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

Speaking of that protested love
which the special interests have for
the retailer, love that forces them
to rush in to defend the retailer
from the terrible farmer, did you ev-
er notice:
1. Who retails the gasoline in
most towns and who used to retail it :?
2. Lumber yard after lumber yard
in different towns with the same
name over the front gate?
8. That Schafer, who was convict
ed of misappropriating funds in Min
nesota, is not the only one to acquire
a string of banks?
4. Rockefeller capital in the chain
stores?
5. That the retail butchers asso-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18
Farmers Mutual Insurance

occur during the year. Many bank
ers take this as an excuse for refus-
ing to accept farmers mutual insur-
ance as security in loans.
The way out Of this difficulty, and
it is a real one, is state federation of
the mutuals or, better, state system
of insurance which would cover the
state and use the means they have
developed for conducting the local
business.
The great insurance companies,
used as financial cat's-paws by still
bigger Wall street interests, are
foremost in the fight against the
farmers Nonpartisan league, because
they know that their business is un-
sound and wasteful from the public
point of view and because they feel
certain the farmers will discover and
act on the truth when they secure po-
.itical power.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18
COONVILLE SAYINGS
Do-,,lx e IL ~

-. ASCoViI VI LIIG NC1IIIV
The sneers is gone from Ruby's lips,
His teeth are clenched in hate;
He pounds with cruel violence
His bat upon the plate.
And now the pitcher holds the ball,
And now he lets it go
And now the air is shattered by the
force of Ruby's blow.
OH somewhere in this favored land
the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere and
somewhere hearts are light.
And somewhere men are laughing
and somewhere children shout,
But there is no JOY in Rubetown for
mighty Ruby has struck out.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

A lot of editors are using the talk
about our bumper wheat crop with
very good intentions. It is an indi-
cation of the way the farmers have
rallied to tide us over food crisis.
But let us not forget that the insid-
ers are. using it to force low wheat
price this fall. The world market
warrants a wheat price beyond the
minimum. Editors would be better
friends of the farmers if they cut
the praise out and helped them to
oct a fair market price. No other
Tne of business would dare to brag
about its surplus just before it was
ready to sell. The department OF ag--
rriculture is playing in with shrewd
lot of sharpers in it's wheat talk.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

The United States treasury de-
partment furnishes US with a little
ditty which runs:
'It is not what you make
1t is not what you spend,
It is what you save
That counts in the end"
Quite right. This is what the
farmers have been trying to tell us
in regard to $2.26 wheat in relation
to other prices, and what the work
ingman means when he says he is
worse off now with higher wages
than before the war. It's the differ
ence between the two ends ''that
counts in the end"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18
ADVERTISED LETTERS
HELD SINCE JULY

Carl Hansen, Mrs. 10 Christensen,
Herr Ollie carlson, Sylvia Wheeler,
David E. Meredith, Miss Lillian
Ward, Miss Jessie Hubbard, Pvt.
Emil Carlson, Mr.. w. T. Stephens,
Mrs. David Drake, Mr.. Fred Brunell,
Make Jerome, Rev. P. Iverson, 1t.
c. Edwin Montgomery, M. c. c., Mr..
Orval Johnson, Capt. Fl. E. Pierce,
Mr.. Ira Calder, Mrs. Emil McPhail,
Mr.. John Hagen.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

The old gang ended its fight, as
was predicted, with the vilest lie of
all, mailed out at the 18th hour
a pamphlet addressed to the women
of North Dakota telling them that
the Nonpartisans (their husbands,
fathers, brothers and sons) want to
give all women to be used by the
returned soldiers "three times a
week." The despair of the damned
must have driven the moral degener-
ate who conceived the idea of mail
ing such filth to the women of the
state. It was a trick certain to lose
votes for the gang, instead of gain
them, but the skunk who perpetrated
it should be properly punished if he
can be Observation-Disclosures Senti-
mel, Forbes.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

or not. We can not say that such
acts are too contemplate for Ameri
cans. When the reform forces were
about to convict big traction mag
nate in San Francisco several years
ago the house of the principal wit
ness against him was dynamited
twice. The interests who practice
and defend our vicious profteering
against workingmen, women and
children are fit, as Shakespeare once
said, for "strategems and crimes" of
any kind.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

citation is up in arms against the
packing trust?
6. That the retailer is the fall
guy with the consumer for the specu-
lators who profteer in necessities?
Z. That the Stevens bill, backed
by all the big fellows, aimed to tell
the retailer what he could sell for in
addition to telling what he could buy
for?
8. That the kept farm papers
fighting the Nonpartisan league are
composite editions of mail order cata-
logs?
9. That it is funny how some fish
will bite on a painted stick loaded
with hooks?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

to local old line elevate, n
a farmer of Leeds, n. B Was
cording, to a snappy letto, got
to the the Equity the other t dav he y
Arthur j. Rittmer of Le q1$ :, / /
and be wrote: NeeuS, \.
Il see you have sold NV -,
$2.55-more than l exnaot ~ae a
wheat is selling here for 90 e. u u
some, l guess!" P@'N G.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

