The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-02-13
REV. BRENSDAL
BACK FROM DIXIE
WRITES INTERESTING LETTER
TO n THE PR0DUCERs NEWS OF
Antelope, Mont.
February 1, 1920.

EcO1udiy l., 1SzV.
To Producers News:
South, where l found relief. It was
an herb medicine / found there by tie
help of an old railroad conductor that
helped me.
The temperature was from 1868 de-
grees above and the negroes were
loafing around in their shirt sleeves.
The government baths and the water
there was fine indeed. Many find re-
lief but not all.
It is quite change to come back
into these icy regions to be "boxed"
up. = j"
We did not get our mail all of last
week, in spite of Monday and We'd
nesday being both fine days when
straw was hauled in from the fields
and farmers went to towns and coal
mines. The mailboxes are loaded with
mail going out so the only thing is to
take it to town ourselves.
Hiram johnson of California was
not spoken we'll of as candidate for
president in the east and south. There
was always an aggravation connect
ed to his name. They claimed that
his lecturing in the steps of our Hon.
Wilson, seeding wildcats" broke the
last nerve left in the president who
was already partly worn out. 1t was
spoken of as worse crime than a
bolsheviki.
On the train to Little Rock, Ark,
I met prominent DR.. s.. He
asked why the Nonpartisans did not
send some organizers to Arkansas.
The negroes would become better
citizens if they were owners of their
own farms. AS it is now, some
moneyed men own the best land, along
the Mississippi where negroes were
mere tenants. He did not think it was
right for any man to hold over 1000
acres of that valuable land, nor should
any man hold more in property or
money than 100000; because it was
a burden instead of q pleasure to him.
The same idea was expressed by q
prominent lawyer of North Dakota,
going as representative to their
convention in New York, though he
was against the League of North Da-
kota, he was able to see some good
in them, too. Now then, if lawyers,
bankers and business men hold con-
ventions why should it be more wrong
for farmers to hold conventions, too.
Queer so many are unable to see
this.
Atty. Gen. Palmer says that we are
paying 600 per cent more in taxes
now than before the war. I thought
it was only North Dakota on account
of Nonpartisans that had to do that.
At least that is the talk of the old
press in North Dakota.
On my way home on this big trip
I met chief of the railroad inspec-
tiop. He was glad to tell us the inn
possibility of the government running
a railroad. He surely enjoyed the
mere thought of the coming Of March
1st. He held the view that any man
working for the government did not
care, just so he got high wages for
little or nothing done. I asked how
can the company protect themselves
from careless workers on the section
and in the roundhouses smashing up
things just because it is for the COM
pany? ooh! we ask the government
to raise our rates."
The automobiles have relieved the
hard drives on the road with horses.
The tractor has relieved the horses
from many hard knocks on the farm.
We are looking for the Nonpartis sans
to lift the poor up to his standard in
humanity. Be it so.
Best regards to the readers of the
News.
remain yours,
J. 0. BRENSDAL.