The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-01-29
IN THE LIMELIGHT
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have the experience of looking from
the wrong side of the bars of a penl-
tertiary himself. In attacking the
Sheriff and County Attorney here, Ad-
miral MarSterS, in one of his super
heated moments, left the gates Of the
Pen ajar. But for the fact that we
here, do not think the ebullitions OF
the former Idaho horSetrader are OF
sufficient importance to justify the
result, we would give him a free ride
to PIentywood where he would have
an opportunity of meeting the men
he Salisbury and Erickson
face to face The Admiral should be
a little careful of the kind of slime
he spews lest the editor gets mad and
makes him lick it all up again.
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Anent the attacks of the politicians
of Helena and their official stools, the
Daily Worker, the great labor paper
of Chicago, has the following to say:
'"The oasis in the arid reactiOnary
desert of Montana, is Sheridan coun-
/ ty, where the workers and farmers
elected a farmer-labor party admin
istratiOn. No sooner did the new adj
ministration assume office than they
turned the spotlight of publicity on
the old party grafters who preceded
them. So raw was their conduct that
even a capitalist court was compelled
to convict them. But tho down, they
were not entirely out. Sheridan coun-
ty could not withstand the reactiOnary
forces of the rest of the state The
4 reactiOnaries are always busy They
know the value of organization. They
were determined to "get" the farmer
labor administration of Sheridan
county"
The blow has fallen, according to
the latest issue of the Producers
News, published in PlentywoOd. 1t
appears that the reactiOnary tools of
the bankers at the state capitol in
Helena sent in a stOOlpigeon to- Plen-
tywOod in an effort to compromise
Sheriff Salisbury and county Attorney
Erickson. Those two officials made
things hot for the confidence men
who had been preying on the farmers
for years. They were bound to seek
revenge. What the exploiters are do
ing is, striking at the farmers, by
trying to frame Salisbury and Erick-
son. Under the present regime, the
producer could hold his head up in
Sheridan county, but the grafters,
whether operating under the cloak of
: legality or merely as a plain burglar
were on the defensive"
"The workers and farmers of Sheri-
dan county must stand behind
their elected officials who are being
prosecuted because they were loyal to
their interests. If Salisbury and
Erickson, were willing to play into
the hands of the mortgage bankers,
there would be no government stool
pigeons on their trail. When the
farmer-labor ticket went over in
Sheridan county, that should have
been the moment to start a state
wide campaign to whip the rest Of the
state into line for the program of
class political action. We believe the
Sheridan county producers have that
object in view. If they put their
shoulders to the wheel and organize
I. they will be able to thwart their enc
: mics and defend the leaders who re-
: main, faithful to their trust. Eternal
vigilance is the only safeguard fol
every gain made by the producers
and no gain is guaranteed until the
entire power Of government for the
entire nation is lodged securely in the
: hands of those who produce all wealth
namely, the workers in the industries
. and on the land