The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-12
in the kind of near neighbors Sweden

in the kind of near neighbors Sweden
has.
Socialists in Sweden and in other
European countries outside of Russia,
while they advocate extensive ma
tionalization also advise fair payment
to the former owners. Soviet Rus.
STA, however, took the property and
up to the present the former owners
have gotten except the right to earn
living extended to everybody. Swed-
ish owners of what we regard here
as big business would probably con-
slider themselves fortunate to sell out
to the moderate Socialist state at
fair price, The, Bolsheviki might
come over the border any day and the
capitalists could not take their land,
forests, mines and utilities with them.
Writing in a current issue of the
Nation, rederic C. Howe explains the
un- American character of our recent
deportation of aliens, and this in turn
undoubtedly explains Howe's resigna-
ton as commissioner of immigration.
This well-known author of about a
score of books on reform subjects
sees great injustice in depriving the
10000, 900 people of alien birth in the
United States of protection through
the courts. t'Ours is supposed to be
a government of laws" says Howe,
mot of men. A man can be convicted
only for a specific statutory offense.
Not so with the alien. If specific
charge can not be proven the alien
can be held under the drag-net accu-
sation that he is likely to become a
public charge"
The inspector who makes the ar
rest, it seems, is prosecutor and judge
of the aliens case. There is no in
dictment by grand jury, no trial be-
fore a jury, no witnesses in his be-
half, and until recently he was denied
the services of lawyer. The accused
alien, in fact, suddenly disappeared
and was denied communication with
any one, even his own family. He
lacks the elementary protection &C
corded the victim of intoxication in a
citv police court.
"Frameups are possible; frameups
to seize the aliens property; frame
ups resulting from race quarrels;
, frameups resulting from strikes anc
industrial conflicts Men have beer
examined at Ellis Island who claimed
they had been beatn to compel admis'
5 sions." -
Bourquin, in Montana, has handed
/, down a decision that the alien has :
t right to trial.
The increasing muddle and disas
e ter in our national affairs can not b.
charged to any but the so-callet
d great bushes leaders, who in tur1
Y have the federal government in lead
e ing strings. These interests are look
: ing out for themselves first and tn
country second, and it is being rapid
w demonstrated that our country, ric]
= as it is in natural resources and II
|. the working intelligence of its people
: can not stand the load OF such leader
+ ship.
e system have fallen below legal re
t ouirements and this calls for drasti
it decrease in credit just at the tim
l. when the country needs more produt
e ton. And these great men know a
2. we'll as every third-rate economist /
l. the country that a credit system has
J. ed upon actual business done, such a
# Canada already has, would have pre-
= vented this serious trouble.
It It is now announced that the go,
I'd eminent deficit for the year to en-
June 80 will be $3,OO0,O00,O00. II
Is stead of beginning to pay off our We
4 debt we have actually added to it b
'e this enormous sum-so gently ha>
y we dealt with great incomes and w;
III profits. There are rumors atloat
1t the effect that our federal debt
Ia about double what has been announce
C. and our loans to Europe three to fl,
re times as much as the 100000 100000
IN acknowledged, or S50,O00,OOO 900.
rs Foreign trade languishes for re-
Mt sons which a right minded govern
is ment could overcome. The. grip
ed monopolists on natural resources pc
mits less and less OF. the precio1
fundamentals of life to pass O
as through the Factories to the mutt
st tude.
Oh America can not stand this pac
RS and the sooner the common peop
We through fal1ner-labor organizatio
r. take control, the smaller will be tt
in disaster they must liquidate.
an Two important applications of a
n thrust laws have been made in t
Is: last week. In the more promine
or of the two our federal supreme cou
'r- by four-to-three decision, finds II.
a. there is no steel trust in the unlawi
'rs sense and that consequently it Dug
90 not to be dissolved. The other
u wolves some gardeners near Cincl
'u1 natl, Ohio, who have been found GU
ty of forming an association and as
a ing certain prices for their produc
3!e The gardeners were first fined So
TIC each, and this was later reduced
] .te $50 and costs.
ate Now everyone who watches gene
er, al business, and especially every o
;e 90 who buys steel in the wholesale m;
MT ket, knows that what the Cincinn
gardeners have been found guilty
u.s. has ben practiced openly by the ST
en nj crowd for years. So great is tn
IN price-fxing power that all iron
Fps stel made west of Pittsburg is s.
Ins at the Plttsburg price plus freif
from Pittsburg. Only a monop'
could enforce such an artificial REF