Valley county may have mol
mistake in electing a Nonnat
county treasurer and clerk sns
corder, but thus far these I y,
have not been a very heavy ~
cial burden to the taxpayers and 4
have improved the efficiency AZ y
respective. offices as we'll. Las y ~ y
we understand, the clerk ,n5 3N
corder took in more than epOpgS !
to pay the entire running eS " |
of his office, salaries and eyerTtIs'
This ought to help offset tba !
classification graft little.~y;.
County News. -
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18
The Bomb Plots

When the two recent bomb plots
were sprung on the country the press
in general shouted, anarchists" 1t
was accepted as ready-made expla
nation, but there is another with which
Europeans are more familiar than
we are-the bombs may have been
planted by higher-up.
The big terrorists were becoming
wofuIly short of ammunition. 1t was
a fortunate thing for them whether
they actually instigated the outrages
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18
CONGRESSMAN YOUNG
PRAISES Excpo

Congressman Young Of NJ,
gotta < a stakeholder in the ''S
COOPERATIVE Exchange, has has / q
celYed his dividend check !I
headquarters office in St, p a,Gfa
acknowledging receipt Of y 4 a a
wrote: 4e q
"Your letter is just al b,.,
closing a dividend check cov aaad
period up to July 81, 1917, NJ: g
dend bears eloquent trbuta He Is, 9
efficient and successful many r
Of your institution, which 7 20
indeed to see is receiving an % ~.
ereasing support from the a, e.a
wool shippers of the NortbH9os%a.Is
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

When George Bernard Shaw, the
great English writer, heard about the
poor Detroit man who was arrested
and sentenced to Jail for four days
for reading Shaw's book, can Unso-
cial Socialist" on a street car, he
wrote back: "You must be reason
able; you cannot have glory and lib
erty at the same time. "Four days
for reading An Unsocial Socialist is
very lenient sentence. Think of
what he would have got if he had
been discovered reading the New
Testament"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

Due to the publication of false re-
norts in the kept press OF many
az stern cities, a great many people
hai;eva that the recent election was
won nv the I. v. A. Only first re-
norts were published and the vote
from the country precincts, coming
later. was ignored. The same sort
of thing was done last November,
or and TODAY letters come to Bismarck
addressed to "Governor" Doyle.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

How certain all the anti-farmer and
the more or less anti-farmer press is
that farm bureau declarations "can
be more truly representative of farm
sentiment than any other organiza-
ton we have ever had" Such, in
fact, is the way so-called farm
paper actually puts it. The bureau
federation probably gives "better
representation" because the leading
townspeople can belong and dictate
and because back of that the bureaus
are controlled by the department of
agriculture. If townspeople want to
see real, honest farm bureaus grow,
the best thing they can do is to keep
reactionary politics out of them.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

The world may look large to the
man who ventures from the old home
town for the first time, but it is too
narrow for wars. Even the man who
stays at home feels the pinch of wars
now going on-about Is of them
in his condition of living.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

Real reform necessarily means
hard feelings and bitter resentment.
The most-polished and well-mannered
mind in the world can not furnish
the farmers and workers with a word
ing of the order, Get off our backs"
which would be acceptable to those
who are accustomed to ride. {.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

In Tuesdays Minneapolis Journal
under big black headline we read
that Mayor Van Lear has been form
ally elected from the Socialist party
because his organizing for the Nom
partisan League proves he is no
longer a Socialist, and on another
mage it says under an equally black
head that Socialism is trying to car
ry North Dakota, because there are
Socialists like Van Lear stumping
the state, along with Republicans
and Democrats. What contempt the
kept press has for its readers!-
Farmers Sentinel, Forbes.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

There is but one way to 'ekill the
League" That is by the establish
ment of economic justice and by
ceasting to threaten and repress the
aspiration of the people for industrial
freedom.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

In passing opinoion on the vast
amount of mischief now abroad in
the world let us not forget the advice
of the ancient Roman Judge about
looking for the man who would pro-
fit by the act. The press generally
puts the blame on those who could
reap no advantage at all.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

Judging from Ireland's experience
we might conclude that the different
parts of the British empire are self
governing SO long as they have no
desire to govern themselves.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

