The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-10-13

The demand for the slaughter of the Yellowstone
Park elk herd is becoming annual affair 1t has
just been launched again-1950 edition-in the col
umns of the ACM daily newspapers in Butte Billings,
Livingston, Helena, Mssoula-AND IN NO OTHER
NEWSPAPERS, with degree of space and emphasis
which makes the common ordinary sportsmen wonder
why. They wondering out loud this year, and
these of their questions:
How does it happen that the only elk herd in the
West which is said to be eating itself of house and
home is the Yellowstone Park herd? Why not the
Teton Park herd and the Jackson Hole herd-and 9TH
ers? They think the answer is corrupt control of Mon
tana
How does it happen that the only group of alleged
conservatonists which the ACM papers recognize is
openly headed by livestock and railroad interests?
Montana politics. they think.
How does it happen that the private and special
interests of the cattle and sheep in destroying
finest big game herd is always suppressed in these
newspapers? Company control of public information,
they think.
POISON IN THE WELLS
Edmund Burke in the House of Commons a
tury and half declared that all efforts to reform
the British government failed for reason, namely,
BECAUSE THE TURNSPIT IN THE KINGS KITCH-
EN- WAS A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT The same
is true in Montana today Except for the two Great
Falls papers the ACM company owns all the major
daily papers of Montana, and publish suppress
the facts, it pleases which of concern to the
citizens of the state. 1t enjoys economic power
the we-sprngs of public opinion. In the present in
stance it has poisoned those wells
SUPPRESSION, AS A POLICY
The of the true sportsmen and honest
vationists is suppressed because it opposed to the
dishonest of the livestock group who want all the
grass for cattle and sheep, and none for elk. That
special interest is the political partner of the Anacon
da company; rides high in every legislative session.
does the companys bidding and gets back scratched
in return.
The state livestock association more than year
ago passed absurd resolution that the elk ought
be killed off because they injecting domestic
cattle with anthrax; they publicly and privately
to put up shut up, and they beat g-
nomnious retreat. Every effort to get this fact into
because it controversial" CD According to the
hired management of these papers, their side of
argument is news proper to be published the other
side is controversial and must be suppressed. We
hold up to the method of Pravda and Isvestia
and the Daily Worker in suppressng every story
damaging to the communist cause, and keeping their
readers in ignorance. HOW ABOUT MONTANA?*
We have also heard about Hitler's method of max
ng the Big Lie stick by repeating it and examining it
Town the threats of listeners Hitler didn't invent it.
We've had it in Montana these many years. We have
een told, after year, that the Yellowstone Park
erd is going to starve to death if many thousand
not slaughtered. Last year it 5000 head that
ad to be slaughtered to the from starvation
ublc protest cut the slaughter to tenth of that
Did the rest starve? They did not and the sub
ervient Park superintendent with a red face is ex-
laning that the weather the only thing that saw