Thought of a movie to make about Montana
in the time when the cattle barons ruled and the people got fed up and voted a law that votes could not be bought.. It would be a great movie especially if big name stars acted in it.
Overturning Montana Law, Supreme Court Affirms Unlimited Corporate Spending in Citizens United
It would be very timely in wake of the Supreme Court decision.
http://peoplespowerleague.info/about/about.htm
Montana citizens hated the new law and the new tax. Counties objected to the obligation to build and equip armories. People eagerly signed petitions to put the new law to a vote. The People's Power League carried petitions and advocated the repeal.
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L)aw abiding citizens of the state who pay taxes and dont need military protection must pay a tax to protect Amalgamated Copper that never kept a law it could break or paid a cent of taxes it could evade."
Kalispell Bee (April 11, 1911)
"Among the new military powers that loom upon the world horizon and must be reckoned with in future international relations is our own home state of Montana. With military laws as exacting as those of Germany and Russia she aspires to a place in the galaxy of world powers."
Miles Romney, Western News (June 20,1911)