The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-01-14
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BY P.J.Wallace
Pert and Pertinent
ra5rdbizS Pertaining
10 T1I18S and EHehLS
OF Creat and Small
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IN THE

W Lele T.
CHINA is again in the headlines
Ti5tv-two American light cruisers
are I'm Chinese waters and several
n those are patroling the Yanktse
river presumably FOR the protection
of American citizens on its banks.
WHY this array Of force? SuppOs-
mg a mob of Americans killed two
chink Iamdrymen in Fort Benton
a4d tho Chinese government sent a
ne.t of flatbOttOmed warships up
the Missouri river and that Chink
ounuers thereon trained their naval
artillery on the town? What a
shout of indignation would sound
throughout the land and what arm
les would march and canpOns boom!
Yet that is what the average man
would gather. from the dispatches,
Is happening in China today. MObs
and armies Of Cinnamon are driving
the invaders out. The pigtailed bat
talIious of the victorious Cantonese
army are driving the proud soldiers
of Imperalist Britain into the sea.
Even though the average man does
not see below surface the greatest
event Of the age is taking place.
China is on the march.
COL. MARSTERS is fired! This
would not be much news to the read
ers of this paper if the old windjam-
er from Idaho had not attacked the
Progressive movement in this county
over a year ago. We all remember
how the cheap little politicians of
this county and ScObey thought the
end % the rule of the farmers had
como when Three Fingered
Brown and a gang of stOOlpigeOns
we're sent up here by the doughty
old eX-aucti0neCr from Idaho; how
they hung around the Federal men
like groups of sexual perverts; how
they gr0velled before snOOps who
were only one step further removed
from the APE than themselves. And
we all remember the interviews
given cut to the state papers in
which the snOODs predicted that the
existing order here would be over
thrown and government for and by
the bankers and the mainstreeters
would be established in Sheridan
county. Where are the snOOps now?
Where is the dOmineering old swash-
buckler from the Snake river valley
who used the strong arm of the pro-
mhluOn department. to wreak ven
geance on the farmers movement?
And have the mosquito politicians
Of eastern Montana learned any
thing?
GEN. LINCOLN c. ANDREWS.
chief Of the Federal Prohibition De-
partmo1t, is an official who deserves
the thanks of the people of this
state. When he once learned the
truth about how Marsters tried to
interfere in the politics of this corn
er Of Montana he knew that the
Idaho sWashbucker was not the
proper man for Prohibition admins
traitor. When Marsters was ordered
back 70 Helena the unfitness of the
BOISE Watermaster for such an i'm
portant position was again brought
70 tho attention of Gen. Andrews.
II Is stated that Marsters was given
an opportunity to gracefully resign
but like a barnacle sticks to a shin
he stuck on 20 his meal ticket. Then
ne was relieved of his job. We hope
that tho successor to the Idaho Col
onel VIII profit by the errors of his
predecessor and we extend to him
the promise of our cooperation in
again restoring respect for the pro-
mbitiOn law in Montana.
The HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
tINES of the state of Montana was
once regarded as a place where the
spirit of independence found express
sl0n. Some of the brightest mon
OF the state went up and down from
mat body. But the membership of
the Montana house has been steadily
geseneratmg for a number of years.
II Is getting saturated with men
OF the Aage Larsen type. This was
never more evident than when that
once honorable body allowed a rule
70 De passed, few days ago, estab-
hsnlng a virtual censorship over the
man OF Its members. Under that
rule the mail of the legislators is
70 oe sIfted by tho sergeant at arms
ana the speaker and literary pabu.
lum which these gentlemen, or those
VINO control them. dislike. is to be
Kept from the desks of the Honor.
able % Representatives It is a
wonder that some enterprising law.
maker does not rise in his seat anC
make a motion FOR the appointment
u Warden who would put the
solons through the lOcksteD aftel
breakfast and before supper. Law
makers who would set up a censor
smp over themselves are liable I,
DO anything.
IHE SEARCHLIGHT, a papel
winch made its appearance in Grea
rails recently, has an editorial il
last weeks issue which raises som,
objection to a paragraph in this col
uinn last week. which cIassed Sena
1or Wheeler with DOheny and Fall
Inc editorial in question winds III
0y denying that the charges agains
senator Wheeler were dropped Of
technical grounds. If the write
u the article turns back the files o
tne daily newspapers to the mOntl
u december 1925 he will find tha
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