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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05
space to letters in reply to editorials.
What Vets Are Doing


Letters being sent to members of the
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment contain these paragraphs
outlining details of The wet program to
defeat prohibition.
''As the situation stands at present,
our organization has an excellent oppor-
tunity to grasp the balance of power in
the coming political contest, by working
now to increase our membership and
awaken public sentiment. We anticipate
victories in such pivotal" or key"
states as Massachusetts, New York,
Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wis
consin and California The states men
toned contain about forty-6ve per cent
of the population of the entire country,
and all are more or less favorable to the
repeal of the Volstead Law.
"a reorganized and enlarged publicity
department, direct mail propaganda
campaign of nationwide scope, an adj
vertising campaign, powerful organi-
zation of field workers. and mass meet
ing campaign under the direction of our
speakers bureau, are some of the meth
DDS that are being used to rouse the
voters to full realization of the iniquity
of prohibition and the hypocrisy of en-
forcement' as we have seen it for over
period of four years"
Wet Leader Names Illinois
In the Chicago Tribune of August 20
a staff correspondent, writing from
Washington, quoted W. Fl. Stayton head
of the Association Against the Prohibi-
ton Amendment as follows:
"The campaign now being conducted
is wholly non-partisan in character with
aspirants for nomination or re-nomina-
ton in all of the parties receiving our
support where they are of the liberal
stripe and are opposed by a dry rival"
Captain Stayton gave list of states in
which effective work for the vets is
under way and Illinois was included in
the list.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05
RUM FINES TOTAL Is
$l5,OOO,OOO SINCE II
Republicans, in Party Textbook,
Point to Administrations Pro-
hibition Record
Chicago Daily News)

"Fnes totaling more than Sl5,0OO,O0O,
together with 85.5oS convictions and Jail
sentences aggregating upwards OF 1000
years,-these represent the record made
by the department of justice in the en-
forcement of the prohibition laws during
the present administration declares the
Republican campaign textbook, just out,
in its chapter on Law Enforcement 1t
continues:
ITO some extent these figures also
show the vast amount OF prohibition liti-
CATION handled by the federal courts
since the Republican party came into
power in 1921.
Prohibition Record Analysed
1.-THE following table gives the record OF
the criminal prohibition cases handled by
the department from July l, 1921 (the
beginning of the first fiscal year under
the Republican administrator, to April
80. 1924:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02
STOUT FORECASTS
WHEELER CLEARING
FORMER CONGRESSMAN Elk
Poets MONTANAN TO BE EX-
ONERATED IN SENATE IN
CURRY.

LewistoWn April Ex-senator Bur
ton K. Wheeler, who was indicted by
a federal grand jury in Great Falls,
will be exonerated by the Borah COM
mittee SO far as the United States
senate is concerned, according to
opinions expressed here by former
Congressman Tom Stout, who re-
turned Sunday from Washington,
where ne was called as a witness be-
fore the Borah committee.
Washington is simply overrun with
detectives, Mr.. Stout said. Some of
these are in employ of government
departments, some in the employ of
political parties and others in the en-
ploy CT individuals, he continued.
Frank A Vanderlip, according to
Mr.. Stout, is reported to have a large
staff of detectives working for him.
While he met many Montana peo-
pie at the national capital, Mr. Stout
said he did not meet former Con-
gresham Carl Riddick. formerly of
Lewistown, but he asserted he learn
ed that Mr.. Riddick is in the employ
Of the republican national committee
and has been especially active in CO.
GENERATING with the committee in its
efforts to get something" on Sena-
tor Wheeler, who defeated Mr.. Rid
dick in the campaign of 1922.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02

shaft about 200 feet and drop about
80 feet to the 165-foot level. At this
point was a timber slide and a fimsy
ladder. The mine was wet and mud
DIV and some cf the roOmswere still
hung up and the men were in danger.
Hung up means that the blast did not
cause the rock and upper strata to
come down solidly and allow for prop
er bracing.
One miner quit work a few days be-
fore the pond broke through He had
noticed the warning signals given by
the seepage Of wet sand from above.
There were only three feet Of rock be-
tween the sand and the pond bottom
and he decided to give up his $40 a
day Job for a while until things got
safer.
The management had been asking
anxiously for a number of days
whether the braces were holding
properly but in spite of the plain ev-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02
THE MILFORD Mine
WAS DEATH TRAP

