The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

CVLiiiCI between the interests Oh the |
farmer and the city dweller. From
these figures it would see that there |
is some justification for the charge,
but the conflict is between the hold
ers of the big land values who are
able to cut down the purchasing pow
er of the city worked by high rents
based on high speculative land values,
and the working farmer who has pro-
duce to sell and finds his market re-
stricted by the above-named factors
The worker in the city and the work
ing farmer in the county have a COM
mon enemy in the landowner specu-
lator.
EMPLOYMENT SERVICE HIT
After sharp struggle in both
houses of congress, during which it
seemed for time that the United
States employment service would be
forced out of existence by denial of
any appropriation, this branch of the
department of labor has been allot-
ted 100000 to continue it's work
during the current fiscal year.
John B. Densmore, direc3or general
of the employment service, states
that only a skeleton organization can
be maintained on this figure, but
hopes that the Kenyon-Nolan bill,
providing for the establishment Of
the service on a permanent basis,
| will soon go through. In the mean
time the work of the service must be
greatly curtailed. Orders have been
issued to close all but rs of the most
| important branch offices and it is ap2
parent that the organization will be
able to do comparatively little in fur
nishing men for harvesting the wheat
crop in the north central states.
POLITICAL ECONOMY
Under the excuse of economy"
which is trotted out in congress now
whenever the interests of big bust
ness are threatened, the senate ap-
preparations committee last week at
tempted to wipe out the United
States tariff commission and reduce
| the appropriation of the federal trade
commission by 100000. This at
tempted action was taken at the be-
hest of Senators Smoot and Warren,
than whom it would be hard to find
two more hardened reactionaries.
The vicious attack on these two
bureaus, both of which have won UNI
bridled hostility for their brave fight
in behalf of the people, was happily
defeated by the outspoken stand of
the progressive group, Senators La
Toilette Of Wisconsin and Kenyon OF
Iowa being particularly active in
combating the Tories. The National
Consumers league, the representa-
tives of the farm organizations, and a
; small section of the press threw their
weight into the breach and the ap-
preparations of $780, 900 for the tariff
commission and $1,000,0O0 for the
federal trade commission are now
secure for another year.
The hollowness of the pretense
, that the federal trade commission
appropriation should be cut 100000
: because of the necessity of econo-
NV" is seen in the fact that this sum
5 is Just about one one-hundredth OF
the cost of a modern battleshlp. Bill
lions for defense but not one cent te
stop internal aggressions on our peo'
, ple seems to be the slogan of very
| large and powerful element in CON
: gress.
N. d. VICTORY ALARMS
3 The Review, a new and ultra con
e servative weekly published in New
S York City, is much worried over thu
Y sweeping referendum victory won byy
] the Nonpartisan league in Norti
= Dakota.
Being, apparently, very uncertain
as to what the Nonpartisan league Il
j. about anyway, except that it is "som'
: sort of state socialism" the journa
t contents itself with being bitter a
the expense of Mr.. Townley.
: "The political methods of A. {;
Y Townley," it says, care so wei
e known that one is right to be sus
e picious of proposals from which cen
tralize authority. = To offset M
it irregular methods Townley has loni
: used the arts of the spellbinder. an
f he has succeeded in capturing tn
IS imagination Of the state" =.
= The purpose of the Review, IN IL
g own words, is ''to resist the unthink
5. inc drift toward radical innovation.
l. The eight issues which have appeare
e so far indicate that any alteratlo
l. whatsoever in the status quo Is Fao
= ical innovation" TO its editors.