The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-11-08

The Republican parfv believes 8.
the other hand, that the moot I'LL
interests of the nation are abso,ptels.
pependent upon success in this war
and that it is being fought BY an
aroused people not so much, if at all
% make the world in general safe
Tor democracy as it is to protect the
rights and institutions. and the verv
independence, Of the United states
itself" 'o'es
TESS IS a political heir Of the late
MARK Hanna. He no more under.
stands the progressive Republicans of
the West than the Underwood Demo-
Gratis Of the Solid South understand
5ne progressive Democrats of the
Northwest. He is opposed to any
more democracy in Europe or Amer
lca. He wants American FOREIGN
trade promoted by war; hence he de-
mes that the United States is fighting
without material Interest,"
| On Republican and Democratic CON
gresslonal tickets this year are to he
found both kinds of Americans-tbe
ones VINO stand for the presidents
program Of human freedom, a League
OF Nations, and to an end to the bur-
den OF militarisnn and autocracy. and
the ones who stand for the things
that sent Germany to war against hu-
lnahlty. Neither party has a nonop-
oily on the men who, If in congress-
next year, would stand by the presi-
dents program. Organized labor and
the organized farmers, who have, a
stable in real democracy, are with
him. Organized business is against
him.
ANTI-WILSON PROPAGANDA
Otto Kahn, by the way, may be
called upon by Secretary of State
Lansing at Auburn, N. Y, on Octo-
Der IL, to reinforce his pamphlet OPP
posing the presidents domestic poll
cies in war time.
The menace which I see," says
the Wall street Noses, "is not in tn.
deliberate will of the people, but in
the fact that under the emotional
stress OF war, under the patriotic i'm
pulse of the time, under the actual or
fancied necessity Of the war situation.
tendencies are tolerated and modes of
thought and action permitted to gain
footing unopposed, which are apt
to create very serious problems upon
the return of normal conditions.
"That menace is aggravated by the
fact that from a thoroughly laudable
and patriotic desire to sustain the ma
tons spokesman and chosen leader
in the formidable difficulty and re-
sponsibility of his task of conducting
the war, we are all reluctant to raise
controversies, and most Of us would
rather swallow our convictions in ST.
lence, at whatever discomfort to our
mental digestive apparatus, than
place ourselves in the position where
our patriotism may be doubted or our
motives suspected to be those of sell
fish concern for our individual or
class intrests, in a time when selfish
ness is almost reasonable"
Now, that is skating upon pretty
thin ice This big banker says, in ef-
feet, that he and his crowd are utter
~ opposed to the presidents letting
the people get notions OF ''paternal-
ism,, through all this government
operation of ships and railroads and
so forth, and that he would raise a
howl if he dared; he swallows his
rage because he don't want to be
spotted as a profteer-that might be
dangerous to his "class."
Well, he prints on the cover OF this
anti Wilson pamphlet the following
from Secretary Lansing:
"The period of REIMBURSEMENT and
restoration which will follow the dis
organization and destruction caused
by the war will tax human wisdom
to the uttermost. Many OF the
fundamental principles of the present
social order will be threatened; some
will be changed, some discarded.
while novel and possibly extravagant
and dangerous doctrines will find
earnest and honest advocates. With
all this we must reckon"
Lansing has never pretended to pc
other than an American aristocrat
AS secretary of state he is merely
diplomatic clerk of the White House.
But even SO, he may decide that It
is not good form for Kahn to PRINT
that sentiment upon the cover OF a
document which contains a denuncl-
alton of the presidents trusted
spokesman in the federal trade COM
mission.
Kahn has issued and sent free to