The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-06-27

ft-1LlhB ol treaty LeaK-I0Y7d
asg1 Wants Farm Loan Act
-aa TO W0Tkmen's Homes-As-
sells a AigA-Priced Acre-Na-
uaAai Taxes III Sight Covers Less
IMAM Hall Of Expected Expenses
loserameDt Has More Life Insur-
a-ce Than All Private Companies.
Washington, D. C.-Not only labor
the Whole nation has its eyes
u.a.- toward the American FEEDER
s...l ct Labor convention at Allan
Tic City. The progressive clements
s.. .yldeLlng whether the coaven-
..l IS going to indorse independent
political action; the old-line inter
.a are wondering whether Gompers
a-. others ,&Ie going 10 be strong
.-.--- ID keep the convention away
The big struggle which viii decide
this issue has not broken out vet.
Whatever the convention does in re-
.u-l 10 ii, Ia00T in many states, such
Is L-Lnsylg ania, Illinois and North
.a..-a, ale gong 10 keep on in po-
--a independence. Indorselnent BY
tie general federation would merely
give eagolrage mnt to . movement
well under way, and failure to in
.-.se would not hinder it.
Tie convention has Endorsed the
Plumb plan for government owner
snip CL -al-l0ads, q plan which pro-
E---5 loE the squeezing out Of the
wafer in the stock and a joint con
troll the public, the officers and the
employees. 1t has demanded the with
traWat OF American soldiers from
-.Lss.a and recognition Of the "re-
public now existing IN Ireland"
On the other hand, the. convention
has apparently turned down the
strike n LaEor Of Mooney. There
may well be differences of opinion il
r-ue CT this method, but the argu-
ueDts against it, especially those adj
yanccd by Secretary of Labor Wilson,
appear decidedly weak The division
appears to break rather over opinion
as to relative seriousness Of the
Mooney case. One side sees that if
The notorious Mooney frame-up is
allowed to stick, no honest labor
leader in the country is safe, and
Jnat beyond this the whole organized
labor movement is seriously threat
enod The other side sees it as
merely a personal matter Of getting
another radical labor leader out of
Jail. The conservative wing Of labor
naturally takes this position, because
it is in little danger while there are
advanced labor leaders receiving the
DIunt Of the special interest attack.
TREATY SCRATCHING SCANDAL
Senate hearings on the "peace
leak" demonstrated the fact that
Wall street has no fear of secret di-
plomacy. A president may find it
convenient to negotiate compacts to
a conclusion before making them pub
lic but the banking interests confess
and boast that "the people" who
have no moral right to advance in
formation, do not include themselves.
Elihu Root made that quite clear
when he came to Washington with
out an invitation to help the bankers
out of a fix.
Il should be inclined to resent any
suggestion from any one that | am
not entitled to this document, and to
make any use of it that | see fit,
which | propose to do" he said. '"The
German government, having the full
right to make it public, has made it
public, and it is public"
ROOT TO THE RESCUE
Many plain people felt just that
Oh 10,
cabled US from Paris that it would be
dishonorable thing for the people
or the senate to see the treaty draft
at this time. Millions respected Mr..
Wilson's feelings. But not Elihu
Root. Root tells the world fiat. that
he takes his tip from Germany, not
from the White House; that Berlin
has certain rights, which, when ex-
ercised, automatically overrule the
president of the United States.
None but a Root would have
dared base his defense upon such
"seditious" grounds, at a time when
Americans are not supposed to con-
cede that enemy governments have
any rights left, much less that they
have rights which free the American
people from presidential injunctions.
These awkwards l., implications, and
the equally distressing fact that Wall
street got its copies Of the treaty
from the International Red Gross
league. the embarrassed newspapers
have thought it best to drop and for
get.
When they looked into Roots fear
some eyes the senate investigators
also deemed that the probe had gone
far ENOUGH. The mystery had been
solved. The incident was closed
KENYON'S LABOR PROGRAM
Senator Kenyon of Iowa believes
that the policeman's club is not the
only remedy for social unrest in
America. His mother taught him
that when the baby howled it might
have pin sticking into it. So, while
the department of justice applies the
birch, Kenyon believes congress
ought to busy itself at removing
some of the established causes of un.
rest and rebellion. His first though
is that people who own their owl
homes do not want to wreck the
world. And, since farmers are being
helped by the government, to buy
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