Crosby, Minn.-A little brass check
with the number 80 on it is what
identified the remains of Valentine
Cole, whose decomposed body was
taken out Of the death-trap Milford
mine six weeks after the terrific
February disaster. FOurty-one iron
miners of the Whitmarsh Mining Co.
a steel trust subsidiary, were drowned
when the bottom fell out of a pond
that had been permitted to remain
undrained ever the mine workings.
The company had refused to heed
warnings Of the fatal break and the
safety precautions had been so dis
regarded that escape was impossible
for the men caught in the flood OF
slime and water.
Coles body was found under mass
of fallen timber near the mouth Of
the 135-foot level. Soon after, the
body of another miner named Graves
was found and identified by his son.
Other bodies remain to be found.
Thirty-nine widows and nearly 100
fatherless children are the net result
of the steel trusts saving safety.
The coroner decided that no inquest
was necessary. The mine is guarded
by the company and no visitors are
allowed to pass the gate. Photo
graphers are also barred. Even the
temporary morgue is not to be photo
graphed An investigation is sup
posed to be under way but this too is
muffled in secrecy.
From the collar Of the shaft to the
innermost workings the mine was a
murderous death-trap. There was
only one shaft and that shaft was
dangerous because the laths were
bulging out under the pressure OF wet
sand. The laths are twO-inch planks
placed up and down behind 12x12 tim
bers which are arranged about three
feet apart crOsswise. These twO-inch
planks three feet long bulged out
three inches. The ladder-road up the
main shaft was loose and Tapping
and swung out so far when a man
was on it that the fellow underneath
couldn't get a hold. The steps of the
ladders were II inches apart and
some of them were missing. There
was nc ladder-road at all from the
low level except up through the pump
shaft and that means tram men on
the low level had to depend upon the
skip or cage. The cage would only
accommodate about eight men to the
trip and each trip would consume
three minutes. The cage was unpro-
tected and the men often had their
coats torn in travelling up the shaft.
At the 135-ft. level of the mine the
workings ran north from themain
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02
ANOTHER LAND
In EUROPE HAS
LABOR REGIME
Theodore Staining, Former Cigar
Maker, Now Premier-PrOmisesf to
Make Capital Levy.

Copenhagen.-With the appoint
ment of Theodore Staining to the DO
sition of Danish prime minister after
the SOsialist victory in the recent
national elections, another labor gov
eminent comes into the European
arena.
The Socialists, with 46O,845 votes
and 55 seats in the parliament are
the strongest single party in Danish
politics. Although they have not a
clear majority in parliament against
q combination of Liberals, COnserva-
tives and Radicals, they can count
generally on the support of the radi-
cal representatives, who with their
20 votes added to the 55 Socialist
votes will make a majority against IA
Liberals and % Conservatives.
The national issue raised by the
Socialists was a capital levy and a
naturalization program, with the re-
suit that the Socialists increased their
vote by 71,000 and the Liberals lost
about $4,000.
First Made Cigars.
The new Socialist premier first
made his living as a cigarmaker and
educated himself while travelling over
Europe as a journeyman. He became
a Socialist in Germany, where he ac-
qUired most of his Socialist knOwl-
edge.
Later Staining became the head Of
the Danish tobacco workers and edi-
tor of their official organ. He also
served for several years as business
manager of the Danish national fed
GRAFTON of trade unions. He was
elected fcr the first time to the par
Lament, OF the fOlkething. as a Soci-
alist member in 1906, and became
chairman of the Socialist group in
parliament.
In 1913, he became vice-chairman
of the folkething, in 1916 a cabinet
member without a portfolio, and a
little later minister eff labor.
Served in International.
Staining served for many years as
a delegate to the Socialist interna-
tiOnal He was president of the Co
penhaugen international Socialist con-
gross in January, 1915, and attended
other Socialist congress until recently
the one in Hamburg.
He has been a faithful contributor
to SOzialdemOkraten, the Danish So
cialist daily, which was founded soon
after the first creation of the Danish
Socialist party in 1871
The Danish Socialist party has $50
branches with $4,000 dues paying
members, which in total population
of about 100000 eXerts a great
power for social progress and interna-
tional friendship.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02
DAUGHERTY CHEATS
WHISKEY RING
Refused to Come Back With Cash for
Whiskey p er m is - Daugherty
Makes Puppet of Palmer.

