The producers news., 1926-07-23

N ThLESS q ~, cS11V
~ Great ana OI'E0'
C5lCem.
e 2 perfect incarnation
= PM. .msll town Montana banker
& be s.ib nth IS typical of the hard
1lsae oiI',l bonest farmer who came
ssfil1as efote q little over decade
. y M carve himself home .tH out .Gd OF
8 Go'I5 5,5 as nice a quarter sec
gi'as r@I -on could expect to find IN
al = !s5o and Il was clear OF
sl Alongside it lay another
rs tbat Claude wanted to get
,iiIlsai -, have enough money to
ois, IT, deal. Claude talked about
qas qas.l,lss ~ to Gus Riba and Gus ad-
p iiJID,' ~, 10 buy and he would lend
20 ~ IN money for that purpose. de
Z. ". - aben he came to do business
~ cns he had TO mortgage the
~ III be had already as well as
iii.sl ii-.,ter he bought and put
VI nortgage on all his stock
~ -, With the increase-tO boot.
Isttel mortgage was supposed
.seBre the interest. Wen
ie9 tell YOU what happened. Gus
,..-I. - on the land and got title
SS-itb's half section.
oh. vas not yet thrOugha with
"a mn He took the stock and the
,.s ,..- covered by the ehattel
-.,srsse. .S1s piece meal. Last week
80 p, Tsnt to Smiths place and took
- l.st of smiths cows leaving his
- without milk. Riba did not
- bsve TO invoke the courts to
Smitb's last oOw-hO just went
. ,.5 took what he could get. The
- of Smiths sweat and toll
4. nanv weary years are now IN
...sssion of the Main Street Shy
Il ,T5 the farmer is afOOt, worse
& han the day he first started to
- ne sod ard make the prairie
a-..om ike the rose. Mr.. Smith
=. nat one Of those Deep Sea Div
!. or Marine Engineers" well fed
-esstars frequently tell Club din
!, about. He was a hardwOrking
IN who knew how to farm. But
-, his babies are crying for
In while a banker, who has no
igl.., of his own. has his last
w II is the system in operation
"a still YOU hear a bunch of prune
,.5dlers in every hotel lobby de-
sunre the Reds and advocate free
rms 10 Russia for persons who stand
kIveen the robbers and the rob-
bd
O8 Riba has the COWS of the farm
q his Infamous system reduced tO
h verge Of beggary. He has his
and Like ShylOck of old he got
n pound of flesh. He watches ms
bank balance 90 up like mercury II
he glass Of a barometer. He grabs
as dollars until the eagle screams
he boards his gold like a miseT
Watching every additional dime witt
fmdish glee. But the sand in m
ksur glass is slowly ebbing away
he win soon sink into the dust from
whence he came and he cannot TAX
q single nickel along. He may o
nav not hear the bitter cry of tn
children. out Of whose mouths h
took the milk, ringing in his ear
Ehen he stands on the threshhOI
Of the great beyond. But old Rib
Fiih all his boarded wealth, hi
lnds and stock is a more patheti
SIGHT than the poor farmer whOI
he stripped of his means of lived
hood. We pity the skinfiint bankt
vhile we hate the system of legi
egerdemain which he and others us
TO gain their wealth while the
grind the faces Of the poor"
THE FARMERS GOVERNMENT
Of Sheridan County has come in Il
lot Of abuse from old gangste
N different parts of the state. Wedl
stories have been told about como
ions up here. Subsidized shGe
have pictured this county as a pla
saere it would be dangerous for on
aders to tread. Some honest OF
adFs have been led to believe tn
-p here we all wear whiskers Ii
members Of the House of David a
mat we practice anything from g
@tIng to pOlygamy. This kind
Nopaganda is alright until unpl
lllieed outsiders come up here a
'ee The people and the country. Sol
lAe Balaam of old come to cuI
sll remain to pray. The scales dr.
rom their eyes. They find out Il
9e only reacOn why the people
5aeHdan County are reviled a
sahdered is because the farm,
eed their own men to run the COZ
" And some times broadminC
~ rsh IKE Herbert Nj. Peet, of
Geat Falls Tribune, go out tell
"a truth and cOnfOund the critic
any county government in
S'a'e can show a better record
.ls one now in Office in Sheri,
ISll'H We would like to hear of
SI S5IILhg the past five years while
-SN Of the State was doubled,
l'ers Of Sheridan county cut
Y-'S'andlng Indebtedness in h
nv ~ while they were doing it {
ioSs iSs'eG the tax levy every year,
., 1- when the county debt was
5'',,ialS.OS, the tax levy was 25 M
Ss,s ssLo when the debt is down
Goe'4l.2S it is q mills. WI
& -sle was half million dollars
Gs.andmg warrants five years
N q Is less than S6,741.2S to-
IA ne practice Of rigorous econ
e oy splendid teamwork
~ officers have been able
w., ~ On an average Of S12O.OOO
isS. while Cal Coolidge and
sS--. .- Erickson have been TALK
~. a' economy the Farmers gov
pri,; OF Sheridan county have
ns,I.g{ .I,g It into practice. II is /;
a'ie achievement and de-