The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-10-15
THE WEEK
MOBBERS PAY FARMER
OUR NEW CHINESE POLICY
POLITICIANS USING WALL
STREET BLAST
IMPERIALISM IN FIJI IS.
LANDS
RUSSO-POLISH ARMlSTICE
LAND SEIZURES IN SICILY
(Week Of October IL, 1890

(Week Of October IL, 1890
Five Of MinnesotAs r1w-meat-eat- Il
ing patriots have paid W. w. Wrabek
a Nonpartisan League farmer of lie
Sueur county, $1,676 Is ersonal dam
ages for mob violence.
Farmer Wrfabek was not leakue
organizer or speaker. The only EVIL
dence of his "disloyalty" was the
wearing of a "We'l Stick button.
But that was enough to arouse the
raw-meat eaters, who had just heard
one of Governor Burnquist's vicious
attacks on the organized farmers. He
was Knocked down. trampled on and
otherwise injured.
Mob violence is, of course, a GRIM
inal otfense, but the politicians in
Minnesota suspended law enforce
nent during the 1913 campaign.
American election methods were in
fact set aside after the manner of
the farmers We're prevented from tell
ing the public what their platform
was and from hearing their state can
didates.
When approached by a delegation
insisting on law enforcement, the now
defunct politician in the governors
office remarked that he had not heard
of anyone being killed. None of they
mobe violence criminals have been
prosecuted.
On this issue alone believers in or
derly government should vote the In
dependent ticket in Minnesota, this
fall, that an honest attorney general
may restore the dignity Of American
law.
Our state department hates public
ity, and has recently shown its feel
ing on the matter by excluding the
representative of the liberal press as
ISOLATION from the daily interviews
given by Secretary Colby. If it is do
ing things in general similar to q
move regarding China which has re-
Gently come to light. it is not hard
to understand why the state depart
ment loves darkness. in the scriptural
sense.
The Chinese government recently
withdrew recognition OF Russian dlpio
mats and consular representatives.
These representatives are hangovers
from the old regime and have been
supporting themselves on the Boxer
indemnity to Russia of about $685.
900 q year. The present Russian gov
eminent has, of course, had nothing
to do with them, and when the Boil
shevik regime came into power one
of its first acts was to renounce Rus
sia's right to this indemnity and to
control of the Chinese eastern rail-
way.
Our state department has entered
q vigorous protest against China's
suspension Of the salaries of these
diplomats and consuls who have no
offices to fill, and has appealed to the
other great powers for aid in bring
ing pressurs on China.
Over Is years ago, when America
apparently had more enlightened
foreign policy we renowned our share
Of the Boxer indemnity and the money
has been used by China to educate
worthy students In foreign universe
ties. This act gave the whole Fat
East splendid impression of US. We
Russia's surrender of the Boxer in
demnity, and China at the present
time has 100000 eople starving to
death with famine.
The only motive we can think of for
the act is that this !soxer indemnity
and the former Russian officials in
China constitute means of waging
rropagan,ta against Russia in the Far
East, which America and other coun-
tries do rot have t. pay FIR.
The inevitable applica: ion # the
Wall street blast to politics hos ar
rived. The New York Tribune is
quite certain thst it is ell due to the
wicked doctrines scattered by the
democratic candidates. Other repub-
lican papers declare that the demo-
Gratis are to blame because they have
not exported sufficient number Of
reds. Democratic papers, on the 9TH
er hand, are quite sure that the re-
publicans are to blame. They see
the republican angling for The Ger
man vote and snea<'ng contemptu..
ously of the great ?rint,'es announced
by President Wilson.
We know enough about each Of
these two rotten boats to sink either
one of them, but we 10 not believe
that either gang had anything to do
with the New York blast. nor 10 the
oliticians on either side believe any
such thing.
They are simply making the next
logical move in the use Of war hys-
terra against liberal thought in A,ner-
lea, and it does not make us feel Rad
to find them tearing away at each
other with the sar,e weapons they
have hitherto used against organized
labor and the farmers.
In fact, we would not rerarl it as
a calamity II tn, two old 1lach;L es
were to engage in physical combat
with large CASUALTIES on each side.
The present situation in the Fiji is-
lands appears to be fair illustration
of imperialism at work in out-of-the
way places. These islands, belonging
to Great Britain, have been largely
deruded of nati:e population due ia
the plantation system of sugar cane
growing and :aborcrs are now re-
cruited from ,ndia. China and Other
smaller islands.
Sugar sydicateS own the lind ana
do the er,piovin., and government Of
ficials baci. them up in all measures
witt al TIE force that great '''vii'
ICED nation can command
Naturally the workers trapped b.
force or frau'l into such employment
are treated worse than slave. hac;;us"
the value of ,he !aborer Is only thu