The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-23
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A when it comes to interesting and
organizing the masses into power
ful moving bodies. He knows how
to collect, and get in touch with
dormant issues and beat his wings
like a partridge until there is a re-
Spouse.
Just recently, A. c. Townley
scented unrest in the minds Of
the American people as to the pres
ent status Of the liquor traffic. He
began thinking, planning, talking
with those whom he knew full we'll
would be first interested in a gi-
gantic organization to unseat the
Eighteenth Amendment and the
Volstead act He held his first
meeting out in Montana. It was
largely attended. Why did he SCI
lect Montana? Why did he not
select North Dakota? Because he
knew full wen that Montana peo-
+ pie were not in sympathy with
prevailing laws, and were only
waiting for the activities Of some
one who could spread Montana sen
timent to other states in the Union
Yes, "A. c. Townley has set his
organization in motion, and there
is little question but what he will
meet with q great degree Of sue
cess-no matter as to whether his
purpose is right or wrong. He IS
q natural bonn organizer, and thai,
portion Of the people of the United
States who ale opposed to the
I Eighteenth amendment are OF ths
temperament who viii spend free.
Iy Of their time and their mones
to unseat the law. Those wnl
. know OIL T0Wnley and his method.
viii recognize that a real battle b
ballots is coming, and that the ii
qUor question is to be the issue, ne
f garCIess as to whether AZ. C.'s tao
tics viii stand the acid test oil NOT
just for tile Information Oh al
readers of the Record, we here
with republish an editorial from
the B0W6eLs Tribune, as writer
by I. G. Miller formerly Of En-
mons county:
The report, current for SOM
= weeks before it became public
! that A. @. Townley was to spea.
for the forces that oppose tn
= present dry laws of the c0untr.
was true attire all. T0Wnlcy is ac
2 tuallv speaking for the "wet"
2 Personally TOwnley is "5rr
r That is, he does not drink. II
has sense enough to see that mil
P drinking is harmful, but he ais
s has sense enough to see tina tmu
p lions of people are going to Iee
right on drinking until they ais
q realize that it is to their own hes
s interest to let booze alone.
D "Other distinguished men ar
q Joining the movement to have tn
eighteenth amendment amende
j and the strict dry laws moderate
2 so IS to permit a system some
thing Ike now in effect in the Car
p adam province Of Saskatehewa
] where liquor can be BOUGHT tlroue
s government establishments an
= carried away in the original pacl
e ace. This is. in effect. PUTTING tn
government into he liquor bushes
t as the "drvs" claim, but It az
= pears to be the only remedy fl
l. bookkeeping and wholesale louc
2 running, as the proponents of IL
Temperance movement see it.
y Irwin s. Cobb, famous hume
:, ist and lecturer, also is out fl
2 amendment Of the prohibition an
endment, and other famous writer
are advocating changes in II
present dry law. There viii
plety Of writer's available for r.
"wets," and they are the kind mi
know how to prepare reatab
stuff-and make news thai Il
- press can't turn down.
"Townlev is not a beer guzzle
nor are most of the other men
and wOmen-who viii in the ne,
future be classed among Il
"wets." Some of these lecture
and writer's viii be with the NOV
ment for the sake of the mons
there is in it for them, without
doubt. But even so, there can
little doubt that most of them SIT
cerely believe that a change f
the better would result if the mod
fication Of the Volstead law c.
be accomplished, or the eighteen
amendment repealed. The Grimm
element of the country has take
charge Of the liquor trade. and
there ever has been a conscien
A. IN that trade there certainly is no.
now. One thing is certain
GOOD" 1iOuOr-r17va e+,,ff &c u;