The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-10-20


tice. How much lower can the living
for the naiddle and lower classes gt
before the thing collapses? Surely
not great deal further. And, if ths
system does collapse, Europe cannot
support half of its population. This
situation has not been brought about
by the people but by the ruling class
es of Europe who for the past loo
years have oppressed them and kept
them in ignorance and darkness. This
should be an object lesson to America
and particularly to those autocratit
forces in America that seek to con.
troll, not only the avenues of publicity
but the very life of the government
itself. If they would save themselves
they must help save Europe and must
save America, not by oppression, but
by permitting the people to have g
freer hand in the affairs of the ma.
ton.
Eve in America must depend upof
Europe. IF Europe cannot buy oul
products, then we cannot prosper The
first consideration for us then is how
can we best help ourselves and
answer that by saying, by helping
Europe, by putting Russia, Germany
Austria, England and all Europe in q
position to buy what we have to
sell, ana secondly, by arousing the
American people to sense of duty
they owe 10 themselves, that of taking
more active interest in the affairs
of government. This is your govern
ment and you must protect and pre-
serve it.
What does the republican party Of
fer to the world and to America to
help US in this crisis? It offers tar
if law that adds an additional tax of
from $4,000, 100000 to $4,000,O00, 900
upon the people Of this country and
destroy foreign markets.
what the farmer, and what we all
need, is a market for our surplus
products. We can find buyer only
if we can encourage some else to be a
seller. Before the war Europe was
our creditor; our annual interest pay
ments to her were large. Her treas
uries were full of gold and she was
able to pay for what she might buy
from us.
"That situation has completely
changed. We paid off our European
during the war; we owe
her nothing. They owe US about SILL
100000. We, as nation have
changed from a nation of importers
to a nation of exporters.
with the settling of this western
country, and the influx to our shores
of vast multitudes of foreigners who
aided in the development of this coun-
try, our infant industries were not
able to manufacture all that we con-
Su"eod And protective tariff did
protect the manufacturers of this
country and kept out foreign compe-
tition. Today these infant industries
have grown so powerful that instead
Of our needing to protect these indus
ties the people need protection from
them. We have become a nation of
exporters and it should take no great
amount Of argument to convince you
that unless we can sell our surplus
products abroad, we must inevitably
reduce production which must mean
unemployment.
owe produce in this country a
large surplus of boots and shoes and
other manufactured articles and also
. surplus of wheat and many other
farm products. II. we cease to buy
from Germany, Austria, Russia, Eng
and and other impoverished countries,
tell me how they can buy our surplus,
Then what is to become Of It? Tt will
BE a drug upon our hands. We viii
nave to reduce production or else the
American people will have to pay
such exorbitant prices for things that
he manufacturers can afford to dump
he surplus upon the foreign market
below cost price. In either event it
hurts America, it hun is Europe and
t hurts civilization.
"The benefciaries of the republican
.ariff are practically the same inter-
ssts and individuals that profited by
he republican revision of federal
1900 members of big in
1ustrial and financial corporations
which in many cases have made pro-
iteering means of amassing mill
ions.
"The cry of the republicans that the
Fordney-M cCumber bill will protect
and prosper agricultural interests of
he country is nothing but a false
oretense designed to win the farm
er's approval and avoid his condemna-
ion of a measure that was conceived
and concocted by and for the trusts
and monopolies to whom Mr.. Hard
ng's party is under obligation for the
millions it has been using in influence
ng elections in Michigan, in Montana
and elsewhere.
''The New York Tribune, a leading
republican newspaper calls the tariff
dill "a monstrosity." The Boston
Transcript (republican) characterizes
It as "a disgrace to the party in pow
er, and menace to the nation" The
Chicago Tribune and the Springfield
Union, both republican papers, admit
hat much of the criticism is justified.
It is the worst tariff bill that has ev-
er been foisted upon the backs of the
American producers and means the
Of our development rather
han help.
II say to you my friends that this
country today is facing a crisis and
t is because of the actions of men
ike Mr.. Harding who typify the ruI
srs Of Europe who have made such
colossal failures that Europe finds
tself in the position it is today with
Ill the misery and all the grief and
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