The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-02-18
IN THE

Concern,
THE BANKING BILL, over which
Senator's Wheeler and Glass got
into such an unseemly brawl on the
Senate floor, aims. as l understand
Il. at giving the National Banks
Dowcr to establish branches. The
law. as it is now, hampers this
phase of banking development. The
time has now come in America as it
came in Australia, Canada and Eng
Ind. when the small country banker
must fall by the wayside and the
more economically and efficiently
run branch bank will take his place.
He knows that he cannot stand such
competition and that is the reason
he is fighting this bill with his pet
tv bourgeois representatives in the
senate The country banker is max
ing his last stand against the big
fat boys whom he supported in the
past. In another decade he will have
disappeared from the scene and his
banailities; his bOmbastic reference
10 miles of paved streets and cement
sidwalks in his home town; his bum
advice to farmers on how to grow
crops, his Improvement" of live
stock BY the importation of broken
down express wagon horses, nOn-egg
laying chickens and "dOggie" cattle;
his swagger as he dropped his jing
ling silver in the collection box and
his hypOcritical greeting to people
attending county fairs will have dis
appeared like the frOth of the river.
THE SEARCHLIGHT, not being cir
culated like a legitimate newspaper,
does not reach our exchange desk m
the usual course. But a member of
the legislature, to whom it was sent
free, forwarded the editor a copy
dated February in which there is
another long article extOlling the
virtues of the Hon. B. X. Wheeler,
and Obiecting to organizations OF
farmers which are secret and to the
use Of castor oil. 1t is strange that
the Hon. Burt would object to secret
meetings. He held many of them
himself. And whose business is it
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doors anyway Do not bankers as
s0ciatiOns meet behind closed doors?
Do not the Boards of Directors of
the Anaconda Company and other
big business corporations meet be-
hind closed doors when they wish to
formulate a policy, political or other
wise? As for castor oil. if the far
mers find it is an unfailing speci-
fic for the correction of anti-sOcial
crimes, they are entitled to use it,
arn't they? Maybe the Editor OF
the Searchlight or the Hon. B. X
do not like the taste of Castor oil
A guilty conscience fears many
things. Meanwhile the Council OF
Action will continue to function des
pite the attacks of its enemies anC
castor oil will continue to be manu-
factured even though some people
object TO its use on recalcitrant be
ings who persist in committing anti
social crimes.
SENATOR WALSH is a man VIII,
has posed as a great friend of tn
people and a great fighter agains
robbery and wrong. The capitals
press of the country helped to ''sell
him to the public in this dramati
pose. There were some who dOubte
Walsh when the controlled pres
was placed at his disposal after h
became our national inquisitOr. The
felt there was a cOlOred gentleme
IN the wOOdpile somewhere. But til
great mass of the people looked III
on him as a kind of new Messiah
The series of articles. which we b.
gin this week, will cause the scale
TO drop from their eyes. And til
articles will give the public an OF
pOrtunity to peep behind the scene
and see how the Industrial Owe
lords manipulate public men and a
fairs. Next week we expect to giV
a thumb nail character sketch
our gloomy Senator and after tn
we intend to show how the HO
Burton X. was brought into the pi
ture to help his colleague crush Il
foes of the DOtentates which
serves.
THE COMMISSIONERS got into
lot of trouble over having Mckee
the Library Building. That is VIII
always happens when a public bull
ing is rented out to a private inC
yidual. Such a thing is rare
when it does happen COMMISSIONS
cannot afford to flagrantly disl
gard public sentiment. The She
dan Commissioners found that G
yesterday. We hope they will p
fit by the lesson.
GOVERNORS VETO