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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01

office of secretary of state rather
than violate his conscience. The De-
mocratic machine, ruled by wall
street and southern Bourbons, has
done its best to kill him off.
Why, then, don't the people take
him up as their champion? Because
the people need more than good men;
thew need good men with real solu-
lions to their problems. Bryan fails
on the latter test. On July l he de-
livered an grafton before the prohi-
bition rally in Washington on the
text: "They are dead who sought the
Young .child's life" The same day
the milk dealers of that city raised
the price of milk. The same day
child labor and child poverty stretch
ed from one end of our land to the
other.
Many years ago Tom Johnson of
Cleveland took Bryan aside and ex-
planned point by point how he, as
big business man, could get around
every one of the Bryan remedies.
But Bryan failed to see and thereby
failed to become the great man of
the hour at the present time. The
head as we'll as the heart is needed
in these strenuous days OF popular
awakening.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01
The Peril to Merchants

Merchants who were able to escape
some of the effects of war profteer-
ing by passing on the high prices,
may have developed certain sense
of security and may have been con-
sequently a little out of sympathy
with the far1ner-labor fight against
profiteering.
But it turns out that war pro-
fiteering have built an octopus likely
to devour many of the merchants in
the near future.
The main points in the new situa-
ton are these: The war profiteers
must have places to invest their ILL
gotten gains.
Investments in big business enter
prises here can take only part.
The foreign field is not yet suffi-
GENTLY secure to encourage much
investment.
The big investors are, therefore,
scraping around at home for new op-
porunities and they find one in the
retail field.
Over three years ago the packing
trust as revealed in correspondence
brought out by the federal trade
commission was looking at the retail
field and decided to hold off because
OF the capital needed.
The trust now has the capital.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01

j Several different monopoies like
the Standard Oil either have or plar,
to have their own retail departments,
which eliminate the independent
dealer.
Another line of attack is the chain
store method.
Some of the existing chains have
as many as 1900 stores.
Big business capital is back of
them and is pouring in now as never
before.
Banks, lumber yards, clothing
stores, drug stores, as we'll as the IA
miliar chain grocery store, cigar
store, and 5 and 10 cent store are be-
ing linked up under the ownership
OF, and to the profit of, the interests
who need new places for investment.
The trust which conducts it's own
retail establishments, and the store
chains backed by money made in
war profiteering, hit not only the
retailer but the wholesaler and job
Der who exist only because there are
Independent retail stores.
When we look back on recent
events with the hindsight of several
years from now, we will wonder how
some town merchants and the whole
salers could imagine their interests
as lying with the monopolists rather
than with their consumers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01
The Factory of the 7own

Why do the big centers of popu-
lation which We call cities make such
an effort to attract new factories and
to build up those they have.
Because their business people real
ize that the growth of the city de-
ponds on the trade it has with the
outside world and not on the trading
the citizens do among themselves.
The new factory offers more en-
plOyment and brings in new people.
These new people need houses to
live in, they need banking service,
they add to the sales of grocery
butcher, clothing, drug stores.
There is a large amount of profit
in the new business for those on the
ground because the handling of it re-
quires only a little additional ex-
penSe.
But how about the small town?
Must it despair of growth because
it can not attract factories Of the
kind the big city has?
By no means.
It has at hand as a matter of fact
an important kind of factory on
which it depends not only for growth
but for existence-the farm.
The farms surrounding any town
have the same relation to it tina,
factories do to the large city.
They supply the trade with the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01

outside world and the farmers with
in its trading area are as much a
part OF it as the factory employers
and employees are part of the city.
The small town is prosperous if it
has prosperous farming around it.
1t grows if the business of the
farmers in the community is grow
ing.
The problem of growth for the
small town, therefore, is not so diff
cult as some imagine.
1t lies in promoting farm prosperi-
ty, and on this point the farmers,
like the factory managers, are the
best judges of policies.
A cooperative elevator may, fol
instance, hit a number of prominent
local men, but it makes the handling
OF grain cheaper and so encourages
greater acreage, more banking, more
money coming into the town.
Cooperative creameries, potato
warehouses, and farmers mutual in
surance have similar effects.
Another great possibility for the
town lies in the processing and stor-
ing of raw farm products.
The Nonpartisan league farmers
who are demanding this in their pro-
gram for their own prosperity are
at the same time laying the founda-
tions for greater town growth.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01
Frazier For President

