The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-01-14

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and buys it back in shoddy clothing at 75c to LOO
And in the face of this ruthless profiteering the
farmer is again mute and helpless.
We boast of America as the land of the free
And yet witness this amazing fact: Here are 35,-
OOOOOO men, women and children, toiling early
and late, drudging away in the fields, fighting
drought and flood and insect pests, patiently in
The sweat OF their faces, coaXing from mother
earth her bOunteous riches to feed and clothe the
nations and to keep in motion the mvriad wheels
of civilization
And yonder, high up in a skyscraper in Chicago
or New 4ork, dozen Kings of Finance fix the
terms by which these toiers shall live or die! For
whoever controls the market and sets the price of
what you must BUY and the price of what you
must SELL becomes your master and CONTROLS
1OOR LIFE and you live in serfdom and bond
age whether you realize it or not
You are told to Cooperate" to "fertilize YOUR
soil, to raise bigger crops'-all of which will
avail you nothing so long as you have NO VOICE
IN fixing the compensation you are to receive for
your labor and its products. You are in the grin
OF an economic despotism and your onlv hone of
escape is to break its chains You have the now
er within your hands to do this. The Pri
Vate Ownership of the Means of Life is the power
that clutches your throat OVERTHROW THIS
POWER BY ESTABLISHING THE PUBLIC
OWNERSHIP OF THE GREAT TRUSTS and
your Cause is won!
The task will not be an easy one Your ex-
polters are cunning and alert; they have at their
command unlimited financial power, thew will SUBJ
sidize the press and every other source of infor.
nation to mislead and deceive you-and back of il
all they have the two dominant political parties
IN control of the government to safegard and de-
fend their economic power
What need they for Farmer Hick? If he
gets resentful at injustice and threatens to revolt
they set him to quarreling with his neighbor over
the r. K K, or prohibition or the tariff; and ey-
cry two years the divide the farmers into two
opposing camps, one they call Democratic the
other Republican, and by much skillful bunk
they persuade the occupants of the two camps
tnat there are great vital differences between
them and that they should attack each other with
cluos and rocks and rotten eggs. This aids in
keeping the farmers divided, fosters strife and
olSsehlon and abstracts and confuses them while
their pockets are being picked.
Inc powerful Trusts who are exnIoi+inp tho
American farmers and workers will not voluntari
~ loosen their grip upon the peoples throats
They will not surrender their control so long as
!
Washington lawmakers who will do the bidding
of Big Business and who will pass laws to local.
lie and uphold the expressions of the Trusts.
SO long as farmers and workers act like stupid
sheep at the ballot box by voting power into the
hands of their oppressors they NAV expect the
yoke to gall their necks ever more and more. If
we will not exercise our minds and usa tba mower
we hold in our hands to liberate ourselves. then
ho++o
cease our complaining and meekly bow our necks
to the yoke
But if we hear, as did the embattled farmers of
old, the clarion call to Liberty. if the red blood
OF true Americans still courses through our veins
and we would rescue western Civilization from the
brutal clutches of an insane Mammonism-
ROAD IS open, the goal is ahead and the hour has
struck for action Let us organize new political
force IN America, pungent with the odor of the
soil from whence cometh all wealth. and let us
dedicate that force to the establishment of JUS
tice' Fraternity, Equality
Brother farmers, you must Organize, Agitate
EDUCATE. Only by united effort and organiza-
'iOn can your influence be made effective. With
out organization you are scattered as feathers
SVrewn before the wind. Plight your troth one to
another and give of your time and your substance
to promote the cause
Often has it happened in the worlds history
mat the humble tillers Of the soil, hearing that
anguished cry of Liberty, have rescued her from
ner raVlshes and restored her again to supremacy
and power
Today Liberty, imperiled by a thousand new
Ioes' born of modern progress, pleads again fol
our succor and our help.
Shall we heed her call