FOR SALE-A good rerisn.
hereford bull, one of ne I
down, blocky kind. JENS BSp
Comertown. nd
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18
SAYS IS CENTS PREMIUM
as GOING SOME GUESS

Thirty-five cents bushel more for
his wheat by cons3gning it to the
Equity Cooperative Exchange, than
he could have secured by selling it
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

Money makes the mare CO." If it
were not for this long established
fact the leaders of the anti-farmer
crowd in the Northwest would look
like grand order of superboobs.
They have neither principle nor ar
gument to make men follow them.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

A Want AID in the Producers News
brings results.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18
THE WEEK
Making Fun of Our BOgeyman
Why Cattle are Down
Naturalization of Resources
Certain
Diplomats and Children

Bolshevism is too serious a matter
to be even joked about, at least it is
in the opinion of navy department
officers. A jolly-up artist tried to get
about 1000 sailors at Great Lakes
to sing Mickey, Pretty Mickey" and
they sang q parody made up by one
of their number running Mickey
Bolsheviki." Then the shocked jolly
up artist foolishly asked how many
in the hall were Bolsheviki and he
was greeted with a chorus of "Me,
Me-" Some one in the back of the
hall waved a red flag, and the "scan
dalous' scene was complete.
The regular performers, who were
late, at last appeared on the stage,
and the revolution" passed as quick
ly as it had been born. Now 200
sailors who have seen overseas SER
vice are being disciplined by removal
to others stations. America is now
safe for the time being, thanks to our
gallant navy officers.
For the sailors the moral is: "Boys,
don't make fun of our bogeyman."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18


Less than a year ago Hoover was
telling us about the great shortage
of cattle in Europe. Six months ago
the department of agriculture was
sending out stories about the oppor-
tunities awaiting cattle raisers in the
European trade. Farmers bit on the
dope and have gotten stung. Now
comes Acting Secretary Ousley of the
department with story that Eur
ope does not need beef from the
United States so much as it needs our
pork. The stocks of cattle in most
of Europe have not suffered serious
ly in numbers during the war. In
deed, outside the areas actually over
run by the contending armies, cattle
stocks have fairly held their own and
in some cases even increased"
The bewildered farmer might well
ask which one of these lies is the
truth. Two facts at least stand out
clearly. One is that the American
farmer can not profitably market his
cattle through the packing trust. The
other is that he can put no depend
ence on statements of government
ment officials playing the packers
game in rigging the markets. Ir
the last two years the farmer who
did just the opposite of what the de-
partment of agriculture advised with
regard to markets has come out
ahead. .-:
There is no mystery in the failure
of our city people to buy beef as they
used to. They haven't got the money
to pay the packer prices, and the few
profteers can not eat much more
than they used to-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18

Richard Spillane, New York
banker, who has been writing for the
city press on general conditions, dis
covers great trend toward the ma
tlonalization of natural wealth. For
man of his connections to make
such a discovery" means that this
step is much nearer than many of US
had dared to hope.
Banker Spillane takes his cue from
England, where British labor has
driven the government to examine
titles whereby noble families have
claimed rights to great incomes form
coal, iron and other mineral deposits
1t is a matter Of long standing COM
mon law that no one can pass on a
better title than he himself had, and
a great many of these royal titles
either do not exist Or are of doubtful
character. He declares "nationaliza-
ton of coal is considered as certain"
But let US not rejoice too much ov-
Ell the speed of things in England.
There's a very shady reason. Seeing
the inevitable coming, the English
Tories now controlling the govern
ment are unloading their coal, iron
and big estates on the government
at fancy prices and putting the pro-
ceeds away where they think there is
more safety. We will face the same
thing if we let old-line Republicans
OF Democrats carry out our nation
alization for us. There is no way of
beating the special interests while
they have the power.
A young man from Tacoma, Wash,
who has been working in Russia as a
Red Cross officer, brings back sur
prising story. He had charge of dis
tributing $4,000 cans of condensed
milk a day to little children in Pet
rograd. There was no other supply
than this Danish milk. Then one day
came the order that no more could be
shipped into Russia, with the ship
shortage given as the reason, but this
officer declares that the Danish Red
Gloss was anxious to furnish the
ships needed. Somehow this reminds
as of the Lusitania and suggests the
thought that the deeds done in ire
name of international diplomacy N
the last four years will be terrible to
the minds of generations yet unborn.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-05
Miss Clara Barton. Heaven"