A presidential movement was born
at Danube, Minnesota, few days
ago under circumstances that might
have been similar to those that first
started the tide that carried Lincoln
to the White House.
A great concourse of homespun,
common people, tillers of the soil
and workers, assemble in an out
door celebration at prairie town.
Their faces are alight and eyes
shining with the fervor Of a great
democratic cause.
Resolutions are being read.
A plain, homespun character Like
themselves is mentioned for the first
place in the nation.
An electric shock runs through
the assembled throng.
The mass suddenly becomes in
spired.
A mighty thunder of approval
leaps from thousands of threats.
It is a swift, a historic recognition
of fundamentals recognition that
only the man who typi6es most truly
the character of the common man
and is most essentially a common
man can save the common people in
an hour of great peril.
Suddenly, the throng is alive with
the inspiration of this great truth.
They are forming organizations,
planning club, preparing to Set the
Inrairies ablaze for one of their kind
who is to lead the nation.
This has happened again on the
western prairies among people like
those Lincoln knew and loved, but
In what a vastly different world!
Yet. if it started zephyr that will
soon become a breeze, that will rise
to a great wind and blow farmer
into the White House, it might do
worse.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01

making a new North Dakota out Of
the old North Dakota. He doesn't
care to miss a scene in this wonder
full drama. You can't pull him away
till the curtain falls on the last act.
His confidence in the new regime
and the prosperity it will bring to
all amounts to religion and en-
ables him to laugh at the periodical
calamities that nature brings. He is
a man who is enamored OF a vision
born out of a great cause and a
long patient struggle. That is why
the North Dakota farmer sticks in
spite OF drouth and grasshoppers
and remains within the common
wealth he is helping to build, per-
manent moral and material asset of
priceless value.
So much for North Dakota where
the "hurly burly's done, where the
battle s lost and won."
Over here in Montana, the Treas
ure state, where as Uncle Sam Hamp-
ton says, sit takes a drouth to make
CROP, the vision of new day is
what sustains the farmers.
Just over the eastern horizon, the
sun rises; and conscious of the fact
that Montana has the richest soil on
the earth, and we'll aware of the fact
that lean years come to TIE best
situated and most favored countries
the Montana farmer is going to
"stick and win"
Another election and the Shiny An
aconda reptile which now nests in the
marble halls of the state capitol al
Helena, will be done to death by the
rising St. George, and its vile breath
as exemp,ified by the foul Helena
Independent" and the beast, known
as ''Will Campbell" who by his braz-
eli and un-Godly propaganda, aids
the profteering vampires to suck the
marrow out of the bones of starving
babes, emitting one last vile, sinking
breath, will be laid low and abolished
by the sharp blade of truth.
i This dawn steels our Drawn and
stiffens our courage for the morning
fight.
The ghosts of the farmer heroes
| of Concord and Lexington urge US or
to new victory.
The Tories are in full retreat.
well Stick and Wen Win"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01
DROUTH INSPECTORS :

Editor Jerome of the Pon,,n sR
ard and Manager s. c. Mapo lar Sta
Gateway Hotel of Poplar V ao u q
fore part of the week yisitis spent i,
in Plentywood and attendina faaS
ness matters. These gentIaS,@ ss
constituted themselves as sa b.
tee OF two to investigate dron SSiaat b.
ditions in northeastern Montssa ~
ter a very thorough search = L
locality, they We're pleased 't !, y : u
press representative that " ~ lAioe
pie of Plentywood as a wh Ie ~
law abiding citizens. Thew I we q
tanned for several hours Wo "sle { {
morning while waiting for 'u ~
the local furniture men to fr. we 4
well preserved "'Cabine Creep %1I I, D
The frame is in jet black and '9 !.
nishes a very pretty setting s f., l =
tri-color label. 1t is to be o;i W. b
conspicuous place in the lobbS9 " y
Gateway that future gano, VI .
may be satisfied as to the resi a.
for dry land farming.-pIanrtI,ssaa rag
Pioneer Press. 'Sa
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01
Classification Contract

