The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-04-10
Long Finger of the Defeated Governor Reach Up to Helena
to Direct Policy of His Lackeys In Doing Everything Pos
sible to Bring About Conditions Dscreditng to Gov.
Erickson
INTEREST OF STATE OF MONTANA
FOOTBALL FOR "CRAFTY OLD FAKIR"

The recent session Of the legisla-
ture, in spite of its inanity and ASSN
unity, furnishes much history for the
consideration and Entertainment of
the taxpayers.
The session was absolutely control
led by the combination of the Mining
the Banking interests, the Milling in
terests, the Lumber interests and the
Railroad intesests. Thele were yerv
few voices raised in behalf Of the
farming interests arc the workers
interests, bOtr from the farm and
from the factory, and all LEGISLATION
introduced in behalf of the actual
worker or producer in this state. met
with quick death with no flowers at
the graves.
Of course all of this legislative
.legerdemain means noUhing whatever
IN any manner to the workers and
producers. Workers ard producers
need no law nor any legal protection.
Their function under d. present .svs-
tenn OF society is just to produce. Leg
lsIatlcn is the profitable pastime of
those who live off the workers, who
While they gather no h0ny, yet wallow
In it. The worker or the working
farmer is not interested in legislation
nor IN problems of raxation-thev are
not his problems-they are the prob
lens OF those who absorb all that
he the worker produces. Under our
present system, were taxes lower, the
profits Of the eXploiters would be lust
that much larger, not having to pav
over to the state so much of what
ne has taken away from the worker
Inc worker, whether on the farm or
IN the factory, under our present ar
ralngment, is allowed pust what il
costs, barely cost, to keep him and
to feed his family on a cheap scale
out OF what he produces, no more nor
less, the rest is taken away from
him by the process of business. called
capitalism, the present social system
under which we now live, and which
IS the system in all the world except
Russia. So the parliaments are the
considered are only measures of in
terest to and acceptable to the ex-
games of the exploiters and measures
pIoiters. The workers problems re-
ceive no more consideration than the
complaint of the black man used to
receive at slave auction.
This writer is well aware of all of
the above. He knows that the work
ers and farmer have the same inter-
ests in what goes on at Helena as
they have in the working cut of the
cross word puzzles that appear week
by week in the columns of the Pro-
dCcers News, but he knows that he
is or should be interested in the an
tics of those who would rule him
and who are able to get their noses
in the public feed bag at different
periods of time, and that is the rea-
sen he is going to try to explain
some Of the antics of the 'nuts" sent
to Helena to make laws for the graft
ers last winter.
Outside of the Farmer-Labor. party
there was no organization even in
terested in the farmers and workers.
Both the Republican and Democratic
parties and their organizatinos were
one hundred per cent for the exploit
ing interests. In fact those who wax
fat off from the sweat of the work
ers, did not find it necessary to main
tain even a lobby of any proportion
to see to it that their interests were
not threatened by a mats brow.
Joe Dixon's- republican organiza
ton, made up of small town business
men and the usual calibre of Main
Streeters, were 100 per cent for law
and order and public decency and for
the bankers and railroads and millers
and grain dealers and Tsurers and the
interests of the big and petty graft
ers in general, but were everyone
against the other They were for
things just as they are, except the
Dixon peewits, pretended to be
against the company for the purpose
of domestic consumption. The Demo
Gratis were no better as far as their
interest in the working or producing
public is concerned, they were for the
big interests also, but they were a
little more honest about it as were
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