The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-12-25

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A man with the power of expires
sion possessed by this man, could
if he would-build great institutions
for human betterment in the world
He could lead men to work together
hand in hand, and in mutual conf
dence, for the greater happiness OF
all their fellows. With this tremen-
dous power, the editor we refer tc
could become a veritable tower OF
strength for the pool. Instead, he
seeks rather to inspire envy, hatred,
jealousy, distrust and i'll will. Claim
ing to be the apostle of cooperation,
this man works busily to set one
mans hand against his neighbor in a
bitter feud that does not end with the
American spirit of fair play. When
issues he has raised are decided
against him, he does not admit the
force of majority rule, but continues
his v%itrolic attack upon whomsoever
stands in the way of his pen. He is
what, in the world Of fair play, is
called a poor loser.
Defeated twice during the past
yea in his schemes that only divided
his possible followers with jealousy
and i'll will, he nevertheless persists
attacking persons and institutions
with a viciousness and an evidence of
spleen that is only limited by his OPP
portunity. Claiming to have been a
prime mover and ardent advocate of
the cooperative wheat pool, he loses
no opportunity to revile and to mis-
represent that institution and its ac-
Invites, with all the power of his pen.
Claiming to be practically the father
of the wheat pool in his territory, yet
no man living, even among the most
vicious enemies of cooperative mar
keting, has sown more seeds of dis
trust, originated and fostered more
evil report, built and circulated
more unjust and false accusations
against the pool and it's operations, or
done more to destroy this boosted
shild of his heart and brain than has
this same editor of the Plentywood
Producers News.
When the great need of the hour
among men is that they be friendly,
the one with the other, so that all
may work together for the common
good, no man more than this man
drives so deep a thrust at the very
heart of all good will and friendship.
He seems to live and thrive upon
,N1ao- n~I h3%fa,u,ncC Ha 1noAc mon
20 think of him as the great Moses of
cooperation and political freedom,
only to fill their hopeful souls with
he gangrenous poison of hatred and
Defeated-he spews bile
md venom upon the heads of those
Who would have been his friends, had
lie not driven them from him with
he power of his malice.
The man simply does not know the
neaning of constructive service for
he common good. At such a time as
his, when all men are looking for
omething to establish and hold con-
licences between man and man, and
hen thousands have banded to-
ether in the hope TO build a cooper
orderly marketing program for
lemselves, this man looses all the
overs of his wonderful vocabulary,
1st to revile, rebuke, condemn, criti-
ise, and tear down. Never a line of
obstructive effort. Not a line of
elpfulness toward the cooperative
lovement his followers believe in.
-ot a hope-from him-that coop
ration shall some day become eff
ective-where he lives.
We have said in these columns be-
ore that we would like to work with
lie editor of the Producers News, in
lie interests of cooperation. But
e confess with sorrow that working i
Iong lines followed by this mar goes
our somach. We cannot teach /,
ZEN hatred and cooperation at the (,
time. We cannot build and tear /,
own with the same labor. We can !.
ot hope to establish confidence and !
cate distrust out of the same pat q
!rn. Ours may be a peculiar and old :
Ishioned idea of life, but somehow, (
e feel that it is not possible for sim !
,rity to blow hot and cold, as this /
an does, with the same breath. 1t t
IMPLY cannot be done. Our consola- .
on in view of all these facts, is that !
we said in the beginning, this man !.
ay write with force, vigor and clear
,ss-but never with conviction e
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