The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-07-13
Howl Freedom But I IeIp Finance

Clearcut admission that the United
States is dominated by capitalist
dictatorship characterizes the official
utterances of the democratic party at
Houston. But it offers no escape
from this oppression except vague
ly defined and impossible return to
the days before modern industrial
ism. It blinks the fact that the pro-
cess of governmental Capitalization
was speeded up by the 8 years of
Wilson democracy and that indlvldu-
al freedom suffered greater losses
then than in any previous 8 years in
the eountry's history.
The result of the wordy conven-
ton assault on the multimillionaire
oligarchy, with no program for rem
dering economic government respon
sible to the producers, is to fool the
people into believing they have lib
eral alternative to the republicans
when in reality the democratic lead
ership is in many respects more reac-
tionary than the official party of big
business which convened at Kansas
City.
"We stand for the spirit of the
preamble of the declaration that is
made mockery", said Bowers, the
democratic keynoter, "for the bill Of
rights that is ignored; for social and
economic justice which is refused;
ETC., etc." ignoring what happened to
the bill of rights and to economic
Justice under the hand of Wilson's at
torney general, Mitchell Palmer.
/ "The little gilded group that now
owns and controls the government,
he said, "can pour a golden stream
into the slush fund and make no I'M
preston on the fortunes they have
legislated into their Golfers. 1t is a
tragic thing to find government
mortgaged to little group that could
be crowded into the directors rooms
of the Aluminium Co. of America"
This democratic keynoter attacked
the republicans for following Hamli.
ton who believed in aristocracy Oh
money, who wrote that governments
are strong in proportion as they are
profitable to the powerful, VINO pro
posed to bind the wealthy TO the gov
eminent by making government a
source of revenue to the wealthy.
"The Hamiltonian state, BoWers
, said, els necessarily a temple OF golu
resting on the bowed backs OF peas peas
ants in other peoples fields: Iney
e would defy dollars and minimize men,
limit self government and centrallze
, power, cripple democracy enpowei
bureaucracy and welcome plutocra-
cy."
e All this is eloquent and true. But
: the trend toward the HamlltonlaI
plutocratic state was just as marked
during the s years of democratic
} rule. So we prick up our ears wneI
he continues: 1--WE wage no wal q
/ big business if it be honest business
we find no fault with fortunes now
ever large, provided they are not &C
y cunouIated through the misuse OF gov
+ es,ro c'es,i nowern Which is all tina
big business requires. .ors;do~.h1,
p The platform makes CO. GoiS farra aDl
concessions to labor ana ene az AZ me-
= The democratic party wants Sne 2;
l. 100000 votes that went " $500 Ia ~
IS lette in 1924 But its most oe1inle
: offer tn The farmers is only an ear
nest endeavor to solve tln - p JeaI;n,
of distribution of the coss " rs,l..tI
IS with crop SURPRISES over 'rc o ,n, ne.
at ed units of the crop" lts RiU r;ts -
% ment on the tariff leads on WIN "a
'e protective principle, and the campalgl
FINDS which hring these planks :
the attention of the pe0pi0