state of Montana so effectively and
banefully; even so, with the help of
the MVA economy we shall be able to
get our collective heads sufficiently
above water to avail ourselves of the
crying need of daily paper big
enough to fit the job; thus we shall
be able to neutralize in a measure
the sinking weight and handicap of
The said dailies.
Moreover gentlemen, is it normally
democratic and wholly above suspi-
zion of collision and evil intent, in
TACT conspiracy, when said daily pa
Ders, the Montana Power company,
chambers of commerce. the army en-
5ineers, the bureau of reclamation
md certain politicians are in such
harmonious accord in attempt to cry
VIVA?
Governors of the seven states of the
tennessee valley are unanimous and
in their praise of the
many blessings brought to their states
~ the IVA while the governors of
he 10 states of the Missouri Valley
re all loud in their criticism of the
IVA and just as loud in their con-
emnation of MVA for the Missouri
liver Basin. Proof of the pudding is
he chewing of the string" the COVER
rnors of the Tennessee valley have
he proof visible every day, every
our, in many multi-purpose dams, eff
Getting flood control, arresting soil
rosion, 600 miles of Tennessee river
low-cost fertilizer, low-cost
lectric energy, improved health, in
reased population, increased prosper
y, happiness and contentment, while
list, but not least, power and light
7coons are conspicuous because of
leir absence; moreover gentlemen,
lere is, apparently, just one disgrun-
ed politician on the job and that is
enator McKeller of Tennessee, all
ue that he is not permitted to direct
lie whole vast marvellous economy
trough political back-seat driving.
Such are a few of the ingredients
hich are stirred into the IVA pud-
ng Of political economy, the proof
ring of which the seven governors
nd the five million population, minus
McKeller, are gleefully
Id happily chewing
On what kind of proof do the 10
,vernors of the Missouri River Basin
lambers of commerce, the army en-
neers and bureau of reclamation
lew? Loi on what kind of proof do
" politicians chew?
The question is so vast and vital
'ntlemen in all its ramifications and
vices, captivating charmes and
omises overall that no patriotic and
val Montanan can't afford to have
is controversial question settled un-
the light of about truth is allowed
ID made to shine on all angles of the
arrel therefore, as time and dis
nee seems to be no barrier to your
ing places, why not mount your
ngs and fly to that controversial
ca, the Tennessee Valley? where
u seem to think the whole popula-
N have lost their sense of discern
emit therefore can not see, hear.
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