The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-04-02

Treaty to President-Senate May
Expel Newberry to Avoid Load
in Campaign Year-Army and
Navy Bills Before the House
Sterling of South Dakota Unable
to Change Senate on Resolution Fav-
oring Ireland:
10 planks, drafted by the La Fol-
lette Republicans of Wisconsin and
upon which they are making their
campaign to elect the Republican
delegation from the Badger state to
the Chicago convention, has jolted
official Washington this week.
It's first six planks are:
1--WE favor the immediate conclu-
sion of peace and resumption of
trade with all countries.
1--WE are opposed to the league of
nations, as a standing menace to
peace, and we denounce the treaty
as a violation of the pledges made
to the world and betrayal of the
honor of this nation. 1t would make
US party to the enslavement of
and the ruthless oppression of Ire
Egypt and India, the rape Of China
land.
1--WE would favor league for
peace, composed of all the nations of
the world, provided they were mu-
tually pledged by binding covenants,
with proper guarantees, to abolish
vided further that the several nations
mutually bind themselves to a speedy
disarmament, reducing the land and
naval forcnc nf oncb rn%:or r. h.
strict requirements of purely 20
lice and patrol service.
Owe demand the immediate restor-
alton of free speech, free press,
peaccable assembly and all civil
rights guaranteed by the Constitu-
ton.
ave favor the repeal of the cspion-
age and scdition act, and dcnounce
the attempt to write such laws into
the permanent statutes of the coun-
try.
ave oppose all legislation confer
ring upon the postmaster general, or
any other governmental agency, the
power to deny the mailing privilege
to any person, without judicial hear
ing, and the right of appeal"
INDUSTRIAL PLANKS
Having thus declared for peace
and trade with Russia, as well as
the late enemy countries, and for Il
real worldwide organization for dis
armament and peace, the La Toilette
Republicans 20 on in their follow
American troops in Russia, and to
.lenounce the "exile of any person
lawfully admitted to this country,
except for crime fixed by law, and
then only upon trial and conviction
by a jury"
Labor and farmer issues are met
by declarations against the use of
injunctions in labor disputes, and for
the right of labor and the farmers
to organize for purposes of collective
bargaining. Also:
1--WE favor such legislation as may
be needful and helpful in promoting
direct cooperation and elimination
Of waste, speculation and excessive
profits between producer and con-
sumner, as Offering some measure of
relief from the oppressive and intol-
cradle economic conditions under
which the farmer, the wage-earner
and people generally suffer at this
time.
1--WE favor repeal Of the Esch- Cum
minis railroad law, by which the peo-
pie are forced to guarantee railroad
profit, while such roads are privately
owned, and declare for the ultimate
public ownership of railroads, and
for the gradual acquisition of stock
yard terminals, large packing plants
and all other monopolies, and of nat
ural resourcves, the private owner
ship of which is the basis of private
monopoly"
WOULD ELECT JUDGES
The platform points out that the
federal estimates for this y"' 81
peace are 10 times tho estimates 4o1
normal pre-war expenses, ....-- 49,,
ing the war we produced q new mil
lionaire for every three America
soldiers kill ed in France; that fed
eral courts have SO grossly usurped
legislative power that federal judges
must be made elective for terms Of
not over 10 years; that the initiative,
referendum and recall should be ap-
piled to national legislation and men,
bers of the senate and house.
1t proposes mot a charity or bon
u.s." but q payment of q sum, as a
matter of right, to the soldiers of the
World war, to bring their total pay
up to civilian wages. 1t proposes h
deep waterway to the Atlantic from
the Lakes, by way of Canada, to put
the primary markets on the Lakes on
q par with that of New York.
Finally it favors a platform en-
bracing these princinles and a candi-
date "whose public record is guar
anty that he is in full accord there
with"
SENATE REJECTS LEAGUE
Great was the rejoicing in the
capital Friday night and all day Sat-
urday at the rejection of the treaty
of Versailles after more than year
of debate. Senators Borah, johnson,
Norris, La Toilette and the rest of
the irreconcilables were happy be-
cause they considered that they had
foiled the plots of European imper-
ialism.
Senator Lodge was happy because
he had prevented the ratification of
the original treaty, and had middle
course between the president, whom
he intensely dislikes, and the Borah-
La Toilette group, whom he fears.