The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-01-30

oo:n Anoo tnose great territories
ANXIOUS TO escape European DONNA.
non-Asiatic Turkey. the great oil
region OF Bak0, Persia, Afghanistan
China and, as England especially
fears, India. The signing Of peace
treaties with the Boisheyi}d offers n
protection to European rule, because
peace can not set up barriers against
the spread of ideas. That is why Enr-
land and France stood for such IN
prevention as they could afford from,
the beginning. Now instead of the
pleasure OF carving up Russia they
look on the possibility of seeing their
own territories pared away.
Were their own people at home in
the right mood, England and France
would Immediately declare a major
war on the Bolsheviki. But this is
out of the question for the present.
The one thing left is to stir up the
border states. Poland was made for
this purpose, as was Finland, Letvia
and Esthonia. The allies will rush in
food and arms to the extent of their
capacity to keep these countries &C.
tive in the field. Poland attacked the
Bolshevlki as soon as Denekine start
ed his wild retreat.
This plan of salvation, however, hits
another snag. The people of these lit
tie countries don't want any more
war. Esthonia has already made
peace with the Bolsheviki. Poland and
Finland might go Bolshevik except for
outside force. So ruling-class Europe
is worried as never before in modern
history. The working classes worry
mostly about getting enough to eat,
for when man is hungry he can't
think of much else-not even of saw
ing empires or making the world safe
for democracy.
Receipt Of 11,480 pounds of Danish
butter at the port of New York, with
the promise of more to follow, is not
Favorable news to our farmers, We
ought to be sending lot of butter to
Europe. Cold storage rsople had put
by 21,418,516 pounds on December l,
1919, as compared with 12,1S7,247
pounds on the same date in 1918. But
the Danish shipment is explained onlv
in part by this evidence of specula-
ton.
European exchange rates will fully
account for the import. When these
rates first began to break our exports
fell off. Now point is reached where
Europe can afford to send over here
commodities which we normally would
send over in large amounts. In any
considerable length of time trade be-
tween nations must be bartering of
goods. If we do not take English
woolens and cutlery, French wines and
dress goods, German dyestuffs, and
high-grade steel manufactures, we
must take other commodities like,
butter, eggs and wheat. We can not !
sell evrything and buy nothing, as the |
protectionists preach.
With the English pound worth only
$50 in New York, as compared with
1886 par value, the Danish importer
can buy q dollars worth of this money
in New York for 76 cents. He can
buy q dollars worth of German or
French money for a good deal less,
Or to pit it another way, if he gets 60
cents for pound of butter in New
York, he really gets - cents Of the
best money in Europe.
Refusal Of Clemeneeau to run for
election as president of France NAV
be a little thing, but it may show
little change of the wind in France.
The now former prime minister got
out of the race when he found that
he could not get sufficient votes in
parliament. This is what denotes the
change of wind.
In 1916 good part Of the liberal
of France was for making
peace on the basis of things as they
stood in 1914. Clemenceau threw his
strength with the conservatives to
head oft such a peace, and with the
failure to make a peace the liberals
lost most of their power. One of
their principal leaders, Calliaux, is
still in jail and faces tria for the al
legged efforts to make peace without
victory.
Given full power at home and the
victory wanted, however, the conscr-
atives have not been able to rule WELL
Internal conditions go from bad to
worse. Wealth has escaped taxation.
Profiteering f1ourishes. Metal money
las practically disappeared from cir
:ulation. French labor, as we'll as
English, is talking about the neces-
'ity of taking contro of politics to
Keep the fnanciers from running the .
lation.
1t would not be at all surprising
o hear of Calliaux taken from prison {
o be finance minister again. He was
apable in that office before the war,
'eing driven out largely because he
an income tax.
On the last day of its annual meet O.
ng the Minnesota Agricultural socie- II
devoted its time to carving up the
league, and as a personal o
1ention column might put it, "a pleas t
Mt time was had by ALL" Leo F. p
Warner of the McGill- Warner Print
ng company was one of the promin-
Mt speakers for the farmers. Frank
'. Murphy, lawyer of Wheaton, Of -,
!merica First fame, president of the o
bove-named society and perennial a
for governor, was there, of
purse, and in his best anti-League y
armer form. d.
One of the most brilliant League
trocities was made public by Charles
enning Of Bird Island when he de-