commissioners have become chronic
law breakers.
When contract, in the sum of
$4,000 is let without bids, at price
exceeding by five or six thousand dol
lars the price paid under contract, in
other counties, it is always safe to
assume that the crime of bribery
has been committed; that somebody
got something out it on the side, and
the Producers News believes that
that very thing occurred in the let
ting of the classification contract.
Il, however, the contractors. shall
find that they have run amuck, and
thai the county auditor refuses to
audit and approve the claims, we
wonder if the good Judge will ar
range it in such manner as to make
it possible to get their money with
out the trouble or expense of resort
ing to lawsuit.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01

r. B. Smith, editor of the Butte
Bulletin, Spanish war veteran, was
thrown to the lions last week as a
horrible example of what may happen
to free editor in Montana. Editor
Smith was convicted under the es-
pionage act of sedtion and fne1
$4,000. His offense, in reality, con-
sisted Of an honest expression Of
opinion anent the action Of the state
council Of defense, which had under
taken to prevent launching Of the
Butte Daily Bulletin. The Bulletin,
arrived, however, and has been illu-
minating the landscape Of that vi
cinity ever since, much to the dis
confiture of the Anaconda and all
its agents, both in Butte and the
state capital.-Western News.
Inasmuch as experts" declare
property owning to be the cure for
bolshevism and inasmuch as the press
generously applies this term to the
North Dakota farmers, will they
please tell us whether the farm own
ing and home building act was a mis-
take on the part of these farmer
Bolsheviks or whether a lot of lying
has been perpetrated against the
farmers? If the press and the poll
ticians haven't been lying, then the
American Bolsheviks have been cut
ting their own heads off. Is it case
Of foolish Bolsheviks or outrageous
liars?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01

1t seems that the county commits
sioners are so confirmed in wrong
doing that it has become chronic
with them; in other words, they are
sc used to following crooked trails,
than take the short cut.
of course chronic violation of the
law always leads in the end to one
place, and it will be surprising if the
trail these boys are following does
not lead to the accustomed place.
The habit of the commissioners in
letting contracts, big, fat, juicy con-
tracts, without following the law and
using bids, as provided py law mas
s;oners and it would have surprised
the taxpayers if the classification
contract had been let as the law pro-
syides.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01
They Stick

The twin stars of hope and conf
uence are shining down into the
hearts OF the Slope country farmers
IN spite of drouth, grasshoppers and
the worst crop failure in years. You
can't drive them from the state they
have built up and reclaimed to de-
mocracy and from paper that
shouted "red ruin" if the League
laws were adopted-The Minneapolis
Tribune:
Bismarck, N. D., July o.
Thrifty South Dakota farmers
with an eye to a bargain es-
pecially those of German-Rus-
sian extraction, are focking in
great numbers to the Slope
counties with a view to picking
up cheap lands there. In for
mer years of drouth many
farms have been sacrificed and
the South Dakotans evidently
have been of the opinion that
history would repeat itself. They
are, however, meeting with dis
appointment.
While the drouth has hit
many farmers hard, it has
found comparatively few who
are not in a financial position to
weather the storm.
Few people on the outside can un,
derstand what is in the hearts OF
the North Dakota farmers, or what
new bond grips their hearts ane
binds them to their state. Ordinari'
i after years of Encouragement ane
sone of almost disaster, the tillers Of
the soil pack their belongings ane
trek to a land more favored by ma
ture. Here we find men grimly de-
termined in spite of natural calam.
ties to stay and fight it out.
The North Dakota farmer stick.
for two supreme reasons: He /.
building up democracy and want
to stay and fight it through; hi
faith and confidence in this demo
crazy and in the future of his STATE
is simply boundless.
Against such inward fires th'
storms of adversely, the visitation
of natural calamities, the blasts go
fate beat unavailingly. The NORTH
Dakota farmer is tremendously in
terested in the great struggle that il
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01