Observation-Disclosures B. Means,
praised by VIM. J. Burns as zone of
the best investigators / ever knew.
has given the Brookhart committee
further testimony as to Jess Smiths
taking of graft from the whisky ring.
He told the senators that on the dav
before Jess friend and bum
per" CT Harry Daugherty-cOm
suicide in Daugherty's apartment,
Jess told means that Daugherty had
refused to return his split of a big
fund which the whiskey ring had paid
Jess for removal permits,
PALMER ON
DAUGHERTY'S HOOKS.
Still more sensational was Means
statement that A. Michel Palmer was
called in by Daugherty, and went
looking scared to death" and that
Jess Smith told him that Daughertv
and Burns had intended at first to in
dict Palmer and Francis P. Garvan.
former alien porperty custodian, for
their sale of the Bosch Magnetic porp-
erty to an alien felOn, Kerns. Means
declared Smith informed him that
DaugheTty decided to hold Palmer IN
der blackmail, and make him manip-
Glate the Democrats in congress in
accordance with Daugherty's wishes.
STOLE ALIEN
PROPERTY
George w. Storck, accountant for
the department of justice, testified to
outrageous frauds in the sale of
seized German properties in the Phil
ippines, under Governor General Har-
risen Storck said that former AS
sistant Attorney General Grim was
blocked in trying to proceed with
these and other cases requiring. pros
ecution and that in the Philippine
cases no prosecution ever was started.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02
MANY STATES RE-
SPOND TO JUNE
18th CALL

S. PAUL.-Rhode Island, Texas
and Washington state sent in the
first three responses to the recently
distributed call for a national nom
mating convention eff the Farmer-La-
Dor movement to be held in st. Paul
June 18th.
1t is the first of the national gath
erlngs that will move for action on
Independent political action this sum-
mer, and differs from the three to
be held In Cleveland in July in being
wide open" to all groups and orga-
nlzatlons and local groups that sub
scribe to its broad platform. The
conference for progressive political
action meeting July A does not adj
NIT local unions and the Socialist
party meeting, July 9th, admits par
ty members only. The July 4th con-
vention of the original national Farm
er-Labor party is understood to be
averse to having Workers marty
delegations appear. In this it agrees
with the C. P. P. A. Communist
are not barred from the st. Paul con-
venticn but it is pointed out that thew
will be in such a minority that thew
cannot hope to control it.
To overcome the fact that the
farmers are not so organized as the
industrial workers, a special basis of
representation provide that any group
OF 70 farmers may send a delegate to
the st. Paul convention provided that
they are not represented through
some other organization from their
county.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02
FRENCH ELECTION MAY II

Paris.-Prosecution of profiteers
and government ownership of oil re-
hnerles are among the planks put for
ward by French labor in the general
election campaign that will end Nav
IL, one week after the general cleo
ton IN Germany The labor program
VIII also be pushed after the new
chamber of deputies has been chosen.
The General Confederation of Ia
Dor OF France in its prediction man
lfesto specifically demands amnesty
Tor all political and wcrlkingeIass
prisoners. reinstatement of dis
charged strikers, and recognition Of
the right of organization for all wor-
kers. - VOL
The manifesto calls for prosecution
OF protteers in food and other nee
cessarles, abolition of food taxes. a
capital levy, government ownership
CT OIL and sugar refneries, and a wore
kers and producers and consumers
council, to be consulted by the gov
eminent.
Establishment of world peace with
compulsory arbitration is called for.
Try a Want Adj brings ResuIts
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02
RICHLAND FARMERS TOP
MARKET WITH LAMB SHIPMEN

