The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-12-18

THIS GREAT MOVING have intel
! igence and ability to build a great 4,
disciplined organization which shall
carry US over the rough road ahead
and place us by our own power and
influence and numbers into a greater
and better position for future growth /
and development.
Won Initiative and Referendum
The Populist party and Farmers
Alliance which should be considered
as one, placed many good laws on
the statute books, chief among which
was the initiative and referendum,
: which are worth ten million times the
I total cost tc US of those Organiza-
! tions. The simple recognition that
, the citizen is capable and may make
his own laws is worth that.
1 Then the Nonpartisan League has
n placed valuable economic laws in the
d legal directory of several states,
2 which are worth twenty times its
\ whole cost in money and time.
d Now there are great scattered units
r of progressive, we'll trained farmers
over this whole country. VIII you
let the spirit die? Will you let all
this great educational influence which
d has trained millions of farmers die
IS down until its only a memory? Or
A. will YOU organize-unify this great
m incohesive mass and start them anew
Of on greater and more trained and dis
- ciplined efforts in their own behalf?
as Let's look at the present economic
st situation of the farmer for few
MT minutes:
Mt Over the whole nation, in spots, the
he condition of the farmer flares up FOL
n a little, enables a certain percentage
"a of them to pay up part of their bacl
no taxes and interest and other fXe'
ill charges, then shifts and they ar
% left high and dry next year Whll
Ike some other bunch of farmers is tenn
full porarily fed up. The status OF pres
we ent day farming is such that onl
,ur when large sections of farmers ar
of ruined by frost, hot winds CIR HOODS
in or some great calamity, does an
"a other farmer succeed. Hence onl
Dp- sections get prices enough to 1--we
ny the same time. Many are the ecoi
use omic frauds practlced upon the Iarn
our er. Among them comes the r3llroao
- public utilities, having the welfare
old everyone in the land IN their nah'
the and owned and operated by prohtee
asst Tor prOnC Inc 1cllIlOe1No VI w.
IN land are now drawing dividends
ggy more than twice their original cost
old. and thew are now at Washington q
We handing an increase OF Genus
ME bushel on the rates charged Tor yo
this wheat, when 1t IS much TOO hlgLl
Ids present. Their methods may all
understood by a glance at the Pen
svlvania road whose charter comp'
IL
&c Der cent into the treasury OF the stS
hich of Pennsylvania. Well they nave q
in tributed as high as so per cent p
oo fits in one year, but never has
n of compauv paid one cent into the ST.
Of PENNSYLVANIA. We say that OF
1eat when the roads and all other ira
a71z1 nora+ion agencies are operated
~ f and for the people and this IRENE
nnof ous amount of over capitalization
Mr. squeezed out and the United sta
oct as a nation shall take over the 70
mil for the people and stop this eter
and grabbing by them.
rite: Tenantry Growing.
rain. Now for the land question Jus
mend minute! Over 40 per cent OF
and farned land in the Union is now
that GRATED bv tenants, and the plunge
o,roat ia tnnantrv is so fast that one
: are not keep the right figures. In
3nsN South tenantry is over so per cen
make seven or eight states, while in
onev- northern states it is growing by K
are and bounds. Anyone who will in
orpa- tigate conditions in tenant states
ether tell YOU at once that there can b.
ohter great middle class in this cou
ut Of when we become tenant haIloh.
gence about 30 years more VIII oIllIS u u
setting against that proposluoon-aIiq i
lers- the end OF Tree America l.ooil
vcu Montana: thousands being forced
the farms and being made wandC
on the face Of the earth-no he
m or no place to live, being cheap lab'
f the ever after, and your broad
t thew farmed by tenants-and te
id any class Of farmers IS poor Cle'''
more farmers. CanC oe oUie1 VIZ
his is vour state 80 to 40 per cent ten