The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-01-04
Who's s.: 72;,.o.cracy?

Montana MVA office in re- a we-written three
typed letter from gentleman named Robert H Bugge
yn address 100 Lincoln Ave. Rockville Centre Long Island
NJ This columnist of of having
passed through Rockville Centre couple of times memory
correctly pretenous residential dotted
with swanky estates; homes Montanas Absentee
Landlords Mr. Buggeyns griefaden letter would indicate
that he be of these possibly heavy of Electric
Bond and Share, masters of Montana Power company.
Anyway the gentleman freely admits that Electric Utilities
engaged in defending Legitimate" business with
the aid of big or Leading advertising agency and all
the hghalared officials in their setup He eloquent
and somewhat wrahfu because MVA supporter has
dubbed this Legitimate business effort 3plo' by utility
firms Particularly obnoxious statements which describe
the advertising hgh-powered organization ''aid
ed abeed by exutiy officials retained at what like
fabulous salaries
aided appears to be paatable, but most nsid
uous word abetted Websters dictionary quot
length prove that lit implies guilty knowledge and
wrong to abet crime to abet insurrection AS
to salary scales Are low salaries honest and high salaries
dishonest? just at what point does dishonesty begn?
All this "outdoes Goebbes at his dirtiest."
Americans have been proud of this nations business de-
velopment And when BIG busness-American Big
the world Without the organization and
agement experience and abilities business executives
who tell what the result might have been?
Government ownership and management of business must
sure would fail to become device which
would be used to perpetuate in power American Hitler
with certainly, then, American Gestapo
please hint to Americans that they
will have opportunity to learn the truth about proposed
program and what lead to- We still have
freedom of speech and freedom of the
Don't adopt the technique of the gold brick confidence
your plan good don't be afraid the truth
abetted) by exuy officials who paid high salaries
Sorry brother mighty We don't want ruffe
feelings, particularly those of Absentee Landlord Why
for fifty years the people out in the old sunbaked
Missouri basin have been contributing extra, and
mounting toll cents that aggregates about 145
million dollars annually. We would gladly continue such ap
peasemen indefinitely but millions of running
little cash and other wealth of which
tribute
Then too have heard lot about the virtues of compe
tion and how it made America and We just
thought little competition, in the development field
might healthy thing Please pardon if have gone
wrong in this assumption.
glad to know who the We thought that
millions of Americans in uniform greater
workers. the daylight dark efforts of mother
dad the kids who kept food production going plus mil
lions of bond purchasers all adding most of the brawn
brains talent in America had considerable part this
effort. Again stand corrected. d
But Brother, there little item not going to
Democracy may the unbrdled right of hand
full of the economic topcru to continue exact
increasing financial toll and to draw tighter the rns
political social control We don't it that way Pos
sibly Htlerism, the inevitable final result ca
continuation of such national policy great deal ~
than you do W
Democracy the right to voe govern
majority and damn site of freedom of the &c
than your Power newspapers
have When the public gets opportunity register
sentiments by ballot apt to be faced with
MVA do have to personal expense to the
extent of laying off butler or two br
JEROME G. LOCKE. re