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

tary expansion until every one is 10;
monetary contraction that spells ruiz
What the Loan
Sharks Contemplate
There is doubt as to how the stu
alton is brought about. The men or
interests that manipulate the money
market are the direct benefciaries at
both ends of the line. The loan
sharks-rather the financiers who sit
behind the loan sharks,-after the
farmers have been forced to EqUidate
by the foreclosure route, will adopt
one of two courses, either of which
will bring them profits. 1. Rent
these forfeited lands to tenant farm
ers at a rental as strong as the traf-
fic will bear, as you say under the
color of legal right" or End, they
will create by advertising and prOpa-
ganda an excitement about the great
opportunities to get rich in Montana,
and thus bring in a lot of new farm
ers from the outside, with a little
ready money, who will buy these
lands, pay a fair and substantial pay
ment on the price asked, give a mort
gage for the balance and then under
take to make the land pay the ex-
pense Of living, of production, the
taxes (which are high enough in Mon
tana, God lnows-probably the high
est taxed state in the UniOn), inter
est ON the unpaid purchase price and
pay off the loan at maturity. Some
Job, don't you think. Yet these pur-
can be done. They are just enough
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the balance of the poor devils up to
the point of thinking they can make
good. 1t is the old game of fishing
and usually the "poor fish" gets hook
ed. Some, of course live to die OF
old are or are killed by accident anC
thus escape the ''hOok."
The high rents are charged MOI
"under color of legal right" but cI
the principle that what is not ex
pressly prohibited by statutory en-
actment or law, is legal and lawful
however much of it may conflict with
natural or moral law.
How the cake
Progressives" Act
AS to the chad management" o.
the Wheat Growers Association, l an
net familiar with that situation. Al
to the passing of the Nonpartisal
League under control of fake Pro
gressives," / am very familiar will
that phase of the evils under whicl
Montana voters suffer. The wOrs
phase of this situation is the fac
that many, very many of the farmer
and workers are still faCuously blint
in respect to the Wheelers, the Evans
the Walshs' the DCrman's, the Hastes
the G. P. P. A. and fake "Labor" pub
locations of the class of LABOR, pub
lished at Washington, d. c. Tn
whole brood, if they ever were sin
cerely interested in the cause of tn
farmer and the laborer, have ap
parently developed into political char
Iatanism-lave become individualisti
self-seekels, rather than self-sacrifC
ers for che good CT the groIO lis
whole. The NonpartisGn League an
the Labor League, which finally de
veloped into the G. P. P. A., fell int
hands of the Philistines-The Phi
istines picked all the flesh off and lef
only the dry bones, and have sine
been rafting and dangling those Dir
bones and skeletons IL the faces O
viz bAA4AN NNiLCLo do q lure 10 kGC
them trOtting along IN line. The sit
u1UOn .emindS me of the man VIII
had a slow mule-this mule dearl
loved hay and cabbage. When tn
owner of the mule wanted to ge
quick action on the part of the mul
he would hitch him up to the cart an
climb in the cart to make his journey
He had a long pole on the end
which he would tie some hay an
some cabbage-this he would hold /
front of the mule just ont of hi
reach. The mule, foOlishly of cours,
imagined the way to get that hay an
cabbage was to make a ran FOR j
At the end of the ''joy ride of hi
owner the mule was no nearer tt
hay and the cabbage than when h
started. When the owner got read
to make a return journey, the sam
hay and the same cabbage was use
to fool the mule into hurrying HON
with his master. When his maste
got home he would unhamess til
mule and turn him out on the higl
way to browse, while the mastt
would retire to be the comfort {
his house and feast on the gOo
things he had secured on the iourne-
The funny part of this story is, ths
the fool mule always fell for the bal
the lure. Usually it was not ii
same wisp of hay or the same los
of cabbage, but the mule could n,
tell the difference, so he never lear
ed anything, but fell for the lul
times without number.
Interest of Workers and
Farmers are Identical
There is no doubt, that in organ
cation there is power. The battle
usually to the trained, we'll organize
army or group, other things heir
equal. The economic interest is II
strongest tie to bind a group toget
err Lacking a strong economic m
tive, an organization is easily shs
tered by designing persons who
come members. The hardest part
such a task is to find the "tie tn
binds"-that will hold together
organization of farmers and labore-
The farmers are led to believe.
those interested in keeping the