Sidney, April 19-Charles Hardy
and Clayton Worst, two successful
irrigation farmers on the Lower Vel
lowstone project, have recently re-
turned from Chicago, where they
topped the market with four carloads
of fat lambs. Publicity of this fact
was given in the market journals,
stressing the feeding methods used
and the natural advantages cf this
section for sheep raising.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02

l ogds2 +E Of , disaster they 49,
Then me ea miners n into the ' Oi4 to
from the face s Of f5a disapSSos55,.e
drowned like rats beIo gnelmed ~ ~
tru l9e b5 5sle as1e..s greed Of Il.
Of the Farmeeir--9Iaa15soa, to the strs 5'.
ms part Of Minnesota. movement Y
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02
SUGAR BARONS USE GUNS

Mexico City.-Armed conflict be-
tween the workers and the officials of
the American Sugar Co. of Los Mo
CHS, Sinaloa, is raging. The ccmpa-
ny refuses a three-shiftsystem of
eight hours instead of the two-shift
system of IL hours. The president
and his armed guards who started the
attack. are barricaded in the main
building to hold off the counter
attack Of the workers. Several
deaths on both sides have been re-
ported. Mexican federal troops are
coming to the aid of the company.
This sugar mill is one of the largest
IN Mexico and one Of the most import
ant American concerns on the Pacific.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02
COLLEGES DEBATE Soo,

M II
uo m2ntPSaI. !. "A debate bs+...
The TIbltsg s9bigeo attracted attteptao, AcG1
ciaism has a program 9'eSo I'VE. that q
INTO operation, Womb il ~. winch, if m,
and confidence to the peo 5offsG5e psas,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02
BY LTDWELL- DENNY
Federated Press staff Correspond.


Federated Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK-AIl aboard for an
other normally trip, said Cal. Cool
idge or words TO that effect, as he
started the old Republican machine
creazing on its way up the campaign
hill He spoke in New York before
the annual meeting of the Associated
Press. Carefully avoiding almost ev-
cry controversial issue, Cal said
enough to let Well Street know that
he plans another Mellon administra-
ton for milliOnaires. The he threw
in a few moral DIatitudes, called it a
day and Knocked off.
HONEST APPEAL
To REACTIONARIES.
Most of his speech was an honest
appeal to the reactiOnaries of the
country. He took credit for uproot-
ing guilt in Washington, without spe-
cifying any act on his part to help
rather than hinder the Investigations.
By admitting that not all of the gov
eminent departments had been sin
honest and competent hands" he
sought to divorce himselfs from the
rOughneck DaUgherty bosses of the
Republican party and ally himself
with the older and more clever bosses
of the Mellon-Lodge type.
FORGETS FARMERS
AND WORKERS
Following his bid for Wall Street
support by ridicUling proposals for
increased taxation on the rich, Cool
idge refrained from any attempt to
appeal to the working classes. Nor
did he propose relief for the bank
rupt farmers of the country On the
use Of injunctiOns against labor. on
immigration railroad legislation, con
servatiOn Of national resources he
was silent.
ENDORSES MORGAN'S
GERBAN MORTGAGE.
His only popular appeal was to the
hundred per centers. The United
States victory in the Spanish-Ameri-
can war he called a "World service"
America won the war, which was "a
victory for free Institutions" The
Dawes report is a practical solu-
ton & the Preparations problem" he
claimed without mentioning that it
proposes to enslave the workers of
Germany fer the benefit Of foreign
capitalists.
But without beating around the
bush he came out for the Morgan re-
ownership of Germany, or as he put
1t, Il trust that private American
capital viii be willing to participate
IN advancing this loan" to Germany
under Banker Dawes plan.
ANOTHER ARMS
LIMITATION CIRCUS,
with certain and definite settle
men of German reparaticns firmly
established, / should favor the call
ing of a similar WASHINGTON con
ference to achieve such limitation of
ornaments and initiate plans for a
codiicaticn of international law"
was COolidges' conclusion. It is point-
ed out here that this commits him
to nothing, as German Preparations
will be a problem until the next war
for free Institutions"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02
PRES. CAL TALKS
TO KEPT PRESS

In Speech to 100 Per Centers He
Sounds Tucins for More Normally
Comes Out for MOrgan's German
Receiyership, and Millionaire Gov
eminent.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02
VOTING STRENGTH AT
ST.PAUL JUNE 18th
OF Tbs SEVERAL STATES AT
FARMER-LABOR CONVENTION.