"The Question-When is five and
three-quarters as much or more than
six. Pioneer Press. When it's the
Pioneer Press's bid on County Print
ing-or when the maturity on the
bonds are arranged in such a way as
to cost $4,000 more on a 81 per
cent bond than the 6 per cent bond
costs, instead of $4,000 less as ap-
pears on the face without investiga-
ton, and which permits commits
sion that can be split three ways
handsomely instead of all going one
way. That's when even is more
than 6. For further proof take
look at a recent bill filed against the
county by the Pioneer Press that
contains claims for 81 200 more than
allowed by clip Joe Dolin's fat and
grating 1918 printing contract, or
the primary ballot bill which charged
to the county by its means all Of the
election expenses of all of the candi>
dates of the Loyalty League and
then some. Cute "Lil" Joe.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01

The best man for president at this
time is plain man for the common
people, honest to his hearts core
possessed of good common SENSE ano
understanding and sterling tudg.
ment and a man who is instinetivel,
democrat. g4.xa
Fortunately We do not have to es-
sumo that Lynn ]. Frazier has these
traits to q supreme degree because
he looks and acts Like he has them.
We have thoroughly tested him II
a crucible that burns up everything
but the pure gold.
Farmer and neighbor, Lynn J Fra.
zier, was called from the plow t.
govern state like his prototype
ClnclnnatuS. W
AS governor Of q state where ev-
cry corrupt influence in the nation
was brought 10 bear on the state
government he has remained abso-
lutely interrupted.
He has not deviated the breadth OF
hair from the sterling democracy
of Farmer Frazier. -
The smell Of the soil is still on his
boots.
He has never graduated into the
superior and supercilious official class
as most men do who are elected to
cfice.
He has kept every political prom
Use.
He has stood behind every law
promised the people
He has never broken his word with
the citizens.
His administration has been the
most successful from the standpoint
of actual achievements, reform and
genuine progress toward fundament-
al democracy in the United States.
What is more natural than to make
the best governor PRESIDENT
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01
COMERTOWN

Miss Ryan, who has been attending
teachers training school at Bozemar
returned to Comertown last week
making preparations for opening the
w. J. Bye school next week. She
left on Friday afternoon for her
home in North Dakota for a few
days visit before she opens school.
Alfred Clementson left on the
east bound train last Tuesday TO,
his old home at HALEY, MINI. Mr.
Bruvold will look after the interests
OF the firm while Alfred is away.
John Nelson and family returned
from eastern points to Comertown
last Friday. He reports a lively
time.
The Farm Bureau meetig held a,
Albert Mayhew's place last Thurs
day was fairly attended. Mr.. Ander-
SON gave the farmers q very inter
esting. dry, farming lecture and
proved, as usual, master of the sub
]ect. Uncle Sam Hampton lectured
on Community Life and Rural Con-
dltlons, ad while very instructive he
hghtened the hearts and frightened
the future prospects for men and
women farm toilers of Sheridan
county.
The Farmers Cooperative Elevat-
or Company held their annual stock
holders meeting last Friday after
noon at the school house in Conner
town and a rousing turnout was
present. Two years audits and re-
ports were gone over and all mem
Oers TOOK an active part in the well
rare OF the concern. While the pro-
hts made were not as large as ex-
pected yet the company did a large
business and gave the farmers of
ComertoWn the advantages of good
prices and first class service under
the management of Mr.. Nelson, All
business pertaining to the company
was gone over gracefully and the fol-
lowing members were elected as =
board OF directors for the coming
year: Peder Bruvold, Oscar Helseth,
4. 2. Fitzgerald, E. S. Strand and
Ed. Negard, the last three being new
members replacing Fl. L. Phinney.
w. w. Cornu and Thomas Brockley.
George B. Van Pelt returned to
his place north of Comertown from
ms homestead at Poplar. He SAYS
ne is glad to get back.
George Epler and Herman Hanson
from the Citizens State Bank of Doc
ley were visitors in Comrtown Fri
day.
John Hauck and family spent last
Sunday at the Clear Lake resort
north of Dooley.
N. A. Harris is moving onto his
farm ne recently purchased from
Phinney Bros.
Melvin Torgenson and wife are
movlg onto their homestead this
week. d. J. Mccall ad VIM. Cor
coran are assisting them.
James King left last week for Mi
INTO, N. D., in hopes of finding some
harvest bouquets to pick.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01
CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT

