The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-03-28
h n PEACE BASIS HINDERED
||rrscONTINUED BLOCKADE in EUROPE
: wAsHIN GTON ETTER

out by Nelson and Sterling. esna-
orally, for the complete destruction
OF all "bolshevism" among the farm
ers and trade unionists of the North
west. They promise to make their
ball the most important business of
the special session. Somebody OUGHT
to tell Mann and Mondell what's
coming, particularly since they both
have war records that these ultra
patriots can not indorse.
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
The opponents of the League of
nations are divided into two camps:
There are those who feel the present
draft of the league constitution
should be amended in MANY wavs.
and they should hardly be classed as
league opponents, for it is not diff
cult to find flaws of serious proper
tons in the draft Wilson brought
back. Then there are those who are
opposing it because they think
America is in position to dominate
the world and they would have us
embark on career of Imperialism
more vicious in it's scope and pur-
poses than that of the now defunct
German junkers.
America alone of the great nations
has lost little of it's human resources
il the war. America alone is prob
ably really solvent in the sense of
having resources sufficient to meet it's
war obligations and feed its people
without serious disturbances. Our
people are not so sick of war as those
| of Europe are because we have suf-
fered comparatively little. The only
other nation situated as we are in
respect to these things is Japan,
and the same spirit is animating
Japanese junkers to prey on China,
Korea and Siberia. The American
and, Japanese junkers would seize
the opportunity to jump on the rest
of the world and divide it between
them.
. The league of nations, with its
| provisions for arbitration of disputes,
| disarmament and strengthening of
international law strikes at the roots
of the junker plans. They might be
able to operate with a league of ma
lions by controlling the inner cir
cles, but it would be less easy,
American junkers would have to di-
vide the spoils of international raids
with those of France, England, Italy
and other large powers. 1t is this
interest that such men as Senators
Lodge, Poindexter and King repre-.
sent when they take their stand
against the league of nations.
PORTO RICO INVESTIGATION
M
North Dakota is one of party OF
20 members of the house who viii
visit Porto Rico next month to inves
tigate conditions there. The only
other progressive on the COMMITTEES
besides the Nonpartisan league con
. gresham is William Mason of Hi
nois; so the public need not expect
majority report telling the trutl
/, about the unhappy affairs of thu
, colonial dependency Of ours.
: Beneath the many strikes and 9th
t or disturbances there lies the plan
: fact that, although the island is un
der the American flag, it is owned b,
sugar companies, the coffee trust AM
| the tobacco trust, with few SPANS
grandees as minority stockholder:
r Governor wager is Kentucky poh
: tician of the job-grabbing type an
G with Major General Mcintyre OF tn
d insular bureau of the war depar
Y ment. rules with a high hand. No
: long ago Yager came to Washlngto
: to lobby for bill that would nav
t disfranchised four-ffths of the NAL
T nopulation of voting age of the Is
Ii land. and the progresslves IN COZ
l, gress had a hard time amending
r so that voters who have alread
f voted could continue to vote.
h GREAT INTEREST IN FARMER
K LAWS
le The work of the North Dakota les
% islative session just closed, mas d
Ii tracted unusual interest at the =.
IS tional capital and throughout u
,e country. It is the most talked
m LEGISLATIVE session of the entire
1t states because it is the only 0;
which has gotten away from TRAD
se t;onal petty-fogging methods al
Sc naesed laws in answer to the are
m r - needs of the people. Oth
v states have. like the national co
oress. simply neglected the new pro
ne ssT1c and have been wasting pfea
rs in condenning the growth OF fadlc
Id sentiment. sa+od :, II
so This interest is also reIecCeu u. =
ee bio newspapers and magazine
no Many of the best-known correspos'
o. ,onts Of the country were sent
~ North Dakota to cover the sesslo
i ,,,aoazines and newspapers big a
a. little of East and West are ruliIlli
a 49, If articles on the subJe'
IN some are favorable; others are !,
m fhe nature OF a Wafnhs " .sIea,
,ir Cratic onr supporters of the danger
"a - der democracy. Attempts to dlseo
n - ia ofbeYwise misrepresent are,
o. course, numerous.