ST. PAUL-The June IL national
nominating. convention of. the Farm
er-LabOr movement to be held in St.
Paul will nominate candidates for
president and vice president on a de-
finite voting basis. The votes for
each state, based largely on the pro-
rmer-labor-radical vote in
the general election of 1922, are as
follows:
Alabama, Is; Arizona, 3; Arkansas.
10, California, %; Colorado, 8; Con-
nectlcut. 10; Delaware, 3; Florida, 7;
Georgia, Ia; Idaho, II; Illinois, SO;
Indiana, Is; Iowa, 60; Kansas, 70;
Kentucky, ID; Louisiana, 10; Maine.
o; Maryland, 9; Massachusetts, %;
Michigan, 60; Minnesota, II; Missis-
slppl 10; Missouri, %; Montana. Is;
Nebraska, 35; Nevada, 4; New Hamp-
SHIRE, A; New Jersey, 81; New Mexi-
CO 4; New York, 70; North Carolina
p; North Dakota, 81; Ohio, SO; Okla
homa, 81; Oregon, z; Pennsylvania.
II; Rhode Island, 6; South Carolina.
8; South Dakota, IA; Tennessee. 10:
Texas. %; Utah, 5; Vermont. 4; Vir-
ginia, u; Washington, 26; West Vir-
ginia, 9; Wisconsin, 43; Wyoming. 8.
Senator LaFollette is the only can
dldate mentioned for the presidency
in connection with the June II con
vention. Vice presidential candidates
not actually in the field but mention
ed as possibilities, include Senator
Frazier, James Maurer and Amos
Pinchot
WORKERS CAN
NOT DOMINATE
In a press statement, denying allie
cations that the st. Paul convention
IS to be dominated by the Workers
parry, VIM. Mahoney of the committee
Of arrangements declares: "There
viii ne doubt be communists as there
viii be other schools of thought rep
resented at the convention but thew
will represent such a small fraction
that even if they so desired. thew
would make no impression on the
great mass CT farmers and workers
who are interested in practical Leg
lslative measures nd not in visionary
doctrines"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02
COUNTY AGENT
NOTES
MARQUIS Wheat

NAeSA N4tlAS w neat
Realizing that wheat is our main
cash crop the County Extension Ser
vice has been cooperating to- the ex-
tent of getting in approximately 14OO
bushels of Registered Marquis wheat.
1t is being planted in all parts of the
country so that in a comparatively
short time pure Marquis seed wheat
can be supplied to everyone in the
county.
Several of those planting this
wheat are planning to have it Regis
tered, and the Reserve Community is
developing their district into a certi-
fed seed center of pure Marsuis
wheat. They will be in a position to
sell seed in careload quantities.
Corn Variety Tests
The following are cooperating in
conducting corn variety tests this
year:
Christ Jensen, Reserve, Jens Olson.
Dagmar, Tom Brockley, Comertown.
Peter Feldt, Westby. Nels Olson, Out
look, Ole Nelson, Homestead, E. r.
Denzer, Medicine Lake, D. M. Mac
lnnis, Redstcne.
About Is different varieties and
strains will be tried out in these plots.
and the best will be adopted for use
in the county.
Clothing Clubs
Miss Inez Labossier, State Clothing.
Specialist. will meet with the follow
ing Clothing Clubs in the country
from May 1916.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02

Work will start soon on two new
and extensive logging projects in
western Montana, at Flathead. and
near Tuscor. S250,0OO logging road
will be built on Marten creek.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02
WORKERS CAN
NOT DOMINATE

Murray Brothers, drilling 2 wells
on Broadview structure in Yellow
stone county, resume work on their
deep test and are thot to be within
100 feet of possible production.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02

Northern National Bank of Great
Falls passes into hands of labor I'M
ions.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02

~ tIIIo LIIIIt MISS LdDOSSl6r Will
81 the 2nd. lesson in the clothing
co, taken by these clubs. The
tir esso" was making of dress
fcn the second lesson will be pat
tern work. The complete course con
sists of about twelve lessons and in
cludes the making of dress forms,
patterns, dyeing, hat trimming and ali
phases of clothing work.
The leaders and members of the
clubs have taken a great deal of in
terest in this work and the clubs
have been very successful. Approx
lmately 100 momen are members.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02

FORGETS FARMERS
AND WORKERS
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-02

Try Want Adj brings Results.