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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-04
THE STAND PAT VIEWPOINT

Representative Treadway of Mas
sachusetts, who in private life is
owner of a fashionable summer no.
tel in the Berkshire hills, may fairly
be quoted as a spokesman Of that
conservative, standpat, old-line Re-
pubiicanism which has had so great
an influence on war legislation thus
far, even though the Democrats have
nominal control Of congress.
After appearing as usual to fall in
with the popular demand for high
war profits taxes and, stiff taxation
on big incomes, he says:
81 desire to further refer to the
possibility of destroying capital in
tax lates. We can only try out this
problem, hoping we have not over
stepped the limit either in, dealing
with individual incomes or corpora
TORS. In one schedule we actually
take capital. I refer to the estate
tax. Rates in this schedule run from
to 40 per cent, with an exemption
of $4,000.
"ThiS tax will be particularly hard
on estates in Massachusetts,. In the
first place, we have in Massachu-
sets and New England many very
large fortunes, not of mushroom
growth of war industries, but of con-
SENTATIVE business growth and accu-
mutation, extending through one or
more generations of a family. Such
form of tax as is levied against these
estates should rightly accrue to the
state rather than to the federal gov
eminent, but recognizing the prior
claim of the government, this fact
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-04
CUNRESS WEAKENED ON THE
TAXATION OF WAR PROfllo
OUR WASHINGTON LETT Elk

must be overlooked"
He proceeds to show that the Mas
sachusetts state inheritance tax law
would compel the heirs of a So'ooo'
900 estate to pay their state inherit
ance tax upon the entire amount
rather than upon the sum of $3'ooo'-
600 that will be left when the feder-
al tax of 80 per cent has been col
lected. This, he considers, is very
severe burden upon these poor heirS
of the millionaire! Moreover ne
asks that the estate-however large
of all men who die in the military
or naval service of the United States
shall be exempt from this tax.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-04
NORRIS ON PACKING TRUST

Forces are steadily being moblllzed
in the national capital for the oattle
over the government operation Oh
stockyards and branch meat houses.
The federal trade commission STANDS
bv it's report-that the economic ana
political freedom of the people OF the
United States will not be secure 50
long as the Chicago packers hold q
monopoly upon the livestock markets
and the facilities for distributing the
nations meat supply. The packers
are spending fabulous sums in trying
to discredit the federal trade COM
mission. Congress and the various
elements in the national admlnlstra-
ton are divided. The friends OF an
open market and the friends Of prl-
vate monopoly are being counted and
identified.
In the midst of the confusion as
to where congress may turn, this
letter from Senator Norris OF Ne
braska, addressed to the Farmers
National Committee on Packing
Plants and Allied Industries, shows
where the constructive-minded men
are to be found:
"For several weeks, as a member
Of the senate committee on agricul-
ture, | listened to testimony from all
parts of the country, showing that
the farmers and feeders of stock were
selling their products to the packers
at financial loss. At the other end
of the chain was the consumer, pay
ing an outrageous and exorbitant
price for the finished product; while
safely intrenched between the pro-
Queer and the consumer were the
packers, making an unconscionab1e
profit.
'The idea of having market
place owned and controlled by the
corporations that do practically all
of the buying at such market places
lis in itself a direct manipulation and
control of the market by those spe-
cial interests, and should not be toll
Grated in free country.
"My investigation of the subject
has convinced me beyond doubt that
there is a direct connection between
the large packers and some of the
largest financial and banking institu-
tons of the country, and those who
undertake to bring relief from the
present conditions must understand
that these financial institutions, with
their ramifcations extending all ovel
the country, are organizing a fighj
for the preservation Of existing con
ditions, by which they are enabled !;
exploit both the producer and tht
consumer.
"Anything that I can do to assis
your organization in bringing abou
b remedy for existing conditions,
will willingly and gladly undertake.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-04

Let the "Coloric" piDa,o.
40 your worrying 1t will ba 1a''s
house at low cost of ona neat yon
Hellsnd-Strand and be con r'i0n Sc
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-04