In many different ways come mes
snges and tokens of appreciation
from the soldiers TO these Rcd Cross
workers Of the cnnteen service" >how.
lng their gratitude for what j. being
done for hem In every place aud in
every possible way.
When members Of the cant.eu >rrv-
Ice meet troop train many Of The
boys have letters and postcards 10 he
mailed One day not long ago u menu
her OF The service in looking over the
mail. saw one post card unStnmpcd.
Something unusual looking about the
address attracted her attention. and
on looking closely this is what she rend.
Miss Clara Barton Heaven. ana on
the cnrd was written You certainly
founded wonderful institution, and
signed. "A Soldier"
That was tribute fine aud deep.
and from the heart Of one who surely
had been helped by the Red Cross aud
wanted to give some sign OF apprecin.
ton. No costly wreath could bear a
more fragrant and exquisite message
than that one card Southern Wom-
ans Magazine.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-05

Not every man is honStful or proud
OF possessing bowed legs, but when
said crescent.Shuped neither limbs have
saved him from possible serious injury
or death from nm attack OF II vicious
hutting ram. h. is apt 10 tak" diff
fercnt view of the matter during his
after life.
A resident ~ Brnzler ~ r. started
across the Miller farm to go To the
cider mill on the Tannery rond, When
nearly In the center 81 large pas
ture an old ram started for him The
man ran. but soon realized that he
could not make The nearest fence. ~
the next best narrower he made Tor
n large bowldcr z frw rods away.
just us he reached The rock the ram
overlook him aud with lowered head
butted through the fugltive's legs lie
hit the bowlder ana crushed his skull.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-05
PLAIN QUESTIONS TO SNOW
HILL PEOPLE.
Ever, snow Hill Reader viii Admit
The ~oundne>s OF the Logic.

Woa >uoA TIL people recommend
Dean, kwnc! Pill, a. they do i tn
r.c,lcin were not reliable Woti'
ttct confirm tacil statements at"H
roa- paYc ciap.cd II thrjr cNp"
oucc- did moi how tine remedy - Doe
dc.ut ne nc it. statements like tH'
following must carry convict ON 20
IN" mind Of every reader
\. Frcd Hartmann. Market street
SNOW Hi, say carrying the mail
IN an kinds ot weather and over rough
coun'll roads i hard on one l,'d-
noy- ana several years ago. ! realized
that mine were seriously d'soniercd
A cold Away. settled in my kidney
and palc me much pain and diacom
fort. rhis continued until my kidney
became so conpeStcd they felt like
Two had knots in my back. ! suffered
from intense, dalting pains across my
back ana the kidney Sccr"tlon> were
di,ordercd Ecing advised 20 US'
Doan's Kidney pills rot a supply ~
Co,,ingham 4 Co Drug store. They
relieved ne at once and Whenever !
have used ,hcm since, they have neN"r
failed to benefit me"
Mr. Hartmann rav" the above state
mcn, in October, 1907. and on July
is. 1916. he added: "Sincc recommend
ing Doan'- Kidney PILL some year
ago my kidneys have acted normally
| have had no further need Of u I'D
ncy medicine.
Price 60 cents n all dealers. Dom
simply ak Cor kidney remedy get
poan'~ Kidney pills the same 'h'i
Nr Hartmann had. Foster MilbuW
Co, Nfgrs" Buffalo, Now York
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-05

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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-05
COUGHING SPELLS
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Put n stop to them with old
reliable DIR. Kings New
Discovery

Tt RAJ. hoarsc throat must be
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st he iooscned. 1h,t cough must
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r. k.us's New discovery is bcoa
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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-05
nENln\STR ATIO\.

There +, one theft which not even
tho most skllful thief can accomph-h
on the quiet
"What i. IT,"
stealing somchody'- thunder
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-05

awful pains an d
nothing seemed to
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Pinkham's Vcge-
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can certainly re.
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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-05
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Mrs. Courtney Tells How She
Was Cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Oskaloosa, Iowa. -" For years was
simply In misery from . wcnkness and
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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-26
I'M THORPE MUST PRODUCE
With Boston Braves, Famous Indian
Athlete Will Have to Show Ma
jor League Ability.

Jim Thorpe, famous Indian athlete,
sold recently 10 the Boston Braves by
Manager McGraW Of the Giants, must
stand upon his own feet in the future
The celebrated Fox and Sac Indian :
sale this time is ii strictly bona tide
proposition. and unless he can prove ne
has major league caliber he will be
shunted TO the minors.
Thorpe's passing from tie Giants in
dicateS that he has completed his post
graduate course in baseball Signed as
a ball player at time when lie was
at the peak of his fame as an athlete,
jim Thorpe failed 10 win a regular
berth. but was held because his con-
tract was an ironclad one and also be-
cause McGraW believed he was capa-
bic of anneying as many laurels on the
bali ground as h. had annexed on the
grdron and the cindcr path.
Jim Thorpe may possess major
league class. but he does not possess
the sort of class that McGraw demands.
The Indian Is aggressive and he has