On Sunday, August 3rd, Trinity
Lutheran church, Z miles southeast
of Dooley shall, God willing, cele-
brate their annual mission festival.
The morning service will be conduct
ed by the Rev. c. F. Gottberg from
Larson, N. D., and are to begin at II
o'clock. Rev. Geo. Heilman is to Of
ficiate in the afternoon, these ser
vices beginning at o'clock. A cor
dial invitation is extended to all.
F., E. BRAUER. Pastor.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01

H. G. Teigan, formerly of Minot,
N. D., and now employed in the st.
Paul Office of the Nonpartisan league,
lis not the man who testified against
Gilbert and Townley at. the recent
Jackson county trial. The turncoat
is one Ferdinand A. Teigen of Mon
tevideo, Mimi, who was discharged
by the League for misconduct in
1917. The similarity of the names
has led to some unfortunate confu-
sion between the two men.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01

Isn't it funny that every time the
common people meet together nova
days and write platforms, they put
in a large public ownership order.
The new Ohio labor party demands
public ownership of the railroads,
telegraphs, telephones, merchant ma
rines and mines. They declared for
the city ownership of all municipal
utilities and the cooperative man
agement of industry by the workers
and employers. There is reasno for
this. Control of industry by the
people is the same as control of the
government by the people-it Is de-
mocracy.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01

Those wise legislators who are
planning to keep the packing trust
from adding to it's list of monopolies
of food products might be reminded
Of a simple fact Tom johnson, the
famous reform mayor of Cleveland,
Ohio, stated years ago: There is no
way to prevent private owners from
disposing Of property to any one
they please short Of public owner
ship. A monopoly is not broken up
when q new company with dummy
directors representing the old inter
ests is formed. The dissolution of
the Standard Oil company is a ease
In point.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01
REWARD

l, the undersigned, will pay a re-
ward of $4,000 for information and
evidence resulting in the arrest and
conviction of the coward who shot
one of my bay, three year old geld
ings. I have direct information as to
the guilty party, and some evidence
in the premises, and will pay the
above reward for sufficient additional
facts to procure his conviction.
1872 I. ". GREER.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01

The farmers Of Wadena county,
Mimi, have added one more to the
rapidly growing list Of independent
papers in the Northwest. The first
issue Of the Progressive News, Wa
dena, Mimi, was dated June rs and
come from a. 5000 printing plant
and $1,000 building, all Of which
was. paid for by the farmers and
sympathetic townspeople before q
wheel turned - $500.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01

Make your home creamery a sue
cess. The PlentywOod Creamery Co.
pays highest cash prices for butter
fat. We make it speciality to give
first class service to our ice cream
and butter patrons. Let us prove our
ability in pleasing our customers by
giving us. trial.
PLENTYWOOD CREAMERY co.
1912 j. A. WINNER, Mgr.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01

The United States treasury depart
ment declares: at is much more fun
to watch your money grow than to
watch it CO." If that is true then
the profteers have conspired against
possible pleasing and popular rec
reation. By turning out the special
interests we might be able to make
the sport general. It is certain that
we can't as long as they hang on.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01
PEARSON-CARLSON

Alma Pearson and Einar Carlson,
both of Westby, were united in
marriage Saturday, July 26, at the
parsonage of the Plentywood Con-
gregational church. The marriage
was witnessed by Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Ermantinger of Westby, Rev.
e. w. Savage officiated.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-08-01

To call movements and platforms
like that of the Nonpartisan league
pro-German, or some other brand of
imported article, gives credit to for
eigners which is unfair to America.
When it comes to big ideas Uncle
Sam does not have to take his hat off
to anybody. Those who think Ameri-
ca can produce only Wall street
ideas belittle their country.