TAKEN UP-Sorrel mare and colt
taken up at my place, 10 miles
west Of Plentywood, on September
70 Mare has figure 8 brand on
left hip. Owner may have mare and
colt by paying general expenses.
FRED G. WESTERBERG. 24-3t
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-04

w doilIilS Cou, -. VI, SCt. "A
week of debate on war finance in the
house, and a week of more or less
unimportant hearings on the war
revenue bill before the senate COM
mittee on finance, has prepared con-
gress for brief senate discussion of
that measure. Administration and
Republican members have indicated
that the bill is as drastic as they ex-
pected, and that any attempt to put
100-per cent tax on war profits, as
suggested by some of the Republi-
cans, will be defeated. Congress
does not approve a pay-as-you-go
policy, nor is it ready to enact a
bill which would raise even half the
current cost of the war by taxation.
It is true that there remains the
group of progressives in the senate
most of them on the Republican
Side-who will try to increase the
rates of surtax on big incomes, but
tna;r votes are only handful. Since
the administration has come around
10 tire demand made by this group
last summer, that 80 per cent of the
war profits be taken, the wavering
MEMBER: who might have come to
their assistance, are once more sat
isfed with the plans of the majority.
There will be a progressive minority
once more, but no progressive sweep.
What Farmers Think
Tee Farmers National Commit
;ea on " al Finance has issued red
hot protest against the bill, addressed
to tho members of the house. 1t
reads, in part:
''Tin resident has repeatedly stat
ed that we would devote every dol
lar of The nations resources, if ne
CESAR, to winning this war. THE
PROPOSED BILL PERMITS ONE
HUNDRED MORE PERSONS TO
RETAIN A NET INCOME OF ONE
MILLION TO TWENTY MILLION
! DOLLARS!
"Tiln bill proposes to raise about
200,000,000, or about one-third of
tho cost of the war this fiscal year
exclrsice of probable loans to our
allies. Organized farmers and orga-
nized iahcr have demanded that at
least one half the cost of the war be
raised By current taxation, that is,
about 5120OO,OO0,000. This can be
ra;Scd by TAXATION without an injus-
tice or hardship.
"a 81 per cent tax on bona fide
wa profits would yield $675 100000,
more HIN the proposed tax thereon
"B,:- adopting the British income
tax rates up to $4,000, and taking
ali incomes over 100000, most OF
which are derived from secure in
vestment, nearly $4,5OO,OOO ,OOC
MORE WOULD BE RAISED BY
THE PERSONAL INCOME TAX
Than UNDER THE PROPOSED
RATES.
"Does the house assume that the
American people are any less patrl'
otto than the British? The pro-
posed income tax on $4,000 income
(without exemption Of dependents
is only $3.50; in Great Britain on
such income, if earned, it is $3.50; il
unearned, $937.50. AS our protesta
ton of democracy, so should oul
tax rates be.
"NUill you condemn every soldier
and sailor fighting for democracy tt
carry a profteer around his neck fo1
Is to % years after the war? Th'
farmers make their final appeal t.
: you for democratic financing of tn
war for democracy"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-04

FARMERS STATIONERY printed
Of this Office. Write or call Tor
particulars and see samples. 11S
cbeaner to have your stationery
nrinted. Order now.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-04

FOR SALE OR TRADE =
Staude-mak-a Tractor, ono " ~
Deere engine pillow with three ,tr sal
and two breaker bottoms, all p, ,a.s'
ally new. VIII consider a oood ' u,
gang pillow in trade. For parti.,r WY
write or see HARRY NJ. SFro
8 miles south of FIaxvine, No,t, -D
route l. Sept. l3,e
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-04

roR sALE-Twenty Red Polled Bulls
from one to two years old. Price
500 to $3.50 including pedigree
Fort Comfort Ranch, 20 miles north
of Raymond, Mont.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-04

1t will pay you to see B.1,>,
Strand if you want to keen nslant
coming winter. They are now I 'l'
to install the famous "Colos:. lead
less Furnace at very M, ilN
price. 1OOt'atl
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-04

FOR SALE CHEAP-Com1orta0ie
broom house and lot. Inquire OF
r, F.. Rue, at the Riba Lumber Co..
n,oa+vood Mont. 23-tf.
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Column

