The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-15
FRANCE"
TRICK TO PULL
WOOL over EYES
Farmers Lose in Town
ley Oil Scheme
(By a Farmer Correspondent

FROID, Montana, (By MaiD.-A.
), Townley, former chief organizer
II the now defunct Non-Partisan
league, spoke here last Saturday
vening to a crowd of about 100 peo-
lie on the Temperance League of
America" He advocated plan
thereby the government is to handle
he liquor problem, pretty much in
he way it is now handled in Canada
nd Sweden. The organization is
aid to be partisan" and in an
lection it will get beyond such cam
lidates, running on the old party
ickets, as will endorse the program
y viewpoint of the league.
Associated with Townley in this
movement are Charles E. Taylor,
State Senator from Montana, said
be the originator of the plan,
2odney Salisbury, former sheriff of
Sheridan county and few others.
clans call for drive for members
n several states and the starting
ga paper, and it is reported tenn
-orary headquarters will be estab-
ished in the Morrison hotel, Chi
ago. The promoters feel that the
Ian will be popular in many sec
ions of the country and that plenty
i support will be forthcoming.
Townley said in his speech tina
q was against all kinds of boot
eggers, both big and small, and in
avor of having the government run
he liquor business. "If any one is
1ound to have hooch l would much
ather have him get it by parcel
cost at the post office, under gov
rnment supervision, than see it dis
ributed in a back alley by boot
egger," he declared,
A Farm Takers Scheme.
In reality this so-called Temper |
nee League is not a temperance |
movement at all but avowedly Anti /
Prohibition in its aim. The name
Temperance League" is used in or
Ter to make easier the work of Or
;anization. The league is expected |
o get some of its support through |
membership fees, but the promoters
ire also hopeful that many in
crested individuals will contribute
arge sums of money to the cause"
In an editorial, in last weeks is
u e INC Producers News PLENTY
good, Montana sS rownley is hailed J
IS ''the greatest political organizer
n America today" Townley might |
e good promoter of certain plans
md schemes but he cannot be called !
great political organizer" When !
ever- came upon the Nonpartisan
league during the time of the world |
var he deserted the organization, in
tead of reorganizing it on new
lasis and driving the movement to !
he left. Following the leagues de-
,acle, he came out with his Balance
i Power idea ian organization
which should throw its strength to |
his and that candidate in an cleo
ion). Then he started the Pro- /
ulcers Alliance of America, a farm
marketing control plan. Today both |
movements are deader than door
yails.
After these abortive activities fol-
owed the famous "oil project" in
.orth Dakota, in which about $4,000 |
armers invested" large sums of
money without getting back a single
ent of "oil money" Following this /
e tried his luck at selling the New
Way Harvester machine, but expert
need very little success in this bust
ess also. Now, finally, comes his
anti Prohibition Temperance
4eague which is not founded on any
fundamental principle. The mere
umeration of these various aetivi-
les is sufficient to indicate how
acillating and unsteady is the
political line" of A. C. Townley.
The Temperance League of Ameri- !
"a is a capitalist scheme, pure and |
limple. The drink evil cannot be
Dotted out unless capitalism is de-
troyed. Government ownership and |
cntrol of liquor means absolutely |
othing under capitalist form of |
'overnment. The plan of the
sague will not do anybody and |
God and will merely serve to dis
ract the attention of the farmers
nd the workers away from their
cal problems.
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