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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

will see to it that two reactionary
judges are named who will hold any
relief legislation unconstitutional.
Watch every move they make, be-
cause they are wrong at heart with
the exception of a minority that is
helpless unless they are joined by
enough policy legislators who see the
light and fear an upheaval if thew
line up with the Old Gang to starve
the farmers out.
Now is the time for every League
member to stand pat and refuse to
sacrlflce principle under any consid-
Grafton. The sleek politician mem
bers are using every means to get
into the good graces of the League
members, only to betray them.
The League legislator who TAILS for
that kind of bunk will be elected to
stay at home next time. The people
have no time for the political oppor-
tunlst. Hades is knee deep with that
specimen of bi-ped now.
1t requires real men to get Mon
tana out of the political mire. Such
men are available and the job is 60
ing to be done-and done thoroughly
just as it was done IN North Da-
kota. The people of this state mean
business, and it is up to the legisIa-
tors to DO BUSINESS, and do it
night.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

to office to do the right thing has
failed. The politicians double-crossed
the labor leaders in, the last session
of the Minnesota legislature, and
national labor leaders have had their
noses broken every time they made
a real appeal to the flunkies at Wash
ington.
There is nothing left, then, unless
labor is to consent to be starved and
worked to the bone, but voting to-
gether to put real labor representa-
tives into Office or the strike. The
first is in every way American; the
latter is at times necessary, but it is
always necessary evil to the worker
as we'll as to the general public 1t
Is made necessary in most cases by
labor's failure to secure political pow
er.
The war has shown us that wages
and labor conditions can be fixed by
law. Australia, because of its power
full Labor party, has been doing this
for years.
1t holds down the profteers too.
We can not admire the logic nor
the knowledge of history which those
who would have labor cling to direct
action only, show when they label
those workers who turn to the ballot
for relief as radical
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15
Mlitarizing America

After winning a war to save the
world from militarism ana overthrow
ing the greatest military autocracy
at a cost of $4,000 men slain on the
battlefield and a larger number dead
from disease, and an expenditure of
thirty billion dollars, the United
States is suddenly confronted with the
menace of militarism within it's own
borders. This menace appears in the
shape of the new bill outlined by
army officers calling for universal
military training and standing
army of 100000 and reserve force
of 100000. With a reactionary con-
gress in the saddle and powerful in
terests clamoring for a huge military
system, nothing can save this country
from this danger but a powerful pro-
test from the people.
The reactionary elements of the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

whole world are endeavoring to es-
tabiish military systems in every
country because only by promoting
national wars, and maintaining great
armies can they hope to stay the
steady advance of the common peo-
pie to industrial democracy through
constructive legislation. Militarism
is the only force that can stop order
~ progress and preserve the power
OF big interests. The stupendous
power these interests built up in
America during the war is behind
this move for universal military
training and huge military system.
Every nation in the history of the
world that has persisted in militarism
has persisted. Let US hope that
America will not countenance this
sinister movement.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

Inc government can make a bic
cut in the coal price at once, for in
stance, il it will take over the market
ing Of coal and order the coal COM
Pc les to :Uduce at q raltain fer
profit per Ton. The coal comr2nin.
would then mike thcli p",iil, nigh
er by turning out larger amount of
coal instead of holding back product
Ior market profit as they do now.
lie same principle would work won
lerj IN every big line Of necessaries.
employment Wculd be plentiful and
prices would he within reach of MANY
more Of Us. r.
In some tHes, like the packang ~
Gastry, where trusts have. secured
practically full control, more than :
government pooling of marketing viii
o7 needed. The government VII
nave to ma'"srmont product n TIE
Visit the natural resources W.,
nave to be ;~tionalized to gIf1 Il :
industries the INV materials they
les't a cost OF lear cost aud N
abundant quantity.
Nothing short of complete market
FeadJustment, SO that salesmanship
anu market manipulation can become
lost art, will solve the cost-of-liv-
ing problem. The politicians are.
however, not ready as yet to sacrifice
their pest friends for public walfare.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15
Labor Plan of r. r. Ownershib

