The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-12-22
BY PAUL HANNA


STAG Correspondent, Federated Press
Washington-If those fellows in
congress go too far with tho effort to
impeach Daugherty they may hear a
story from the attorney generals own
lips which shows how good he is.
Oscar Keller and the newspapers
don't know everything. For example
you haven't seen in pint any account
Of raid on Communists carried out
In middle western city late in Nc
vember. The story goes that reds
were seized In that raid, and that 10
OF the prisoners turned out to be sec
ret agents OF the department Of JUS
tice, assigned to spy on the revolu-
Honists.
The 18th man was not a Daugherty
agent. He had been set to watch the
Communists by Mitch Palmer, way
back in 1919, and just stayed on. be-
cause he liked the life and had Moth
ing else to do when the New Freedom
went out of office.
Speaking of spies, have you ever
stopped to wonder what became of
that big army of secret agents built
up and highly trained by the German
empire before and during the World
war! An army officer, lately retired,
says the whole crew was taken over
by Japan, with no more loss of pay
than was necessary in the confusion
of a general armistice and Paris peace
conference.
These international spies were and
are scattered all over the world
some on ships, some in port, many
waiting on the tables of the rich and
some pretending to be wage workers
and members Of labor unions. When
Wilhelm II fell they were satisfied to
cry, "The Kaiser Is dead, Long live the
mikado!" just as any corps of trained
shoppers Of any nationality would
have done.
The relish of all this, for our own
imperialists, is that Great Britain
and the United States had obtained
a pretty accurate list Of real German
agents during the war, had exchanged
their information, and arc now fami-
liar with this big bloc of the Japanese
secret service personnel.
When w. r. Hearst bought The
Washington Herald the other day he
brought out the first issue under his
own management labelled "Vol. I, No.
L." and thereby deleted all facial evil
deTce that the paper existed for Is
years before he got it.
Celebrating his last hours on a
doomed organ, some editorial writer
felt free enough from control to say
some things about a minimum wage
law, just declared unconstitutional BY
a district court.
''We believe there is a moral obi
cation upon every employer to pay
a living wage" he wrote. people
will not work for less wages than
they can live on. Ten of IL girls
might starve to death. Twenty or 80
might commit suicide. A hundred or
more might start picking pockets. But
the great mass would be able to turn
the tables in their own favor sooner or
later
"It wouldn't be right for a girl get
ting less than she could possibly live
on to steal, according to the scriptures.
But everybody knows that 80 girls
out of every 100 would steal. Most
people know that they themselves
would steal under the circumstances.
''The minimum wage law which
finally will obtain in American indus
try will be imposed by higher pow
er than the congress of the United
States and upheld by higher court
than the supreme court of the United
States. The only appeal will
be bankruptcy.
McAdoo will be the next president,
f the international bankers can bring
it about. William G. believes in al
league of nations and the bankers
whose vaults are filled with European
securities must do something to bring
heir holdings back to par.
Gossip says the Morgan family has
collected on it's British paper and has
turned actively pro-French and 9TH
erwise anti-British. But the interna-
5ional bankers as a whole and exclud-
ng Morgan are still loaded down with
The old world paper which they are
sure cannot be saved without a league
IF nations.
Being deep in United States Steel,
he Morgans are shifting their treas
ire from folalgn government bonds
WITH some intelligence and initiative
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