Advertisements in this column cost
only cent per word per insertion.
Casb must accompany all orders. NO
books accounts.
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LoST = band ring with i,,,,.
E. K. to R. F, Dec. %, 1so r''''l9
ward if returned to Herad i
25-tf. Ote
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-04

ror RENT-House furnished or I'M
furnished. Inquire at Producers
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-04
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS TURNED
DOWN

The note coming from the central
powers through Austria last week,
suggesting ''nonbinding" discus
sion of peace terms by the belliger
ent nations, was Immediately re-
jected. Secretary Lansing's state
ment of Americas answer was given
out within a half hour after he had
received the Austrian proposal to
the Swedish minister, who acted as
intermediary to convey the reply to
the central powers.
"The government of the United
States" declares our answer to Aus
tria, feels that there is only one re-
ply which it can make to the sugges-
ton of the imperial Austre- Hungart-
an government. 1t has repeatedIv
and with entire candor, stated the
terms upon which the United States
would consider peace and can and
will entertain no proposal for con-
ference upon matter concerninr
which it has made it's position and
purpose so plain"
| tell you, the so-called radicalism
of our times is simply the effort of
nature to release the generous ener-
gies of our people. This great
American people is at bottom Just,
virtuous, and hopeful; the roots of
it's being are in the soil of what is
lovely, pure and of good report, and
the need of the hour is just that
radicalism that will clear a way for
the realization of the aspirations OF
sturdy race.
WOODROW WILSON.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-04

FOR sALE-Fresh COW an,
Write VIZ. ea or see GEO wUNDE Def ~
Box 286, Outlook, Mont
y-4,1
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-04
Attention Producers!

Small individual store cooperation
a thing of the past.
The Montana Stores Co., Cor
poration, is cooperating on plan
where the power of cooperation will
be of mutual benefit to the communi-
ty and state. Anyone interested in
cooperation should acquaint them
selves with the principles and work
ing plan of the Montana Stores CO.,
now operating in Sheridan County,
Montana.
All inquiries and dates for explana-
ton on these principles will be cheer
fully attended to by
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-03
DIES AFTER
MONTH ILLNESS
Mrs. Lyman Hardesty III in City Mos
pital, Expires Sunday
Family Survives
Her

Mrs. Lyman Hardesty died at 1850
a. m. Sunday in a city hospital where
she was taken for treatment week
ago. A complication OF diseases re-
suited in her death after five weeks
illness. She had been resident Of
Keokuk for the past thirteen years.
Myrtle Turner was born April s.,
1882, in Hamilton, Ill. She spent
her early girlhood there and was
united in marriage to Lyman Hard
esty May "a, 1905. Mrs. Hardesty
was a member Of the Christian
church in Keokuk. She lived at
Twenty-second and Concert streets.
The husband and three children.
Clarice. Nellie and Lyman, Jr., sur
vive her. Besides these she is sur
vived by her father, John Turner,
brother, Edward. both Of Hamilton,
and three sisters, Addie and Mrs.
Hayes Daugherty, OF Hamilton. and
Mrs. e. J. Kennedy Of Keokuk
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-03
Editors Pitch Into Kaiser.
limited PreSS)

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. June B.
Heavy batteries opened up on the
kaiser today, when the National Edit
orial association opened its six-days
convention here
The men who daily hurl tons Of lead
and lakes of ink at the Prussian au-
tocracy are discussing how to improve
their aim and strengthen their anti
hot.air-craft battery work.
Pres. II. G. Hotalfng. Mapleton.
Mimi. delivered his address today,
and Frank Sisson. New York. spoke
ON Reconstruction After the War"
w. G. McAdoo and Herbert Hoover
are on the program for Tuesday. but
the certainty of the appearance OF
neither is guaranteed.
After the convention the editors are
IN be given a whole weeks tour of the
state aboard special train, with
brass bands and celebrations at every
station.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-03
SYRUP?
READ THIS!
Everybody Manufacturing Anything
Containing Sugar Must Get
Blank and Make
Statement