lie Inc new labor plan of public own
eIship OF the railroads has perhaps
precipltated the biggest public own.
ershlp fight in the history of the na-
t tioh Inc railroad brotherhoods and
alie american Federation of Labor,
ooeeppresentlng all told more than 4 600
Goo organized workers, have formal
ialo before congress a plan of
ISliroad ownership. Some congress-
men are behind this plan and are
absent to embody it in a bill mas
much as the National Nonpartisan
League has gone on record in favor
OF purchase of the. railroads the hour
mas undoubtedly struck for the
League to get behind the labor plan
and Tor all the democratic elements
OF the country to unite for the pub
TIC ownership of the basic national in
dustry.
The plan outlined by organized la
DOR Tor the ownership and operation
OF the railroads is as follows: The
puDilc is to own the railroads out
rlgnt, eliminating private ownership.
The public is to acquire the railroads
by issuing interest bearing bonds to
the present owners. The railroads
are to be operated by joint national
board of directors representing equal
ly the three great elements concerned
the public or government, the la
Dor which operates the railroads, and
the railroad management which d.
reefs the railroads. The profits of the
railroads are to be divided equally
between three elements-the govern
ment, the public, and the workers and
managers. The government is to get
its dividend in a certain interest on
the entire investment which is to be
used to pay off interest and principal
on the bonds and provide necessary
surpluses. The public gets it's divi-
dends in better and cheaper service.
get it's dividends in a certain percent
age Of the profits w,.ie,,2,.sis to apply
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

The Dooley Sun takes US to task
forsthe remarks which we made anent
the counter section swindle and in
slsts that we did Judge Conner an in
jury as he only did what was legal
and that the County commissioners
are entirely to blame, with strong
hints at some one else. That some
one else of course is the Assistant
County Attorney who aided and alb
Detted the county commissioners in
putting one. over on the County Audi
cor by persuading her to pay the
freight on the counter sections,
knowing all. OF the time that the pay
ment OF the freight constituted an
acceptance of the counter sections,
and the county auditor was deceived
into thinking that he was talking in
good faith. On Monday, when the
matter was before Judge Conner, the
assistant county attorney was not
present, was conveniently absent, and
it looked for a while as if it would
be necessary to have the assistant at
torney general appear for the county
auditor. We do not wish to be un-
fair, but when everything told so
mucn on the surface, it seems to US
that it would have been no
more than fair to have let the mat
ter go to the courts to be decided
when the taxpayers could have en-
ployed an outside attorney to have
protected their interest if 1T had
seemed necessary. The counter sec
ton case was straw which indicat-
eel the direction of the wind.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

as bonus to develop the highest de-
gree OF economy and efficiency pos
sible.
This plan possesses unsusual mer.
it. 1t gives all elements, including
labor and the shippers, voice and
power in railroad control. 1t distri-
butes the benefits fairly among all
elements, gives the people railroad
service virtually at cost, and stimu-
lates labor and management to it's
best and most honest efforts.
The following are some of the
reasons the League ought to begin an
active fight for this plan:
The League is based upon public
ownership program. Railroad public
ownership is the essential basis of
all other industrial public owner
ship, because the railroads are the
common carriers and links binding
all industries and enterprises. The
railroads are more intimately bound
up with the life and prosperity of
agrlculturay than any other indus
tries.
The railroads are the first natural
link binding the state-owned indus
tries with the national life.
Railroad public ownership is the
first national issue adopted by or
gained labor.
The organized workers and the or
gained farmers are beginning every
where to join hands politically.
The adoption of railroad public
ownership by the organized farmers
will unite these elements nationally
with bands of steel stretching both
ways across the continent.
1t is necessary for the organized
farmers to lineup with the organized
now on this great national
issue; otherwise, the big business
interests will soon resume full mono
polistic control of the carrying trade
of the country.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

sibilities for both the state and the
nation. It is the beginning of North
Dakota's Declaration of Independ-
enc against the Minneapolis Cham
Der of Commerce and all outside
monopolies and combines that have
had this state by the throat. 1t is
the beginning in the state of a rich
and diversified life clustered about
new great industrial centers built UP
and democratically controlled by the
whole people in their own interest.
It is the beginning of the end of
direct taxation in North Dakota, for
the day will come when the publicly
owned industries of North Dakota
will produce enough revenues to run
the state government.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

ing the World Tomorrow ~
lation in Canada and l ssE 1ron Gin,
OF the ban which has be sa w y d,rss,
on your magazine in Cam oa PLACED n
Il regret that l canno uaoa'
you conclusion in this his ,s agree viii
would YOU'D: repeat what l have ssspeet I'D
believe, told you, that Nt tS. ahead
intention of reinStating . an is y n !
ton IL which, for good and dDy , po5le
d reason e was, under the u sufRdes
orders respecting censorsbi censorsiSS
den to be found in the p SDsp toS{
any one in Canada" pOSSessia d
How terrible it would !.
supposed self-governinr " re. i IL
Canada should get a been people II
World Tomorrow! Per Sp INTO d,
large number of them got ? il 1,
it, they h. wouldn't elect the the sa Peep a
to office again and Canads same same ne
to the dogs" that is, to far mould q
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15
4 Landmark In HISTORY

