The Montana nonpartisan., 1919-07-05

IN tne ugnC. Chat radlateS from the
royal throne; it has played every card
in the game Of military glory, ma
tionalism and acquisition Of foreign
territory. And all these have failed
because it did not bring business to
the average business man and bread
to the people. Rampant home prof.
teering has added to the burdens Of
war there as everywhere else. lingo
patriotism and military glory may be
strong in the minds of the people, but
in time the conditions, as in Germany.
become too strong for flesh and blood
Irregular eating and suspension of
eating will break the strongest will.
Naturally, the more radical element
is very strong in Italy. Its leaders
declare that the only reason they have
not set up revolutionary govern
ment is that they are waiting until
the revolutionary governments to. the
east can supply Italy with food. They
are certain England and America
would institute food blockade to
protect the present royal regime.
Austrian revolutionists are waiting
for the harvest. France is covered
with strikes.
Our diplomats at Paris have eone
minutely into military questions and
dispositions Of territory, but thev
have not brought business and food:
SO the world suffers more now than
during the war.
Just when the special interests Of
Iowa find the foremost world problem
to be that of keeping the Nonpartisaa
league from succeeding in Iowa, their
greed gets the better of them and
they put on an orgie of rent raising
and land speculation. If this latest
atrocity doesn't change thousands Of
league followers into ten of thou
sands, then we are fooled into think
ing the Lord gave us the faculty Of
reason.
Over a year ago Lafayette Young.
who leads the worst in Iowa and there
fore is very colse to the state govern
ment, advised country editor that
the league was mot needed because
Iowa had never had a crop failure"
This was entirely beside the point,
because the troubles of our people
arise not from crop failure but from
the lack of gang failure. Iowa has
not had gang failure for over a gen.
gnawing of her profiteers has eaten
into the marrow and substance Of her
people.
Labor is wide-awake in Iowa cities.
Three Of them now have labor admin
istrations. If some of the Iowa farm
ers are not yet ready to organize and
shake hands with organized labor, this
latest kick in the cleanest spot ON
the overalls will prepare their minds
and hearts.
On June II, friends of the farmer"
Hurley, chairman of the shipping
board, wrote to "friend of the farmer"
r. D. Bowen of the Mississippi Valley
association, whatever that may be In
the realm of business organization, a.
follows:
II am fully in accord with the SEN
timent expressed in your letter that
the farmers of our nation should and
must receive every consideration and
cooperation, not only from our gov.
ernment, but from the business inter-
ests of the country as we'll.
"As you know, have always con-
tended that the prosperity Of our IA
tion depends to very great extent ON
the farmer, and heartily concur in
your opinion that the farmers should
never again be forced to sell their
products below the cost of production"
Never again below the cost Of pro-
duction-think of that. But then re-
call that Hurley is a great advocate Of
returning the government-owned ships
to private hands and thus placing Ill
export of farmer products under spe-
cial interest control, and you have an
other example of prize official bunk.
Hurley would give the fat boys al
the power they had before the war,
or hoped to have; then he would shout
in the fat ears so that farmers might
hear, too:
"Boys, go easy. Give the dear farm.
ers fair profit. You know agricul-
ture is Of fundamental Importance"
What do you SUPPOSE the fat boys
would say and do after this when they
got back to their office sanctums?