A great many soda fountain prop
rietors, candy makers. commercial
Gamers and preservers. fizz drink bot
tiers, ice cream dealers. and many
other manufacturers, as druggists
putting syrup in prescription, are
getting themselves into trouble. the
food administration says.
The chief of the sugar division OF
the food administration of Iowa has
notified j. F. Elder. administrator for
Lee county, Of this state of affairs
due to the fact that the people men
toned have not applied for blank
and filled II out making a sugar state
ment. They must do this even
though they do not have to buy any
additional sugar, the powers that be.
say.
There is to be a close check up on
this matter soon. and this final warn
ing is issued by the food adninistra-
ton to enable everybody to comply
with the regulations before Deens'
men get to them.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-03
CITY NEWS.

Coal week. D. e. Reeves & Co
|B 1914 and 207. IL So Bird street.
Fresh white perch dressed, 3 lbs.
for Csc Keokuk Fish Co. Foot Of
Main.
-Wanted-at once, experienced Of
flee man. State experience and wages
required. A. B., care Gate City.
Regular meeting Geo. v. Jenkins
camp No. %, y. S. w. ", Tues. eve,
s o'clock sharp. j. K Foullkes, adjt.
-Thos. N. Burris, Fifteenth Service
Co. Signal Corps, Fort Leayenworth,
Kans., enlisted in the U. S. army re-
Gently.
Mrs. Richard Morrissey Of 312 Elk
change street is in receipt OF letter
from her son, Private Patsy" Morris
sey, telling that he is well and happy
in France. Private Morrissey crossed
with Co E, 304 Field Artillery twenty
days ago.
Masonic: regular meeting of Eagle
lodge No IL, A. F. and A. NJ, Tuesday
evening. June 4, at O'Clock. visit
ing brethren cordially invited, by
order OF the w. NJ. Alvin Kraft, sec.
Mrs Anna McManus, a resident
of Pulaski, Ill, died at 3 p. M, Sun
day in Graham hospital, where she
had been i'll for several weeks. The
body was taken to Pulaski today for
burial.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-03
TWO
HAVE MEMORIAL
Woodman and Royal Neighbors Con-
duct Services in Hall and
Decorate Graves in
Cemeteries.

Joint memorial services for depart
ed members were held by Keokuk
camp No. 622, Modern Woodmen and
Eureka camp, No. z, Royal Neigh
bors, in the Woodmen hall. corner of
Sixth and Main streets, Sunday aft
ernoon.
The Rev. s. c. Benninger OF the
First Methodist Protestant church,
was the speaker of the afternoon.
Through suffering one should adj
vance and not retrograde. he said.
Following his address, a mound ar
ranged on the platform, was decorat-
ed in memory OF the dead.
Both lodges visited the two GEM
eteries, the Oakland and the Catho-
lie, in the morning and decorated
the graves of deceased members.
The Royal Neighbors have twenty
departed members and the Woodmen
more than 100.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-03
Cruelty
u. S. SOLDIERS
Americans Now Shoot to Kill and Are
Taking Fewer Prisoners Than
They Formerly
Did.

NEW YORK, June 3.-Herbert L.
Pratt, ercently returned from France,
where he has been organizing the Y.
M. C. A. canteen stores, described
the way our boys cover there" are bat
Ting the Germans.
DO not worry about the way our
boys are fighting" he said. 'They
used to bring in a lot of prisoners.
While / was on the Toul front they
found two of their comrades crucffied.
Now there are fewer prisoners.
They shoot the Germans down like
rats and they will continue to shoot
them down like rats. don't mean
they never take prisoners One day
they brought in 24O. But there are
no small patches OF prisoners. Rush
ing forward and crying 'Kamerad,
Kamerad. don't pay.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-03

MAY STRIKE
Failure of Efforts to Mediate Results
in President Of Union Deter
mining on Drastic
Move

