The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-11-25

He gives first his reasons for oppo-
| sition to the Tiber dam, Yellowtail and
| Helena Valley projects, with some of
which | am inclined to agree for in
my experience as surveyor with the
Bureau of Reclama ton on the Tiber
dam and other projects I have wit
messed several instances of what any
person with a few grains of common
sense would term mildly dam poor
engineering However, E. j. offers as
an alternative a constructive sugges-
ton" that certainly takes the sour
dough biscuit" 1t is: Take the federal
government should invest the amount
of money which these projects would
cost each individual farmer, in gov
eminent bonds and deposit the interest
to the credit of each farmer which
would provide each farmer with an
income ranging up to $1,000 per annum
(the figures are E. US, not mine, but
I'm willing to take his figures to save
the trouble of figuring it out myself.)
Ok, E. J. My hat is off to you for
suggestion to end all suggestions. How
ever if that is applied to just the farm
ers affected by these projects it would
come under the head of 'paternallst1c
or "class legislation" and we ''free1en-
terprisers" can't permit anything like
that, so if it is good and "construc-
tive in that particular instance let's
extend it to the whole public, give
everybody the benefit.
In accord with E. US line of reason
ing the federal government would &C
cordingly invest an equal amount IN
government bonds for every individual
now living, or hereafter born In these
United States of Free Enterprise, the
interest to be deposited to the credit
of that individual, providing him with
an income of $1,000 per annum for
which he wouldn't have to work. That
would certainly halt this creeping
socialism" of which E. j. and others
so often complain. Even the visionary
socialists never came up with con
structive" suggestion comparable 10
that. Exit the Townsend plan. old Doc
Townsend was just a penny ante plker.
No need for the Murray ingeil Dill.
No more talk of "socialized medicine,
etc.
While we are about it why be salts
fled with a paltry $1,000 a year? why
not have the government invest enough
in government bonds so that each IN
dividual could have yearly income |
from the interest, of ten thousand, or
twenty or yes, even hundred thou-
sand Then the farmers could Quit |
farming, stockmen could quit raising |
cattle, sheep and hogs, engineers could
omit engineering, gardeners quit gar
dening and all sit back on our fannies |
clipping coupons with not a care In
the world and never have to work
Best of all, politicians could quit poll
ticking and balance the budget with
the interest on government bonds. Yep.
Its a better idea than the Roosevelt
program of paying the farmers Tor
mot raisin' nuthin'." WHOOPEE!. III
mutt calling myself a socialist ana go
"a IL out" for this kind of program, even
if it WAS first thought up by Re
publican LeVERNE HAMILToN'
Thompson Falls.
EDITORS NOTE: Tt is not my wish 70
b impertinent but, while Verne, IL; .,
and the rest of the boys are parkeu
on their fannies in their rocking
chairs enjoying the millennium Wn"'
just who is going to proylde the
food to sustain their enjoyment q
the new found utopia?