The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1921-06-10
ST. Lazare, Man.
May ~, 1921.
TO MY FELLOW WORKERS,
COMRADES AND FRIENDS:

lew days IN which We may read and Y
think, and bray, excuse me, mean il
pray, for rain, SO we may harvest al o
bumper crop, that we may exc out an Q
existence for another year from the Q
mere pittance we receive, which is our 6
reward for years toll Of our Drawn 9
and brain, mostly Drawn, but that b
we may add to the already overflow
ing Golfers Of the various parasites c
and plutocrats and thereby help to
continue their infinite pleasures, III
most valuable asset, OUR OWN t
FREE PRESS to express my views in q
regard to the most talked Of, also the J
most vital subject Of the day, namely '
revolution. We have been taught that
revolution is the highest form of Gre
alton and recreation, of the ami
mate matter of the social organism, I
but how many of us know it is /?
/ The word revolution is an easy word
to say, it rolls off the tongue so easy
and does not require much thought to
say it, but, how many of us self
STYLED revolutiOnists have read,
i studied and thought enough to know
the real meaning of the word, l will
venture to say, very few. | we'll re-
member the days when we would
stand around and argue and ask each
other: how long it would be before
the big day would be with us: some
thought it would be in the very near
future, others thought it was knock |,
ing at. the door, still others thought
they could hear the guns roaring IN
the distance but none of us thought
it was a very long distance from US.
But we were all wrong, and why? Be
cause we had not studied enough to
know the real meaning of the word,
and it's allies, for if we had, we would
have known better. | therefore ask
you, and especially my progressive
= friends in the Outlook territory, that
N were at one time the most progressive
o. lot in Sheridan county: yes, Will
:. venture to say the State OF Montana,
N and hope you still are, ask you, have
IN YOU advanced with the times? Have
YOU kept your minds open, so that you
"a were able to gather in the facts In re-
n gard to all the new issues that nave
~ confronted us / sincerely hope you
bo have, for now that the world war mas
IS seemingly, hurried the new day, and
ne it is no longer decades but may nap
pen in years, now that capitalism Is
If making it's last stand, and the pine
Mt nomena may be with US at any tlne
av are YOU prepared to receive, and take
'n Of it? I hope you have kept abreast
= Of the times. Let US dig into the
he meaning of the word and its allies, OF
"a at least some Of the allies: radicalisn
signifesla going to the root OF things
,k therefore il we are, or want to be
=, radical revolutionists, we must trace
I'm the roots Of the process in the soils
;ss of philosophy and psychology Tor w
~. must organize a militant organlza
"a ton in body and soul to be a success
mt we must also study economics and so
GEOLOGY in order to gain the vita
=, facts which we will need to carry GU
our program when we Will be asKe
,ve tn steer the ship. How many OF u
'y' have done so? The big trouble wit
in us is, after we got the cob web
&c brushed from our eyes, or our nose
OK through the fog, we read few book
ua IN economics and few pamphlets O.
lie some still lighter subjects, and the
we start right in to announce to Tn
ol- entire world, that we are radical re
a. vol1tionists,: we undertake to cor
III vince the world we are right.
&C frankly confess | was one OF then
NV We will argue with people on SUI
tor iects we know nothing or little OF, an
in oftimes know less than the person
at are irving to teach, so let US STUD.
ave- read and think and load ourselve
mo down with facts on all, | say ALL t, tn
son issues confronting US, and keep TN
ing in mind, the LESS a person Know
and the MORE he THINKS he knows, %
the more a person KNOWS, u
his LESS, he KNOWS he knows
Il, when we Undertake to convince pc
viii SON we are right, that we Know
rof what we speak. -,
of I suppose some are still shoueih'
two Give us democracy, it is democrat
the we want!" But have you stopped
has think, is it really democracy you wa
ICY, / say no, we will leave the remains
Mr. democracy for our great poulseo :,
If sanoa nlutes that cleaned us, only the
his have not discovered it to date.
art will nrop up the dead issue, dem
est- cracv. for our great bourgeois cla
for that. IS nineteenth disabled, financla
". spiritually, physically, mentally, :!
,at- anv other way you care to name.
who viii privilege this parasitical class
for use It until they discover It mas a1 pc
pwn Inf we the producers Of ALL Wealt
we will brush right by the propped-e
|roy remnants, nothing is too good Tor
ZEN we want the most progressive
know Of, namely: Communist Ergat
cracy (proletarian rule); we We VIII With
d;ctatorship-we want it all; we wa a
- T1,le and we are going to rule. 3
u we must keep our minds open;
must keep abreast Of the times;
I.1, ,onst he loaded with the facts, SO Wn
.,,aa the phenomena makes it appea:I1an a
one we we will be capable of taking It a
sri; using It with wisdom, and IN tneA Q,
NV nj. looked for hour, the opportune =
4. ment, we may grasp the regime reg M ,
- what will be left of it, and out OF OF,
t-5e chaos and ruins build happy lu..
mas for the only useful class On Ine R.ssi'
Lolph So my lIi tas y or word. face
IL, .suu'~- .or1onn none until you hs