The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-01-06

do to get them? Did they stand on
their own feet?" Certainly not. It's
only the farmers and the workers who
must do that The railroads wrote
the Esch- Cummins Act of 1919. The
democrats were still in power, and as
Wall Street knew that the time had
come to turn the democrats out, they
used them up by the passage of this
Act. This law has increased the cost
of living of every family of five, by
$4,000 as year. 1t has as Senator
Borah has asserted placed tax of 10
cents a bushel on every bushel of
wheat the farmer raises, over and
above the actual cost of transporting
it.
But if the producers are guaged Oy
this law, there remains for them the
consolation that their dignity" is
not hurt, as the dignity" of the rail-
road magnates is, still the farmers
the standing on their own feet" while
the railroads are helped by legisla-
tior. The language of Wall Street is
plain enough if you only read it all
right In addition to a whole lot of
other things capitalism is the most
hypocritical system that ever existed
in history, and it's literary defenders
long cared asses.
McFadlden Bill
Coming down to more recent times
and under the rule of the republican
party there was passed in 1922, the
Fordney- McCumber Tariff Act, which
protects the graft of the textile bar
Ons of the east. The republican party
was So anxious to aid by law the tex
tile interests who starve and sweat
women and children in their CHASTITY
mills, and club them to death when
they strike that it clothed the Presi-
dent with the power to fix tariff
schedules at will. AS a result of this
Act we are compelled to pay 60 per
cent more for our clothing than we
would otherwise The textile trust is
standing on the bodies of countless
women and children, while it is main
tanned in that position by legislation
1t had the supreme court declare the
Child Labor Law unconstitutional. II
as free now to- weave the delicate
lives of the children into a golden
stream of profits. 1t is doing this
very thing.
This year congress further strength
ened the financial control of Wal
Street a THE behest of the House oil
Morgan, tn eMcFadden Banking Act
was passed.
The financial overlords are now sit
ting secure in their money temple
eevry pillar of which is government
built
However, the farmers as we'll as thu
workers can continue to "stand OF
their own feet, that is to say, remain
prey to the vultures of big business
l The CMcNary- Haugen bill was ais,
passed. AS a matter of fact it wa
not passed. Scores of senators an
congressman of both capitalist part
ies,4 voted for the bill, who were &C
tually opposed to it. However, the
were instructed to vote for it by tn
party whips as a political trick. Wa
Street knew that Coolidge would vel
the BILL Since the farmers were clan
Oring for the bill, it was "good pol
ticse to vote for it so that the ca
-italist politicians could save the
faces in the farming sections, al
thus return to congress and serve Il
interests. Coolidge was sacrifice
When he said at Rapid City, "I {
not choose to rum" this matter WI
settled at the time he vetoed the M
Nary Haugen bill.
Only More COOlidges
OF course it is popular now for Il
fake progressives to lay all the blan
on Coolidge. They forget the repu
lican party, the real enemy of t
farmers. In the strict sense of t
word, it was the republican party tn
vetoed the McNary- Haugen bi
Coolidge happened to be the existi
instrument. Next time the name
the president will be different, no
ever, the party will be the same-t
party of Wall Street. But it is in Il
party that the spurious progressiV
have their being. They also hs
their tasks to perform, under the CT
ming guidance of Senator Borah,
the interest of big business.
Let no farmer be fooled with
gard to who is responsible for
sabotage of Farm Relief Measur
Don't let the attacks upon Presid
Coolidge, on the part of the Ny
Borah's and others delude you.
is certainly true that Coolidge is
conscientious worker in the cause
capitalism, however, it is the repul
can party as such, that is the hos
party. Coolidge goes; the republic
party stays-to make more Coolide
Our job is to rear the Farmer
Dor party and unite the farmers
workers in a battle 70 the polit
power of tn enation. BY doing t
we will be standing on our own DC
zeal feet, something which we h
not yet done. Once this is done, v
Street will be able to see the ia
ers and workers of the country.
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