The first really productive indus
try was taken over by the state of
North Dakota this week when a -four
mill of 125 barrel per day capacity
at Drake was purchased through j.
A. McGovern, manager. of the state
Mill and Elevator association. This
enterprise, in which every man,
Toman and child in North Dakota is
a shareholder, is to begin operating
immediately as state industry. 1t
will be used for some time as basis
for the collection of experience AID
data upon which to found the big
state flour mills soon to be erected
in connection with the state elevators.
The price paid for the mill at Drake
was $4,000.
This act onens up tremndous pos
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15
WEDDING BELLS RING
FOR FLAXVILLE COUPLE

Flaxville Democrat: On Wednesday
afternoon Of thsi week at PLENTY.
wood, Miss Dema o. Doty of Long
Pralrle, Minnesota, and Mr.. C. Os.
car Mollerstuen of this city were
joined in the holy bonds of matri-
money, Rev. Fridley officiating.
The bride is a well known and
popular young lady from Long Prai-
re. Minnesota.
:. The bridegroom is employed at the
state Bank of Flaxville and needs
no ntroducetinn here as he has been
a tlaxville resident for a number of
years and is well and favorablv
known by the entire community.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mollerstuen will he
at home to their friends, at Flaxville.
after September 1st.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

After the Nonpartisan league farm.
ers were labeled pro-German and
given a number of other cover there
brands, the men who believe America
can't produce original ideas . turn
around with the declaration that the
Americans who join the League and
make up its leadership are worse than
pro-Germans because they are
Americans. Surely it is wicked
thing for prophets to prophesy on
their own SOIL
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

Those who have been defending
the frameup against Mooney have a
remarkable answer to the report sub
mitted to the president and congress
by John Densmore, federal agent,
which throws additional light on the
framing. They declare that the fed
eral government should not interSere
with state matters, evidently not even
to save the lives Of American citi-
zens. Yet the same interests urge
intervention in Mexico and other
places, with the saving of lives Of
Americans as the alleged reason.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

It's amusing, the manner that the
editor of the Pioneer Press tries to
curry favor with Judge Conner. How
ever, like the grape nuts there is
probably a reason. If there is any
one thing that contributes to the
embarrassment of Judge Conner, po-
litically speaking, more than any
other, it is the continual lauding of
that jurist by the Pioneer Press.
One word Of praise from that source
is more blighting than any dozen
words of condemnation from the
Producers News. The sweet breath
of the Pioneer is one that withers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15
JUDGE CONFER AWAY
ON VACATION

Judge, c. E. Conner left the first of
the week on a vacation trip to last
for a couple weeks, on a trip to the
Yellowstone National Park. The
Judge and Mrs. Conner left via auto
and will make an extendde tour in
the famous park.
Several of the residents of PLENTY
wood have visited the park this sum
iilef' gong by auto. Among those
VINO nave gone are Sheriff and Mrs
bennett, County Treasurer and Mrs
AloVlus, and Mr.. and Mrs. L. G. Zeid-
leF' and their reports have been SO
glo"1ng that the Judge and his wife
got the bug and decided that they too
would make the trim. WV
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

any town we have ever seen, and we
can go step further and say it has
smaller mail order business, and in
watching the shipments from mail
order houses we are pleased to note
that a big percentage of these are of
goods that do not conflict with home.
THE spirit that exists between the
farmer and the village is the one
that will win.
"Mr. Farmer, if you stick with
each other and with the townspeople
who stick with you, you will force
your organization to victory.
Stick! Well Stick!"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

The 100 per cent Americans in Ne
braska and Montana left the task of
saving that typically American insti-
tuition, the primary, entirely to the
Nonpartisan league and labor. These
two sections of organized toilers have
now saved it in both states. All of
which leads US to question whether it
would not be better to judge of
Americanism by works rather than
by words.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

France has undertaken to reduce
the high cost of living by inaugural
ing a system of organized public dis
tribution. Publicly owned food sta
tions will retail food at the lowest
price possible and publicly owned
restaurants will sell meals as near
cost as possible. Cooperative distri-
button will also be encouraged. The
increasing cost of living may produce
bigger changes in the world than the
war.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15
Il Wise Iotl,n

Danube, Min, like many another
small town, got bad steer two years
ago from the special interests. Then
its business men took the trouble to
attend some League farmer meetings
with open minds and the town has
been with the farmers since. In the
July 81 issue of the Danube Review
the local editor sums up the results
as follows:
Danube is not a metropolitan trad
ing center, but we feel proud of the
business being done by our business
men, and we have big margin to go
on when we say our town does a
larger proportionate business than
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

