The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1921-08-19
in THE WAKE
OF THE NEWS
Ford,s Railroad Views

When the Cincinnati Post asked
Henry Ford to tell the people how II
was possible to pay the hlghest
wages and cut the rates on his road
at the same time, Ford replied:
81 am not trying to burglarlze my
railroad-I'm making it serve the
public.
'Under Wall street management tne
only way they know how to make
money is higher railroad rates.
which is the poorest way IN the world
to get business"
Asked what he would advise other
railroads to do he said:
ssBoost wages, slash rates, let lot
of men go. I'd let some Of the men go
back to the farm - temporarily.
Thev'd be of more use there ana De
of greater value to themselves.
"There are too many men running
railroads who let somebody else do
their thinking for them. We want
men who can think for themselves.
"Keep. the railroads busy and the
eouipment busy and all the men on
f. busy. On the Detroit, Toledo 4
Ironton we are getting along fine
making money where the road never
made money before, making it be-
cause the men are busy ana tnelf
hearts are in the work.
Henry Ford thus expresses exactly
what the Nonpartsan league mas
been preaching since it started anc
more and more people are coming u
see that financiers can not run a pro
ducing industry like the railroads II
the interest of the people. Ford pu1
the point more strongly at the enc
of his interview when he said:
"The laws were made solely Tor m
vestors, whose insidious aim is t.
destroy industry"
A Tariff Joker
Complicated bills considered by
congress frequently have more joker:
in them than humorous magazine
has Jokes, and the present Fordne!
tariff bill is unusually crowded witt
this brand of monopoly monkey bust
ness.
The sugar joker is a good illustra
ton. The bill places tariff OF L.
cents pound on sugar imported from
Cuba and it allows a rebate on Thu
sugar of mills to a domestic cor
poration for every pound Of domestic
sugar it refines.
The American Sugar compan.
(sugar trust) refnes practically al
of our home grown sugar; consequent
" this trust only will be able to ge
the rebate on the Cuban sugar. l
will thus grab all the product OF tina
island to be consumed here.
Three mills to the pound isn't mucl
by the pound, but it means a margin
If Sc a ton. and refineries do bushes
by the ton.
Just why the trust should have al
advantage over independents to thu
amount might be Q hard thing TO
congress to explain to the pubic.
Private Army Atrocities
West Virginia contributed turtle
To the list of atrocities due to privat
armies il America with the death o
Sid Hatfield, prominent mine labo
leader. and Ed. Chambers police
man of Mattewan.
The two men were entering tn
courthouse at WEIGH, w. Va, to de
fend themselves against charge o
shooting up" the town of Mohawk
year ago when BaldWln-felts gun
men opened fire.
C. l.. Lively, one Of the gunner
held for the shooting, recently test
fed before United States senate In
vestigating committee as to how. n
had killed a man in Colorado, ha'
been held in Jail Is months, and the
was quietly released through the in
f1uence of his mine owner employers
The senate investigation reveale
that when the gunner wanted to do
Job in that territory they first deport
ed the men they wanted to "get" t
WEIGH, somewhat under the cover 0
the law, and treated them unmerci
fully. One witness exhibited horribl