The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-04

behind Orlando.
Now, really, gentlemen of the con-
trolled press, weren't those demon
strations considerably staged by the
government? And didn't you forget
TO tell about the staging so as to
promote imperialism and so as to
keep Wilson from driving his "new-
tangled" points in to the sticking
point?
Those who love the square deal
will find an opportunity for good
chuckle in the ''sad" plight of d
Butte (Mont) sheriff. This arm of
the law, together with several 9TH
ers who claimed to be moved by the
purest patriotism, dragged a citizen
from his bed at night and threw him
into jail on a trumped-up disloyalty
charge. It seems the citizens had
appeared before the draft board in
behalf of sWo Swedish citizens who
were by treaty exempted from the
draft and that he had a job which
one of the patriots" also wanted.
The arrest gave the Butte Miner
and other papers a chance to show
their loyalty by condemning the citi-
zen before he was tried, in scurril-
Gus accounts. But the victim of Off
fetal oppression did not take the
patriotic game kindly. He had the
nerve to bring suit for $4,000 dam
ages against the Butte Miner, the
sheriff and others concerned.
Seeing the turn affairs were taking
and knowing. the lack of any ez-
cuse for their act, the "patriots" de-
cided to try to settle out of court.
But the citizens hear was hard. He
refused anything less than $4,000
and some salt to rub it in. The salt
was a public apology by the sheriff,
played up as prominently as the dis
gusting story of his arrest. And he
got it.
!. Why do. the little fellows who ar
que that feform must come by VOL
ence distribute their own literature
when they could just as well use the
literature of violence put out by the
special interests? Why not circu-
late the speeches of Ole Hanson of
Seattle, of Kelly of the Illinois Manu-
facturers' association, of Judge Nc
Gee of the Minnesota Public Safety
commission? And here is splen-
did thing sent out as news from
Council Bluffs, Iowa:
IF the boys of the 168th could
have marched into Des Moines just
after the battle of Chateau Thierry
where they saw fall 1,400 boys of the
regiment, and could have seen a copy
of the special edition of the Iowa
Homestead, by night there would not
have ben left standing a single tim
Der of the Homestead building, and
as for the publisher, well, there
would not have been left enough
shreds of his body to bury This is
what Colonel Mat Tinley, former
commander of the 168th, said Mon
day night when speaking to the vet
Grams of Council Bluffs, at Rainbow
post session, on the special editions
of the Homestead put out during and
after the war, attacking the Iowa
methods of making war drives"
Many another splendidly imagin-
ative picture has been drawn on the
theme of how the boys are going to
bring the war from Europe to Amer
lea in behalf of special privilege
This particular one is drawn by. q
brother of Eminent Tinley, vice
president of the Greater Iowa asso-
citation and a high-handed politician
The Iowa Homestead has been cam
paigning against a big road deal and
disregard of law and order. Hence
the political reason for shattering its
timbers by violence.
A cartoon in the last issue of the
North Dakota Leader before the re.
ferendum election on June 26, showed
great mass of humanity looking
toward the farmer of the state and
a voice cries from the mass, "Give
us something to live for"
Perhaps no phrase can express
the intense feeling and the hope
that supports the Nonpartisan
league better than that. The people
who got fat on war profits and the
people who live easily in no danger
of the poverty line can not realize
how desperately little the great
masses have to live for under the
burdens of the great war. During
the war patriotic sacrifice made the
burden easier, but now flesh and
blood cry out against the drudgery
needed to make both ends meet, the
lack of good fon4. the shoddv