The struggle of the special inter
ests against what they call Ameri-
can bolshevism has developed experts
who can tell Bolshevik at a mere
glance A few months ago a Mis-
sissippi Judge found that he knew
them by the way one "dilated the
pupil Of his eye," and here is anoth-
Ell example taken from the Albany
IN. " Times-U Union:
When arraigned in police court to-
day, charged with stealing ride on
a railroad train, Eli Bush, who, rail-
road detectives believe, has a Boil
shevik look in his eyes and pappear-
ance, was set to jail pending an in
by Judge Brady"
The Bolsheviks had better get
their eyes camoufaged at once and
wear dress suits and top hats or our
gallant defends of law, order and
common sense will soon have them
ali rounded up.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

returned service men who pilot the
aeroplanes on the air mail route he
tween New York and Washington are
out on strike for safe machines, bet
ter pay and reinstatement of two
men discharged. AS the controlled
press would remark in such cases,
the air service must be seething with
sedltiOn and bolsheyism.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

Uncle Sam is poor business man
when the big interests control his
transaction. He bought 100000 1000
pounds Of copper from the big cop
per producers, held it for while to
maintain prices for them and then
resold it to them at reduced price
Uncle Sam bought the copper for is
to 26 cents and resold it for 1873 to
10 cents per pounds, says Assistant
Director of Sales E. M. Morse.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

While most of the big press are
warning the public against things
they choose to Label as socialistic on
the plea that the world must be saved
from anarchy, this press evidently
overlooks what used to be it's
strongest argument" against things
socialistic, namely, too much govern
ment regulation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

The release and dispensing of army
food supplies to the people at cost
by parcel post will De a great object
lesson to the people if handled pro-
perly. It can show what the public
might do for itself if it were not
dominated by the big interests. In
cidentally it may indicate what the
producers and consumers can save by
organized public distribution.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15
What Is Slaueryo

,Tis to work, and have such pay
A. inst keeps life from day to day
In your limbs, as in cell,
For the tyrants' use to dwell.
So that we for them are made
I 70 and plough, and sword and
WIFI or without your own Will bent
IT, -. their defense and nourshment.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

About the only way the politicians
will get after the proiteers, as they
announce they are going to do, is that
during the hullabaloo they will force
these fat boys to divvy up some of
the iu-gotten gains.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

It's to hunger for such diet,
As the rich man in his riot
Casts to the fat dogs that lie
Surfeiting beneath his eye.
Ills to be slave in soul,
And to hold on strong control
Over your own will, but he
All that others make of We.
Shelley l1792-1822. J
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

For lorg time it was leaning
Lenine and lettering Trotzky who
were off again and on again every
day or two. Now it looks as one Bel
la Kun of Hungary had taken their
places In the international movie
drama of carefully censored facts and
fiction.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

When Mr.. Conner passed on the
counter section claim, he was acting
as an ex-officio auditor and not as a
judge if you please and the courts
are not in any manner implicated.
The Producers News may have been
unreasonable. Time will prove that.
II it does, we will make amends.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

There is a lot of difference between
an open hand praying for relief and
a fist demanding it. Politicians brush
the one aside with kind words and
fake issues; they give respectful at
tention and do something for the lat
ter.
In the years to come we will real
ize better than now that we owe a
debt of gratitude to the railroad
brotherhoods for sticking big fist
very close to the official noses of of
fetal Washington. The conventional
answer to the railroad brotherhood
is: "You may be getting less for your
money now, but you are getting more
than the rest of US workmen. You
are selfish in demanding more"
But the spirit of the brotherhoods
replies: "You other workers and
farmers can continue sacrificing
yourselves, your women and children
to the Moloch of greed if you are set
on doing so, but as for US and our
house we will serve the Lord. We
will not take a cent from our fami-
lies to fill the NAV of the profteers.
The cost of our living must come
down or our wages must go up"
Already congress has been scared
into postponing five weeks adjourn
ment and Wilson has discovered that
the people are actually thinking about
the cost of living instead of entirely
about the league of nations and the
fruits of victory"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

The people, the mass Of the people
of this county are only demanding
that people in high places be brought
to justice as well as the humble citi-
zens. They seek not revenge but
justice and our ideals say that our
laws are for the high as well as the
low.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15
THE WEEK
Cheap Shoes-Abroad
The Sacrifice to Mol0ch ...ee
Standard Oil Pr0spers
An Expensive Bug
Two Press Headlines
The Spirit of the Censors -

A shoe manufacturer here declares
he is ready to sell 10000 pairs OF
mems shoes abroad at prices ranging
from $1.8O a pair for low grade
work shoes to $5.75 for "men's gun
metal calf, high grade shoes. mas
much as these prices are about one
half to one-third what we are pay
ing, it would seem to imply that the
rumor of real competition in our shoe
trade is unfounded; also that like the
retail merchant the
shoe manufacturer has to see his
customer before he knows what his
price is.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-15

The betrayal of our professed war
aims by the peace conference, the
unmlstakable evidence that the big
governments of the world have adopt
ed the Prussian spirit if, indeed, they
dld not have an unhealthy amount of
It long ago, the continuation OF wars
against people who ask only seff-de--
termination-these and other recent
developments do not allay the grief
OF those who lost sons and relatives
in the great war.