The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-11-06

apart, that the workingman or labor
er is always seeking to get the best
of the farmers,-that he is the natur-
al enemy of the farmer when he asks
for an increase in wages, a shorter
work day, or better place to bunk
in. The farmer believes this bunk be-
cause the man who tells him this
(the exploiter of both the farmer and
his hired laborer) is well-dressed, is
smooth of tongue, and has an air of
apparent sincerity, has made a sue
cess of his own business (that of rob
bing both the farmer and his hired
man) and has amassed a nice little
nest egg of his own-hence he must
be a capable mana smart man.
They reason that he must be an in
telligent man, brainy man, smart
man, because he has succeeded in
making" a lot of money. They do
not undertake to discover HOW he
made it-they are too blind to see
that he made it by robbing the farm
er and his hired man. Thus the old
adage of Solomon the son of David
"Wisdom is the principal thing:
] therefore get wisdom; and with all
they getting get understanding, has
been changed in practice to this more
modern proverb, Money is the prin-
cipal thing: therefore get money: anC
with all thy getting get wealth, nc
matter by what device or subterfuge
you get it-but GET IT"
State Paper
1 agree with your idea that the
Organization should, nay, not only
should but must, have a strong, pow
erful state paper to voice their de
Imands. That is well said, but how
In order to have such a paper, it mus
lhave material as well as moral sup
port. "Talk is cheap, but it take
money to buy whiskey''-it also take
money to keep a newspaper running
and the editor from starving-starv
ing both mentally and physically. TIL
farmers and labOrers, as a rule, d.
net have much more money thai
enough to supply their bare needs
Those who have been fortunat
enough to be otherwise, usually trail
with the other side. Business me
will not advertise very literally in
paper devoted to the idea of dumping
the eXplOiter off the back of the farm
er and the labOrer-hence, by wha
means can a powerful state paper
be maintained and kept in the stat
of being powerful paper?
Lobbies
Representative Robert Larson
correct in what he says as to tn
, various 'lObbies" and lack of theH
: by the farmer-and if they 9TH
: farmers) had a lobby at Helena-th
2 exploiting class have lots of none
to spend for entertaining this "farm
2 ers' lobby they have the most plaus
ible, the most specious supply G
= sophistry and bunk, to quietly an
c confdentially peddle to this farmer
: lobby" that if they do not actual
a corrupt, they manage to deceive tn
I agents of the farmers, or the legis
= latOrs sent by the farmers to repre-
0 sent their interests. The exploitel
= know "the ropes" they have TIL
t money to employ decoys and unde
e cover agents, who go about with sir
y cerity shining from their faces, an
f sOphistry and lies on their lips an
D deceit and treachery in their heart
: Lucky is the man who can look bt
b hind the mask and then have the coul
Y age, the honesty of purpose, the fir
E abiding conviction of right that wi
t enable him to escape their wiles.
e Production and
:. Marketing
f I have been somewhat familiar wit
4 farmers and workers ORGANIZATION
n through a period of 40 years or MOI
S beginning with the old Farmers A
;, lance and the knights of Labor
& Was at one time a member Ofthe
/, of L. I have been more or less acti1
: in the fight for better things for Il
e USEFUL LABOR of the world du
e ing the past 40 years, and hay
Y learned some useful lessons.
e 1t occurs to me now that there al
d two ways in which the condition
e the farmer as a class can be substal
T italy bettered.
e 1. Communal production; commul
/ al operation of the business of farm
r ing.
f 2. Cooperative marketing of Il
d products of the farm.
z. 1t is hardly likely that the first
It these could ever voluntarily be 81
t, into use by the farmers. Dire nece.
e sity, alone, might bring this about.
f The reason-because, in this coul
It try, we as a people have had the do
l. trine of material individualism drill,
e and hammered into the people, unit
it has become as second nature
them. In the language of the la
but not lamented governor, they b
ieve in "The right of every individ
i al to work out his own salvation
IS his own way" which in the Ia
d analysis is the doctrine of Cain WI
g is said to have killed his brothe
le Abel, the doctrine of Anarchism.
n other words it is the old idea of ''F
D. cry fellow for himself and the de,
L take the hindmost," except as it mi
e. be necessary to take in or combi
CT with certain others in order to furt
at er ones own personal ends. or q
an owe rthe schemes for ones own pt
IS. sonal aggrandizement.
oy The second proposition is more ca
m to bring about.