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON. June 3.-President
konenkamp. Of the Commercial Tele-
graphers' union, was to confer here to-
day with Samuel Gompers before call
ing a strike of union men in the
Western Union Telegraph company.
Konenkamp's decision to order q
strike followed failure Of the nego-
tiations opened by the national war
labor board to mediate between the
Western Union and those of its en-
ployes who wanted to Join the union.
Ii is understood that the Postal
Telegraph company and railroad
probably will not be in
volved. but will not carry messages
for the Western Union during the
strike, IL It materializes.
konenkamp intends to urge govern
ment ownership of telegraph lines.
Gompers, it is known, is to advise
to make another effort for
mediation before calling a strike.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-03
MAKE SACRIFICES
DO NOT COMPLAIN
EnslIsh and French Populations
Realize That All Free Peoples
Hold Dear Are at Stake
Right Now.
AMERICA LABOR MISSION
Says Americana Must Conserve Food
More in Order to supply These Al
lies With Necessary
Subsistence.
AMERICA LABOR MISSION

BURLINGTON. June 3.-Food Ad
ministrator Deems is advised that the
American labor mission OF which
three Iowa men were members, before
departing from London for America
last week, and after making compre-
hensive study of conditions in Eng
land and France, gave out the follow
ing statement regarding food condi-
tons:
"Since landing in England, the mem
bers of the committee have visited a
number Of cities and interviewed a
large number OF people regarding the
food situation as well as other mat
tiers arising from the war, and we feel
1t our duty to impress upon the
American people the fact that they
should endeavor to conserve food in
a larger measure that we may supply
the people Of the allied countries with
the thing necessary for their subsist.
ence.
There is no doubt that the people
Of Great Britain and of the allied coun-
tries are making untold sacrifices
more than America realizes. Notwith-
standing these sacrifices, no member
OF the mission has heard from them a
single word of complaint"
Edwin T. Meredith of Des Moines,
Iowa, administrator Of the chamber Of
commerce of the United States. a
prominent member of the mission,
said:
1.-THE people Of the allied countries
realize that everything the free peo-
pie of the world hold dear is at stake
in this war and are perfectly willing
to make any sacrifices that the cause
OF democracy may prevail Food is
scarce and It is up to America to allie
viate that scarcity. Great Britain
and France are suffering more than
can be described. I urge our people
to give greater consideration to the
interests of allied countries and to
emulate the sacrifices there. especial
ly as manifested in the matter of food
hy the people, without complaint"
The American labor mission was
appointed by President Wilson to
make the study of conditions in Eng
land and France. Of its nineteen mem
bers. nine are from the American
Federation of Labor-two Of whom are
women. The others belong to every
social element of the American popu-
lation. 1t has been received with re-
spect by the king and parliament in
England, and the president and cham
be rof deputies in France, and held
many meetings in both countries
The mission while abroad refused to
consider any meeting in which dele
gates from Germany were to be al
lowed to participate, but took the very
emphatic stand that American labor
will not, under present world condi-
tons, meet German labor in confer
snce. This is in line with the defined
policy of the American Federation of
Labor as stated in its convention last
iall in Buffalo.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-03
SOLDIER BOY
is BURIED
Services Conducted in Sandusky
Church for Carl w. Theme
The Rev. w. r. Bacon
breaches.

Funeral services of Private Carl
W. Theme, formerly OF Keokuk. who
died at Camp Custer. Michigan, were
held in the Christian church in San
dusky at O'Clock Sunday p. m.
Rev. Wallace r. Bacon OF Keokuk
was in charge of the rites. Inter
ment was made in the cemetery in
Sandusky.
A large number of friends of the
departed soldier and the family at
tended the services.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-03
Wood Goes to Kansas.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
CAMP MILLS, y. Y. June Ma
jor General Leonard Wood ia today
on his way back TO Camp Funston,
Kansas. His last act before leaving
was 10 come here 10 bid goodbye to
the members OF his old command,
the Bighty-ninth division, now sta
toned here.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-03
DEEP WATER
COVERS STREETS
Near Cloud Burst Forces Workmen to
Wade Through Streams
Covering the Side
walks.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servicel
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, June 3.-Heavy
rain approaching a. cloud burst early
today caused Perry creek which runs
through thickly settled residential
district and portion Of the manufac-
turing district to overflow its banks
and do considerable damage.
Thousands Of persons were forced