The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-05-21
The WEEK I
Mexico'S Revolution
A Real Income Tax Law
Nebr1skA'S EArRer.Lab0r
Ticket
The Polish-Russian War.
A New Kind Of Market Ma
aipulaitsn
lainAe9ota's Elimination
Convention

nipulaitou
0finne9ota's Elimination i
Convention
Certain aspects of the Mexi-
can revolution appeared to war
rant hope that the new regime
would be more liberal than the
ene displaced. We heard that
labor of the state of
Sonora participated in it from
the first. The revolutioQists
moved ahead with 50 little op-
that We had some war
rant for believing that it was
chiefly. spontaneous action Of the
people. The governor of Yuka-
tan, the man responsible for the
organization which beat our
harvester trust on control of
sisal fiber and for many thor
ough reforms in the interests
of the workers, was reported as
participating.
But against these points, and
outweighing them in our opin-
ion, is the unreserved joy which
our controlled press exhibits ov-
er the event. The Wall Street
Journal is certain that the new
export oil tax of 4 cents a ton,
as compared with the old tax of
81 cents, will never go into ef-
feet. The hands which dictate
to these papers have the inside
facts, and we have the outside
fact that they would never re-
joice over any move toward fun
damental democracy.
Representative Griffin of New
York has introduced an income
tax bill which takes all incomes
above $5O0,OOO a year. Under
its provisions incomes up to
100000 would be taxed about
as present. An income. of that
figure would be taxed SIS per
cent and S per cent would be
added for each $4,000 of in
come over $1OO, 600. Hence by
the time $50O,OO0 was reached
this scale would take all.
We don't think congress will
pass the bill, but this does not
mean that We know of any an
gument against it that should
have weight with the victim of
the high cost of living. We i'm
agine, however, that those
whose incomes range from
S5OO.O0O to $1O,OOO,O0O Il year
would consider it decidedly So
cialistic, and everyone knows
how careful congress is to avoid
anything which Wall street
holds to be tinged with red.
AS a result of the get-togeth-
er convention held at Grand Is
land, Neb., on May A for that
purpose, Nebraska now has an
independent state ticket. Nom
partisan league farmers, labor
organizations and the Commit
tee of Forty-eight were the
chief groups represented. Judge
Arthur G. Wray, mayor of
York and head of the Commit
tee of Forty-eight, was nomin-
ated for governor; Robert Nous
el of Cambridge, a farmer and
world-famous breeder of Here
ford cattle, was nominated for
lieutenant governor, and F. l..
Bollen of Wayne, who has serv-
ed in the state legislature and as
attorney for Knox county, as at
torney general. The whole con-
vention also indorsed a program
of the kind that the farmers Of
North Dakota have stood for.
The two old parties in Nebras-
ka both have reactionary candi-
dates for state Office and this
fact, combined with the great
drive against organized labor
now going on and the general
hardening OF conditions for the
farmer, giving the independent
ticket excellent prospects Of
success in the fall.
News of the Polish Russian
war does not appear definite
enough to enable any one to