The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-09-15
er of an organization which took to it.
self the name of sane progressive
To strip the mask of subterfuge

self the name of sane progressive.'
10 strip the mask of subterfuge
from tire so-called sane progressive
and reveal the real character of the
opposition was more difficult because
OF the lmense expenditure of money
used to flood tn estate with a mass Of
misleading campaign literature by The
opposition. Added to this, the grea1
bulk of the press of the state, con
trolled by the special interests, failec
to give the people the trutr.
Wisconsin is suffering less thar
most states from the general depres
sion which has gripped the country
The result is not SO much the protest
of disaffection and despair as the in
spring and determined declaration oil
a great state TO bring government
back to the people and make it. serve
| the common interests.
1T places the people of Wisconsin
foremost in progressive leadership
thought and action
'"This will be maintained by the
people of this commonwealth in the
November election"
LEGION HITS PROFITEERS
The American Legion Weekly, in its
issue of September s, in an article by
Marquis James exposing war prof
teering will say in part, dealing with
Daughertys failure to prosecute the
big grafters:
People ae quaking in their boots
who never quaked before, people who
few months ago boasted no one
could touch them. No one would dare
and for some ingenious reasons-sthe
Army can't afford scandal-it would
unsettle business politics would pre-
vent. And even yesterday I heard
The government can't afford to do
this thing. With such crises as the
coal and rail strikes at hand, popular
faith must not be shaken
"To front the impending assault
barricades of defense are going up
expensive lawyers retained, influential
friends 'seen,' men who might talk
approached with propositions, alibis
arranged, trips to Europe planned, i'm
portant documents performing some
surprising changes of hands.
Another category of men are ap-
pearing on the scene, with tales which
almost surpass belief; takes of at
tempted bribery and corruption, and,
these failing, of threat and persecu-
ton; tales of virtual reigns of terror
instituted against men who knew too
much; of men bounded and driven
from one employment after another,
reduced to poverty-and all this be-
cause they We're honest; tales of
wives and children patching and scrap
ing, not knowing where next months
rent is coming from-women who had
their husbands made just one little
slip could now be living like queens.
"These factors and more will play
their parts in the coming drama,
which may be the dawn of our great
est national scandal, of the bitterest
series of legal battles of the century"
Discussing the industrial organiza-
ton creaed for the war, James says:
"Of on wartime production the public
read only what the government de-
sled should be read, only what the
series of colossal industrial groups,
which in the last analysis held the
rein, desired should be read"
In a series of six articles, James
proposes to deal with the details of
war scandals involving billions-ap-
parently in order to enforce the Le-
gion's argument that the government
can find money for the bonus when
eve it wants to do so.
KELLOGG AN OLD MAN.
Senator Kellogg of Minnesota, is re-
ferred to SO often in the press as a
junior senator that many think of him
as,a young man. AS matter of fact,
however, he is now 66 years. old and
his physical condition is a surprise to
those who happen to see him here at
the capital. He does not have the
vigor and stamina of Senator Nelson,
who is referred to as the senior sena-
tor and is older in point of years.
While no information has been given
out from G.. O. P. circles in regard to
his health he evidently has some ply
steal trouble which produces a marked
trembling of the arms and hands.
And there are other signs of the rapid
approach of old age.
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