The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-04
is THE FARMER A SAP?

The art of miSinforming the masses has reached
near-perfection in the United States. Press, pull
pit, radio, and the public platform are harnessed
by Big Business to make the people believe what
is to the interest of the profit to have
them believe. The capitalists have the money and
Upton Sinclair so well put it: MONEY WRITES
The workers and farmers are sadly in need of
press willing and able to express their interests
The plight of the industrial workers is bad enough
IN this respect but that of the farmer is even
worse.
We state without fear of contradiction that the
only weekly organ in the Northwest if not in the
entire country, that has the courage to say right
out what is the cause of the farmers sorry plight
and what they should do in the premises, is The
Producers News. 1t has been able to do this be-
cause it is owned and controlled by progressive
minded farmers with social vision and a practic-
al conception of current necessities
Judging by most of contemporaries one
could rightfully conclude that the editors of those
sheets are convinced that the average farmer is
sap, who would not appreciate anything better
than the moronfood purveyed by fossilized editors
whose mental vacuums mortgaged to Big Bust
ness. They apparently act on the theory that the
American farmer is not aware of the existence of
any other country but the one in which he tolls,
indeed in any other state except the one he calls
his own
The Producers News has proven that this is not
So The farmer is and should be interested in what
is going on throut the world The capitalist is. vet
nobody calls him wicked "internationalist" And
the editorial hacks, who denounce papers like The
Producers News for letting the farmer in on the
true lnwardness of what is going on behind the
scenes thruout the world are hired to do so by the
financial intenationalists
When the Teaoua Of Nations ,ooo4o 81 -.
sentatives of the imperialst powers hurl gusts of
sound into the atmosphere, when Great Britain
quarreis with her former allies over spoils of the
late war; when Chang Kai- Shek seizes the Chin
csc Eastern Railway, owned by Russia, when the
Arabs and the Jews shoot each other in the shad
ow OF the Wailing Wall at Jerusalem, when Mac
Donald and Hoover negotiate over naval standards.
wnen woman striker is murdered in North Car
ollna and thirteen framed up on murder
charges by the mill bosses, when Chairman Legge
o1 the farm relief board fails to give the promised
rehef-the American farmers are and should be
interested. They are part of The world. which IS
growing Smaller" year by year.
That the farmers appreciate a naner that y;vos
them something in return for their money. tells
tnem the things they should know rather than the
thngs they like to hear, is proven by the splendid
support given The Producers News bv the neonla
OF Sheridan County in particular and nv nunchers
outside the county
Inc farmers are just as intelligent as anv other
class IN the community and they are entitled 70 .
good, intelligent and progressive press that +a,1s
the truth even if it calls down the wrath - tta
exploiters s'i u inc