The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-11

development. He explains that the
turkish government, continually
bankrupt, long ago taxed and com
Wandered the estates and fortunes
OF the great landlords cut of exist
ence, and that Indifference on the
part Of the authorities then led to
democratic development by the peas
ants themselves.
LESSON FOR AMERICA
Because of this condition where
nearly every peasant has his little
property and where there are no land
harons or oyerseers there is no sen
timent in the Balkans for 1urtnel
experimentation, Mr.. Kelly says.
The Pennsylvania congressman,
who has long been a champion OF
community development and coop
elatlye enterprise in the United
States, returned from Europe more
than ever convinced that advances
along this line are fundamental to
eIaQicating. unrest at home.
NEW PACKERS BILL
The bills for regulating and break
ing Up the monopoly in the packina
industry, introduced in senate and
house this week by Senator Kenyon
OF iowa and Representative Anderson
OF Minnesota, have the backing Of
Commissioner ColHer Of the federal
t1ado. commission, who urges THEN
Endorsement by food producers ey-
eryWhere. Perhaps he secs no hope
oil thorough remedies in the present
reactionary congress. The KENYON
and Anderson bills are identical, but
were introduced as separate bills il
either house.
The principal points in the Kenyon
bill, as pointed out by William Kent
Of the United States tariff commits
sion, are as follows:
T. A provision which prevents the
extension Of packer control over re-
lated industries, effectualIy meeting
the menace Of packer domination 0v-
er food products other than meat.
2. A clause providing that viola
lion Of the bill, when enacted, shall
place the offending business in thc
hands of q received who would con-
duct the business in the interests and
for the protection of the public
''This," says Mr. Kent, ''is a new ap-
picati0n of the idea of receivership
Heretofore the thought has been that
q receivership is solely for the pro-
lection of the owners and creditors
OF q business"
3. The provision calling on the
railroads to provide refrigerator and
special equipment cars and prohibit
ing the packers, all Of whom must
be licensed, from using such cars
not provided by the railroads after
six months from the passage Of the
act.
The Kenyon bill calls for the ap-
pointment Of commissioner OF
foodstuffs, holding Office for tern
of FIVE years, to enforce the pro
p0sed law. The bill carries an ap-
preparation Of 100000.
Commenting OF the Eenvon-Ander-
son bill, Commissioner Colver said:
81 think this bill merits careful
and deliberate study by the people
of the country and their representa-
tives. 1t strikes straight at one OF
the nations most serious problems.
"The proposal to limit the great
meat packers to the packing business
the greatest single industry in the
country-will be welcomed alike BY
the consuming public, who see a fOoc
trust in the making; and those es,
tab7ishcd and legitimate merchants
and manufacturers, who see their IN
evitable destruction if a monopoly
shall be effected" a
CIVIL WAR MAN CAUGHT
Interesting evidence of the way
the department of justice is work
inc in running down "Bolshevik'
suspects, and an indication of how
the 100000 just voted by. congress
| for this work will be spent is seer
/ in the experiences of Robert Henklt
Of this city, Civil war veteran x
wears of age, who was caught in the
dragnet for no apparent reason eX'
cept that he is Socialist. Mr.
Henkle tells his own story IN th'
following letter:
81 am Socialist, but not a mem
Der of the local here. fell into the
| dragnet of the department OF justice
on the 14th tJune) and was held IN
communicate for eight days, being
released Sunday night, the 22nd.
s"There were three others besides
me. including one woman, incarcer
ated at precinct No. 1. Since being
released the rumor has reached M
! that there are about 200 being de
| tanned in various precinct stations Il
the. city.
| of the Civil war, having had the hon
or of serving in the Union Gauss
I,from the beginning to the close o
hostilities in 1865.
'Nor is this all. He had ancestor
II every war this country's been en-
gagged in. including the War for In
! dependence, the War Of 1872 and tn
| War with Mexico.
tsHe is of southern birth, as all NJ
forebears are, being born IN Iennes
! see Wednesday, January 5, 1843, 0
| MARYLAND and Virginia stock-0u
which makes him no better than
ned been horn in a lowly 'nange1.
"This was the first time in NOR
than three-quarters of century TIA
j kew was ever turned on nm; an
he's pot the first time to ever appea
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