The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-09-29

time, two great forces at work IN the
world-the one selfish and greedy,
seeking always to maintain itself IN
LUXURY and idleness at the expense OF |
the masses, and the other the great
mass of the common people who are
everywhere striving to gain Just
little bit more of the many rich bless |
ings which the Creator has bestowed
upon US.
"In Europe the autocratic forces
have ruled for the past 100 years ana
one only has to glance at those coun-
tries to see what miserable failure
the so-called ruling classes have made
of their attempt
Civilization Dissolving
European civilization is dissolvlng
and there are no forces now at work
strong enough to arrest the approach
ing disaster.
aRussia is completely wrecked. Her
cities have passed, her fields are idle;
thirty millions of her peasants, &C,
cording to Miss Anna Haines, head
of the Russian Friends Relief, are
starving, and these unfortunates are
the rural peasants, actual tillers OF
the soil. The industrial organization
has broken down completely An
American dollar in 1914 would pur-
chase two rubIes Now it will buy,
100000 of them.
"Austyia in eight years has fallen
from the center of prosperous en-
pire of fifty millions to wretched
country of about one-tenth OF It's or
! iginal size with her old economic unit
| hopelessly shattered.
| SItaly tells a similar story.
"Take Spain, country not ntlu-
enced directly by the war. Her pa
per currency Increased from 1000
million pesetas before the war to
1920 million IN July, 1920, and to
ALSO millions one year later.
'In France the circulating medium
rose from six million francs IN 1914
to thirty-four billions in 1919. And
since the armistice it has further IN
creased to about forty billions.
Enough has been cited to show
Europe is now in a desperate condl-
ton. She is sick, very sick, and has
been growing worse, not better, since
the arrnistice. How much lower can
the living for the middle ana lower
classes 90 before the thing collapses :!
Surely not a great way further. |
do not saw that this civilization can
not be saved, but | do say that bold,
determined leadership must soon as
!; sert itself with a concrete, definite
constructive, united program; 1t
, must be looked at as one problem
the rebuilding of united economic
unit and there must be no economic
barriers between nations such as che
: Republican party seeks to build up
by it's tariff.
People Not to Blame
GA great many people are prone
to blame the conditions in Europe TO-
, day upon the people, but / say to you
that it isn't the people, but it is LOG
; years of oppression, by the selfish
ruling classes of Europe that are di.
= rectly responsible. The expenditure
of all those countries far exceeds
2 their income. There is no hope fol-
Europe-none whatever, while the
expenditures in those countries or Il
a this exceed tae receipts. Th's gov
Y eminent, both state and nation, mus
: look this problem in the face. If I
: expeets to consine. The Repuo '.:sl
: palty under the leadership Of nj:
t Harding typ;fes, these rulers =
Europe for it is apparent that HI
: every act, his every deed, and hi
5. every thought has been in the inter
n est of that little group of Wall stree
e financiers who in the early hours c
d lie morn:ia, before BE- was nominal
5, ef literally took him to reom :
! the Blackstone hotel N Chicag, ar.
n there exaete.l tlcm h m, we are -.
p.enises to 10 certain things in tn
interest of those selfish interest
It that SO ably controlled that last Re
publican convention, as they believe
2. in their own interests. And let
be said to the credit of Mr.. Hardin
he has apparently lived up to hi
p promises SO made, which we all mus
= admit is a rather unusual thing fo
IS Republican politician to do.
y 'sThis country also is facing Girls
st is. This is not an original idea wit
ID me, but every person who CASUAL
a analyzes the economic situation i
4 this country must admit it whethe
he likes to or not.
oe Temporizing Relief Fails
lie eve were told that Immediately VI
s. on the election of Mr. Harding Il
price of wheat would increase, tn;
the factories and mills and smeltel
would be running full blast, but il
stead we find the greatest of all il
dustries, that of agriculture, is alno
r PROSTATE. Farm mortgages have il
creased in the last decade somethir
like 800 per cent. The temporizir
schemes put forward for its relic
Us such as price fixing and the enc
Us gency tariff, have all failed to relic
hi the farmer. He is still paying w;
prices for what he buys while recei
ing less than pre-war prices for h
err products.
cf "Our coal industry is paralyz